MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AlexCoventry | 2026-01-08 08:07:38+00:00
Anthropic must be loving this.

> Gas Town is also expensive as hell. You won’t like Gas Town if you ever have to think, even for a moment, about where money comes from. I had to get my second Claude Code account, finally; they don’t let you siphon unlimited dollars from a single account, so you need multiple emails and siphons, it’s all very silly. My calculations show that now that Gas Town has finally achieved liftoff, I will need a third Claude Code account by the end of next week. It is a cash guzzler.

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16d...
by miki123211 | 2026-01-08 08:07:46+00:00
No, but AFAIK they pulled some shenanigans with "bundling" Gemini scraping and search engine scraping.

Almost everybody wants to appear in search, so disallowing the entirety of Google is far more costly than E.G. disallowing Openai, who even differentiates between content scraped for training and content accessed to respond to a user request.
by deathanatos | 2026-01-08 08:09:07+00:00
… eggs are $6.50/dz at my local grocer, this week. Hand-printed sign on the door apologizing for the shortage. Tyson bought a more local company, and the prices of the product I had bought from the local producer went up like 50%.

We bought a soft drink for holiday game watching — Dr. Pepper with berries or something — and despite a shrink-flated can, it had something like 71% DV of sugar in it. That seemed excessive (and I ended up rate limiting them because of it), but it is frustrating to need to constantly treat the products around me like they're trying to sabotage me.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-01-08 08:09:29+00:00
There were more-or-less two original spheres of OSS. There were the academics who were too "pure" and holier than thou for everyone else, and then there were commercial FOSS that OS'ed because something already reached its reasonable lifetime potential and it was cool to give away the plans to a cult classic to let it live on in some other mostly permanent, mostly released form. When OSS becomes a mindless pattern, an absolute prerequisite to investment, and/or ceases to be released without regret, resentment, and/or strings attached, then it's not cool anymore and becomes toxic.
by Doxin | 2026-01-08 08:09:47+00:00
Roughly no one already says GSM. When talking about paper you'll hear people say things like "That's a sheet of 120 gram"

GSM basically only ever appears in print. If someone DOES ask "what does 120 gram mean here?" the clarification is going to be "Oh that's grams per square meter" and not "Oh that's gee es em"

I should mention GSM is also probably an americanism. I'm in the EU and out of the five packs of different kinds of art paper four are labeled in g/m2, and one has no labeled weight at all. None of them are marked in GSM as that abbreviation only works in english, while g/m2 works in all languages.
Show HN: Flowscape – A developer-first 2D canvas engine with full scene control
by flowscape_ui | 2026-01-08 08:09:48+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been working on Flowscape, a 2D canvas engine focused on building interactive editors and visual tools.
It provides low-level control over scenes, nodes, and interactions without enforcing a specific UI or workflow.

The goal is to give developers a flexible foundation for custom editors, diagrams, and canvas-based interfaces.
I’d love feedback on the API design, architecture, and real-world use cases.

Demo: https://flowscape-ui.github.io/core-sdk/?path=/story/interac...
GitHub: https://github.com/Flowscape-UI/core-sdk
by thesz | 2026-01-08 08:10:01+00:00
By storing 10g of fat (90 calories, 3.5%-5% of daily calories) per day you accumulate 3.5 kg of fat after an year. By eating protein that cannot be utilized by your body fully (wrong amino acid profile) you are storing extra fat and build less muscle.

Whey protein most probably would bound muscle protein synthesis by methionine available, and make substantial (I think 40%) amount of calories from leucine in it to be converted to glucose. Two 33g servings of whey protein can be converted to 1g of fat, just from leucine alone.
by richardharmer | 2026-01-08 08:10:30+00:00
I’m Richard. As a maker, I always felt that web-based 3D tools should be more about "work" and less about "ads."

That’s why I built Normal Map Generator. It’s a distraction-free, app-like environment designed specifically for Game Devs and 3D Artists who value their screen real estate and privacy.

What makes it different?

Dedicated Workspace: A standalone page designed for deep work.

Secure & Private: Everything happens locally in your browser.

Game-Ready: Tailored for seamless integration with Unity/Unreal.

Check out the standalone tool mode and let me know what you think! Cheers!
by heavyset_go | 2026-01-08 08:10:57+00:00
IMO, the only ethical and legal way to build LLMs on the entire output of all human creativity, that still respects rights and won't lead to feudalism, is conforming to the actual legal requirements of fair use that are being ignored.

According to fair use doctrine, research models would be okay. Models used in education would be okay. Models used for public betterment by the government would be okay, etc

Pie in the sky version would be that models, their output and the infrastructure they run on would be held in a public trust for everyone's benefit. They wouldn't exist without consuming all of the public's intellectual and creative labor and property, therefore they should belong to the public, for the public.

> Tech is about to cease being ours.

On the hardware side, it's bad, as well. Remote attestation is here, and the frog is just about boiled when it comes to the idea of a somewhat open and compatible PC as the platform for general computing.

It was kinda cool while it lasted, glad I got to see the early internet, but it wasn't worth it to basically sign away for my great grandchildren to be peasants or belong to some rich kid's harem.
by genewitch | 2026-01-08 08:11:06+00:00
why is meat inflammatory? is it they way it's farmed/raised?

because we have teeth specifically designed to get meat off bones and animals that don't eat meat and weren't "designed to" don't have teeth designed to clean meat off bones. and that's just one i came up with, off the cuff.

if it's current farming practices that make the meat/dairy bad for us, then fix that. But i don't currently believe there's a greater health benefit to taking a ton of supplements to replace the missing nutrients that meat and dairy give us that you absolutely cannot get from vegan diets without it becoming a monotonous pain in the neck.
by supriyo-biswas | 2026-01-08 08:12:36+00:00
It is perfectly normal for an anycast network operator to have multiple sites from which they make BGP announcements (which is how anycast works in the first place), which gives them multiple vantage points for this sort of analysis.

Other CDN companies can do it too, it's just that they don't work on signalling their engineering focused organization.
by themk | 2026-01-08 08:13:36+00:00
Bioavailabilty is a bit of a non-issue. It's measured as if the food you are measuring is the only food you eat. So if it is slightly low on one amino acid, the "bioavailabilty" drops, but noone eats like that. Once combined with other foods, the total "bioavailabilty" tends to increase.
by samrus | 2026-01-08 08:13:50+00:00
Yeah. Another way to collect that metric is surveying people to ask them if cancelling their gym membership was easier

I do get the previous commenters hesitance though. It feels like you are holding mambani to a higher stnadard that anyone in america has held corporation in regard to something like the blatant wage theft they commit. Seems a bit of selective enforcement
by swiftcoder | 2026-01-08 08:14:00+00:00
> Like I said in a reply to the sibling comment, that’s a regional quirk (taste

It's a "regional quirk" that applies to far more of the world than US tastes, by my reckoning. Even within the US you'll find plenty of people who don't prefer bland beef, and outside it's just... some parts of Western Europe that share the bland obsession?
by telmo | 2026-01-08 08:14:06+00:00
If the actions and beliefs of a group are fundamentally morally repugnant to me, I think that it is reasonable to not expect me to be able to find "something positive" in it. We are not amoral automata with grocery-list style utility functions.

I have people in my personal sphere that make this sort of argument and it honestly feels like gaslighting. The undercurrent is: "Look, you don't like this guy, I get it. But if you can't see that he does some good, then you are the one who is irrational and not really in a sound state of mind." Meanwhile completely preventable, life-threatening, life-destroying diseases such as measles are back because of the obscurantist beliefs that come with this "new refreshing outlook". This is a bit like saying: "look, you can say what you want about the Spanish inquisition but they kept rates of extra-marital affairs down."

Corporations love this sort of feel-good campaign (the same way they love performative LGBTQ / feminism / diversity when the culture wars swing the other way) for two main reasons: (1) they distract from fundamental issues that threaten their real interests; (2) they shift the blame on big societal issues completely to the public. They do this with climate change, they do it with increase of wealth inequality and they most certainly do it with public health.

All developed nations have a problem with processed food. Granted, it is particularly severe in the USA, but the ONE THING that separates the USA from almost every other developed nation in our planet is the absence of socialized healthcare. This is the obvious salient thing to look at before all others, so also obviously, a lot of money will be spent to misdirect and distract from this very topic.
by internet_points | 2026-01-08 08:14:53+00:00
Well, there has always been some very bare-bones debugging support in ghci (you can set breakpoints, step and inspect variables), but only for interpreted code, and zero debug adapter protocol integration or such things https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/latest/docs/users_guide/gh...
I've never managed to get any use out of it.

This new `hdb` however looks like the real thing. I like that they added a `DebugView` class for debug-specific pretty-printing. Even has a nice web page :) https://well-typed.github.io/haskell-debugger/
by aurareturn | 2026-01-08 08:15:24+00:00
This does also show it not changing in other benchmarks, but I don't have a LNL laptop myself to test things myself, just going off of what people I know tested. It's still also balanced so best performance power plan would I assume push it to use its cores normally - on windows laptops I've owned this could be done with a hotkey.

It literally throttles in every benchmark shown. Some more than others. It throttles even more than the older Intel SoC LNL replaced.

LNL is N3B, Apple is on N3E which is a slight improvement for efficency

Still the same family. The difference is tiny. Not nearly enough to make up the vast difference between LNL and M4. Note that N3B actually has higher density than N3E.

Like I said they simply have a better architecture at the moment, which also more focused on client that GB benchmarks because their use cases are narrower. If you compare something like optimized SIMD Intel/AMD will come out on top with perf/watt.

LNL doesn't even have AVX512.
by samrus | 2026-01-08 08:16:27+00:00
Its not supposed to generate revenue, its supposed to shift the cost to the corporarions that are abusing this loophole, and hopefully lead to them not abusing it in the future. Like how high taxes on cigarettes arent meant to make money, theyre meant make smokers pay for burdening the healthcare system and society with their vice, and hopefully make it prohibitively expensive for them to continie doing it, or for someone new to start
by genewitch | 2026-01-08 08:17:01+00:00
the rectangular pizzas were never "reheated". i have copies of the recipe cards to make enough trays of pizza to feed a school using the industrial kitchen appliances they have in schools.

and whatever your issue is with chocolate milk, can you link a recent survey that shows the percentage of say, americans, that have had 1 or more glasses of water in the last month? a glass being at least 8floz (1/4 liter or so)

i'm leaning toward "most people don't drink enough, if any, water; furthermore most people are probably varying levels of dehydrated", at least in the US. The fad of carrying water with you everywhere was lambasted into obscurity, at least in the american south. Anecdotally, many people have told me they drink 64 ounces a day, because diet coke counts and so does beer.

that a kid is getting a fortified delicious drink they enjoy is fine by me.
by psyentist | 2026-01-08 08:17:16+00:00
I've spent so many hours watching session replays and analyzing heatmaps that I'm sick of it.

I dreamt of an AI that will analyze all the traffic for me and I'll get straight to the answers that matter: what bothers my users? where is the friction? what works well? what behavior I've never noticed about them?

Now that's finally possible with the advancements in foundational models. I couldn't resist building the tool.

Super simple to integrate - just a line of JS in your code. It won't slow your website as the other session recording tools as it captures only the essential signals for the model to have the right context (not the full DOM). Also, this makes it cost effective as it won't burn that many tokens.

It then uses an LLM to analyze all the traffic and surface only the things that really matter and you don't want to miss.

Currently in closed beta, happy to share more details
by friendzis | 2026-01-08 08:17:44+00:00
> Same AI in “real life” would score probably much better eventually

Either I don't understand your reasoning or you are very much wrong. A "real life" dataset would contain real negatives too and the result would be equal if false positive rate was zero and strictly worse if the rate was any higher. One should expect the same AI to score significantly worse in a real life setting.
by crote | 2026-01-08 08:18:05+00:00
> You can search Google for free

I thought the ads counted as payment? That seems to be the logic used to take technical measures against adblockers on YouTube while pushing users towards a paid ad-free subscription, at least.

If viewing ads is payment, then Google isn't a free service. If viewing ads isn't payment, then Google should have no problem with people using adblockers.
by lurking_swe | 2026-01-08 08:18:13+00:00
are you really asking why someone would like a much better siri?

- truck drivers that are driving for hours.

- commuters driving to work

- ANYONE with a homepod at home that likes to do things hands free (cooking, dishes, etc).

- ANYONE with airpods in their ears that is not in an awkward social setting (bicycle, walking alone on the sidewalk, on a trail, etc)

every one of these interaction modes benefits from a smart siri.

That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Why can’t I have a siri that can intelligently do multi step actions for me? “siri please add milk and eggs to my Target order. Also let my wife know that i’ll pick up the order on my way home from work. Lastly, we’re hosting some friends for dinner this weekend. I’m thinking Italian. Can you suggest 5 recipes i might like? [siri sends me the recipes ASYNC after a web search]”

All of this is TECHNICALLY possible. There’s no reason apple couldn’t build out, or work with, various retailers to create useful MCP-like integrations into siri. Just omit dangerous or destructive actions and require the user to manually confirm or perform those actions. Having an LLM add/remove items in my cart is not dangerous. Importantly, siri should be able to do some tasks for me in the background. Like on my mac…i’m able to launch Cursor and have it work in agent mode to implement some small feature in my project, while i do something else on my computer. Why must i stare at my phone while siri “thinks” and replies with something stupid lol. Similarly, why can’t my phone draft a reply to an email ASYNC and let me review it later at my leisure? Everything about siri is so synchronous. It sucks.

It’s just soooo sooo bad when you consider how good it could be. I think we’re just conditioned to expect it to suck. It doesn’t need to.
by meeq | 2026-01-08 08:18:30+00:00
It‘s not just the better taste that causes the overeating. Sugar and refined carbs cause blood glucose levels to spike, giving you a surge of energy. That spike is very short-lived, resulting in a sharp drop that then causes cravings for more refined carbs/sugar. This blood glucose rollercoaster can cause all kinds of bad effects like mood swings and brain fog.
The problem about refined carbs is that they never truly satiate your hunger. Once you add them to a meal, you get into the loop of chasing the glucose high which is horrible for your body and mind.
by thereisnospork | 2026-01-08 08:19:20+00:00
Depends on the false positive rate. Hypothetically one can 'just' tune the model so false positives are low. This will increase false negatives but those are 'free' as they don't require follow ups. So long as the decrease in cost per real positive[0] goes down there's a benefit to be had.

[0] accounting for false positives, screening costs for true negatives, etc. etc.
by OJFord | 2026-01-08 08:20:34+00:00
> It was retrospective-only, i.e. a case series on women who were known to have breast cancer, so there were zero false negatives and zero true negatives, because all patients in the study truly had cancer.

Well yes, that's the denominator for determining selectivity, which is what the headline claim is about.

Also, they need to set up their next paper:

> However, the retrospective, cancer-only design limits generalizability, highlighting the need for prospective multicenter screening trials for validation.
by ptorrone | 2026-01-08 08:20:46+00:00
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by Asm2D | 2026-01-08 08:21:29+00:00
I think Vello CPU would always struggle with raster images, because it does a bounds check for every pixel fetched from a source image. They have at least described this behavior somewhere in Vello PRs.

The obsession for memory safety just doesn't pay off in some cases - if you can batch 64 pixels at once with SIMD it just cannot be compared to a per-pixel processor that has a branch in a path.
by TheDong | 2026-01-08 08:21:38+00:00
This response is a non-sequitur, this isn't _someone_, this is an inanimate program that hallucinates responses.

If every building I went to in the US had ramps and elevators even though I'm not in a wheelchair, would it be "fucked up" that the building and architects assume I'm a cripple?

There's just as much meaning in ChatGPT saying "As you said, you have ADHD" as a building having an elevator.

In the training data for ChatGPT, the word ADHD existed and was associated with something that people call each other online, cool. How deep.

Anyway, I do assume very single user of this website, including myself, all have autism (possibly undiagnosed), so do with that information what you will. I'm pretty sure most HN posters make the same assumption.
by genewitch | 2026-01-08 08:21:50+00:00
has your government published any science on this? being completely serious, i'd like to read it. Is India mostly vegetarian because of lack of access to farms/meats, religious reasons, financial, or what? I didn't know it was largely vegetarian. I don't know i had an idea of the ratio or that it would be different than any other country.

Apparently the Mediterranean also is largely vegetarian. at least the eponymous diet is.
by erkt | 2026-01-08 08:22:14+00:00
I would be very against individual investors not being allowed to buy property for investment. I think most people can agree that corporations like blackstone/rock shouldn't be manipulating markets. It would be very bad to force blackrock to liquidate its current holdings of 230k homes. It could crater the entire industry and it runs into ex-post-facto issues. Assets need to maintain value or banks will fail.
by rekoil | 2026-01-08 08:22:17+00:00
All the damn developers keep turning off online play for Linux users though... I play two games a lot currently, Apex Legends and Battlefield 6, both block Linux players from online play thanks to their shitty kernel rootkits not supporting Linux.

Apex Legends at least was running fine on Steam Deck prior to november 2024 when they instituted this change, and I can tell you from personal experience it had very little impact on cheaters, which was their excuse for the change (supposedly most cheaters were connecting via Linux clients).
by Ekaros | 2026-01-08 08:22:28+00:00
With paper towel I have been thinking that the area might not be important, but the number of sheets would be. As long as they do not get too small. And then there is also the quality and if they are half or full. For some uses you just want the full.

It is complicated area. Not to even get to loo roll. Where I noticed that the ecological one I bought feels quality wise inferior to normal one. And this is premium type of stuff. So it sits between the premium and cheap, but more on premium end.
by directevolve | 2026-01-08 08:23:13+00:00
The point of this study is that it suggests that fully AI-automated mammography can currently deliver 70% sensitivity in detecting breast cancer using this model. It does not enable us to compare AI to unaided human performance. As this study did not include healthy controls, there is no false positive rate. The false positive rate is a crucial missing metric, since the vast majority of women do not have breast cancer.

In nearly half the false negatives from both the mammogram and DWI datasets, the cancer was categorized as occult by two breast radiologists, meaning the cancer was invisible to a trained eye. The AI model's non-occult false negative rate on the mammography data is 19.3%.

For that 19.3% figure, see Table 2: 68 non-occult in AI-missed cancer, 285 non-occult in AI-detected cancer.

This study did not compare the AI to a radiologist on a mixed set of healthy and cancer images.