MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eloisius | 2026-01-08 06:43:02+00:00
I hiked Torres del Paine around 51 deg south about 12 years ago and the winds were no joke. On plains or in mountain passes it was absolutely howling. It felt like you could lean into it at a 60 deg angle and not fall over. Sometimes when the trail went close to a steep edge with nothing to break the wind I felt like I needed to crouch, ready to get on the ground, in case a gust caught me.
by giardini | 2026-01-08 06:43:45+00:00
And you know this how? Personal experience, research, multiple interviews, analysis of census data, etc.?

And BTW, Perhaps you could enlighten us as to why cowboys are, as you state,

_DeadFred_ >"homeless dudes who happened to chase after cattle."?

Maybe a research URL or perhaps an brief explanation of how you lived with "cowboys" for X years and also lived with the "urban homeless" for Y years or such?
by smsm42 | 2026-01-08 06:46:04+00:00
3% for $60 annual fee is not bad. AmEx has Blue Cash card with 6% back, but it costs $95 and only works for (some) grocery stores. So if you have a decent churn $60 is not bad. Of course, if you play these games you should never ever hold a balance or pay late (and using cash advance on credit card is always, always a bad idea!) so you can ignore those fees.
by phunterlau | 2026-01-08 06:46:08+00:00
Great idea to bring the consistency to coding agent with domain specific language (DSL). It reminded me of Google's CaMel work https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18813 which introduces DSL to LLM prompt to prevent prompt injection by design, and the DeepClause work is like a more general approach on code agent. Great work!
by defrost | 2026-01-08 06:46:23+00:00
How many stores did you see prosecute theft before that "long time" ?

Each year, there are over a million arrests for shoplifting in the United States (Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2019),

~ from Examining Court Processing of Shoplifting Before and After the Passage of Mississippi House Bill 585 https://ccjls.scholasticahq.com/article/9910.pdf

See also Myth vs. Reality: Trends in Retail Theft (2024) https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/myth...
by ipdashc | 2026-01-08 06:46:42+00:00
I'm in the same boat as them, I honestly wouldn't care that much if all my health data got leaked. Not saying I'm "correct" about this (I've read the rest of the thread), just saying they're not alone.

It's always been interesting to me how religiously people manage to care about health data privacy, while not caring at all if the NSA can scan all their messages, track their location, etc. The latter is vastly more important to me. (Yes, these are different groups of people, but on a societal/policy level it still feels like we prioritize health privacy oddly more so than other sorts of privacy.)
by itsyonas | 2026-01-08 06:47:03+00:00
The livestock industry is an ecological disaster of unimaginable proportions. 50% of all habitable land is used for agriculture. Of that land, 83% is used for livestock, despite the fact that it only provides 18% of the calories consumed worldwide.

> While governments pretend to do stuff for the environment, they seem to always ignore the extreme cost on the environment and pollution caused by cattle.

While governments and politicians generally like to portray themselves as being driven by morals, they are actually driven almost entirely by economic interests.

> So, to be honest, while I don't freak out and I'm all for freedom, [...]

Well, I would like the freedom to live on a planet with an intact ecosystem. I also think that animals would like the freedom to live a life free from unnecessary exploitation.

> [...] and diet is by far more impactful than the transport of choice.

Both are high-impact areas, but changing your diet is much easier than changing your choice of transport - in some countries. Transport emissions account for about 25% of all emissions, 60% of which are caused by individuals' use of cars.

And after all of this, we haven't even touched on what fishing is doing to our oceans.
by array_key_first | 2026-01-08 06:47:51+00:00
Most investors are dumb as rocks, or, at least, don't know shit about what they're investing in. I mean, I don't know squat about chemical manufacturing but I have some investment in that.

It's not about who's the best, it's about where the market is. Dogpiling on growing companies is a proven way to make a lot of money, so people do it, and it's accelerated by index funds. The REAL people supporting Google and Nvidia isn't wallstreet, it's your 401K.
by svara | 2026-01-08 06:47:51+00:00
I cancelled my ChatGPT subscription because of Gemini 3, so obviously I'm having a different experience.

That said, I use Opus4.5 for coding through Cursor.

Gemini is for planning / rubber ducking / analysis / search.

I seriously find it a LOT better for these things.

ChatGPT has this issue where when it's doesn't know the explanation for something, it often won't hallucinate outright, but create some long-winded confusing word salad that sounds like it could be right but you can't quite tell.

Gemini mostly doesn't do that and just gives solid scientifically/ technically grounded explanations with sources much of the time.

That said it's a bit of a double edged sword, since it also tends to make confident statements extrapolating from the sources in ways that aren't entirely supported but tend to be plausible.
by barrkel | 2026-01-08 06:48:02+00:00
When I had a problem with video handoff between one Linux kernel and the next with a zfsbootmenu system, only Gemini was helpful. ChatGPT led me on a merry chase of random kernel flags that didn't have the right effect.

What worked was rebuilding the Ubuntu kernel with a disabled flag enabled, but it took too long to get that far.
by Rapzid | 2026-01-08 06:48:59+00:00
> a steady stream of shippable products

Software/web meat shops have bean around since the dawn of the time.

I worked at McDonald's in my teens. One of the best managers I ever worked for was the manager at this store at this time(the owner rotated him between stores to help get things on track).

I'll never forget this one thing he said: "They have changed the Filet-O-Fish five times since I've been here, and each time it's become more profitable".

Congrats on making slop more profitable.
by noduerme | 2026-01-08 06:49:25+00:00
Anyone who's ever had to pick up a prescription at a Walgreens will tell you that 3% doesn't begin to make up for the incredible shit you have to endure there. It's like being placed on hold indefinitely, only you have to keep standing in one spot while people sneeze on you, all while guys with backpacks come in and steal everything that isn't locked up. And if there's something you want like antacids or razor blades, it probably is locked up too, so spend another 15 minutes finding an extremely miserable employee to unlock those cabinets, then wait another hour in line to check out.

I remember visiting the Soviet Union as a kid and it's weird to watch Americans adopt the same passive, drained and resigned faces standing in lines at a Walgreens as Soviet citizens did waiting to cash bread tickets.
by tomhow | 2026-01-08 06:49:32+00:00
> This is one of the least thought out ideas I've seen on HN in a while,

> So you're an idiot

This is not acceptable on HN, no matter how right you are or feel you are. The guidelines make it clear we're here for curious conversation, not fulmination and personal attacks.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A vibe testing tool which helps you resolve your UX bugs
by Richardsonsimon | 2026-01-08 06:50:03+00:00
As a non technial developer I don't know how to test the functionalities of my platform. I always ask cursor to just check if everything works well or not. But Cursor is not God, it is not built for testing. So If i'm facing this issue then definitely others might also be facing this issue. So I'm currently working on Rihario with my co-founders to help others like me from UX bugs hell.

You paste your URL > a virtual browser opens up along with execution logs > A headless browser runs your site and tests almost everything when it comes UI/UX > Generates a report on what has passed the test (standard expections of a product) and what had failed > Generates a prompt to help you resolve those exact errors
by mhb | 2026-01-08 06:51:25+00:00
No.

"In 2025, the UNGA adopted 15 resolutions on Israel and only eleven resolutions on the entire rest of the world, which includes one resolution each on North Korea, Iran, and Myanmar, as well as six against Russia and two against the United States, as detailed in the charts below."

https://unwatch.org/2025-unga-resolutions-on-israel-vs-rest-...
by razingeden | 2026-01-08 06:52:17+00:00
A better example than Blackrock is Arrived:

"The Arrived team is cracked, and I love the audacity of their vision: a stock market for real estate," said Ali Partovi, CEO of Neo, in a release. "I'm betting on them to democratize and digitize access to America's $50 trillion in residential real estate." [0]

Should housing be a “$50 trillion” market for fractional ownership, bundled with its own secondary/speculative market to turn around and flip like penny stocks?

Lovely knowing I can have “access” to that platform and own a 0.004% share in a house someone somewhere out there lives in (rents). While I’ll probably never own a house again.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/11/13/arrived-launches-trading...
by snvzz | 2026-01-08 06:52:37+00:00
The disk drives can do it no problem.

The IBM PC floppy controller, however, normally cannot: While it has a debug raw read operation, it only reads once it finds a triple sync word in the floppy; Amiga track format uses double sync words.

However, if there is another floppy drive, it is possible to start the read on the other drive, with a standard IBM PC formatted floppy in it, and then poke a register to switch to the drive with the Amiga floppy.
by ddtaylor | 2026-01-08 06:53:13+00:00
Google really doesn't have a leg to stand on here. They scrape the Internet. They replace content against the wishes of users multiple different times, such as with AMP. Their entire business model recently has been to provide you answers they learned from scraping your website and now they want to sue other people who are doing the same.

Data wants to be free. They knew that once.

EDIT: Also to be clear I am not saying they can't win legally. I'm sure they can do legal games and could shop around until they were successful. They are in the wrong conceptually.
by RobinL | 2026-01-08 06:53:35+00:00
Another interesting aspect is that the NHS app makes all your detailed health history (doctors notes, scan results etc.) available to you as the patient.

Which in turn means you have the option of feeding it into ChatGPT. This feels potentially very valuable and a nice way of working around issues with whether doctors themselves are allowed to do it.

I'm not sure this applies to every surgery, but certainly my dad had access to everything immediately when he had a scan.
by tsimionescu | 2026-01-08 06:53:44+00:00
The guidelines haven't changed, but they should be. The association between cholesterol and CVD is specifically related to blood cholesterol levels. However, in healthy individuals, blood cholesterol levels are not strongly impacted by dietary cholesterol choices - since cholesterol is synthesized in the body, there is homeostasis, and higher cholesterol intake leads to lower rate of synthesis, maintaining the same blood levels.

However, some individuals suffer from a bad regulation of this homeostasis, and for them dietary cholesterol does lead to persistent high levels of blood cholesterol as well. So the guidelines should apply for them, but not for everyone else.
by locknitpicker | 2026-01-08 06:54:46+00:00
> Their moat in the consumer world is the branding and the fact open ai has 'memory' which you can't migrate to another provider.

Their 'memory' is mostly unhelpful and gets in the way. At best it saves you from prompting some context, but more often than not it adds so much irrelevant context that it over fits responses so hard that it makes them completely useless, specially in exploratory sessions.
by thayne | 2026-01-08 06:55:37+00:00
Well, given that Github owns NPM, one potential reason could be vendor lock in.

Also, from an implementation standpoint it is probably easier to make a system that just works for a handful of OIDC providers, than a more general solution. In particular, a general solution would require having a UI and maybe an API for registering NPM as a service provider for an identity provider of the package owner's choice.
by hombre_fatal | 2026-01-08 06:55:47+00:00
You would just eat more protein dense plant foods like tempeh, extra firm tofu, and seitan which is the most protein dense food.

If the only food in your pantry were seitan, you’d have to eat 260g (960cal) of it to hit 200g protein. It’s not that much food.

Most people haven’t tried it but asian stores may sell it next to tofu as “vegan chicken/beef”. It has a nice texture that you can cube and treat like chicken in a stir fry.

I eat it weekly.
by PKop | 2026-01-08 06:56:30+00:00
> All your multiple PCs have the same Documents folder. Files created on one PC are synced to the cloud and appear in all the other PCs' Documents folders

That sounds horrible.

> Could be good, or bad

It sounds bad either way. If the app exists on both computers there's good chance of conflicting overwrites of whatever is saved there. If the app is not used on a device then it's just a waste of downloading and syncing useless data.

They should just make the computers and have subfolders in a shared documents folder AND prompt you about so this before starting so you can turn off this or that folder before anything gets uploaded or downloaded. It's user-hostile design currently
by somenameforme | 2026-01-08 06:58:27+00:00
Exceptions don't define the rule, the rule does. Israeli estimates put the military wing of Hamas at having up to 17,000 members before the war. They've killed people in the hundreds of thousands in Gaza now.

In WW2 partisans would intentionally induce brutal retaliations precisely because they thought it would expose the character of the occupier, garner support for themselves, radicalize the population, and generally further their interests. And they were right. It's paradoxical because those retaliations were intended to enforce control, yet they invariably achieve the exact opposite - a recurring theme throughout history. Again getting back to the point I'm making - the reason to behave good in war is because it's in your own best interest.
by Nursie | 2026-01-08 06:58:35+00:00
> There are people who bought a house for $100k in 1990 where that house is now worth $2M. Are you $1.9M richer? No.

This is often repeated but not 100% correct.

You are in fact richer, and you can leverage this $2m in equity to take on debt and buy more houses. This is what has been happening here in Australia, and it's a major factor in the continued rise in prices.

When you've done this, hung on a handful of years and all of your houses have gone up 20-50%, you can cash out for a very nice sum indeed. AFAICT this is now a pretty mainstream middle-class retirement plan in this country, and it's terrible because, as you point out -

> Increasing house prices are simply stealing from the next generation

The money is coming from people, usually younger people, who are funding the insane market with ever larger mortgages and staying in rental properties longer, both of which benefit the equity-holder.
by rubymamis | 2026-01-08 06:59:04+00:00
> Both Kotlin and Swift are compiled.

I only said that because you said performant code "does not matter for a mobile app". I think writing apps in native frameworks is awesome! I'm all for it. BTW, I've heard some reports that SwiftUI/Swift are slow[1][2][3]. Again, I haven't explored SwiftUI and Kotlin, but I'd like some day. What do you love about them so much?

> All that for being at best similar to the native tools, but probably never exactly the same. And it cannot be better, because the native ones are the ones defining how it should be.

I agree, the best apps would almost always be those written in the framework the OS provides - kinda make sense - cross platform GUIs will always fall under the lowest common denominator issue - I've written about it in my blog post[4]. You also forget tho, that Linux does exist with a growing popularity - I think it's important to target it as well (I've started GUI development because I was on Linux and most apps had horrible UI/UX).

> but starting a new mobile UI with QML these days is just madness IMHO :-)

Follow my mad adventure (:

[1] https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/SwiftUI%20is%20convenient,%20...

[2] https://x.com/daniel_nguyenx/status/1734495508746702936

[3] https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/why-swift-is-slow/

[4] https://rubymamistvalove.com/block-editor#9-aesthetics
by olowe | 2026-01-08 06:59:45+00:00
> What sort of companies are those were receptionists have access to tools beyond their role? and why are people approaching the receptionists asking for data queries?

It's a fair question. I questioned myself all the time doing the job. The couple of competent doctors couldn't see other patients as the doctors couldn't get paper records themselves. The old retiring doctors (one had a genuine diagnosis of vascular dementia) sometimes hid the paper records for themselves. Admin staff stopped bothering sorting the records properly some years back too. You needed to just know where some group of patient's records were in which cabinet. The workflow for accessing records, in the morning:

1. study the appointment book
2. open delivered snail mail, set aside ones for patients who had appointments that day
3. get each patient's records, attach any new mail (real attachments with paperclips!)
4. place them on each doctor's desks

By scanning the records in other doctors, competent ones, could see other patients. For me, I was ok with doing this job even though it is officially inappropriate.

Despite this strict paper workflow, there were 3 PCs on the front desk to be used by any admin staff at any time. No password to log in ("too slow" otherwise). The password to log in to the medical software was "1234" ("too slow" otherwise... again). The practice purchased computers only to be able to bill patients using credit/debit cards and to get rebates more quickly from the government.

> ... permissions to run arbitrary software without permission from the IT team

There was no IT team. The practice called an IT support company who billed per 10 minutes - no contracts - if the "server" didn't come back up again after a disk failed or somebody kicked the cables. The practice staff stopped calling the IT team once they saw that I could do the job myself (see my longer comment)
by aurareturn | 2026-01-08 06:59:45+00:00
Thanks for sharing. I struggled with long-term undiagnosed issues for so long. It took me 15 years of trying with doctors until one did a colonoscopy and found an H.Pylori infection in 2018. Prescribed the right kind of antibiotics and changed my life. In hindsight, my symptoms matched many of the infection's. No doctor figured it out.

So many doctors never bothered to conduct any tests. Many said it's in my head. Some told me to just exercise. I tried general doctors, specialists. At some point, I was so desperate that I went to homeopathy route.

15 years wasted. Why did it take 15 years for the current system?

I'd bet that if I had ChatGPT earlier, it could have helped me in figuring out the issue much faster. When you're sick, you don't give a damn who might have your health data. You just want to get better.
by tomhow | 2026-01-08 06:59:47+00:00
> Because german politicians are incapable of implementing an immigration strategy that isn't absolutely, undeniably retarded.

Please don't fulminate or post ragey flamebait and offensive epithets on HN. HN is for people who have higher standards than this. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: We've warned you several times about this kind of commenting and you've posted similarly inflammatory comments in the past week or two, so we've banned the account.
by tugdual | 2026-01-08 06:59:59+00:00
The reason we're conflating them is because there is a strong correlation between "highly processed food" and "designed recklessly". If you look at Carlos Monteiro (The pioneer in this domain) he operationalized it with the NOVA metric. NOVA 4 being the closest to what you're talking about:

"Industrially manufactured food products made up of several ingredients (formulations) including sugar, oils, fats and salt (generally in combination and in higher amounts than in processed foods) and food substances of no or rare culinary use (such as high-fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated oils, modified starches and protein isolates)..." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_classification

I highly recommend Chris van Tulleken's Ultra-processed people for a more indepth read on this fat correlation (excuse the pun :))
by wakawaka28 | 2026-01-08 07:00:01+00:00
If you read the second paragraph of the comment you just responded to, I alluded to a potential problem-reaction-solution scheme to create the situation (excessive illegal immigration through unenforced borders) to the final conclusion of expanding federal authority all over the place. It is subtle, so I don't blame you for not connecting the dots.

Despite the fact that I suspect this scheme is in play, we do actually need to get these illegals out. I believe they have let welfare leeches, common criminals, foreign military, and terrorists all through the border to make sure that we would need federal help to get them out. Rejecting federal solutions now is not the answer. The answer is to let them solve the problem and insist that things go back to normal afterward.
by somat | 2026-01-08 07:00:55+00:00
Speaking of prolog, any recommendations for resources learning it at a stage somewhere between "draw three circles" and "draw the rest of the owl"

I don't have real work I need prolog for, but I find it an interesting subject, My personal learning goal, the point where I can say I know prolog reasonably well is when I can get it to solve this mit puzzle I found, a sort of variant of soduku. I found a clever prolog solver for soduku that I thought could teach me more in this domain, but it was almost to clever, super optimized for soduku(it exploited geometric features to build it's relationships) and I was still left with no idea on how to build the more generic relationships I need for my puzzle(specific example if soduku cells were not in a grid how could they be specified?), in fact I can find very little information on how to specify moderately complex, ad hoc relationships. One that particularly flummoxed me was that some rules(but you don't know which) are wrong.

https://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=clpfd-sudoku
Ask HN: Has anyone experimented with reducing "thought residue"?
by kentaroyamauchi | 2026-01-08 07:01:07+00:00
I’ve been quietly experimenting with a small set of ultralight iOS tools built around an idea I call “thought residue” — the cognitive friction that builds up when thoughts have nowhere to land.

The tools deliberately avoid goals, tracking, or optimization. They’re closer to small rituals than systems.

I’m curious whether others here have tried designing or using software this way — or whether friction reduction without explicit outcomes tends to fail.

(If useful, I’ve written more about the idea here: https://www.mindbebop.com)
by vladgur | 2026-01-08 07:01:12+00:00
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Multiple 2% cashback cards

Amazon prime - 5% off Amazon and Whole Foods purchases, but you have to be a prime subscriber

Robinhood gold -3% off anything for $60/year

Amex blue cash rewards - 6% off groceries(and gift cards bought at supermarkets) for $75 per year