MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jeffbee | 2026-01-16 18:37:58+00:00
That is not a valid interpretation of the data. The ratio you cite, which is a pointless one, is mostly influenced by household size. SF has a relatively small household size compared to the state and nation. The vacancy rate you cite is also not a useful one that people generally understand. There were 19000 units for sale or rent during the last ACS survey, out of 418000 physical dwellings, and that's only 4.5% which is very low by historical standards.
by gamegod | 2026-01-16 18:38:03+00:00
I stumbled across this a few weeks ago via Google or Kagi. One problem I have with a lot of AI tooling today is that I can't tell if it's a legit product, or just a toy that somebody vibe-coded in a day. AI can easily crap out a website that looks like this.

This is all just my 2 cents, so take it with a grain of salt, but I see trust and authenticity as a huge issue (made worse by LLMs), and it's doubly so with AI-based companies because it attracts flies.

One question I have is it's not clear to me that this all just doesn't boil down to plain old SEO. Does your platform generate recommended actions on how to improve your ChatGPT ranking? (and how is that different from just improving your PageRank?)
by epolanski | 2026-01-16 18:38:13+00:00
The exports argument is so bloated.

US has thrived economically for 5 decades after becoming an import economy.

This whole export/import balance is such a lame reasoning...yes you've spent a certain amount of $...and got plenty of stuff in exchange.

Last but not least, services are never included in these trade balance arguments. How much money flows to US through their financial and IT services alone...?
by forgotpwd16 | 2026-01-16 18:38:14+00:00
>Do I need a Claude subscription?

>Yes, 1Code works with your Claude Pro or Max subscription. Sign in with your Anthropic account and use your existing subscription. We charge separately for the 1Code app.

Is this even after the recent events; Anthropic banning 3rd-party access to the Claude Pro/Max subscriptions and only allowing API access? Tool is nice but most certainly not* 800$ nice.

*Based on heavy Claude Max users here, the people that will be running 3-4 agents, saying API would've cost them $1k+.
by tra3 | 2026-01-16 18:38:31+00:00
In the style of cheap tiktoks: "There are two types of people...". My wife loves listening to her phone on max volume, but it sounds so bad compared to half decent speakers.

Also what's up with the people hiking (by themselves) with a bluetooth speaker. You're by yourself, in nature. If you want to listen to music wear headphones!!

Also why are people using speaker phones in public places at max volume. The speaker in your phone is designed to deliver the sound directly to your ear, probably at higher fidelity.

I'm loving the fact that battery technology will eventually eliminate weed wackers.

Sorry if I sound cranky, I find loud noises challenging.
by ramblurr | 2026-01-16 18:39:02+00:00
Copying my comment from last time

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616033

Interesting project.. and props for spending the time to figure out all those settings and how to flip them off (for all 4 major browsers too!)

I like the goal of stripping browsers back to basics, but I'm not sure why I'd run a third-party script to flip low-level browser and system settings I can change myself.

From a security point of view, that feels, not great?

This might work better as a simple guide with screenshots, so people can see and control exactly what’s being touched.
by gofreddygo | 2026-01-16 18:39:03+00:00
And that would strain your eyes or force a bigger font. At that point, you'd be wondering, like me, on why I spent $$ to buy a bigger screen in the first place.

I got an open box lenovo 24 inch QHD monitor for years and it just works solid across windows, mac and various docking stations. I could imagine upgrading to a 27 or 30 inch but beyond that is just too much IMO.

Maybe taller, more square could be of more use than wider.
by ebitda_ai | 2026-01-16 18:39:16+00:00
Can you emphasize "Structure it as an X for Y thing for a % of equity vs how much they bring in." Not sure if I follow.

Assuming he does the entire round, then I'll end up with $4.75 mil on $19 mil "after fees."

If I counter him with 5% cash + up to 1.5% equity, that would put it at $4.75 on $22 mil val "after fees", would that make sense?
by kccoder | 2026-01-16 18:39:19+00:00
The GF and I have had multiple conversations about how all these seemingly intelligent people don't: 1) care about anybody else; 2) realize that this too will negatively affect their lives; and I've come to the conclusion that these people are devoid of empathy, and they are narcissists who view themselves as being too important and powerful to be messed with. They'd never do that to me! That would never happen to me!
by alibarber | 2026-01-16 18:39:31+00:00
I see what you're getting at - but to me this sounds almost exactly like just using DNS, even if the (A/AAAA) record you want to use resolves to an un-routable address: https://letsencrypt.org/docs/challenge-types/#dns-01-challen... - you just create a DNS TXT record instead of them trying to access a server at the address for verification.
by listeria | 2026-01-16 18:39:38+00:00
Firefox will read it if it exists[1]. You could use the /usr/lib/firefox/distribution directory (or whatever the installation directory may be), but that may be overwritten by an update.

There doesn't seem to be any way to set per-user group policies, so unless you're installing firefox in a user-controlled directory, it will require elevated privileges.

[1]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customizing-firefox-usi...
by sulam | 2026-01-16 18:40:08+00:00
I have a smaller version of this and it's pretty good as a display.

I'm somewhat disappointed with it as a hub/KVM. It's better than having to swap cables, but just barely. It can't handle any high bandwidth USB devices I've tried (Focusrite Scarlett 2i2, a DSLR via capture card DSLR and a Logitech webcam). The downstream USB strangely isn't even sending down a keyboard and mouse to a PC, I ended up having to get separate dedicated KVM for those. It worked fine with a Thunderbolt to my Macs, but that's not surprising. I'm not sure how it would work with two Macs (one would have to be HDMI or DisplayPort and use that downstream USB port). I could try that but it's not my use case.
by armchairhacker | 2026-01-16 18:40:34+00:00
> rent growth slowed, with the average two-bedroom, purpose-built apartment increasing 5.1% to $1,550, down from faster growth a year earlier

Isn’t that a good thing? AFAIK Canada’s cost of housing vs salary is notorious, allegedly even worse than countries where housing is most people’s #1 cost complaint. Increased demand from international students is one of the causes.

> Fewer international students also mean less tuition revenue for post-secondary institutions and reduced spending in local economies that grew around student populations.

Those are real problems, and we can even argue whether Canada’s international student policy was a net benefit (although the vast majority of Canadians seem to think it was way too permissive, hence the rollback).

But framing a decrease (not even stop) in rent inflation as bad, is odd.
by xyzzy123 | 2026-01-16 18:40:55+00:00
It does feel like ensh*ttification. I can't imagine how many school essays and law filings and papers these ads are going to end up embedded in.

But the most charitable view is that even AGI needs cost recovery. Ads are the way you do this for people who aren't willing or able to pay with money.

For better or worse, OpenAI exists in the context of a capitalist system. It has to be competitive in that arena to attract and retain investment, staff, etc. Revenue always ends up being part of the "mission".
by mb2100 | 2026-01-16 18:41:05+00:00
Congrats to Fred and team! Developing and maintaining a complex framework takes lots of funding, and I’m glad Astro found a new home that provides that.

With [Mastro], we have a different approach. The name originally stood for "minimal Astro", and we’re staying true to that. At just ~700 lines of TypeScript, Mastro will always be easily maintainable – even if by just a single person. And it's amazing how much you can do if you're very deliberate in your API's design.

[Mastro]: https://mastrojs.github.io/
by MobiusHorizons | 2026-01-16 18:41:10+00:00
The very long task list.

Browsers contain several high complexity pieces each of could take a while to build on its own, and interconnect them with reasonably verbose APIs that need to be implemented or at least stubbed out for code to not crash. There is also the difficulty of matching existing implementations quirk for quirk.

I guess the complexity is on-par with operating systems, but with the added compatibility problems that in order to be useful it doesn't just have to load sites intended to be compatible with it, it has to handle sites people actually use on the internet, and those are both a moving target, and tend to use lots of high complexity features that you have to build or at least stub out before the site will even work.
by heresie-dabord | 2026-01-16 18:41:10+00:00
> the US auto industry is also very much a Canadian one

Trump's message is loud and clear. The Canadian Prime Minister has said, "the past relationship with the US is over."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y41z4351qo

The US President: "US does not need cars made in Canada; free trade deal is irrelevant"

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/we-dont-need-cars-made-in-canada-trump-says-calls-cusma-irrelevant/

US Ambassador: "US does not need Canada":

https://www.pressreader.com/canada/sentinel-review-woodstock/20260116/281629606665800
by leptons | 2026-01-16 18:41:14+00:00
I'm using three 4k 32" screens arranged vertically, for 6480 x 3840 desktop size.

The only real monitor upgrade I'm willing to entertain is a ~50" 8k curved screen (basically a curved TV-sized screen), which has not been made yet AFAIK. I'm not into "ultrawide", for me it has to be "ultrawide" and "ultratall". I want all that screen real estate in high PPI.

I tried test-driving a 50" 4k TV for a week and the flatness of it was not what I wanted, it has to be a curved screen for workstation use.
by vbezhenar | 2026-01-16 18:41:17+00:00
I'm not sure it is about security. For security, CRLs and OCSP were a thing from the beginning. Short-lived certificates allow to cancel CRLs or at least reduce their size, so CA can save some expenses (I guess it's quite a bit of traffic for every client to download CRLs for entire letsencrypt).
by socalgal2 | 2026-01-16 18:41:34+00:00
I ran into this yesterday. My entire machine was running slow. I checked Activity Monitor and it was mediaanalysisd running at 100% for about an hour. i couldn't kill it as it would just restart. A search said I was S.O.L. unless I disabled SIP. (can't, it's a work laptop)

Further, Spotlight is completely broken in Tahoe. I have all categories off in System Preferences except Apps because it's the only thing I use or want to use spotlight for, a quick way to launch apps. But as of Tahoe 26.2 or so Spotlight is showing tons of non-app results so it's no longer useful as an app launcher.
by Bunas | 2026-01-16 18:42:28+00:00
1Code uses the official Claude Code SDK (https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/overview) which wraps the Claude Code binary. This is the official way to build on top of Claude Code.

Some other tools (like OpenCode) made direct API calls while impersonating Claude Code - that approach got banned. We're not doing that.
by rjrjrjrj | 2026-01-16 18:42:48+00:00
The announced limit doesn't seem like enough volume for BYD to roll out a dealership network, but maybe they do it in anticipation of higher limits in the future.

Volvo could be an immediate beneficiary. The Canadian EX30 was going to be cheaper because they could make them in China, but after the 100% US/Canada tariff was announced they had to switch to ones produced in Belgium iirc.
by ZeroGravitas | 2026-01-16 18:42:59+00:00
> Because so many of its leaders lean conservative, UATX has been portrayed in some quarters as having been a right-wing project from the start. However, the truth is vastly more complex.

Interviewing the rubes who got suckered about their hopes and dreams doesn't make a scam less of a scam. It just makes them suckers.
by erelong | 2026-01-16 18:43:16+00:00
(comment repost) I was thinking as an alternative to this, a question of what education or orientation might be given to teens so that they might avoid some of the problems of social media that have led to people wanting to ban social media

I think frequently people are overlooking the benefits of social media - the rapid transmission of good and useful information - and are perhaps failing to frame the negatives of social media in contrast to those "goods".

It also seems like teens have been able to mostly survive social media existing, so it doesn't seem like as big of an issue as it's made out to be.
by the_af | 2026-01-16 18:43:19+00:00
> Leftists pushing the idea that all good aspects of western culture are white supremacy and must be dismantled would be a factor, yes.

Nah, "leftists" (people, really) are reacting to a pre-existing problem. Plus you built a strawman there, nobody said "all good aspects of western culture are white supremacy", unless you consider cop brutality "a good aspect".

> Crime rates in minority areas prove it.

Nah, crime rates in marginalized eras don't prove what you claim, and neither do they justify cop violence.

> The increased backlash responds to increased profitability. Just look at how much BLM leaders cash in.

No. You are just fixated on your favorite boogie man, while decrying cops and racism being singled out by "the radical left". The "BLM leaders" are irrelevant -- this is a decentralized rallying cry against police brutality, not a hierarchical organization -- what matters is the outcry on people who reacted to police brutality. You are grasping at straws anyway, anyone on HN can see that arguing about funding has nothing to do with whether protesting police brutality is a just cause.

> Most police shooting victims are white

Your stats show police shooting victims are NOT primarily white. I think you meant "blacks aren't the majority", but that's not the winning argument you think it is: nobody said cops are exclusively prejudiced against blacks. Also, shooting is not the only way the police exerts violence and discrimination.

> [Scott Adams] wasn't [radicalized]. That's just leftist hysteria and willfull character assassination.

The comment I was replying to argued Adams was radicalized, but blamed the hysterical left. It pays to read the conversation before jumping in.
by terminalshort | 2026-01-16 18:43:46+00:00
> Even if we were being nice, and treat your claim colloquially as meaning "most of it is speculation", this would still require reading some of the paper, which you didn't do either.

I did read a some of it. The abstract. Which is there for the specific purpose of providing readers a summary to decide whether it is worth their time to read the whole thing.

And, yeah, obviously I didn't mean literally all because that just isn't how people talk. e.g. the author's names are not speculation. But the central premise of the paper "How AI Destroys Institutions" is speculative unless they provide a list of institutions that have been destroyed by AI and prove that they have. The institutions they list, "the rule of law, universities, and a free press," have not been destroyed by AI, so therefore, the central claim of the paper is speculative. And speculation on how new tech breakthroughs will play out is generally useless, the classic example being "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers," by the CEO of IBM.

Furthermore their claim here:
> The real superpower of institutions is their ability to evolve and adapt within a hierarchy of authority and a framework for roles and rules while maintaining legitimacy in the knowledge produced and the actions taken. Purpose-driven institutions built around transparency, cooperation, and accountability empower individuals to take intellectual risks and challenge the status quo.

This just completely contradicts any experience I have ever had with such institutions. Especially "empower individuals to take intellectual risks and challenge the status quo". Yeah. If you believe that, then I've got a bridge to sell you. These guys are some serious koolaid drinkers. Large institutions are where creativity and risk taking go to die. So yeah, not reading 40 pages by these guys.

You can tell a lot from a summary, and the entire premise that you have to read a huge paper to criticize is just bullshit in general.
by pantulis | 2026-01-16 18:44:00+00:00
Adobe could have benefited from doing this acquisition but they can be somewhat forgiven as they are already pushing Edge Delivery Services which is based in NextJS although it's a different approach. Combined with the Universal Editor they have a solid headless authoring setup for enterprise CMS.

But I really feel like Akamai is who dropped the ball here, this was a low hanging fruit for them and they're lacking offering this capability to offer their corporate clients as they transition to full headless. Now it's going to be their competition (Cloudflare, even Fastly through Adobe & the EDS push) who will try to take a portion of their cake.
by dpark | 2026-01-16 18:44:06+00:00
> I'm inclined to agree with you but there are plenty of examples of founders of products: Matt Mullenweg, Dries Buytaert

Fair, but I do think the distinction between the company and the product is relevant. Wales’s claim to be the sole founder of Wikipedia relies specifically on muddying these two notions.

My recollection is that Wales has claimed that Sanger doesn’t qualify as a founder because he was an employee. OK, except Wikipedia is not an employer. If Jimmy Wales qualifies as the founder of Wikipedia specifically because of his ownership in the company that initially funded it, then the other founders of Bomis would seem to also be Wikipedia cofounders.

On the other hand, if being a founder of Wikipedia actually means being instrumental in the creation of the product, then Sanger seems clearly a founder.

Mixing and matching across two different definitions to uniquely identify Wales alone seems very self-serving and inconsistent.

To be clear, I’m not really disputing anything you said here. Just kind of griping about Wales’s self serving definition of founder.

> I think it establishes credence for the claim. If Sanger's contributions warrant being called Co-Founder, then so too do Jimmy Wales.

I don’t know if anyone has claimed Wales should not be considered a cofounder. I think the general question is specifically whether he is the only founder. In this interview, he introduced himself as “the” founder.
by vannevar | 2026-01-16 18:44:13+00:00
The trade deficit argument is mostly nonsense, but it's being made disingenuously anyway so the actual merit doesn't really matter to the people making it. Trump is a big fan of tariffs because they give him negotiating leverage to make deals beneficial to his own interests and those of his cronies. There is no national interest involved, this is an administration devoted purely to grift. Any benefit to the country is purely accidental.
by Aerbil313 | 2026-01-16 18:44:18+00:00
Not really. Advertising results in extreme market inefficiencies through the game theory playing out (if you don't advertise as a company, you lose out to companies that do). It's the massive sink of the modern economy, there's nearly no sector unaffected by it. If advertising was banned (not that it's very easy) vast majority of issues associated with capitalism wouldn't even exist and everybody would be wealthier.

The similarity between advertising and cancer are striking, see the post Advertising is a cancer on society: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20577142

This is all putting aside the fact that %99.9 of all advertising works by exploiting the familiarity circuit in the human brain. The effects of advertising are, by definition, not voluntary.

If the purpose of %99.9 of advertising was not exploiting the familiarity circuit and was instead to make you aware of a product you didn't know about before, there wouldn't be a single ad of Coca-Cola, since everybody on the planet knows about it already.

Also, my mom literally buys whatever she sees playing on YouTube ads that week. I know because I see those ads too. You'd be surprised how many people are going through life with undiagnosed or untreated ADHD and how many further lack cognitive agency.
by _bramses | 2026-01-16 18:44:24+00:00
https://www.bramadams.dev/

my pride and joy with many easter eggs, including:

- random post surfacing

- animated book progress html [1]

- creative code [2]

- code poetry [3]

and much more!!

1 - https://www.bramadams.dev/book-progress-1-11-26/

2 - https://www.bramadams.dev/202308081300/

3 - https://www.bramadams.dev/202306131131/
by rsync | 2026-01-16 18:44:28+00:00
IP address certificates are particularly interesting for iOS users who want to run their own DoH servers.

A properly configured DoH server (perhaps running unbound) with a properly constructed configuration profile which included a DoH FQDN with a proper certificate would not work in iOS.

The reason, it turns out, is that iOS insisted that both the FQDN and the IP have proper certificates.

This is why the configuration profiles from big organizations like dns4eu and nextdns would work properly when, for instance, installed on an iphone ... but your own personal DoH server (and profile) would not.
by zahlman | 2026-01-16 18:44:58+00:00
> Actually, it is not.

The law disagrees: https://www.justice.gov/jm/1-16000-department-justice-policy...

It's very easy to find abundant sources for this.

If you're locking yourself in your car when you're under arrest, and that car is currently blocking traffic, there is no reasonable alternative to using force to get into the vehicle and take you out. Nothing else will get you out of the vehicle, and you legally must get out of the vehicle. You can't just be left there.

If you are resisting having handcuffs put on you, or refusing to walk along as you are taken to a police vehicle, there is no reasonable alternative to using force to ensure that the handcuffs go on and you get in the vehicle. Being carried is about the gentlest thing that could possibly happen.

> she was on the way to doctor stopped by armed thugs.

This is contradicted by the fact that she repeatedly refused to take a clear path when she was being told to take a clear path and the officers were not in any way preventing her from doing so.
by jghn | 2026-01-16 18:45:10+00:00
There are layers to this:

1) There are different types of tests, for different purposes. Devs should be writing some of them. Other types & forms of testing, I agree that this is not in many dev's sweet spot. In other words, by the time code gets thrown over the wall to QA, it should already be fairly well vetted at least in the small.

2) Many, but far from all, QA people are just not skilled. It wasn't that long ago that most QA people were washed out devs. My experience has that while testing isn't in the sweet spot of many devs, that they've been better at it than the typical QA person

3) High quality QA people are worth their weight in gold.

4) Too often devs look at QA groups as someone to whom they can offload their grunt work they don't want to do. Instead, QA groups should be partnering with dev teams to take up higher level and more advanced testing, helping devs to self-help with other types of testing, and other such tasks.