MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by didibus | 2026-01-08 18:18:16+00:00
The only difference from the previous guidance is that it's suggesting eating more meat and dairy, which would come at the expense of veggies, legumes, nuts and seeds.

To be honest, I don't totally disagree from a practical angle. I think we have to acknowledge that most Americans failed to eat large portions of non-processed veggies, legumes, nuts and seeds. The next best thing might be to tell them, ok, at least if you're going to eat meat and dairy in large portions, make sure it's non-processed.

I've found for myself, it's hard to eat perfectly, but it's easier to replace processed foods and added sugar with simpler whole meats, fish and healthy fats like avocado, eggs, etc. And since those have higher satiety it helps with calorie control and so you avoid eating more snacks and treats which are heavily processed and sugary.

That said, in a purely evidence based health sense, it's not as good as the prior ratios from what I've seen of the research.
by numpad0 | 2026-01-08 18:18:40+00:00
Akihabara was where runoffs and spillovers from cutting edge electronics accumulated until ~2010s. There used to be tons of failed experiments and EOL'd enterprise gears washing up. After that, supplies shifted to Taiwan and then to Shenzhen in China.

As far as gaming is concerned, the "gaming" parts of Akihabara mainly concerned locally produced pastel toned 2D slideshow pornographic games("visual novels"), the genre that lead to gacha games like FGO. Local populace is horrible at handling 3D first-person content in general and that never helped.

Non-console gaming in Japan is growing somewhat but a lot is also going into phones, namely Genshin. So where the trend is headed is still pastel toned soft-porn games without much PvP.
by alistairSH | 2026-01-08 18:18:42+00:00
I wonder how these results would stack up against something like pro baseball players or pro cyclists - both have a very long season (6 month season for baseball, even longer for cyclists). Maybe a bit like touring bands.

Three main differences that come to mind...
- athletes repeat this annually (famous touring musicians might take a year or two off to record new material).
- athletes likely live a healthier overall lifestyle because being extremely fit is part of the job. Plus the teams have embedded MDs and other health support staff (some musicians will, some won't).
- athletes usually retire from their primary sport in their 30s, so only ~20 years of touring on the high end, where musicians can tour into their 50s or 60s (or beyond for a few).
by hagg3n | 2026-01-08 18:19:12+00:00
I consume most of my video/audio informational content at 1.5x or faster. It wasn't FOMO or that I felt unproductive. I just felt that some of the content was going too slow for my thought process and leaving me kind of hanging, waiting for the next bit of information so I could continue coming up with my conclusions about the topic. But if I'm slower that day or feel that the topic is too dense, I don't mind at all slowing it down or even pausing it.

To me, it just feels like when I scan some text with the eyes looking for the juicier parts or hooks that I most care about. Speaking of which, I much prefer to consume content as text than audio or video. I can scan, seek, pause, think, go back at will without fiddling with any controls.
by tootie | 2026-01-08 18:19:15+00:00
There were hundreds of prosecutions. Then SCOTUS declared the president immune. Then the bad guy got reelected and pardoned everyone. Then started launched truly malicious prosecutions of political enemies. Cases which thankfully are dying due to lack of merit.

One side is doing all the bad things and the other is simply struggling to stop them. Being cynical helps nothing.
by pengaru | 2026-01-08 18:19:16+00:00
I wouldn't assume pulling a SIM is enough to hide the phone's location. The modem will still be powered, the IMEI isn't part of the SIM card and is a unique identifier. Plus last I checked you can still contact 911 without being a subscriber.

I'm no expert on cell networks but my impression is the baseband will still ping towers and participate in the cell network on some level. If the phone gets confiscated or its IMEI otherwise associated with you, it can probably be abused to try place you in an area at a given time even without the SIM card.

Just use cameras without any RF hardware. (they tend to have better optics / zoom capabilities anyways)
by bhelkey | 2026-01-08 18:19:47+00:00
I would agree with you if the author wrote, "I don't count as home robots small four legged robots as they don't navigate around clutter, they just go over it" but the author didn't write that.

The author quoted two constraints (safe around children, must include a form factor able to preform an action) not specified.

The author projected that a lab demo of capabilities would not occur. I don't see safety for children as necessary for a lab demo.
by AlotOfReading | 2026-01-08 18:19:47+00:00
Leaving aside the technical problems, there's just not a big market of people willing to pay couple hundred dollars a night to sleep in a car. Buses, planes, and trains work by spreading the fixed costs of the vehicle over all the riders. A car can't really compete with those ticket prices. Plus, there aren't many destination pairs with demand between them willing to pay high prices where competitive transit services don't already exist. LA/SF maybe, but we've already seen a number of luxury sleeper bus operators fail to materialize demand on that route. LA/Vegas formerly, but those days seem numbered with brightline.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-08 18:20:03+00:00
That's a big reason why FOSS is going to crumble. If AI succeeds and decimates the tech labor industry, people won't have the luxury to "code for fun". Life isn't a bunch of comfy programmers working on stuff in their spare time anymore.

We already see a component of this with art, but art actually needs to be displayed unlike code to show its vslue. So they adapt. Tools to keep the machine from training on their work, or more movements into work that is much harder to train on (a 2d image of a 3d model does the job and the model can be shared off the internet). Programming will follow a similar course; the remaining few become mercenaries and need to protect their IP themselves.
by alexroselli93 | 2026-01-08 18:20:04+00:00
We noticed that most group dining conflicts don’t happen because people disagree,
but because unsafe constraints (allergies, dietary rules, medical conditions)
are discovered too late.
So we built a small experiment: instead of ranking restaurants,
we eliminate incompatible options first, before any discussion starts.
The goal isn’t to “choose the best place”, but to remove the wrong ones early,
so groups can reach a decision faster and more safely.

We’re testing this with small real groups (friends, families),
and I’m curious if others here have seen similar patterns,
or edge cases we might be missing.
Happy to answer questions and learn from feedback.
by perihelions | 2026-01-08 18:20:09+00:00
Radley Balko:

> "According to my sources, the FBI was initially open to a concurrent investigation with the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (the state agency that would do this investigation)."

> "Trumpy U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen heard about this and intervened, barring the FBI from cooperating with local police."

https://bsky.app/profile/radleybalko.bsky.social/post/3mbwfz...
by getnormality | 2026-01-08 18:20:18+00:00
TLDR: This paper introduces a pipeline that extracts unstructured causal claims from LLMs and stitches them into a structured, geometric Large Causal Model.

Traditional causal inference usually relies on numerical data from specific experiments. This paper instead proposes mining the latent world model inside an LLM. It prompts the model to generate causal triples (Subject -> Relation -> Object) across diverse domains (archaeology, economics, biology) and uses categorical machine learning methods (Topos theory) to embed these fragments into a coherent manifold, rather than a messy graph "hairball."
by shagie | 2026-01-08 18:20:24+00:00
As I write this, catb is not serving promptly... so https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html

I also recommend Monktoberfest 2016: Bryan Cantrill - Oral Tradition in Software Engineering : https://youtu.be/4PaWFYm0kEw?si=nqfxSae52-89x5Ye&t=653
by soraminazuki | 2026-01-08 18:20:35+00:00
Regulatory oversight of medical tech is important. But it's not because of the law, it's because it's a matter of life and death. The legality aspect becomes less interesting when there's no functioning regulatory framework that protects the people.

Which is to say, OpenAI getting approval wouldn't make this any better if that approval isn't actually worth the paper it's written on.
by worik | 2026-01-08 18:20:56+00:00
Interesting

In New Zealand dairy herds are routinely fed all sorts of supplemental feed (palm kernel leftover from pressing palm oil, imported from Indonesia is particularly popular, with cows as well as farmers I guess) yet the products are labeled "grass fed" because the cows are kept in bare paddocks with grass underfoot.

The cows have no shade nor shelter from storms and would be much better off in herd homes, but cheapness and very little care for animal welfare
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-08 18:21:24+00:00
Right, I meant that the new scheme is subject to a whitelist. I didn't mean to imply that you can't use the old scheme anymore.

> Federation always has up-front and long-term costs

Not particularly? For example there's no particular cost if I accept email from outlook today but reverse that decision and ban it tomorrow. I don't immediately see a technical reason to avoid a default accept policy here.

> for a single user on their own server, the actual value of OIDC federation versus an API token is nil.

The value is that you can do away with long lived tokens that are prone to theft. You can MFA with your (self hosted) OIDC service and things should be that much more secure. Of course your (single user) OIDC service could get pwned but that's no different than any other account compromise.

I guess there's some nonzero risk that a bunch of users all decide to use the same insecure OIDC service. But you might as well worry that a bunch of them all decide to use an insecure password manager.

> Well, not for a private key, but for a set of claims that constitute a machine identity

What's the difference between "set of claims" and "private key" here?

That last paragraph in GP was more a tangential rant than directly on topic BTW. I realize that OIDC makes sense here. The issue is that as an end user I have more flexibility and ease of use with my SSH keys than I do with something like a self hosted OIDC service. I can store my SSH keys on a hardware token, or store them on my computer blinded so that I need a hardware token or TPM to unlock them, or lots of other options. The service I'm connecting to doesn't need to know anything about my workflow. Whereas self hosting something like OIDC managing and securing the service becomes an entire thing on top of which many services arbitrarily dictate "thou shalt not self host".

It's a general trend that as new authentication schemes have been introduced they have generally included undesirable features from the perspective of user freedom. Adding insult to injury those unnecessary features tend to increase the complexity of the specification. In contrast, it's interesting to think how things might work if what we had instead was a single widely accepted challenge scheme such as SSH has. You could implement all manner of services such as OIDC on top of such a primitive while end users would retain the ability to directly use the equivalent of an SSH key.
by lucideer | 2026-01-08 18:21:55+00:00
I came across this Github comunity discussion today - "Unanswered" from April 2023 - & it felt very relevant to current discourse in the context of some recent frontpage submissions here on Claude CLI[0] & comments questioning whether Dependabot is actively maintained[1].

I wonder are we entering into an era of large commercial enterprise SaaS that is simultaneously expensive, in demand & also abandonware.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46532075

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46538227
by sbargaoui | 2026-01-08 18:22:28+00:00
Thanks! Pluggable backends are surely on the radar.

The current implementation is deliberately thin: the stream operations are just xadd/xread/set/get/delete. Abstracting that into a protocol wouldn't be hard, and a model based on stream-per-session, durable and serverless fits the use case well.

Redis was the pragmatic choice for v0 since most teams already have it running and the latency is good for real-time streaming to frontends. But durability is a valid concern, especially if the agent run matters (billing, compliance, debugging), you want it persisted properly, not just in Redis memory.

If S2's self-hostable OSS version lands soon, that'd lower the barrier for people to try it.

Would love to hear if there are other backend preferences out there !
by hombre_fatal | 2026-01-08 18:22:29+00:00
It's a natural response to feel bad about your behavior not aligning with your values.

So much so that we prefer to not think about it to prop up cognitive dissonance.

I think "wanting people to feel bad" is more an urge that people at least acknowledge the dissonance. Many people don't even get that far because it's so uncomfortable.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-08 18:22:30+00:00
>In cases where it would detract, simply use an appropriate license to curb the behavior.

I think it's a bit too late for Tailwind to do that.

>But my point is that I figure either LLMs disrupt the status quo and we see benefits from it

Who's "we"? The only we here will be tech billionaires. We get shiny tools and no job. Is that a good trade-off?
by superkuh | 2026-01-08 18:22:53+00:00
It gets real hard when the entire road surface is covered with snow for weeks at a time (like after small 1" snowfalls that might not get cleared immediately like a heavy snow would). Or when snow buildup on the road edges change road edge location and cars parked on the side project well into the "nominal" GPS derived lanes. Lanes which human drivers won't be using. They'll be using emergent lanes defined by flocking behavior. I haven't seen any evidence that autonomous vehicles can detect or navigate such emergent, non-marked except by tracks and human gut feeling lanes.

Being "better" than human in these situations will cause crashes. The real goal is to drive like a human.
by palmotea | 2026-01-08 18:23:04+00:00
Is Andreessen the source of the OP's quote?

He does have his head up his ass, so I wouldn't be surprised [1]. However, he doesn't really say anything close enough in either of the articles you linked.

[1] FFS, he really implies day care is expensive because regulation is preventing "technology [from] whipping through" the sector like it has in TV manufacturing. I don't want to live in his nightmare fantasy.

But in the spirit of deregulation and techno-utopianism, here's an idea to use technology to slash day care prices that's held back by evil government regulation: lock kids in padded rooms while their parents work. Maybe stick a TV on the wall playing Cocomelon. It requires no labor for supervision, and the kids can't get hurt because the room is padded. That's a "technological innovation" that will "push down prices while increasing quality," for certain definitions of "quality."
by freetime2 | 2026-01-08 18:23:04+00:00
I have an old PC that I built that I’ve been meaning to take to Hard Off. I wonder if it would if it would be better to sell the parts individually, or as a single unit. For reference, it has a Ryzen 9 3900x, 64 GB DDR4, an RX 5700 XT graphics card, and 512 GB NVME.
Probably not worth much anymore, and I’ll probably just sell it as-is to save myself the effort of taking it apart. But Hard Off occasionally surprises me with how much they pay for a piece of old gear.
by DiabloD3 | 2026-01-08 18:23:12+00:00
Beyerdynamic announced earlier last year they're finally exiting pro and flagship tier stuff, and selling out to a Chinese equity firm.

Their build quality is exceptional, and they're built like tanks. The only problem, imo, is the Beyer house sound is very shouty and fatiguing, especially with the "990" versions of the product line over the years.

Disclaimer: I owned a Beyer DT880/600ohm (the neutral one of the 770/880/990 siblings), paired with an amp that could properly handle it. Its one of the few headphones I sold and did not retain in my collection, it deserved someone that could love it. The new Tesla-based drivers are better (such as that 1990), but still retain that Beyer sound.
by bitwize | 2026-01-08 18:23:18+00:00
When I was in Queensland I was a bit flabbergasted that every roadside sandwich shoppe, no matter how small or God-forsaken, served excellent coffee. Thankfully the world is healing and American coffee culture is improving. Starbucks has as much difficulty getting a toehold in New Orleans as it did in Brisbane and for the same reasons: there are so many places you can get better coffee, that no one wants to go to Starbucks.
by chasd00 | 2026-01-08 18:23:31+00:00
yeah it's kind of amazing, just leave your phone at home and the tracking problem is solved (if one even really exists to begin with). If you want to document something bring a simple digital camera. They pretty much all have video and audio capability too. Like how is this not obvious to everyone?

edit: just want to point out there are still cameras everywhere so if you're worried about being found just leaving your phone at home isn't going to do much
by kingstnap | 2026-01-08 18:23:51+00:00
I suppose this is a more forward looking post though. It's about whoever gets to whatever is awaiting us in the future 7 months before the other.

And I guess the idea is is that there is this extreme inflection point in utility somewhere that makes it so getting there first gives you some incredible economic edge.

It might not exist though. Like either utility plateaus and its bubble crash of the century time or it just keeps going up but without any specific point where you can differentiate something.
by eli_gottlieb | 2026-01-08 18:24:03+00:00
> Wars, a revocation of trucker drivers’ licenses (already happening in Cali), deportations, tariffs, the collapse of USMCA…the uncertainty is near endless.

So, uh, did business owners actually take any of these things, which very much were promised during campaign season, into account when voting? Or did they walk into the ballot box thinking, "no-one wants to work anymore!" and pull the lever for the guy promising to make applicants a bit more motivated to work at lower wages?
by benrazdev | 2026-01-08 18:24:09+00:00
>this is false.

It's mostly false.

Technically, if you use `fmt.Errorf`, then the caller can't get anything useful out of your errors.

Types are promises. All the `error` interface promises is a string representation. I acknowledge that most of the time there is more information available. However, from the function signature _alone_, you wouldn't know. I understand that this is more of a theoretical problem then a practical problem but it still holds (in my opinion).
Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time
by RichHickson | 2026-01-08 18:24:17+00:00
I built a macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time via API after hitting limits mid-flow too often.

Signed and notarised by Apple. Open source.

https://github.com/richhickson/claudecodeusage

https://x.com/richhickson
by easyKL | 2026-01-08 18:24:55+00:00
Unrelated to Bose's open hardware:
The project Gadgetbridge has headsets and earplugs from various brands, but almost no Bose.
https://gadgetbridge.org/gadgets/headphones/bose/
The community show interest, but still nothing.
https://codeberg.org/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/issues?stat...
by theturtletalks | 2026-01-08 18:25:26+00:00
My mom uses the Google app instead of just going to Google.com on Safari. She’s probably going to use Gemini because she’s locked into that ecosystem. I suspect most people are going to stick with what they use because like you said, to consumers, they can’t really tell the difference between each model. They might get a 5% better answer, but is that worth the switching costs? Probably not.

That’s why you see people here mention Claude Code or other CLI where Gemini has always fallen short. Because to us, we see more than a 5% difference between these models and switching between these models is easy if you’re using a CLI.

It’s also why this article is generated hype. If Gemini was really giving the average consumer better answers, people would be switching from ChatGPT to Gemini but that’s not happening.
by dust42 | 2026-01-08 18:25:40+00:00
They use the ECI - EpochAI Capability Index.

Measured by the DCI the Chinese AI models are about 1.5 years ahead of US models.

DCI = Dust42 Capability Index: MBP Max 64GB, Qwen3-80B MLX 4bit quant, 40 tokens per second. It is not on Claude Opus level but very, very useful if you have no internet, i.e. on a flight. And occasionally it surpasses even Opus by far and large. Opus is a pain in the neck once the coding task at hand surpasses its capabilities. Qwen3 is much better to guide to get step by step to a solution.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-08 18:25:47+00:00
There's a need for law.

The fact nobody negotiates for results based treatment is similar to how everyone really needs insurance to afford medical treatments. It's not law to have medical insurance but basically everyone needs it regardless. The problem is systemic. It's not purely related to law. Side effects and incentives stemming both from law and outside of law force things to be this way.

Stop manipulating the conversation this way. You know what I mean. Any sane person pays for results, not for time and garbage results.

>As for your absurd assertions about what every patient wants, you're just lying and making things up. Many patients (like me) don't want that or have no strong preference at all. Your comparison to North Korea is just deranged and bears no relationship to objective reality.

No it's not a lie. It's obvious to anyone reading. I'm so confident about it that I'll even say you're lying about what you want.

You don't want to pay a doctor thousands of dollars for his time and wrong advice that can potentially kill you. No patient wants this. 800,000 patients per year die or are seriously injured from misdiagnosis. Every single one of those patients wants there money back. That is objectively reality. You're not stupid. You're not delusional. So you know this. At this point you're just arguing and lying.

>Your comparison to North Korea is just deranged and bears no relationship to objective reality.

800,000 patients injured/dead from misdiagnosis. 300,000k of that is deaths. That's equivalent to mass slaughter. One of these persons is my brother, imagine if it was yours.

It's not deranged. You're deranged for thinking it's NOT. The comparison is not only relevant as an analogy but relevant in degree of severity.
by toast0 | 2026-01-08 18:25:50+00:00
Otoh, ipv6 address assignment tends to be much more contiguous. My (small) residential ISP has one v6 prefix but several v4 prefixes. If you block the whole prefix for services you don't like, it's far less prefixes for v6.

But, it is a new skill, and you can turn off v6 at small cost if you're already ok with heavily restricting v4.
by coffeemug | 2026-01-08 18:25:55+00:00
Two counterintuitive/surprising lessons I've come to appreciate:

1.Talent pools in nation states are extraordinarily deep-- much deeper than they appear. Countries can suffer from brain drain for decades (or centuries!) but when conditions call for talent, superbly talented people somehow manifest.

2. The correlation between talent and conscience is weak. Nation states always manage to find superbly talent people to work on problems many of us would recoil from.