MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by clcaev | 2026-01-10 18:49:12+00:00
ChatGPT has come a long way in the last year. As of late, pubmed links are live and often somewhat related to the prompt but still rarely support the argument.

Sometimes ChatGPT is helpful unpacking technical language, if one verifies. It does seem more coherent when provided with labs, clinician notes, and pathology reports, etc.

ChatGPT does not yet understand the importance of differential diagnoses; it will happily guide patients down rabbit holes. ChatGPT will happily produce supporting evidence for nonsense, rather than probing the question.

ChatGPT is absolutely deep profiling me. It pulls in all sorts of details across my chats, often this is helpful but god forbid you have any "leading questions" that bleed and distract its inferences. There seems no way to correct misstatements.

ChatGPT is atemporal. Therapies tried and failed popup like wack a mole. Perhaps full access to medical records would help.

If patient-centered AI in Health is to actually work, medical literature must, absolutely must be open access. The idea that only paying users would get access to literature is a problem. Medical papers themselves may need to have a colloquial language abstract, so that any summaries provided to patients are vetted.
by RaftPeople | 2026-01-10 18:49:15+00:00
> The only thing that consistently works: start on time, end on time, and don’t wait for late arrivals.

Agree, but that doesn't solve the problem of back to back mtgs. In some cases people have to physically move from one mtg room to another, or they need to use the restroom, etc.

Having the 5 min gap really is needed for those types of things.
by barelysapient | 2026-01-10 18:49:44+00:00
Well, the poor aren't calling the shots in most countries. Its the elite. Those in the ruling party and their friends. In terms of improving conditions for the poorest decile, its a bad deal. This is why we're seeing so much wealth concentrated with Musk, Bezos, Ma, Bernard Arnault, etc. And for those in the top 20-30% economically, a fair deal too.

The poor weren't forced to sign up. They're too economically illiterate to understand what's happening. And even if they did understand, they're not empowered to alter the outcome--even in democratic countries. It takes money to steer policy. Or a revolution.
by surgical_fire | 2026-01-10 18:50:01+00:00
Mint because I am a filthy casual. I love Mint. It has been smooth sailing for the past 4 years running it on a 2019 Dell X5. Part of why I lack any motivation to get a new machine is because it still runs very smooth with Mint.

I plan on getting a new machine in the near future. Then I'll use my old Dell as a testing ground for other Distros. Was thinking of testing Tumbleweed first.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-01-10 18:50:52+00:00
I was criticizing the rhetoric, not the sentiment. I’m skeptical of an argument when it flies too close to what I associate with irrationality and pseudoscience, especially considering what’s happened in medicine over the past 5 years.

The “myth [of] perfect attention and treatment” is an easy strawman for grifters and conmen to take advantage of: see RFK Jr.
by ipdashc | 2026-01-10 18:50:58+00:00
My thoughts as well. And it's not like we're talking about taking random people off the street and teaching them to program, it's just a UI framework. And the stuff people are talking about in here isn't IDEs or CAD suites, it's like... the calculator app and the start menu. What kind of devs is MSFT hiring and paying $200k a year that can't learn a UI framework?
by eddythompson80 | 2026-01-10 18:51:49+00:00
I agree. I actually think CSS (and SQL or other “perfectly functional” interfaces) hold some kind of special power when it comes to AI.

I still feel that the main revolution of AI/LLMs will be in authoring text for such “perfectly functional”-text bases interfaces.

For example, building a “powerful and rich” query experience for any product I worked on was always an exercise in frustration. You know all the data is there, and you know SQL is infinitely capable. But you have to figure out the right UI and the right functions for that UI to call to run the right SQL query to get the right data back to the user.

Asking the user to write the SQL query is a non-starter. You either build some “UI” for it based on what you think is the main usecases, or go all in and invent a new “query language“ that you think (or hope) makes sense to your user. Now you can ask your user to blurb whatever they feel like, and hope your LLM can look at that and your db schema, and come up with the “right” SQL query for it.
by arcanemachiner | 2026-01-10 18:52:04+00:00
Google "windows 11 debloat reddit". There are several tools:

- https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat (recommended elsewhere in this thread)

- https://christitus.com/windows-tool/ (I used this one a couple weeks ago, seems to work well)

But seriously though, learn to fish. The answers aren't hard to find if you look, know what to search for, and are at least somewhat discriminating in your investigation.
by skrebbel | 2026-01-10 18:52:05+00:00
This is common for any self-updating software that you use infrequently.

A friend of mine complained that he hated how Firefox "always" wants to restart with an update. I couldn't understand what he was on about. Turned out I use Firefox daily and he uses it like once every 2 months to test something and yeah, Firefox has an update out every 2 months or so, so that fits.

It's the same with Windows (and, I assume, macOS). Use Windows more and the updater will disappear out of sight.
by franktankbank | 2026-01-10 18:52:36+00:00
The amount of code changes as seen in a git diff is roughly close to the amount of text changes. So reviewing is scaled linear with the change. In the way your are diffing are there any confounding changes? i.e. I make what seems like a small textual diff but it realigns the whole model of the code base that causes your diff to look like a big chunk of your code base is changed? Maybe that's a good thing? Just thinking out loud, I can't say I have an understanding about what your methodology is.
by torginus | 2026-01-10 18:52:40+00:00
Sorry for going counter to the narrative, but I had a friend who had an early 2000s Citroen which was made around the time when French cars had the worst reputation - and I tell you, by the stories he told, they deserved it.

There was no part on this which didn't get replaced during the scant few years he owned it, and it left him stranded like half a dozen times.

He contemplated setting it on fire rather than selling it, not wanting the next lucky owner to go through the same stuff he did.
by cartofupai | 2026-01-10 18:52:44+00:00
What has Cloudflare done to fight piracy enabled by their services and help solve the root cause of the issue? Anybody know?

This seems like an issue that could have been solved when it was smaller.

Lawyers and politicians are not who you want to find solutions to this kind of issues.

Did Cloudflare provide solutions that were refused by the other party?
by wnjenrbr | 2026-01-10 18:53:01+00:00
In my opinion, IP is dead. Strong IP died in 2022, along with the Marxist labor theory of value; of which IP derives its (hypothetical) value. It no longer matters who did what when and how. The only thing that matters is that exists, and it can be consumed, for no cost, forever.

IP is the final delusion of 19th century thinking. It was crushed when we could synthesize anything, at little cost, little effort.
Turns out, the hard work had to be done once, and we could automate to infinity forever.

Hold on to 19th century delusions if you wish, the future is accelerating, and you are going to be left behind.
by otherme123 | 2026-01-10 18:53:02+00:00
> Most of us choose to drive a car that just works, and take it to a mechanic when it doesn't, rather than buying one that requires and rewards tinkering.

You can also bring your Linux machine to the mechanic. The only difference is that we linux users are also the mechanics.

My mother only wants a browser and a mail client, maybe a word processor from time to time. I installed Fedora, and the thing is still working after 5 years or so. I ssh into the thing once a month to do a "dnf update", she doesn't even notice. After initial setup, no more tinkering ever needed.
by AnfaB | 2026-01-10 18:53:18+00:00
Singapore had no oil, farmland, or water security — yet it became a global financial powerhouse.
How did Lee Kuan Yew turn a vulnerable island into one of the most advanced economies in the world?

In this episode, EconFiX explains how Singapore’s rise was not a miracle — but a masterclass in design, leadership, and long-term economic planning.

We explore:
• Why institutions mattered more than natural resources
• How education became national strategy
• Why Singapore chose openness over protectionism
• The trade-offs between prosperity and political freedom
• Whether this model can be repeated in today’s world

This is not just Singapore’s story — it’s a playbook for how nations rise, and why many still fail.
by bigyabai | 2026-01-10 18:53:18+00:00
> it is problem free enough

The money's paw curls.

I used to love macOS, back in the Mojave days. You could run almost anything you wanted, and still get work done on a decently made machine. Those were the days when the grass truly felt greener to me, macOS for creative work simply annihilated any other option on the table.

Then Catalina stripped out 32-bit compatibility, ruining my Ableton Live project folder and Steam library. And Big Sur removed the sleek, professional-looking UI that I loved. Apparently Tahoe is infecting it with the glass disease, but I've long since migrated to Bitwig and Steam on Linux.

macOS taught me, ultimately, that any feature you take for granted can be removed to fulfill someone's OKR.
by hoppp | 2026-01-10 18:53:46+00:00
The difference is that they are reselling it directly. They charge for inference that outputs tailwind.

It's fine to have a project that generates html-css as long as the users can find the docs for the dependencies, but when you take away the docs and stop giving real credit to the creators it starts feeling more like plagiarism and that is what's costing tailwind here.
by stevekemp | 2026-01-10 18:54:13+00:00
I suspect this is an issue for most org-mode users, we all use different things.

I have two real uses for org-mode; I write a "work log", or "diary", every day I'm at work which keeps track of meetings, tickets/issues I work on, pull-requests I review, etc.

Unrelated to that I have a property I rent out, and I keep a table for each year showing rent-received from my tenant. I have a little "database" of previous tenants, and their details.

When I add a new table row for this year, say "January 2026 | Sharon | €1000", that updates the global profit/loss table for the document as well as profit/loss for the current year AND a t able which just lists the tenants I've known, how much they paid, and how many months they rented for.

Both of these two use-cases use very different things. The diary is just a text-block as template, the financial stuff uses multiple tables, custom elisp code, and some summing operations.
by kewun | 2026-01-10 18:55:03+00:00
I used to burn hours doomscrolling on my phone. Instagram, X, games – always felt like wasted time.

When AI coding agents took off, I realized I could redirect that habit into something productive. So I built Kibbler.

It's a mobile app that connects to Claude Code running on your dev machine. You can prompt from your phone, see streaming responses, preview file changes, and approve/reject edits before they're applied.

Currently it's limited. Only supported for iPhones and those using Jetbrain plugins. If this develops any traction, I'll consider expanding the support.

Tech: iOS app → Go proxy server → Claude CLI subprocess. Uses mTLS for auth and SSE for streaming.

Some challenges I ran into:

- Race conditions everywhere. Streaming responses + approval workflows + multiple sessions meant race conditions kept popping up. I had other issues with context getting lost after approvals, messages routing to wrong sessions, UI state getting out of sync etc.

Did a lot of dogfooding. I actually used Kibbler to build Kibbler, which helped uncover issues I never would've caught otherwise. Fun project overall.
by nandomrumber | 2026-01-10 18:55:42+00:00
I was hoping secondhand Nisan Leaf’s would fit those criteria by now.

The Nissan Leaf’s biggest problem is it’s the only vehicle in its class worth considering, or available at all, so secondhand ones are sold at whatever the market will bear.

There’s the Prius, but whoever is responsible for its styling will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
by Lvl999Noob | 2026-01-10 18:56:27+00:00
I recently switched to linux from windows. The only reason I was sticking with windows was because hoyoverse refuses to support linux. I finally decided I need some break from them anyways and took the plunge.

First, I tried to install fedora atomic cosmic. It kind of worked but I could not get it to work with my dock + external monitors at all. Now that I am used to that setup, I can't go back.

Not wanting to spend time figuring it out, I just installed Ubuntu instead. Thankfully, that worked out though it's not perfect. Everytime I turn on my laptop, I need to spend 10-15 minutes turning the monitors on and off until ubuntu recognises them correctly and also sends dp output (it shows the monitor in settings and I can open windows on it but the monitor doesn't actually show anything; other times, it reads the monitor as something nvidia with the lowest resolution).

I tried to install genshin anyways on ubuntu. I couldn't get it to work via wine/lutris. Virtualbox doesn't support gpu passthrough so I tried using virt-manager. The setup was too hard and it didn't work anyways. I gave up on hoyo at this point and install steam instead.

Honestly, ubuntu is rough and Linux as a whole is very rough. But on the whole, I would still pick this over dealing with windows any longer.
by rickydroll | 2026-01-10 18:56:40+00:00
I compared the weights of EVs versus ICE, and they were surprisingly close. Most of time, the differences were in the 15% range, and then you find exceptions like the Hummer, which is 30% heavier. I'm sure it comes as no surprise That the heavier the vehicle, the bigger the difference in ICE versus EV weight.

While I think lighter weight vehicles of all types would be a big win, I fear that ship has sailed. I think we have an opportunity to reset vehicle size both from a desire for cheaper and simpler vehicles. Look at cost and weight of the BYD EVs and the new pickup trucks from Slate and Telos.

Overall, I find the slightly increased weight for an EV to be an acceptable trade-off. Brakes last longer, tires, depending on make, are about 10% shorter life at most and overall maintenance is much less. Since I keep my cars until the body goes toes up, I have a much lower carbon footprint. than the 3yr lease route
by hnlmorg | 2026-01-10 18:57:21+00:00
> This requires the intentionality of the organization though. They seem to default to managers make the decisions.

if a company doesn’t intend to utilise IC then they don’t have ICs, just regular software engineers.

An IC is only an IC if the organisation is structured to utilise them as an IC. It isn’t a job title, it’s more to do with how an individual is utilised in a company.

> IC execute

IC plus engineers execute. IC are a subset of engineers.
by pjmlp | 2026-01-10 18:57:30+00:00
Not surprising given the amount of Webview2 and WinUI/WinRT that Windows 11 happens to contain.

Note that even though WinRT is largely written in C++, and the team brags about performance, due to the amount of COM/WinRT reference counting and the sandboxing model of application identity, it actually runs slower than .NET applications.

Quite ironic, given the Windows team sabotaged on Longhorn.
by ewoodrich | 2026-01-10 18:57:45+00:00
The first time I’ve had my multi-monitor setup(s) “just work” on Linux is recently installing Fedora 43 on my Ideapad. (After becoming exhausted trying to tweak Linux Mint to get tolerable sizing across all the screens).

Wayland per-monitor fractional scaling is delightful and after a couple gsettings tweaks restoring minimize/dock I’ve been loving the polish and snappiness of Gnome.

macOS multi monitor support and scaling is a constant thorn in my side that was marginally improved by paying for Better Display. Windows 11 really is the most solid option for various monitor combinations not in Apple the happy path of resolutions/sizes. But I don’t really like the ergonomics of using even clean de-bloated Windows as my main dev machine.
by palata | 2026-01-10 18:58:12+00:00
> Business owner = superior = bad

Nope. I said that business owners are generally in a dominant position, and those who are in a dominant position generally think that they deserve it because they are superior. I didn't say "bad", I explained the bias. Everyone is biased.

> you also dismiss the entire report of Mario Draghi on European competitiveness

Maybe we can do that: I will look into Mario Draghi's report, and on your end you could have a look at what Cory Doctorow has to say about the US monopolies and antitrust policies?

So that at least we would get some amount of open-mindness out of this not-so-constructive discussion :-).

> In conclusion, you are arguing in bad faith

Yeah, I too think that you can go ** yourself :-). But I will read about Mario Draghi's opinion, maybe you can get some perspective from Doctorow. Bye!
by ajross | 2026-01-10 18:58:16+00:00
PDF files are for storing fixed (!!) output of printed/printable material. That's where the format's roots are via Postscript, it's where the format found its main success in document storage, and it's the metaphor everyone has in mind when using the format.

PDFs don't change. PDFs are what they look like.

Except they aren't, because Adobe wanted to be able to (ahem) "annotate" them, or "save changes" to them. And Adobe wanted this because they wanted to sell Acrobat to people who would otherwise be using MS Word for these purposes.

And in so doing, Adobe broke the fundamental design paradigm of the format. And that has had (and continues to have, to hilarious effect) continuing security impact for the data that gets stored in this terrible format.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-01-10 18:58:29+00:00
It’s not “running Linux” that’s the issue. It’s running Linux and getting good battery lifez

And a 1.6Ghz RISC V CPU isn’t exactly “fast” in 2026 or even 2021.

You noted that it was 5 hours when powering a second monitor from its USB port. Not just displaying video from the USB port, the monitor is getting power from the USB port.
by citizenpaul | 2026-01-10 18:58:36+00:00
What I wrote is accurate. You are referring to a line that goes out of the city to elgin, a tiny town, that is the only part with two tracks. The part that serves the Austin area has only one line and is as I described. Hey what do I know I just lived next to it for 4 years, and drove to work even though I could walk to the train because of how terrible it is and would add 1-2hrs to my commmute.
by janlucasandmann | 2026-01-10 18:58:37+00:00
Hey HN,

We've been building Computer Agents for the past year, and today we're sharing it publicly.

The problem we kept hitting: AI can reason impressively, but getting it to do anything meaningful requires duct-taping together a dozen tools. You prompt, copy the output, paste it somewhere, run it manually, fix the errors, repeat. The bottleneck isn't intelligence anymore: it's execution.

What we built: An operating system where AI agents can actually operate. They get isolated environments with a real filesystem, terminal, browser, and the ability to execute code. You give them a task, they figure out how to do it, and they do it.

How it works:
- Each agent runs in an isolated container with its own workspace
- Agents can read/write files, run shell commands, browse the web, and call APIs
- You can run tasks from our web app, API, or messaging apps (Telegram, Discord)
- Results come back with the actual artifacts: files created, code written, data extracted

Example tasks our users run:
- "Fix the TypeScript errors in this repo" → agent clones, fixes, tests, commits
- "Research competitors and create a summary doc" → agent browses, extracts, writes
- "Process this CSV and generate a report" → agent analyzes, visualizes, exports
- "Review this PR for security issues" → agent reads diff, analyzes, comments

Tech stack (for the curious):
- Agents run on GCE with Firecracker-style isolation
- Workspaces sync to GCS for persistence
- We use Claude and GPT-4 for the reasoning layer
- MCP (Model Context Protocol) for tool integrations
- Next.js frontend, Firebase auth, Firestore for state

What surprised us:
The Telegram integration became unexpectedly popular. People run agents from their phone while commuting. "Fix the prod bug" from a train is apparently a thing now.

What we're still figuring out:
- Long-running tasks (hours) and how to handle interruption gracefully
- Cost predictability: agents can go deep, which burns tokens
- The right abstraction for multi-agent workflows

Pricing: Free tier with limited compute, then usage-based. We're not trying to get rich on margins — the goal is making this accessible.

We'd love feedback from HN, especially:
- What would you actually use this for?
- What's missing that would make you switch from your current workflow?
- Anyone else building in this space we should talk to?

Site: https://computer-agents.com
Docs: https://computer-agents.com/documentation

Happy to answer questions about the architecture, our agent design, or anything else.
by mcphage | 2026-01-10 18:59:05+00:00
> This means that less than 20% of the people (those who voted of course) wanted Macron. On his first day, more than 80% didn't want him.

That’s not true. “I want someone else more than X” isn’t the same as “I don’t want X”. That’s the advantage of Approval voting and Ranked Choice voting—you can make those things clear.
by surgical_fire | 2026-01-10 18:59:08+00:00
> Then I ran into a game I really wanted to play but it didn’t run well with Proton

Out of curiosity, which game?

I promise I am not asking as a gotcha. Just genuinely curious.

I don't play many new games on PC (normally I play recent games on consoles). What I play on PC is older/niche games.

I have a couple of oddballs that I could not make work on Proton. Others had weird issues that got fixed over time.

Sometimes there is a fix, such as fiddling with different Proton versions, etc. Lutris makes this somewhat straightforward.
by immibis | 2026-01-10 18:59:53+00:00
Not a motorhead but IIRC a combustion with too little oxygen produces soot (pollution) and one with too much oxygen produces NOx pollution, with a sweet spot in the middle. The exhaust oxygen sensor allows the ECU to adjust the air/fuel mix to hit the minimum pollution spot, instead of estimating it.

There might also be a catalyst temperature sensor or something.

It's not a "whole bunch" of sensors, it's a few sensors and it's not some inscrutable magic, it's somethijg someone could replicate in open-source if they had equipment and time. We really need to get away from the mindset that proprietary stuff contains inscrutable magic. It's often worse quality than the open thing. However, it does have the right connections to be allowed to be put in a car that drives on the road.