MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jrajav | 2026-01-08 16:56:25+00:00
Signal reproduction matters quite a bit more for music production than it does for music listening and enjoyment. That's why producers and engineers look for 'monitors', rather than hi-fi speakers.

Hi-fi speakers, tube amps, and other accessories generally "degrade" the sound with added harmonics and natural smile EQs. That's what makes them sound more pleasing.

(I'm not disagreeing with you, just adding more color.)
by bishopz | 2026-01-08 16:56:40+00:00
Maybe—just maybe—you just want to get things done without being digitally pestered about it. We believe productivity shouldn't come with a side of anxiety. We think your data should stay on your device, encrypted and secure. We think you should be able to take breaks without feeling guilty, reschedule tasks in bulk when life happens, and yes—even enjoy a little music while you work.
by nradov | 2026-01-08 16:56:54+00:00
You're generally paying for time and materials, not results. This is common practice in many industries, not just healthcare, so your rhetorical question is silly and displays deep ignorance about how the system works. If you want to pay for results only then you're free to negotiate a cash payment contract with your healthcare providers on that basis. No one is stopping you from doing that so let's not have any lame responses claiming that the system is conspiring against you or something.
by codyb | 2026-01-08 16:57:18+00:00
The studies are actually pretty interesting here...

This article is from 2021 - https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/crash-rates-jump-in-wake-of...

The conclusion seems to be that if you _only_ smoke marijuana you're actually less likely to be involved in a crash than a sober driver, but if you combine marijuana with alcohol you're _more_ likely to crash (which, duh).

Obviously not totally conclusive, but interesting none the less. Anecdotally, coming from a high school where folk smoke and drove all the time because they couldn't smoke in their houses or on the street where they'd face police harassment, it was always the alcohol that got them nabbed for DUIs. It's anecdotal, but my anecdotes are many and I'm not sure I've heard of any one I've ever known crashing while just smoking weed.

So... maybe everyone should toke a little before they drive, sounds like they'd leave more distance between the cars in front of them, and go at a more relaxed pace, and not try to do any crazy passes of the people in front of them. Road rage is a very real thing in America, and the stereotype isn't of your typical stoner.
by jjav | 2026-01-08 16:57:33+00:00
> Under the tax scheme described, the reverse is true.

Explain how.. In a dense urban area, with LVT, that lot that held a park will bring even larger tax revenue when the city sells it off to a developer. Having the tax be based on maximum potential usage will only increase the temptation to sell it off and remove yet another park from the people.
by gen2brain | 2026-01-08 16:57:37+00:00
Error handling in Go is actually very nice. You do not have unhandled errors, not possible unless you really want to not handle the error. Now I even use it similar in Python, amazing how many errors I did not handle at all. But what got me into using Go is that there is no libc dependency, just system calls, static binary, that is just amazing. I can compile Go compiler in like few minutes. Rust I cannot even compile after 24h, I use rust-bin in Gentoo,luckily that exists.
by dkarl | 2026-01-08 16:57:40+00:00
It feels obvious that that's where the term originated, but I've never seen it used as a definition. In a mathematical context, something is enumerable if it can be put into 1:1 correspondence with the integers, but it doesn't need to be defined by a canonical correspondence. This suggests that being a finite (in a programming context where the set of ints is finite) set of discrete values is the defining feature, not the representation.
by inanutshellus | 2026-01-08 16:57:52+00:00
A better way to say that is "This will boost the second-hand value of older Bose speakers".

Now budget-aware folks will buy these, and those that prefer new are going to feel more confident that buying Bose means long term solutions even after "long term support" is over, and they'll know that there's a second-hand market again for Bose instead of dumpstering them.
by dpark | 2026-01-08 16:58:26+00:00
This is exactly what I’m talking about. You cited a study that does not support the claim that red meat is unhealthy.

> After correction for measurement error, higher all-cause mortality remained significant only for processed meat

This is in the abstract. You don’t even have to open the actual report to see this. Without even getting into whether or not this study controlled correctly for all possible variables, even they themselves had to acknowledge that the link between red meat and mortality is at best weak.

There is so much of this sort of misinterpretation when it comes to dietary science that it’s really hard to know what information is accurate and what information is being misrepresented or misunderstood.
by roughly | 2026-01-08 16:59:01+00:00
Yup, that was one of them. Chase botched transferring the bill pay over after spending 3 months saying they’d transfer bill pay and then told me over the phone they hadn’t said that while I was looking at the current page on their website that said they’d transfer bill pay.

First Republic was great - they were the reason I didn’t go to a credit union sooner. Schwab also has amazing customer service, if you’re still searching for a new home and aren’t willing to make the leap to a CU.
by sejje | 2026-01-08 16:59:28+00:00
When I hear "ultra-processed," here's what comes to mind:

- little Debbie snack cakes

- cereals

- white breads

- hot dogs

- chips

- pizza rolls

- Velveeta

So I guess you're right, it has no meaning. But you're way off, I don't think anyone is talking about frozen raw fish as "ultra processed", or pasteurized milk.
by soldthat | 2026-01-08 16:59:41+00:00
It’s easily demonstrated as true by sifting through the antisemitic comments that are currently flooding all platforms.

Even if we suspend that for a moment and assume that when they say “zionists” they do not mean “jews”, making the sort of demonizing statements about a large group people with loosely defined membership is not unlike antisemitism or islamophobia.

In this very thread OP has said “Such are the methods and powers of zionists”, and that I am a zionist. So are those now my powers? Do all the tropes now apply to me?
Show HN: I built an AI personal diary inspired by Harry Potter [video]
by slalani304 | 2026-01-08 16:59:51+00:00
Hi HN,

I spent the last few weeks building an AI diary inspired by Tom Riddle’s diary from Harry Potter. You write and an AI responds in cursive handwriting, just like the movie.

I used an ESP32 and a TFT Touchscreen display, and 3D printed the case, basilisk fang, and corners.

Finding a font for the AI response was tricky. Since I wanted the response to look as if it was handwritten, I needed to use single-stroke fonts but there were very few online. Eventually, I stumbled upon Hershey fonts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey_fonts), which are a collection of single-stroke fonts developed in the 1960s for cathode ray tubes, and found a page where someone had converted them into C header files (https://solhsa.com/hershey/fontprev.html) that I could parse to get the stroke values for each letter.

Would love some feedback!
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-08 17:00:06+00:00
I hate this bs where someone tries to defeat my point by making it one dimensional. Do we want to live in a world with no doctors? Do you think humans are such simpletons that you need to immediately go there in order to break down the argument for me?

I think the world would be better if becoming a doctor wasn’t tied up with financial incentives and prestige. Lower the bar of becoming a doctor so the fees aren’t astronomically high. Also there would be more doctors so we don’t suffer from the glut of supply we currently do. Also more doctors means more competition so that automatically ups quality and accuracy of treatment.

Every doctor needs a rotten tomato score plastered on their lab coat by law. That number needs to be rooted in metrics not vibes. How many misdiagnosis he made how many times he lost a lawsuit for malpractice. All of that would make the world a better place.

> Everyone in my family has either had their life saved, or saved from ruin, by a doctor at one point or another.

There are 800000k patients who die or are seriously injured by a misdiagnosis every year. Show gratitude for the doctors who saved your family… but gratitude for the profession in general? My gratitude is much lower in the general case.
by graemep | 2026-01-08 17:00:18+00:00
KJV is beautiful and out of copyright so free to download (except technically in the UK where the original monopoly is in force) but not a great translation in terms of accuracy compared to more modern ones.

It also, of course, only contains the protestant canon.

There are more free translations. Not knowledgeable enough to recommend one. Mostly there is no significant difference, but of course there are passages and translations which are contested.

There are Bible apps which will let you install multiple translations and read them side by side. That plus a paper Bible (a good translation such as NRSV) goes a long way.
by stewarts | 2026-01-08 17:00:41+00:00
Bose's QC/QC Ultra lines continue to receive praise for comfort, durability, sound quality, noise cancellation, etc. They make pretty great consumer quality headphones.

Until quite recently, they were widely one of if not the most recommended wireless headphones. The new Sennheiser's that come with a USB-C dongle might have finally stepped past what Bose has been delivering, but at a higher price.
by wtcactus | 2026-01-08 17:00:43+00:00
Are you talking about "professionally trained nutritionists"?

Those people are worse than Astrologers.

At least astrologers stick to their fantasy, while, since I remember being old enough to count, I already lost track of how many times they've told us that "eggs are bad" and then "eggs are good" again, and then bad, and good, and... I've lost track.

Then they told us to eat cereal at breakfast, and that bread and potatoes are the basis of a good diet, then that fat is the killer and then that we should replace butter with plant based alternatives and the list goes on.

Nutritionists aren't scientists. They aren't even good as basic logic and coherence. So, no, I don't want them in charge of dictating policies.
by bob1029 | 2026-01-08 17:01:27+00:00
> With a small light source even a small change in position on the surface has big effects on the light’s visibility – it quickly becomes fully visible or fully occluded. On the other hand, with a big light source that transition is much smoother – the distance on the floor surface between a completely exposed and completely invisible light source is much larger.

This part of the demo illustrates the point vs area light issue really well. In designing practical 3d scenes and selecting tools, we would often prefer to use 2d area or 3d volumetric lights over point lights. Difficult problems like hard shadows and hotspots in reflection probes are magically resolved if we can afford to use these options. Unfortunately, in many realtime scenarios you cannot get access to high quality area or volumetric lighting without resorting to baking lightmaps (static objects only; lots of iteration delay) or nasty things like temporal antialiasing.
by thewebguyd | 2026-01-08 17:01:28+00:00
> 99% of these devices need is simply a way to configure them to connect to a different server, when the manufacturer inevitably turns their own server down (usually) bricking devices.

The same can be said about a lot of games, and should be the case with them as well. Big MMOs for example. See the plethora of WoW private servers as an example of how it can be done.

I think the stop killing games initiative in the EU was pushing for it but not sure how far they've gotten, but like with hardware, once a game studio no longer wants to run the servers for their game, they should be forced to turn it over to the community so the players can continue playing long after the studio is gone.
by iamsomewalrus | 2026-01-08 17:01:32+00:00
I use Go as my preferred language and I think the author is mostly right.

There’s no way for me to know or even check what are the possible errors this function can return? Sure, sometimes a comment in the library might be illuminating, but sometimes not.

I agree that errors as values that I can handle at the call site rarely feel useful.

Some of the Is, As ergonomics have improved, but damn if coding agents don’t love to just fmt.error any code it writes. Thus hiding the useful information about the error in a string.
by bee_rider | 2026-01-08 17:01:41+00:00
If you were going to consider Bose, you should at least take a look at Sennheiser. They are similar in a “can’t really go too wrong” sense. Nice build quality, generally pretty flat and analytical usually.

They are such a standard response that presumably a real audiophile will come along to point out that their favorite model is much better, than a particular well known Sennheiser model, but as far as one can say in brand terms they are solid.
Show HN: New Business Radar
by lifesaverluke | 2026-01-08 17:02:28+00:00
Hi HN,
I built NewBusinessRadar to track newly registered .com domains and make them searchable and filterable.

You can monitor new domains by:
- Sector
- Language
- Technology

Useful for things like market research, lead discovery, fraud/risk analysis, or just exploring what people are building.

This is an early version. Curious to hear:
- what filters or signals would make this more useful
- existing tools/workflows people use for this
- other use cases I might be missing
Am I the only one who is nervous?
by ivanmasha | 2026-01-08 17:02:46+00:00
I am a very senior (both professionally and age-wise). My job looks safe for now, but who knows what is going to happen with the country, with the economy, with software development... There are 2 main questions I am contemplating every day: 1) where to move in terms of professional skills and 2) how to save savings (even not that big in my case). Looks to me all books we read related to these questions no longer relevant to the world, asking smart people in this community, what are thoughts?
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-08 17:02:47+00:00
> It’s a double edged sword - secrecy leads to accidental damage by fishermen & anchors, so generally you want your cables and pipes charted.

Yeah, and the other edge of the sword is on display in the Baltic Sea nowadays, where "fishermen" accidentally keep dragging their anchors for miles across the sea bottom, always somehow exactly where the communication cables are.
by retrac | 2026-01-08 17:02:56+00:00
Sensory disabilities like deafness and blindness are disabling because the world is not oriented to people with sensory disabilities.

I am reminded that the Deaf have their own mythology. American Sign Language is distinct; it's not English. Accordingly it has its own culture, including its own myths. Many of them are fables and stories from the western tradition slightly adapted. But some are original.

One common theme in American Deaf mythology (but I'd bet it's told elsewhere too) is stories about a world which is visually oriented. There's an ASL word for this world but English doesn't have one. Sometimes it's translated as Eyeth a.k.a. "Eye-Earth".

It's more than just a world where everyone is deaf or where everyone communicates in ASL. It has something like spiritual meaning to some of those who tell stories about it; in that world the Deaf are not disabled, not in the social way that matters.
by 9rx | 2026-01-08 17:03:11+00:00
> In most applications of int enums, the particular integers can be chosen at random

I’m not sure the definition of "enum" enforces how things are identified. Random choice would be as good as any other, theoretically. In practice, as it relates to programming, random choice is harder to implement due to collision possibilities. Much simpler is to simply increment an integer, which is how every language I've ever used does it; even Rust, whose implementation is very similar to Go's implementation.

But it remains that the key takeaway is that the enum is a value. The whole reason for using an enum is for the sake of runtime comparison. It wouldn't even make sense to be a type as it is often used. It is bizarre that it keeps getting called one.
by omgJustTest | 2026-01-08 17:03:12+00:00
For some more perspective:

Cranberry's & nut mix - 34g (total) have 8g of protein

1 cup of milk - roughly 8g of protein

This is a pretty light breakfast of 16g of protein. How about a 'big, bold breakfast':

2 eggs - 12 g of protein

4 bacon strips - 12 g of protein

1 cup of hash browns - 3 g of protein

(other carbs pancakes etc going to have < 1g of protein)

So in the 'big, bold breakfast' => 27 g of proteins, I would be 3g behind my daily, average protein intake for the morning.

2 hamburgers for lunch, that's 30g of protein, keeping me close to my daily, average protein intake for lunch.

8 oz steak for dinner, thats 56g of protein.

In total: 27+30+56 = 112g of protein, just 4 g over needed daily, average intake of protein.

Resisting the sarcasm, this is not reasonable.

[1] Perkins https://perkinsmenus.com/hearty-mans-combo/#:~:text=Two%20eg...
by kcplate | 2026-01-08 17:03:13+00:00
Again, “murder” is charge that requires conviction. People keep using it here when its not appropriate to do so. I realize they are caught up in the emotion and not viewing things pragmatically. I am trying to provide a window to let people see that this is probably not black and white.

I am not claiming that this officer did not cause the death of this woman. I am suggesting that because of LEOs having qualified immunity, this being a situation that happened very quickly, and that there are real questions about how this happened and why, that there is a high legal bar to overcome when analyzing it.

It’s going to be legally murky and that alone will make it very difficult to waive the immunity.
by iambateman | 2026-01-08 17:03:15+00:00
No. Absolutely not. The government owes its people a certain duty of care to say “just because you can doesn’t mean you should.”

LLM’s are good for advice 95% of the time, and soon that’ll be 99%. But it is not the job of OpenAI or any LLM creator to determine the rules of what good healthcare looks like.

It is the job of the government.

We have certification rules in place for a reason. And until we can figure out how to independently certify these quasi-counselor robots to some degree of safety, it’s absolutely out of the question to release this on the populace.

We may as well say “actually, counseling degrees are meaningless. Anyone can charge as a therapist. And if they verifiably recommend a path of self-harm, they should not be held responsible.”
by alfonsodev | 2026-01-08 17:03:38+00:00
Thank you! I think I'll start with the water supply and air humidity monitors, vitamin D (supplementing), iron and B12 shows normal in blood tests.

> get her out of the damn house for one or two weeks
Yes, this is my thinking too, I'm trying to solve the logistics of that as well, and hopefully we can do it soon enough.
by Leynos | 2026-01-08 17:04:00+00:00
If you're an API customer, you can pin to a specific dated snapshot of the model.

See the "Snapshots" section on these pages for GPT-4o and 4.1, for example:

https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-4o
https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-4.1

This is done so that application developers whose systems depend upon specific model snapshots don't have to worry about unexpected changes in behaviour.

You can access these snapshots through OpenRouter too, I believe.
by oblio | 2026-01-08 17:04:24+00:00
If you ask around Magnificent 7, a lot of the talk rhymes with: "we're converting Opex into Capex", translated: "we're getting rid of people to invest in data centers (to hopefully be able to get rid of even more people over time).

There are tons of articles online about this, here's one:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-bets-ai-spending-capex...

They're all doing it, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, xAI, etc. Those nuclear power plants they want to build, that's precisely to power all the extra data centers.

If anything, everyone hopes to outsource data validation (the modern equivalent to bricklayers under debt slavery).
by nullpoint420 | 2026-01-08 17:04:30+00:00
I like your comparison about Firefox not being a great example of "good" C/C++.

I'd personally consider myself comfortable in C/C++. I've built Wayland compositors, H264 backends for live-streaming, and built Chromium occasionally for testing. Despite being a die-hard Firefox (zen) user - I still have not been able to compile Firefox! To be fair, this was pre-Firefox quantum days so I hope their SVM and build tools have improved.
by camdenreslink | 2026-01-08 17:04:55+00:00
Out of curiosity, do you think the decrease in revenue for your tech course business is due to lack of demand (i.e. potential customers just ask an LLM rather than learn from a course now), or due to disruption in your acquisition channel (i.e. reduced traffic from SEO to your blog due to potential customers seeing Google's LLM answers at the top of the search results page)? Like for example, do you have other marketing channels such as social media, youtube or paid ads?
by estebank | 2026-01-08 17:05:48+00:00
> Rust I cannot even compile after 24h

Could I ask what hardware this is on? Even when building LLVM from scratch too as part of building the toolchain (which hasn't been the default for a while now, but could see Gentoo doing so), it never took that long on any hardware I own. (Granted, I never tried on the EEE PC I've got on some drawer, and its 2G of RAM would likely kill the whole thing before it got started.)
Show HN: I'm building an on-premises video review service like Frame.IO
by KirisameMarisa | 2026-01-08 17:05:48+00:00
Our team couldn't use the cloud to review massive amounts of cutscenes.

Plus, the workflow of finding and reviewing videos stored in the cloud was too cumbersome, so we built this instead—and it's been well-received.

We'd love for everyone to use it too, so feel free to share any requests or feedback!

Github: https://github.com/KirisameMarisa/video-review
by castillar76 | 2026-01-08 17:05:52+00:00
Many companies miss how important this is, too: they get caught up in "but if they buy it second-hand, they're not buying our new stuff!". When people buy the stuff second-hand, though, they become Bose fans — that means when the second-hand Bose stuff dies, they're more likely to replace it with new Bose stuff. That's particularly true with audio equipment, where people become attached not only to how something works but how it sounds. If they like Bose's rather particular audio signature, they'll keep buying more.

Between that and the good-will they're getting from this move, this is making a ton of life-long Bose fans out of a lot of audio geeks. And if there's a community well-known for creating religions out of their hardware preferences...
by p1esk | 2026-01-08 17:06:26+00:00
perhaps because you are interested in optimizations or distillation or something

Yes, my job is model compression: quantization, pruning, factorization, ops fusion/approximation/caching, in the context of hw/sw codesign.

In general, I agree with you that simple intuitions often break down in DL - I observed it many times. I also agree that we don't have good understanding how these systems work. Hopefully this situation is more like pre-Newtonian physics, and Newtons are coming.