MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by illhangon | 2026-01-12 13:43:50+00:00
I built DogEar because I suffered from information obesity. I realized my Kindle highlights were a notes graveyard. I wanted to use Material You widgets to turn my home screen into a cognitive anchor.

Built with a focus on battery-efficient widget refreshes and full Material You color-syncing. Recently featured by Android Authority—their biggest critique was the price wall, so I’ve added a 1-week trial for the HN crowd to tear apart.
by wjnc | 2026-01-12 13:44:08+00:00
True, but what would sanctioning producers do? I think it's not even the availability of fresh products in the supermarket, but the willingness of customers to prepare food themselves? I agree it's postmodern funny that you need to continually buy something (a medicine) to not buy somethings (fast food) that are bad for you. I've got co-workers who only eat out. Guess what? What I think are salt and fat related health issues. Sugar, salt and fat are too easy and too nice not to be everywhere.

We used to make baby food ourselves. That was like twenty portions of baby food in ten minutes, for pretty much no cost (all basis fresh staples are pretty much free: fresh carrots, potatoes, rice, onions, pumpkin). Chop some vegetables and perhaps add little leftover meat, steam it, blend it, freeze it. Philips had a great machine for that. But we were somewhat 'out there' here too. Most people give babies food from glass pots. Then I see [1]. Got healthy teens now who eat pretty much everything. We still cook most of the stuff ourselves, although time constraints are a bit harder now than a decade ago.

Same as for walking. That is the most basic instrument for health. But if you cannot go out for a good walk because your environment is car only, what can you do? You can sanction the car makers for not making us walk. But that's a bit silly? (You are not saying that, trying to make an analogy with the food producers.) I'm blessed with lots of forests nearby, with separate paths for walking, cycling, MTB-ing and horseriding. Going outdoors is trivial here.

Point I'm trying to make is that an unhealthy and sedentary lifestyle is a lot of factors working combined. That's why international comparisons are so hard (or impossible). I think the 'Boulder, Colorado'-lifestyle is comparable with my local EU-lifestyle. But all environments are different on many vectors.

[1] Nearly two-thirds of baby foods in US supermarkets are unhealthy, study finds - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXyVJpTe8NQ
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-12 13:44:27+00:00
This is really awesome and I might try it (definitely bookmarked)

This might seem (offtopic?) but you mention railway and how for a 20mb app the costs become almost negligible and I got curious because I usually refer hetzner to be one of the cheapest but still good/well worthy solution

I find the pricing model of railway the most interesting. I am curious if you know of any other alternatives to railway which follow a similar pricing model as well as I'd like to compare if there are more of such cloud providers which provide this (preferably from a service which is more closer to bare metal than y'know cloud providers perhaps if that makes sense)
by CGamesPlay | 2026-01-12 13:44:38+00:00
> Things would indeed be different if rural Dagestanians who are about to be drafted would start booking trips, but it is so telling that the digital media access, not the flight ticket is where the Kremlin intervenes. If someone wanted you to not learn about a culture, would they rather take away your opportunity to travel, or to go on the internet?

They only need to take away the internet, because the opportunity to travel never existed in the first place. And it's not as if, upon returning from your cultural experiences out west, your banking app isn't searched at the border for treacherous transactions. Physical travel is just dramatically easier to precisely control and dramatically more expensive to access, compared to digital media where you have to use a heavy-handed approach to blocking.

This post is, at it's core, "my town is being wrecked by tourism". That's perhaps a reasonable feeling for the author to have, but I don't really agree with any of the broader claims they're trying to make.
by LeifCarrotson | 2026-01-12 13:44:44+00:00
There's negligible "genetic" difference between German and American gastrointestinal systems. No DNA mutations occurred in your grandparents that caused all of their children and children's children to be overweight.

There may be cultural or behavioral issues - attitudes and habits around cooking, expectations of what a meal includes or does not include, taste preferences on what's too sweet or too fatty, etc - but it's not genetic.
by chrisjj | 2026-01-12 13:45:05+00:00
> A different question is if X actually hosts generated pictures that are illegal in the UK.

If the answer was Yes, these Govt. complaints would claimed so. They don't.

The Govt's problem is imagery it calls 'barely legal'. I.e. "legal but we wish it wasn't." https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/aug/03/uk-pornograp...
by ImJasonH | 2026-01-12 13:45:07+00:00
I don't disagree at all. :)

This was mainly an exercise in exploration with some LLMs, and I think I achieved my goal of exploring.

Like I said, if this topic is interesting to you and you'd like to explore another way to push on the problem, I highly recommend it. You may come up with better results than I did by having a better idea what you're looking for as output.
by eru | 2026-01-12 13:45:32+00:00
People who start on a new drug also make lots of other lifestyle adjustments. Especially when it's a weightloss drug.

You'd get some of that effect, even if the drug was actually a placebo. But if it's working, then people have an even better motivation to make changes.

Yogurt is widely seen as healthy, so people who want to change to a healthier lifestyle might pick it.

(Yogurt might actually be healthy, I don't know. That's almost besides the point for the effect here.)
by RamblingCTO | 2026-01-12 13:46:11+00:00
I was annoyed with how clients can book a call with me, having to use and pay for a bunch of tools (like calendly, zoom, linktree/website etc.) so I built bookcall.io over the holidays. Launching soon with integrated video calls, a landing page, custom domain, attaching documents, and all that stuff, shipping this depending on demand.
Pretty fun project.
by jibal | 2026-01-12 13:46:18+00:00
Where "you guys" is apparently anyone who knows anything at all about the subject.

When in Congress, Al Gore worked hard to turn the government owned and run network into something that the entire population can use. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore_and_information_techno...) I suggest that you take advantage of the incredible resource known as the Internet (and the WWW layered on top of it) to learn something about climate change and its underlying cause, anthropogenic global warming. See for instance https://skepticalscience.com/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_consensus_on_climat...
by my_throwaway23 | 2026-01-12 13:46:19+00:00
Have you heard of hyperapp?
From the official [0][@hyperapp/html]:

import { app } from "https://unpkg.com/hyperapp";
import {
main,
h1,
button,
text,
} from "https://unpkg.com/@hyperapp/html?module";

const Subtract = (state) => ({ ...state, count: state.count - 1 });
const Add = (state) => ({ ...state, count: state.count + 1 });

const page = ({count}) =>
main([
h1(text(count)),
button({ onclick: Subtract }, text("-")),
button({ onclick: Add }, text("+")),
]);

app({
init: (count = 0) => ({ count }),
view: page,
node: document.getElementById("app"),
})

I can't imagine building anything anymore with the overly verbose bloat that is React.

[0]: https://github.com/jorgebucaran/hyperapp/tree/main/packages/...
by boxed | 2026-01-12 13:46:30+00:00
I've seen them. The issue I think is that if you've got any political opinion before watching, you'll see something different. This thread is literally inside the comments about that!

If you're a total outsider and think both sides in the US sound like absolute crazy people, I would assume you can more easily see the crazy by everyone involved. Or maybe that's just another type of bias? I don't know...
by rokob | 2026-01-12 13:46:55+00:00
Facebook moved to mercurial because of specific problems related to the size of their monorepo. Moreover the git maintainers were unwilling to work with Facebook to improve git to solve some of these problems. Mercurial was a better fit and was open to the help. But all that said if you don’t have a truly enormous monorepo like Facebook or Google then git is arguably the better tool given the network effects. I don’t think Facebook wanted to promote Mecurial as some vastly superior solution outside because for most people it isn’t.
by cthor | 2026-01-12 13:47:34+00:00
Not that this affects the political calculus (where perception may as well be reality), but the cost burden specific to universal healthcare is actually opposite this intuition.

Things like obesity, smoking, and alcoholism all kill you before you can get too old. Healthy citizens end up using far more of the far more expensive end-of-life care, to the point where it outweighs the extra healthcare the unhealthy citizens use in their youth.
by aucisson_masque | 2026-01-12 13:47:54+00:00
> Notably, about one-third of users stopped taking the medication during the study period. When they did, their food spending reverted to pre-adoption levels – and their grocery baskets became slightly less healthy than before they started

That’s very interesting and it confirms what i thought about this drug. It’s a life long commitment. As soon as you stop, you end up becoming your old self whereas you don’t lose all the gains when you stop paying a nutrition expert.
by varispeed | 2026-01-12 13:47:54+00:00
I have been using them in the past, when I needed a board overnight. Problem is that they are prohibitively expensive. For the price of a couple of bare unpopulated boards I could get dozen boards populated (with parts priced in) from China and they would arrive at the same time. Once Brexit was fully implemented their shipping was slower than from China, so they lost all edges to me.
by lelanthran | 2026-01-12 13:47:58+00:00
> Most people don't really have strong religious beliefs that they are testing against evidence, I suspect.

Okay, lets go with that: that is still a lower bar than EvD theories, because he at least has some evidence while everyone else has none.

Doesn't matter if the evidence is insufficient, or if the theory has been tested and found to be wanting, what matters is that it's still operating at a higher bar than many of the people on the planet who are not drawing such ire.
by grumbelbart2 | 2026-01-12 13:48:23+00:00
That is an excellent point. The development costs of such low-volume projects are often way higher than the production costs. Having production in house or close often allows tighter, thus faster, prototyping and feedback during development, which in turn saves money.

The whole "But how can this be scaled and monetized" crowd here also does not seem to understand the point of such projects and Germany's Hacker community. It is about learning and just doing it, much less about building a high–revenue business.
by Nasrudith | 2026-01-12 13:48:48+00:00
Don't ultimately even the ones which are vision + LIDAR ultimately have to choose priority in terms of one or the other for "What do you do if LIDAR says it is blocked and sight says it is clear' or visa-versa?" Trying to handle edge-cases where say LIDAR thinks that sprinker mist is a solid object and to swerve to avoid it and say vision which thinks that an optical illusion is a real path and not a brick wall.
by kayo_20211030 | 2026-01-12 13:49:12+00:00
This is wild. 5.3% isn't a small amount, at least not for US consumers.

All economies have deep and sometimes non-obvious dependencies. I'm interested in what happens next.

Will food stores lay off workers? Will they change their mix of offerings? Where is the new equilibrium going to be?

As an example from the piece:

> Only a handful of categories showed increases. Yogurt rose the most, followed by fresh fruit, nutrition bars and meat snacks.

Will the unit prices of these products go up to compensate for the losses in savory snacks?
by bargainbin | 2026-01-12 13:49:19+00:00
We’re seeing similar in the UK, fast food restaurants are having to adapt and dieting companies have outright collapsed.

Sounds conspiratorial, but when you look at the revenue impact this is having, the deluge of baseless articles about it making your eyes fall out or “users who stop taking it gain the weight back” or whatever malady they can make a tenuous link to, it all make a lot more sense.

The biggest food companies do not want people to be thinner. They want people to buy their low-quality, high-margin products.
by slfnflctd | 2026-01-12 13:49:26+00:00
I'm mostly convinced at this point that the jobs market will only be affected temporarily.

This is really just another form of automation, speeding things up. We can now make more customized software more quickly and cheaply. The market is already realizing that fact, and demand for more performant, bespoke software at lower costs/prices is increasing.

Those who are good at understanding the primary areas of concern in software design generally, and who can communicate well, will continue to be very much in demand.
by autarch | 2026-01-12 13:49:35+00:00
I'd love to see this for Taiwan. I'm here now (on my Nth trip where N >= 11), and my impression is that 7-11 is the clear winner in all the cities I've been to, followed by Family Mart and then some stragglers like Hilife and OK Mart (it's ok).

My personal favorite is probably Family Mart, because they have multiple very delicious vegan rice balls to choose from.
by Fnoord | 2026-01-12 13:49:38+00:00
HyperNormalisation is one of many great documentaries by Adam Curtis, many of which are available on archive.org [1]. Specifically, I can recommend The Century of the Self and The Power of Nightmares. No need for YouTube :) FWIW, these used to be able on Google Video back when that still existed. And via torrents.

[1] https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Adam+Curtis%22
by eru | 2026-01-12 13:49:55+00:00
If they aren't competing on price, what were they competing on to have Wal-Mart take over so much market share? Did people just switch to shopping at Wal-Mart because they like the greeters?

And what about Aldi and Lidl? Why do people put up with these weird German hard discounters, if not for lower prices?
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-01-12 13:50:25+00:00
It depends on what you are using it for, and how you are using it. If you are using AI to write short functions that you could code yourself in close to the same time as reviewing the AI generated code, then obviously there is no benefit.

There are however various cases where using AI can speed development considerably. One case is larger complex project (thousands of LOC) where weeks of upfront design would have been followed by weeks/months of implementation and testing.

You are still going to do the upfront design work (no vibe coding!) and play role of lead developer breaking the work into manageable pieces/modules, but now there is value in having the AI write, test and debug the code, including generating unit tests, since this would otherwise have been a lengthy process.

This assumes you are using a very recent capable frontier model in an agentic way (e.g. Claude Code, or perhaps Claude web's Code Interpreter for Python development) so that the output is debugged and tested code. We're not talking about just having the AI generate code that you then need to fix and test.

This also assumes that this is a controlled managed process. You are not vibe coding, but rather using the AI as a pair-programmer working on one module at a time. You don't need to separately review the code line by line, but you need to be aware of what is being generated, and what tests are being run, so that you have similar confidence in the output that you might have done if you'd pair-programmed it with a human, or perhaps delegated it to someone else with sufficient specifications that "tested code meeting specs" means you don't have to review the code in detail unless you choose to.

I haven't tried it myself, but note that you can also use AI to do code reviews, based on a growing base of code standards and guidelines that you provide. This can then be used as part of the code development process so that the agent writing the code iterates until it passes code review as well as unit tests.
by Yizahi | 2026-01-12 13:50:37+00:00
To be frank, no one had a crystal ball back then, and stuff could go either way with uncertainty in both hardware and software capabilities. Sure Lidars were better even back then, but the bet was on catching up on them.

I hate Elon's personality and political activity as much as anyone, but it is clear from technical PoV that he did logical things. Actually, the fact that he was mistaken and still managed to not bankrupt Tesla is saying something about his skills.
by SecretDreams | 2026-01-12 13:50:40+00:00
> It's insane to me that so many people need these to get off the processed foods killing them in the US.

Completely agreed. That said, I've been to Germany a handful of times but not in the last 7 years (sadly) and two things always stuck out to me:

* There's way more attractive/healthy looking people.

* There's wayyyy more young attractive people that smoke (wtf!)

Not sure if the smoking has subsided, but it was far more prominent than in NA since I've last visited.
by PurpleRamen | 2026-01-12 13:50:43+00:00
Connection is not education. It doesn't matter how deep your emotional connection is, it won't rise your education about it on itself. If you want, or need the education, you have to search for it, and you should do it from reliable sources, not just random locals telling who knows what.

The bigger problem here that many people are building opinions lacking education, and this often can lead to harmful descicions, especially in how the world is developing today.
by rescrv | 2026-01-12 13:51:08+00:00
I appreciate you sharing.

My understanding is schizoaffective disorder is one of four categories of schizophrenia. I think people often use them interchangeably.

Medication can be tricky because when it works it seems increasingly unnecessary and often has side effects of its own.

I hope no one reads my book as a substitute or prescription to avoid medication on their path. To each their own, but it's not what I'm advocating for.

Thank you again!
by mvanbaak | 2026-01-12 13:51:22+00:00
This is the reason one should always ask the LLM to create scripts to complete the task.
Asking it to do things is fine, but as you stated you will forget. If you ask the LLM to do something, but always using a script first, and if you ask: 'Create a well documented shell script to <your question here>', you will have auto documentation.
One could go one step further and ask it to create a documented terraform/ansible/whatever tooling setup you prefer.
by GuB-42 | 2026-01-12 13:51:33+00:00
I used Mercurial before Git and found it way more intuitive. I don't have much to say about the documentation, I didn't have a problem with it, but that's not the reason.

It is not just because the CLI is more intuitive, though it plays a big part.

The main reason is that mercurial is more opinionated. On a default setup, only a few commands are available, and none of them let you change the history. If you want more, you have to add an extension. These are built-in, that's just a line in a configuration file, so that's not much of an obstacle, but you have to be deliberate. It gives a natural progression, and it better defines the project organization.

With git, you have everything and the kitchen sink, literally, as it uses the "plumbing" and "porcelain" metaphor. All flavors of merge, rebase and fast forward are available, there is a git-reset command that does a dozen of different things, there is stash, the staging area, etc... The first month or two on git, I was a bit overwhelmed, none of that with Mercurial, and I already had the experience of Mercurial when I switched to git, so I was familiar with the concept of push/pull and DAGs.

Now, I tend to prefer git, though after many years, I still have trouble wrapping my head around the command line sometimes. But that's for the same reason it was so hard to me to get into it. It gives out a lot of freedom and possibilities. For example, I like the fact it is really decentralized, for example in one project the customer had a completely separate central repository we couldn't access, and they couldn't access ours, for security reasons. We worked by exchanging bundle files. At some point we also took advantage of the fact that it is possible to have more than one root commit. Also, almost all mistakes are fixable and it is hard to really lose anything (including secrets, so beware!).

For a video game analogy, Mercurial introduces you to new game mechanics as you progress, while Git makes you start in the middle of the map with all the skills unlocked.
by prabhavsanga | 2026-01-12 13:51:45+00:00
That’s a totally fair take and I agree with you more than it might sound.

I’m not trying to replace cloning or proper build systems, and I don’t expect this to handle exotic setups. If a repo has a custom toolchain and good docs, I’ll still clone it locally. The problem I keep running into is before that point: when I’m skimming 10–20 repos to decide which ones are even worth the effort. A surprising number either don’t run anymore, depend on unstated versions, or silently assume a local setup that isn’t obvious from the README.

For me, even a fast failure with a clear reason (“missing env var”, “custom toolchain”, “expects GPU”, etc.) is useful, it tells me whether to invest time or move on, without polluting my machine or context-switching into setup mode.

So I think of this less as a wrapper around build systems and more as a disposable “is this repo alive?” check — something you use before you decide it’s worth cloning.

That said, I’m genuinely curious: when you give up on an exotic repo today, is it because the setup is unclear, or because you’ve already decided it’s not worth the effort? That distinction is what I’m trying to understand better.
by mayhemducks | 2026-01-12 13:51:57+00:00
This is content that the LLMs will, probably already have, suck up and incorporate into their corpus.

Saying that it doesn't matter if the stock market crashes because in the long run, the technology will create more economic value to make up for it certainly reveals the age and/or financial position of the author! When the market crashes, some people will not be able to retire, and will become a financial burden to their families. Why is this okay?

The market is a tool that has been used to socialize losses. For people who still have a lot of life left to live, the chances of recovery are much higher. For others, it's pretty terrifying.

Yes, advancements in technology often lead to significant economic gains, and we should therefore pursue them. But to say that we should pursue them regardless of the risks is shortsighted and irresponsible.
by thw_9a83c | 2026-01-12 13:52:33+00:00
I think this is a lost cause. Even if the mainstream services are blocked or forced to comply, there will always be hundreds of lesser-known tools and services offering the same features. At this point, nobody has the power to close this can of worms.

Besides, who is going to decide when people's images are sexualized enough? Are images of Elon Musk in bikini alright because he's not a woman or a child?