MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwup238 | 2026-01-08 11:24:30+00:00
That is not at all what the GP was asking because this:

> ...and _people in the USA_ strongly prefer...

Although, I don't know how solid the evidence for even that statement is.

Is completely incoherent in the context of the thread and I just did my best to answer the two words “solid evidence.”

However you make a good point. There is a chicken and egg problem here between consumer taste and farmers optimizing their yield. I don’t have an answer, but I invite you to compare them yourself, if you ever get the chance to eat grass finished beef versus a high end ribeye. Or something like wagyu/kobe where they’re fed almost exclusively rice mash or grains.

As for “angus beef” no that doesn’t mean anything. The US/UK/EU don’t have any meaningful regulations about those marketing terms.
by Bayko | 2026-01-08 11:24:35+00:00
I have what you would call metric shittons of ADHD. Medically diagnosed. Was kicked outta university for failing grades and all. Pills saved me. If you think you have it, the best thing you can do for yourself is at least get a diagnosis done. In b4 people come in and chime it can be faked. Yes the symptoms can be faked. But why would you if you really want to know what is wrong with you if any? (Hoping you aren't a TikTok content creator lurking here)
Show HN: Prav-core – A no_std, zero-allocation QEC decoder in Rust
by navaro1 | 2026-01-08 11:24:56+00:00
I am building prav-core to solve the "latency crisis" in Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing. In superconducting architectures, the control loop has a hard real-time deadline (often <1us) to correct errors before qubits dephase.

Most academic decoders are optimized for high thresholds but suffer from non-deterministic jitter (GC pauses, allocation overhead) that makes them unusable on hardware. prav-core is a bare-metal Union-Find decoder written in pure Rust with #![no_std] and strictly zero heap allocations in the hot path.

Technical details:

- Performance: Uses SWAR (SIMD within a register) bit operations and Morton (Z-order) encoding for spatial locality/cache optimization.
- Verification: 39 Kani proofs verifying memory safety and arithmetic correctness.
- Targets: Compiles to x86, ARM64, WASM, and bare-metal Cortex-R5.

Python bindings are coming next (for easier comparison with PyMatching), but the end goal is to run Distance-25 codes in under 500ns on commodity FPGAs.

The code is Apache2/MIT.
by f1shy | 2026-01-08 11:25:06+00:00
> Not only do you need to learn Scala, you need to learn various DSLs on top of that depending on what you use or want to achieve

That is AFAIK the "curse of lisp" because is so easy (and needed and encouraged) to write SDLs, any ecosystem grows many languages in a hurry, so suddenly that elegant minimalistic beautiful pure language, becomes 1000 beautiful clean languages. Now you have to learn them all...
by al_borland | 2026-01-08 11:25:20+00:00
From what I remember, Microsoft almost missed the Internet, then Gates turned the whole company to focus on it until they dominate in that space. They have since lost this dominance to Google, to the point of using Chromium for their own browser.

When Mobile came along, Microsoft completely missed. Ballmer laughed at the iPhone when it was released and didn’t take it seriously. By the time they started trying to make moves it was too little, too late. Mobile has shifted how people use computers and other than have a few apps and enterprise management, Microsoft is largely absent.

How much of this push behind AI is a desperate attempt not to miss another transformative shifts in the industry?
by sokoloff | 2026-01-08 11:25:21+00:00
> teachers in those schools, regardless of their ability, have to respond to parents immediately.

Or else what? Their union will hold them to account? Their colleagues? Their administration?

I have two kids in such public schools and I can’t think of anything I’d ask of a teacher that would require a same-day response let alone an immediate one.

If I need an immediate response, it’s not likely a topic I should be taking to a teacher in the first place. Their job is to teach, not to monitor for inbound comms from parents.
Show HN: Portabase – open-source database backup/restore tool
by killian_larcher | 2026-01-08 11:26:16+00:00
I’m working on Portabase, a self-hosted, open-source tool for managing database backups and restores. It currently supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB, with MongoDB coming soon. It uses an agent-based architecture with a central server and lightweight agents, enabling deployment at the edge and operation across multiple networks.

Website: https://portabase.io

GitHub: https://github.com/Portabase/portabase

Discord (newly created): https://discord.gg/Wgv7xZ8fWJ

Main features:

- Scheduled logical backups with multiple retention strategies (n-backups, n-days, Grandfather-Father-Son)

- Storage options: local filesystem and S3-compatible storage

- Notifications on backup success/failure via email, Slack, Discord, Ntfy, Telegram, and webhooks

- Organizations with role-based permissions for managing separate databases

- Designed for self-hosted deployments with a ready-to-go Docker Compose setup

Stack:

- Next.js for the central server

- Rust with Tokio for agents (recently refactored from Python)

I’d love feedback from the HN community on usability, additional storage targets, and features to make it more production-ready. Feel free to open issues or start discussions on GitHub.
by account42 | 2026-01-08 11:27:34+00:00
> I don’t believe that the argument about how we need not patch a hole because another one exists right besides it is sound.

It is when you are essentially putting bars in front of your windows while leaving the front door unlocked, i.e. you are making things worse in the name of security while not actually providing any additional security.

> Yeah, but with how we’re moving towards running each (desktop) application in its own cgroup, thus restricting what syscalls any given application can do

Who is we? I don't want or need any of that on my free software system.
by ArtemGetman | 2026-01-08 11:27:39+00:00
built something to fix exactly this. skips the realtime chattiness entirely - you speak, it waits until you're done, responds via TTS with actual text-quality answers (no dumbing down). also has claude/gemini if you want different models.

still early but happy to share: tla[at]lexander[dot]com if interested (saw your email in bio)
by ben_w | 2026-01-08 11:28:31+00:00
Two things:

First: Valuations are based on expected future profits.

For a lot of companies, 1% of valuation is ~20% of annual profit (P/E ratio 5); for fast growing companies, or companies where the market is anticipating growth, it can be a lot higher. Weird outlier example here, but consider that if Tesla was fined 1% of its valuation (1% of 1.5 trillion = 15 billion), that would be most of the last four quarter's profit on https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TSLA/tesla/gross-p...

Second: Part of the Anthropic case was that many of the books they trained on were ones they'd purchased and destructively scanned, not just pirated. The courts found this use was fine, and Anthropic had already done this before being ordered to: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.43...
by anthk | 2026-01-08 11:29:25+00:00
Hackers -the ones from MIT- and smart people hate the US goverment snooping and Echelon like projects more than Europeans. These were either privacy first since forever. If not, they fought hard to say whatever they liked without consequences.

In current times, encrypted accesses to Usenet and IRC via I2P and the like will boost the platforms more than ever. Why? IRC and Usenet are dead simple, Emacs has ports to everything and among being a Lisp env, an editor and a minimal web browser, it's an IRC and Usenet client too even under Android. Oh, and you can set I2P under Android too. Thus, you just have to set Emacs against it. There are several guides online.

Rocksolid BBS' federate with the whole Usenet (and some newsgroups catch anything text based, no binaries). On I2P proxies to Libera.chat, it's just a matter of time to exist. Meanwhile, there's ILITA IRC with I2PD.

Difficult? A Chinese Bluetooth keyboard it's worth very little today, and the gains are enormous. You can chat with people with really small bandwidths but encrypted either with TLS or I2P. You don't have blocks (except bans under IRC), comment limits, enforced timelines and any enshittification coming from social networks. Also, you can short Usenet threads by score. That's it, it's there a brilliant poster and comp.misc, you set the score for all his comment to 1000; then that random Joe will always be on top in any group. Try that with X/Twitter, Reddit or whatever.

You will be able to chat with Western Europeans, Eastern Europeans, the Japanese, anyone. Forget tribes, forget the bullshit made to earn zillions of cash from X with shitty fabricated polemics. Forget Meta's snooping and industrial stealing. You aren't enforced to give your real name and address.
by moribvndvs | 2026-01-08 11:30:16+00:00
> Another interpretation would be to conclude cynically that it’s time humans get either enhanced or replaced by a more powerful form of intelligence.

Perhaps the author is just gaming out a thought experiment, but I’ll just take it at face value. I am genuinely baffled by the obsequiousness some people display regarding LLMs. Let’s assume it really is a more powerful form of intelligence (ugh) and it “replaces” people, how do you think that ends for you?

You are trying to convince yourself that you’ve happened upon a benevolent god that truly, deeply understands you while staring into a reflection pool.
by yorwba | 2026-01-08 11:30:20+00:00
Most models have a per-head dimension much smaller than the input dimension, so it's faster to multiply by the small wk and wk individually than to multiply by the large matrix W. Also, if you use rotary positional embeddings, the RoPE matrices need to be sandwiched in the middle and they're different for every token, so you could no longer premultiply just once.
by afandian | 2026-01-08 11:30:43+00:00
Just very high usage all of a sudden, after years of reasonable usage. Google has indexed it (respectfully) since 2008 just fine.

New traffic isn't humans. I blocked some AI scraper user-agents, which helped, a bit. But most new user agents are identifying as vanilla browsers, not scrapers.

I don't have numbers. It was enough to consume all nginx worker_connections. Raising the number doesn't help, as it's just reverse proxying to JVM.

After the switch, Cloudflare showed USA and Singapore as heavy traffic sources.

I don't mind scrapers on the site, but app is a search engine (of sorts) so every page view consumes some CPU. Including 'facet this search' buttons. My (WIP) solution is to rewrite to make it all client-side and put it all on a CDN.
by pamcake | 2026-01-08 11:30:56+00:00
Thanks for replying.

I'm certainly not meaning to imply that you are in on some conspiracy or anything - you were already in here clarifying things and setting the record straight in a helpful way. I think you are not representative of industry here (in a good way).

Evangelists are certainly latching on to the ambiguity and using it as an opportunity. Try to pretend you are a caveman dev or pointy-hair and read the first screenful of this. What did you learn?

https://github.blog/changelog/2025-07-31-npm-trusted-publish...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/nuget-org/trusted-pu...

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/github-is-finally-tig...

These were the top three results I got when I searched online for "github trusted publishing" (without quotes like a normal person would).

Stepping back, could it be that some stakeholders have a different agenda than you do and are actually quite happy about confusion?

I have sympathy for that naming things is hard. This is Trusted Computing in repeat but marketed to a generation of laymen that don't have that context. Also similar vibes to the centralization of OpenID/OAuth from last round.

On that note, looking at past efforts, I think the only way this works out is if it's open for self-managed providers from the start, not by selective global allowlisting of blessed platform partners one by one on the platform side. Just like for email, it should be sufficient with a domain name and
following the protocol.
by dmi | 2026-01-08 11:31:16+00:00
Hearing aids are at a frustrating crossroads at the moment, IMO. In my experience, a lot of the recent hearing aids don't seem to support induction loops. It often seems to be a choice between that or Bluetooth... and Auracast isn't ready yet.

I've had Phonak bilateral hearing aids for 5 years, and Starkey unilateral for ~5 years before that. None of those have supported induction loops.
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-08 11:31:18+00:00
=.= not sure if WV has anything like Jinan or Quingdao?

when I think WV, I think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9eHp7JJgq8, so ... Shanxi?

(I'd been basing my assignments on over/under representation, eg https://www.thegreenpapers.com/Census10/FedRep.phtml?sort=El... , not culturally)
by reify | 2026-01-08 11:31:40+00:00
two simple questions.

What are they? they are a total fantasy created by boosters, salesmen and sycophants.

What causes them? Boosters, salesmen and sycophants.

LLM's do not and cannot hallucinate. they are not human.

LLM's do not partake in the ritual consumption of psilocybin (magic mushrooms) or LSD, nor are they prone to spending time in mental health facilities suffering from psychotic episodes.
by DrScientist | 2026-01-08 11:31:53+00:00
> The hyperbole is a little big too far fetched.

Sure.

Though I think the EU is thinking that blowing up critical energy pipelines and seriously damaging Europes economy through the resulting much higher energy prices wasn't too friendly.

All to boost US energy exports, make US manufacturing more competitive and met US geopolitical goals.

ie that's not declaring war - but's it's a pretty big FU wake up call. Turning a blind eye when the US treats central and south american countries with contempt is one thing, but it's a bit of a shock when it openly does the same to you - cf Greenland as another example.
by amiga386 | 2026-01-08 11:32:42+00:00
The comparison with WINE is quite apt, though. Although it is using a 68000 emulator, unlike WINE which is purely native code, it is taking the same approach to implementing AmigaOS as WINE took to implementing Windows: it offers the normal API entrypoints, and as soon as programs call into them, it takes over and does things natively.

VAMOS writes as few 68000 instructions into the emulator's memory as possible; as soon as the program calls an AmigaOS API, the emulator traps it and handles the implementation in Python.
by tusahrbase | 2026-01-08 11:32:48+00:00
Hey HN,

I built this to see if real consequences work better than "gamification". The philosophy is simple: discomfort/pain drives change.

How it works under the hood:

No Deposit: App does not hold your money upfront. You just set a penalty cap.

The Enforcer: A server job runs hourly to check your specific deadline.

The Payment: If you miss a deadline (or admit failure), Stripe charges your saved card.

Anti-Cheat: Your commitment is locked to your original timezone (you can't fly West to extend the day).

It's built with Next.js and Supabase.

I’d love your feedback on the idea and this "honor code" approach.
by a2tech | 2026-01-08 11:33:05+00:00
The only problem is that in the US, if you let apartments and townhouses to be built, homeowners will get muscled out by large builder concerns and single family homes will be converted into dense housing--which sounds great, until you realize there's no way those housing concerns will SELL those units--they're going to be rented forever. There's no incentive to actually sell those to people and every reason to keep them as rentable apartments forever.

So you have attractive locations being completely dominated by rentable corporate owned housing and the net outcome is that people are completely boxed out of home ownership. There's no way pricing comes down because they do this in areas where people are willing to pay top dollar to live.

I live near Ann Arbor and we're seeing it play out right now--more dense housing in the inner core is being allowed (as current thinking says should be done) and whats happening is that smaller old-timey landlords and homeowners are being pushed out and their homes and apartment buildings are being replaced with brand new high dollar rentals. Not condos (although there are some of those as well, but fewer), rentals. And the rental prices are going up! Normal people get pushed further and further from the attractive areas to live, and pressure from these people moving out pushes up rent in the surrounding areas.
by marques576 | 2026-01-08 11:33:29+00:00
Some features:

169M parameters

Streaming support

Zero-shot voice cloning

0.25 RTF on CPU, meaning it generates 30 seconds of audio in 7.5 seconds

Requires 3-12 seconds of reference audio for voice cloning

Apache 2.0 license

The model was trained on a single L40S GPU.
It’s not SOTA in most cases, can be a bit unstable, and sometimes fails to capture voice likeness.
by fragmede | 2026-01-08 11:33:37+00:00
oh heh I do

docker ps -a | grep image_name_or_whatever | awk1 | pbcopy (or xclip on linux)

(awk1 is an alias for awk "{print $1}" and I just have awk1-10 or whatever)

to grab the container id and put it on the clipboard
by markh1967 | 2026-01-08 11:33:45+00:00
I can attest to this from personal experience.

After undergoing stomach surgery 8 years ago I started experiencing completely debilitating stomach aches. I had many appointments with my GP and a specialist leading to endoscopies, colonoscopies, CAT scans, and MRI scans all to no avail and they just kept prescribing more and more anti-acids and stronger painkillers.

It was after seven years of this that I paid for a private food allergy test to find that I am allergic to Soya protein. Once I stopped eating anything with Soya in it the symptoms almost completely vanished.

At my next GP appointment I asked why no-one had suggested it could be an allergic reaction only to be told that it is not one of the things they check for or even suggest. My faith in the medical community took a bit of a knock that day.

On a related note, I never knew just how many foods contain Soya flour that you wouldn't expect until I started checking.
by bregma | 2026-01-08 11:36:05+00:00
4 oz (a quarter pound) is 100 g or an amount about the size of the palm of your hand -- a single serving. It's not a small portion, it's recommended standard portion.

If you were following the old food guide in use for the last 20 years -- the one that replaces the food pyramid -- you'd see that 100 g is about a quarter of your plate. The old food guide could be summed up as "a quarter of your plate should be protein, a quarter carbs, and half fruits and vegetables". Real simple, so simple anyone could understand it. Although I have been presented with evidence recently that there are some who can not.
by Macha | 2026-01-08 11:36:23+00:00
No, it shipped in Debian Sid, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and Fedora Rawhide, along with beta versions of Ubuntu 24.04 and Fedora 40. Arch also shipped it but the code looked for rpm/apt distros so the payload didn’t trigger.

It was caught by a Postgres developer who noticed strange performance on their Debian Sid system, not by anyone involved with the distro packaging process.
by zapnuk | 2026-01-08 11:36:33+00:00
Seems like their whole business model was based on the fact that tailwind was difficult to use, and now with llm we have a simple way to use it in a good-enough way.

They, and other companies, should rather depend on corporate users. Don't let multi-billion revenue companies use your tech for free.

Seems like many companies leaned it a bit late, we always have the same news every fewe years (docker, mongodb, terraform, elastic).
by sjw987 | 2026-01-08 11:37:24+00:00
In general, this message is good. Particularly interesting from a country which has given the world McDonalds and Coca Cola.

The rise of Ultra Processed Food (UPF) is almost inline with the explosion of waistlines around the world. Not to mention several large scale studies have found clear links between high UPF consumption and cognitive decline, dementia and Alzheimer's. In the West, 60 to 80% of peoples diets are UPF.

What we eat is both a short term (overweight and obese people bunging up the public healthcare system) and long term (elderly people with dementia and Alzheimer's clogging up the social care system) catastrophe.

Generally if it's coming in plastic wrap, you don't recognise stuff in the ingredients, or it has a ridiculously unnatural sounding lifespan, it's UPF.

It's disturbing how penetrative UPF are in the food market. I bought an "Eat Natural" cashew and blueberry with yoghurt coating bar this morning. Of course, very unnaturally it has sunflower lecithin, glucose syrup, palm kernel oil and palm oil vegetable fats, making it technically NOVA class 4 UPF.
by ffsm8 | 2026-01-08 11:37:39+00:00
Probably because most people only read headlines (and maybe 3 paragraphs) combined with the fact that the US has a long history of doing what people are condemning them for, even if this particular instance probably wasn't a case of such behavior. Especially considering how the general sentiment towards the US has gotten bitter with constant threads of invasion of Denmark and Canada by their government.

Or it's just Russian and China socket accounts? Who knows...
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-08 11:37:43+00:00
>How it works is they try to influence the experts at the agencies to support their position

The real winning move if you can afford it to pay for a bunch of academic labs who won't at the margin publish stuff that's bad for their sugardaddy. This way the lawmakers, the bureaucrats and the public discourse is all built upon numbers and information that is favorable to you. So then when those officials you bought make the "right" decisions they can do so in comfort knowing that their decisions are backed by the numbers.
by dotancohen | 2026-01-08 11:38:15+00:00
I'm using an LLM to write the code for my current project, but I iterate improvements in the code until it looks like code I wrote myself. I sign off on each git commit. I need to maintain and extend this code, it is to scratch my own itch.

LLMs are capable of producing junk, and they are capable of writing decent code. It is up to the operator to use them properly.
by pjc50 | 2026-01-08 11:38:18+00:00
Detail in there: during winter, UK livestock are sometimes fed silage, which is grass that has been harvested during the summer and partially fermented. UK is majority local production, but there's significant imports from Ireland.

People talk a lot about water and land use, but if you have the conditions of land that is (a) naturally watered and (b) not flat enough for arable farming, using it for livestock is much more environmentally friendly than, say, feeding them imported soy - leaving only the methane problem.
by dmi | 2026-01-08 11:38:54+00:00
FWIW, it is also possible to get standalone induction receivers that you can plug headphones into, which can be useful for "is this working" checks (for example https://www.ampetronic.com/products/ilr3-audio-induction-loo...). However you really need someone with hearing aids to tell if it's useful or not.

I visit the theatre a lot: ~50 West End visits in 2025, plus several regional venues. It's amazing how many times I've had to abandon the hearing assistance system because it doesn't work well... too quiet, distorted, delayed, poor balance between voices and instruments. Sometimes it just isn't functional at all, and nobody's noticed.

While I'm on the subject: saying "it's a loud show, you'll be able to hear fine" is a bit like telling someone who's short-sighted but has no glasses that "it's a bright show, you'll be able to see". It's not just about volume, but clarity and understanding.