MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kortex | 2026-01-07 16:58:30+00:00
Yes. Sugar (and all of its downstream phenomena - diabetes, insulin resistance, the ease in which sugar adds calories without satiation signals) is well established to contribute to CVD. Long-chain (animal based) sat fat and trans fat is also well established to contribute to CVD. The high calorie density of fatty foods plays a big role, as does the overall palatability and "eatability" of low fiber, high fat, high sugar, delicious foods, making portion control challenging. That should be uncontroversial at this point.

The jury is unclear on:

- How the chain length of sat fats impact things (medium-chain triglycerides seem to be protective, but the boundary between medium and long is fuzzy)

- How the ratio of the various omega-N (3/6/9) unsat fats impacts health, particularly inflammation

- The whole "seed oil" thing is probably MAHA/conspiracy style false signal at the end of the day, but it hasn't been fully debunked and there are almost certainly facets of truth to it (seed oils are a form of ultra-processed food, and all UPFs are problematic)

Confounders, confounders everywhere. This whole field is just extremely challenging and noisy.
by bs7280 | 2026-01-07 16:58:43+00:00
I've noticed that a lot of people most skeptical of AI coding tools are biased by their experience working exclusively at some of the top software engineering organizations in the world. As someone who has never worked at a company anywhere close to FAANG, I have worked with both people and organization's that are horrifyingly incompetent. A lot of software organization paradigms are designed to play defense against poorly written software.

I feel similar about self driving cars - they don't have to be perfect when half the people on the road are either high, watching reels while driving, or both.
by 6510 | 2026-01-07 16:58:47+00:00
I ponder the concept in the 90's. Initially I thought it should be an assistant but with age came wisdom and now I think it should be a virtual drill instructor. "Rise and shine $insult $insult, the sun is up, the store is open, we will be getting some potatoes today, $insult $insult, it was all your idea now apply yourself!" Bright lights flashing, loud music, the shower starts running. "Shower time, you have 7 minutes! $insult $insult" 4 minutes in the coffee machine boots up. "You will be wearing the blue pants, top shelve on the left stack, the green shirt, 7th from the left. Faster faster! $insult $insult"
by LatencyKills | 2026-01-07 16:58:55+00:00
Ah... we found the person who thinks they can pass judgement on how people choose to live their lives. I didn't say that my friend doesn't love his job (he does) - I said that he'll probably die before retiring.

Stephen Hawking, Einstein, Marie Curie, and Linus Pauling never retired. Did they not "truly live"?
by mpeg | 2026-01-07 16:59:09+00:00
Apparently they were 8+ people, in 2024 team size was 6 and were hiring 2 more [0] and in 2020 they had $2m+ ARR [1].

Honestly, while I feel bad for the people who lost their jobs the news aren't exactly surprising. Overhiring is a game for VC funded OSS like bun, not usually a good idea for bootstrapped companies.

[0]: https://tailwindcss.com/blog/hiring-a-design-engineer-and-st...

[1]: https://adamwathan.me/tailwindcss-from-side-project-byproduc...
by Staross | 2026-01-07 17:00:04+00:00
I gave it a try, I asked to do a reddit like forum and it did pretty good but damn I quickly hit the daily limit of the $20 pro account, and it took 10% of the monthly just to do the setup and some basics. I knew LLM were expensive to run but I've never felt it directly. Even if the code is good it's kinda expensive for what you get.

Ho it was also quite funny it used the exact same color as hackernews and a similar layout.
by wgjordan | 2026-01-07 17:00:08+00:00
Please follow the HN guidelines [1]:

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by dpark | 2026-01-07 17:00:35+00:00
> My neighbors know me as the "ex-consultant" … How does one have "no identity related to their job"?

The obvious answer is to have some other identifier that supersedes the job. Do you have some other interest or hobby that you spend your time doing? That you talk about all the time?

People get associated with their job because it’s probably the thing they spend the most time on and it’s also a common topic of conversation. If every time someone asked you about your job you said, “it’s good” and steered the conversation into a story about your latest epic ski trip, you’d probably be the “guy who skis” instead of the “ex-consultant”.
by rtkwe | 2026-01-07 17:01:27+00:00
It's impossible to prove or falsify of course but lower cost to them from having to pay fewer cashiers in theory shows up for the customers in lower prices. The other benefit is self checkout usually crams more lanes into a smaller area so you can checkout more quickly than waiting for the 2 lanes at best I'd often see staffed outside of peak seasons before self checkout.
by kstrauser | 2026-01-07 17:01:37+00:00
This is a prime example of why I prefer HN’s moderation. On SO, even though you’re objectively wrong — this is a link to a completely different site and discussing it from a different angle — your active participation on the site would probably have given you the ability to close this conversation and ruin the discussion for those interested. I’m glad that HN doesn’t allow that, so we can roll our eyes at the obviously incorrect tag and get back to participating without having the rug yanked out from under us.
by jldugger | 2026-01-07 17:01:41+00:00
Fred also has that answer: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/POPTHM

Growing up to an estimated 342 million.

It also has an estimate for the working population (ages 25-54, so called "prime workers"): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU00000060

Mostly flat from 2010-2021, with a recent uptick to 131 million. The discrepancy is likely due to the boomers aging out of the category, and a smaller generation coming in.
Show HN: A unified search engine that delivers 3 Wiki articles and 1YT per query
by seridarivus | 2026-01-07 17:01:43+00:00
I’ve always found the initial research phase for any new topic frustrating. I usually end up with 5 Wikipedia tabs for the "depth" and a YouTube tab to actually see the "how-to" or a visual summary.

I built PLI 7.9 to automate this specific workflow. It’s a minimal search engine that forces a "3+1" layout: 3 Wikipedia articles and 1 YouTube video per query. No infinite scroll, no SEO-bloated blogs, just the core sources.
by cogman10 | 2026-01-07 17:01:47+00:00
Wikipedia is one of the only places I know that seems to have gotten this pretty much perfect.

I think the thing that ultimately made wikipedia work is that moderation actions are done pretty publicly with a heavy focus on citing sources. The problem a lot of these OG Web 2.0 sites have is many of them have focused on keeping moderation discussion and decisions as private as possible.

That, I think, is where SO failed. Someone can mark something as a dup and that's basically the end of discussion. I think that's also where sites like Reddit really struggle. A power tripping mod can destroy a community pretty quickly and they can hide their tracks by deleting comments of criticism.

It's one thing I think HN actually gets pretty right. It's a much smaller userbase, which helps, but also the mods here are both well known and they post the reasons for their actions. There's still some opacity, but the fact that mod decisions are mostly public seems to have worked well here.
by tracker1 | 2026-01-07 17:02:01+00:00
Kind of... you now have to sign into windows with a Microsoft Account, that has a starting (free) tier OneDrive, that will "easily" enable and start operations against directories you may not recognize are syncing, and even if disabled may change with automatic forced updates... it will then start nagging you to create a paid account for more storage, etc... otherwise tie you into Office products, where it starts saving to OneDrive by default, which you may not recognize and that doesn't even get into a lot of the dark patterns and manipulation.

FTR, I've used it and usually configure to explicitly only sync a single directory.
by yorwba | 2026-01-07 17:02:11+00:00
Your agent is a lazy idiot. Didn't do the work but pretended everything was fine. It wasn't fine and it still isn't. You'll have to become paranoid. Check every single file. Every single line. Don't trust, verify. Otherwise you'll look like a fool when you try to show off the work the agent was supposed to have done, but there's nothing worth looking at.
by jamesgill | 2026-01-07 17:02:27+00:00
A good book that explains it all is The Case Against Sugar by Gary Taubes, which came out the same year as this article.

Like many truths, it's actually well-known and frequently discussed in public, but hard to hear amongst all the noise of corporate messaging and decades of bad dietary 'advice' from both public and private institutions.

To paraphrase the Oracle in the Matrix: What's really going to bake your noodle later on is--saturated fat isn't the culprit in CVD either. And that's equally well-supported yet drowned out for the same reasons ('nonfat all the things!').
by DonHopkins | 2026-01-07 17:02:32+00:00
You can always use macros! Just look at how beautiful and elegant and easy to learn and transparent to debug the Microsoft C++ MFC COM/OLE/IDispatch/ActiveX object system macrology is. /s

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/mfc/tn038-mfc-ole-iunk...
Show HN: Luther Enterprise: Dev platform for operating end-to-end mega workflows
by iamsamwood | 2026-01-07 17:02:32+00:00
I’m one of the developers behind Luther. We make it easy to operate “mega-workflows” – the long, cross-team, multi-system processes (insurance claims, mortgages, etc.) that today are usually held together with bespoke glue code and mismatched workflow tools, which are always about to be upgraded “any day now”.

Our platform replaces that glue code with a Common Operating Script, that runs reliably and consistently across teams and systems. Systems are connected to the platform rather than each other, so it’s easy to add and remove systems as your tools change, and changes must be approved by all teams before they go live, so everyone’s operating the same process, all the time.

To show how this works in production, we open-sourced a full Claims Settlement case study (75k loc in production, 12 systems and 5 teams), and you can check it out here:
Repo: https://github.com/luthersystems/cross-department-claims-set...
Video walkthrough: https://vimeo.com/1141432607?fl=pl&fe=cmt

How it works

• Logic: Write process-operations logic in a transactional Common Operating Script. Nodes execute this logic to process events across the various teams, while maintaining consistency.

• Infra: We provide a drop-in Kubernetes cluster with Prometheus/Grafana pre-wired. Use our managed version, or deploy to your cloud via Terraform.

• DevEx: Our connector hub provides 100s of ready-to-go connectors (S3, Postgres, etc.) and a prebuilt GitHub Actions pipeline. We provide a production-ready repo for you.
We’d love feedback from the HN crowd, especially on the pain points you’ve seen when stitching together complex workflows in enterprise environments.
by Syzygies | 2026-01-07 17:02:39+00:00
One of my side projects has been to recover a K&R C computer algebra system from the 1980's, port to modern 64-bit C. I'd have eight tabs at a time assigned files from a task server, to make passes at 60 or so files. This nearly worked; I'm paused till I can have an agent with a context window that can look at all the code at once. Or I'll attempt a fresh translation based on what I learned.

With a $200 monthly Max subscription, I would regularly stall after completing significant work, but this workflow was feasible. I tried my API key for an hour once; it taught me to laugh at the $200 as quite a deal.

I agree that Opus 4.5 is the only reasonable use of my time. We wouldn't hire some guy off the fryer line to be our CTO; coding needs best effort.

Nevertheless, I thought my setup was involved, but if Boris considers his to be vanilla ice cream then I'm drinking skim milk.
Show HN: One Card Tarot – AI-powered one-card tarot for quick daily insight
by xiaoshumiao | 2026-01-07 17:03:12+00:00
I built One Card Tarot (https://onecardtarot.org
), a simple web app that gives instant, one-card tarot readings with AI-generated interpretations.

The idea came from noticing that most tarot apps are either:

Overwhelming (full spreads, long rituals), or

Too generic (static meanings with no context)

I wanted something closer to how many people actually use tarot day to day:
ask one clear question, draw one card, and reflect.

What it does

Ask a question (or draw without one)

Draw one random tarot card (upright or reversed)

Get an AI-powered interpretation tailored to:

Love & relationships

Yes / No questions

Daily guidance & reflection

Free users get limited daily readings, and there are optional paid plans for heavier use.

Why one card?

From my own experience, one-card tarot is:

Faster

Easier to reflect on

Less likely to turn into over-analysis

The constraint actually makes the interpretation more interesting.

Tech stack (high level)

Next.js

Serverless APIs

AI-generated interpretations (prompted to stay concise and grounded)

Stripe for payments

No accounts required to try it.

What I’m looking for

Feedback on the UX and interpretation quality

Thoughts on whether AI adds real value here or not

Suggestions for features that don’t make it more complicated

Happy to answer questions or share implementation details if useful.

Thanks!
by ibejoeb | 2026-01-07 17:03:45+00:00
This is a real eye-opener. Do you know how to fix how stupid I am? Tell me what's wrong with my analysis.

Here's a report: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-lawmakers-scruti.... Is it factually wrong that "In the first half of 2025, Amazon and its cloud-computing unit, AWS, received approval for more than 12,000 H-1B visas, while Microsoft and Meta had more than 5,000 H-1B visa approvals each" and that they did layoffs?
by kube-system | 2026-01-07 17:03:54+00:00
Police probably do not care much unless you are in a small town. Insurance has a financial incentive to care.

> They still have to go out, meet the "seller", check the VIN

You do not have to meet the seller to check the VIN of a vehicle sitting on the street.

> But, what if there are a dozen vehicles for sale matching said description.

There might be a few vehicles in an area matching make/model/year. But it is trivial when looking at a photo to filter on further criteria... and once you look at the photo you can observe trim, exterior color, interior color, stickers, inspection sticker, etc, you will have a very high degree of certainty even on a common model.

> white VW Jetta to me. There are 118 in SF bay area right now just on Autotrader

Well yeah, because you only filtered on 2 of the dozen or so attributes that you might know.

Within a whole 500 mi of the bay area there are only 5 white VW Jetta Wagons listed. All you need to know is what year it is, to narrow it down to 2 or 3. If you know the trim, approximate mileage, any visually distinctive feature, etc, you are guaranteed a match. Even if it wasn't a wagon, it is not hard to filter down to a unique vehicle.
by ruszki | 2026-01-07 17:03:58+00:00
Yeah, but there is a difference, between if at least one people at one point of time understood the code (or the specific part of it), and none. Also, there are different levels. Wildfly’s code for example is utterly incomprehensible, because the flow jumps on huge inheritance chains up and down to random points all the time; some Java Enterprise people are terrible with this. Anyway, the average for tools used by many is way better than that. So it’s definitely possible to make it worse. Blindly trusting AI is one possible way to reach those new lows. So it would be good to prevent it, before it’s too late, and not praising it without that, and even throwing out one of the (broken, but better than nothing) safeguard. Especially how code review is obviously dead with such amount of generated code per week. (The situation wasn’t great there either before) So it’s a two in one bad situation.
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-01-07 17:04:29+00:00
(2016)

Some other discussions:

2024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41962750

2022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32978590

2021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26126183

and on and on...

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12480733
by ndriscoll | 2026-01-07 17:04:41+00:00
My recent experience with codex is that they absolutely do work that way today (this may be recent as in within the last couple months), and will autonomously decide to grep for things in your codebase to get context on changes you've asked for or questions you've asked. I've been pretty open to my manager about calling my upper management delusional with this stuff until very recently (in the sense that 6 months ago everything I tried was still a toy), but it's actually now reaching a tipping point that's drastically changing how I work.
by ACCount37 | 2026-01-07 17:04:42+00:00
Sadly, we have n=1 for intelligence and that's humans. The "second best" of intelligence is already LLMs. And it's hard to expect imitation learning on data that wasn't produced by anything intelligent to yield intelligence - although there are some curious finds.

Even for human behavior: we don't have that much data. The current datasets don't capture all of human behavior - only the facets of it that can be glimpsed from text, or from video. And video is notoriously hard to use well in LLM training pipelines.

That LLMs can learn so much from so little is quite impressive in itself. Text being this powerful was, at its time, an extremely counterintuitive finding.

Although some of the power of modern LLMs already comes from nonhuman sources. RLVR and RLAIF are major parts of training recipes for frontier labs.
by hnlmorg | 2026-01-07 17:04:47+00:00
The markup is around 30% or higher on each item (or at least that was the case back when I last studied business)

I get there are overheads but that’s spread across all products and supermarkets have a lot of products.

So you’d still have to have a lot of theft in a supermarket before you get close to a dent in those 2% margins.

Edit: as an aside, this is also why high value items such as alcohol are usually at the back of the store. It’s easier to identify and catch someone stealing if they’ve attempted to conceal a product for the entirely length of the shop.
by eru | 2026-01-07 17:04:53+00:00
Huh, what? Population increased a lot in the 19th century, and many countries did not have fiat currencies back then; and the price level most went down slowly as the population grew.

(Modern day 2%-ish stable inflation is mostly fine for the economy, even if it technically erodes the value of money in the long term. The classic pre-WW1 gold standard was also fine-ish. The Frankenstein gold standard-ish they until the 1970s was bad. And so was the rampant inflation that followed for a while.)
by logicchains | 2026-01-07 17:05:03+00:00
>the entire antivax movement is built on that widely discredited Wakefield paper.

You're clearly misinformed. The antivax movement is largely a grassroots movement built on the experiences of the parents of vaccine-injured children, and people who've read the literature comparing vaccinated vs unvaccinated outcomes. E.g. the large scale unpublished study conducted by the CDC, https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Entered-into... , which showed vaccinated children demonstrating higher rates of developmental disorders. There's not a single large scale study conducted comparing vaccinated with unvaccinated children that shows no greater rate of developmental disorders in the vaccinated group (the above study was supposed to be that, but when the results ended up showing the opposite the CDC decided not to publish it).

Ask yourself, if you believe vaccines aren't more dangerous than any other pharmaceutical product, then why not support removing the blanket liability immunity given to vaccine makers, that no other medical product needs?
by alternatex | 2026-01-07 17:05:28+00:00
Created a WYSIWYG editor or copied it off the internet like your average junior would, bugs included?

If that editor is very complicated (as they usually are) it makes sense to just opt for a library. If it's simple then AI is not required and would only reduce familiarity with how it works. The third option is what you did and I feel like it's the option with the lowest probability of ending up with a quality solution.
by broken_ceiling | 2026-01-07 17:05:29+00:00
When was I arguing about job displacement or the replacing of engineers? You are projecting hard, and reaching. If anything, I am in the camp that accessibility to custom tooling equals a net positive of devs down the line. In the short term, it may be a bumpy road as the tools progress (even if incrementally), but my long term take is that you may see engineering teams blossom in smaller market operations.

When it comes to objectivity, people with your line of thinking is what I try to avoid, as it is clear you feel threatened by the progress of coding tools. That link doesn't change much about what I said, or for that matter, what you said. You were commenting on the lack of a killer app, and I just said it may be diffusing slowly in different ways.

You are fixating on the "whole narrative" because you feel threatened - rightfully so, but again, that type of hyperbole doesn't belong in a constructive and grounded conversation about the impact AI may or may not have.
by ryandrake | 2026-01-07 17:05:37+00:00
I think part of the fixation on "shoplifting" is that a Reddit video showing someone walking in and filling up a bag of merchandise viscerally gets people going in a way that "statistics about wage theft," "invisible employee-caused shrinkage," and "process/control failures" doesn't get people hot-and-bothered.

People will get mad because they visually saw someone steal a tube of toothpaste, but not care about other forms of mass-theft because it's not on YouTube.
by daveguy | 2026-01-07 17:05:56+00:00
Yeah, but the OP is more like the "all you have to do is rsync and cron job". It's an article about the relatively complex step by step process that people do to implement a functionality. It may be the inspiration for an analogous dropbox, but definitely not the dropbox article or post. A product that you could grab from the app store that does all of this out of the box would be the analogue to dropbox.

That said, this would be interesting to someone who didn't know these tools could be stitched together in this way. I think that's a big part of why it's on the home page.
by freedomben | 2026-01-07 17:06:04+00:00
Only if you ignore this part of my comment:

> 95% of the value I get is the components and things

If you want (and only want) a pre-built site that just needs populated with content and maybe minor tweaks to things, then yeah it's React world. However I've rarely found that any template site (Tailwind or otherwise) is close enough to where it doesn't need medium to major surgery to meet my needs, at which point it's usually faster to just copy together components to what I actually want
by satvikpendem | 2026-01-07 17:06:04+00:00
Meanwhile Evan You of Vue JS was making something like 200k just from Patreon before starting void(0) which is venture backed, it's all a marketing problem because I don't think anyone knew their GitHub sponsors even existed, people just don't seem to use it in general.

I don't know why Tailwind needed anyone more than Adam, I understand that more people makes the work go faster such as for their Rust compiler but then you run into money problems like this.