MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by paulryanrogers | 2026-01-08 01:49:48+00:00
By volume most of the food in modern western grocery stores is unnaturally sugary or otherwise calorie dense.

You have to restrict yourself to produce and a few scant other options to escape with balanced nutritional products.

They even advertise cereals as a "part of a healthy breakfast". Which is a lie under any circumstances, because it's never a healthy part if you eat it long term. (Yes it could keep you from starving to death in a famine, still not 'healthy'.) Imagine if they could only say "it will keep you from starving, and may significantly contribute to diabetes"
by heavyset_go | 2026-01-08 01:50:08+00:00
This is already the case. The largest supermarket chain in my relatively wealthy area has had multiple cameras per aisle hanging about ~3 feet above your head + monitors in each aisle that show some, but not all, camera views, for over a decade now.

Like ALPR cameras and now Flock cameras, no one cares and if you seem to care, people assume you're up to no good.

This is the same culture that obsessively watches their Ring cameras and posts videos of people innocently walking down the street on the Nextdoor app because seeing the wrong people existing outside scares them.
by elbci | 2026-01-08 01:50:58+00:00
It's BBC, we know already it's garbage, but garbage about what? 'Server in Antartica, the cooling solution', 'Polar cap melting - a natural computer predicting the melting', 'Quantum needs almost 0 Kelvin', 'Icecream sugar feeds the human brain' - are you so bitter as to keep it a secret just to make me click the damn link? ;))
by throwaway2037 | 2026-01-08 01:51:00+00:00
> home improvements, which means remodeling your home or doing other perhaps large pieces of upkeep will not trigger a property tax increase as it does today

I have heard this complaint here a few times, but very few specifics. I would call getting your roof replaced or your kitchen/bathroom remodelled as major home improvements. Do these actually property tax increases?
Inside An LLM
by TimeForAChange | 2026-01-08 01:51:04+00:00
I’ve always been amazed by children.

They are sponges.

Give them something to learn and they learn it quickly.
Too quickly.

Psychologists call this memory plasticity.

A child can absorb sensory information,
hold it together,
and make sense of it
almost immediately.

Learning doesn’t arrive one piece at a time.
It happens in parallel.

Many impressions,
held at once,
until patterns begin to stand out on their own.

As we grow older, that plasticity fades.
We stop absorbing so easily.

We carry more.
But we change less.

In 2017, a Google research paper helped ignite the current wave of AI.
Its title was simple:

All You Need Is Attention.

The idea was not to hand-build understanding.
Not to carefully specify every connection in advance.

Instead:
turn experience into tokens,
examine their relationships all at once,
and let structure emerge.

Up to that point, much of AI had tried to design intelligence explicitly.
Representations.
Connections.
Rules.

It worked.
But slowly.
At enormous cost.

The new proposal was different.
Just throw everything at it.
Let the system figure it out.

In other words:
teach the system the way a baby learns.

But the environments are not the same.

Children learn by being immersed in the world.
Large language models learn by being immersed in the internet.

One of these environments contains playgrounds,
stories,
and banged knees.

The other contains comment sections.
At scale.

And then there is a hard boundary.

At some point, the learning must stop.

The figuring-out is frozen into place—
for better or worse—
so the system can be used.

An LLM may have learned a great deal.
But it has learned only what was present in its training.

This is what developers mean when they say a model is stateless.

It does not progress.
It does not accumulate.

It resets.

Each time you use it,
you are meeting the same frozen system again.

It may be intelligent.
But it cannot learn more than it already knows—
except for what you place in the prompt.

And when the session ends,
that too disappears.

This has become a quiet frustration for many users.

Because the question isn’t whether these systems are intelligent.

It’s whether intelligence
without the ability to change
is learning at all.

---

Also on Medium: https://medium.com/@roger_gale/where-mistakes-go-to-learn-51a82a6f1187

If you enjoyed this, I'm writing a series on AI limitations and learning.
by jez | 2026-01-08 01:51:16+00:00
Far be it from me to get in the way of someone protesting megabank centralization, but...

I have to imagine that this bank relationship will be different from those previous acquisitions? I never interacted with Goldman Sachs for the duration I've had my Apple Card—the relationship is entirely with Apple and their iOS app. I don't imagine that to be much different when Chase is the issuer.
by rafram | 2026-01-08 01:51:24+00:00
> The distance between the therapeutic and liver toxic doses is too small for kids, less than 2.5x the max recommended dose

If you’re giving your kid 2.5x the listed maximum dose of a medication, that’s on you.

> a hepatotoxic dose for my 5 year old based on their weight is just 3/4 of the adult daily max recommended dose

Sure, and even a small drink of alcohol can poison a kid. Something being OK for adults doesn’t make it OK for kids. Read the packaging.
by MattCook-Ideal | 2026-01-08 01:51:37+00:00
Built a video player that embeds on any website with TikTok-level UX (Mobile) and YouTube-level UX (Desktop). Businesses were losing audiences to YouTube's recommendations, so I built this in Rust → WebAssembly for browser-native performance.

60K lines of compiled code, smooth swiping, instant controls. One-line embed. Consumption-based pricing.

Live demo: https://idealcontent.io

Technical folks: curious what you think of the architecture approach.
Show HN: Ark Portfolio Tracker – Visualizing Cathie Wood's Holdings
by PanicSellGuru | 2026-01-08 01:52:29+00:00
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Explore the latest ARK portfolio data here:
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by heavyset_go | 2026-01-08 01:52:59+00:00
I don't want any LLM tool prompting me to install and run software it makes up on the fly.

Typosquatting is a thing, for example, and I'm sure hallucination squatting will be, too.

I also don't want to run anything in a "sandbox", either. Containers are not sandboxes despite things like the Gemini CLI pretending they are.
by malshe | 2026-01-08 01:53:17+00:00
This is impressive because whenever I hear Goldman Sachs, this line by Matt Taibbi comes to mind:

The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

(https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-grea...)
by crazygringo | 2026-01-08 01:53:38+00:00
Are you sure that wasn't the "staggered" bike dock? It forces you to dock in the rear row if the neighboring two front row spaces are free. This is to fit more bikes. The blinking red docks aren't broken. They're intentionally unavailable.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MicromobilityNYC/comments/v457x0/9_...

Also, the 5 e-bikes probably didn't need "service", they were just waiting for battery swaps. This is by design. The docks don't charge them.

CitiBike maintenance is generally fine. They're not leaving any significant number of broken bikes or docks. I think you may have just misunderstood how it works.
by cvbnmb | 2026-01-08 01:54:31+00:00
This is the only good idea that has or probably will come out of this administration, and it’s still flawed:

- Despite folic acid in processed foods causing ADD and other problems in those with MTHFR mutations like me, folic acid does help prevent birth defects.

- The U.S. doesn’t produce, transport, or store sufficient quantities of organic fresh food to feed the entire country, nor would schools all have access to it.
by websiteapi | 2026-01-08 01:55:22+00:00
so even if you don't have your face scanned, unless you're paying cash they'd still know who you are right? don't most people have passports? real ID is also a thing. if you're concerned about a hostile government wearing a mask at a grocery store isn't going to do anything sadly.

Katz v. United States is an interesting case if you're interested.
by ryan_n | 2026-01-08 01:55:31+00:00
Yea I also didn't think this was written by ai, it sounded human enough to me. It's kind of a bummer that there's all these patterns that LLM's follow in their output that cause people to have a knee jerk reaction and instantly call it ai slop. I know there is a ton of ai garbage out there these days, but I really couldn't tell with this article.
by zmgsabst | 2026-01-08 01:55:45+00:00
6oz of beef is only 44g of protein; a moderate gym load would require more for many adult men. Typical might be more like 75-100g. (Recommendations I’ve heard is 2g per 1 kg of muscle mass; roughly 40% of your weight at moderate fitness.)

I’m a large guy (190cm/100kg); I lose weight eating a pound of bacon for breakfast and a pound of chicken for dinner, if I’m even moderately exercising (3x cardio, 3x strength each week). Thirty minutes a day, split between strength and cardio is hardly “top athlete” and more “recommended amount”.

That’s not to say anybody is wrong, merely our experiences may be as varied as humans are — ie, we may legitimately have different needs.
by anonzzzies | 2026-01-08 01:55:50+00:00
When I went as a kid with my parents to the US, there was this 'milk, it does a body good' commercial playing all the time. While in my country there was already talk that it really doesn't do a body good. Not sure what it ended up with, but we definitely never had the kind of gallons of milk in the fridge and grabbing cartons when you want something to drink.
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-08 01:55:58+00:00
>but the sum total of the community's efforts and entrepenural spirits.

More like "was too rural or too poor in the 70s/80s/90s to indulge in the then trendy policy like zoning the crap out of themselves and passing a bunch of ordinances more akin to country club rules thereby making incremental growth and development actually possible in the 2010s and 2020s"

Because most development today seems to correlate with whether or not that particular policy bullet got dodged than culture or spirit or anything like that.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-08 01:56:29+00:00
> If it's not profitable for a builder to build a home they simply won't,

Agreed. They will generally build as tall and as dense as they are permitted to because (within reason) it reduces unit cost. Obviously there are limits to that. No one wants to build a high rise in the middle of nowhere.

But within high CoL areas they are generally severely limited on both of those aspects. That's due to zoning laws.

Of course that's not the whole story. Infrastructure has to be upgraded to keep pace with growth. But that's on the local government to plan and execute properly. Right now they largely just say "no".
by biglyburrito | 2026-01-08 01:56:43+00:00
"In the 2010s, the editorial tone of the paper shifted from liberal to conservative, particularly after the editorial pages of the paper were consolidated in 2018 with The Blade of Toledo, Ohio. After the consolidation, Keith Burris, the pro-Trump editorial page editor of The Blade, directed the editorial pages of both papers.[3][4]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_Post-Gazette

Purely a coincidence, I'm sure.
by efreak | 2026-01-08 01:57:04+00:00
When you barely need said device, or you occasionally need many of said device. Not to mention you're renting more than just a GPU from them, you're getting the rest of the server too.
I rent from runpod a handful of days a year (maybe a week or so total?) and I've estimate that I've spent at most $300 total in the last 2 years.
- I get a 3090 or 4090, sometimes a 5090 or a pro GPU with 40+gb vram.
(I have no dGPU).
- Usually they have >100gb ram (my new PC has 64gb, the old one had 32gb)
- 20-30 cores available (my new PC has 20, old was 4gb ddr2(!))
- 1-2tb of disposable nvme storage (my old PC didn't have nvme at all, my current PC has ~800gb free of 2tb)
- fast network. I don't always test it, but I'm usually done downloading ~700gb of models in under 2 hours; locally this would take around 15 hours.
- electricity is far cheaper in random east European/Asian City than it is in Los Angeles. Some GPUs cost less to rent than they do to run locally, never mind the cost of buying the GPU itself.

Paying runpod or vast or just about anyone else is _far_ cheaper than buying this hardware myself.
by mikeg8 | 2026-01-08 01:57:08+00:00
“Foundational” seems a bit overkill here. There is nothing foundational about it – it’s a convenience tool, albeit a very good one.

AI is disruptive technology - like other tech innovations before it, there will be casualties to incumbents. If anything, this just shows how small businesses with need to be more creative when establishing moats and sustainability in this new landscape.
by misanthr0pe | 2026-01-08 01:58:15+00:00
i think it goes back to a deeper root premise about the human experience. maybe thats where i go a-kilter. it seems common these days for people to travel and then take instagram pictures and make posts about their experience going to michelin starred places. perhaps they are looking at their phones much of the time or documenting their travel for an audience that isnt themself. then, sure, you may as well read articles about it. youre missing the whole point anyway, and youre also missing life at home even if you arent traveling.
by EvansWilson | 2026-01-08 01:58:51+00:00
In the world of activist investing, few names command as much attention as Bill Ackman. The Pershing Square Capital Management CEO is famous for a strategy that defies modern diversification theory: buy high-quality businesses, buy them in massive size, and hold them forever.

The latest portfolio data reveals a portfolio that is more concentrated—and more tech-focused—than ever before.

Bill Ackman Top Holdings November 2025 before:2025-11-22

For investors running a screen for Bill Ackman Top Holdings November 2025 before:2025-11-22, the data paints a picture of extreme conviction. Unlike hedge funds that spread risk across hundreds of names, Ackman’s portfolio is dominated by just two massive positions that account for nearly 40% of the entire fund's assets.

The undisputed king of the portfolio is Uber Technologies, Inc. (UBER).
With over 30.2 million shares valued at nearly $2.96 billion, Uber now commands a 20.25% weight in the portfolio. This is a definitive statement that Ackman views the ride-sharing and delivery giant not as a speculative tech play, but as a mature, cash-flow-generating utility of the modern economy.

Close behind is Brookfield Corporation (BN), representing 19.21% of the portfolio ($2.8 billion). Together, these two stocks form the "twin pillars" of Pershing Square’s current strategy: digital infrastructure (Uber) and physical asset management (Brookfield).

The Silicon Valley Pivot

Historically known for consumer goods and restaurants, Ackman has aggressively pivoted toward Big Tech.

Combined, the Class A and Class C shares of Alphabet Inc. (GOOG/GOOGL) make up over 18.5% of the portfolio, a massive bet on AI and search dominance valued at over $2.7 billion. Furthermore, the data shows a newer, growing position in Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN), which now holds an 8.73% weight.

This trio—Uber, Alphabet, and Amazon—signals that Pershing Square sees the "Growth at a Reasonable Price" (GARP) opportunities shifting from traditional retail to dominant tech platforms.

The "Forever" Consumer Stocks

Despite the tech rotation, Ackman hasn’t abandoned his roots. Restaurant Brands International (QSR)—the parent company of Burger King—remains a top-five holding with a 10% weight, a position he has held for over a decade. Similarly, Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) and Hilton Worldwide (HLT) remain key anchors, providing stability and reliable compounding alongside the higher-beta tech plays.

Summary

The current Pershing Square portfolio is a masterclass in high-conviction investing. By allocating nearly 60% of capital to just Uber, Brookfield, and Alphabet, Ackman is betting that the winners of the next decade are already obvious—and he is all in.
by godelski | 2026-01-08 01:59:09+00:00
Yeah my dotfiles, notes, and scripts are in a single repo. I think the most important thing to do is organize. I just match the system. So I put everything that a rc file in ~/ in one directory and everything in ~/.config in another. Then if you have your repo downloaded all you need is to run 2 find commands like this

find "${DOTFILE_DIR%/}/configs/" \
-maxdepth 1 \
! -name "*.md" \
-exec bash -c 'ln -Fis "${0}" "${CONFIG_DIR%/}/${0##*/}"' {} \;

It baffles me that people are so unorganized in their dotfiles. A little goes a long way to making your life easier. But then again people suck at bash so they're probably not thinking of using find this way. You could also use xargs to parallelize if you want but there'd be no practical speed difference for me

Another key component is to break out files. For example I have the directory ~/.dotfiles/rc_files/zsh. My zshrc file sources different files from that location. So I have a Linux file and OSX file there for anything that is specifically system dependent. If you want different configs on different machines you can check the hostname and use the same pattern!

Speaking of which, use functions! At first this is going to sound crazy but it's worth the effort and let's be honest, the effort is very low (though the initial rebate might not be depending on how messy you are)

function _exists() {
command -v "$1" &> /dev/null
}

alias_ls() {
alias_lsd() {
alias ls='lsd'
alias la='lsd -A' # A drops . and ..
alias ll='lsd -l' # h is automatic
}
alias_base_ls() {
alias ls='ls -v --color=auto -h' # numerical sort, color, human readable
alias la='ls -A' # ignore . and ..
alias ll='ls -lh'
}
if ( _exists lsd );
then
alias_lsd
else
alias_base_ls
fi
}
main() {
alias_ls || echo -e "\033[1;31mls aliasing fucked up!\033[0m"
}
main

Yeah, it is a bit more cumbersome but it's really not that bad and

1) debugging gets so much easier
2) you know where everything is and what everything does.
3) trying new aliases, command tools, scripts, etc also becomes a lot easier.

Following Unix philosophy has more advantages than disadvantages. I also strongly suggest adding comments because you'll forget why you did something. I'll often link to posts for this and for giving credit.

Since we're speaking of bash, bookmark this website: https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls

Fwiw, my main language is Python but for pretty much everything in the terminal I write in bash. You can often make oneliners that would traditionally be a lot of lines in Python. Not to mention it's usually faster. It's a good way to help you learn bash too! ^__^
by eru | 2026-01-08 01:59:22+00:00
> How does the taxation aspect of it work? Would I have to pay short term capital gains on each transaction that I then make?

Sorry, I have no clue, you need to investigate that by yourself. My jurisdiction doesn't have capital gains taxes, so I didn't look into this. Let me know what you find.

> Also, basically US loses all major exports for this financial hack of sorts. Doesn't it fundamentally weaken the reality of US?

Your view of exports is a bit too narrow. A 'trade deficit' mostly just means that the US 'exports' financial assets. The US is really good at producing financial assets. Eg when people globally buy into a hot US IPO that officially counts as widening the trade deficit, even though you could say in a sense that effectively the US is exporting Google shares. And they are really good at making new companies.

Btw, in aggregate the US earns more from their investments abroad than they send foreigners for their investments in the US. Despite the foreigners investing more overall. That's a pretty good deal for the Americans (in aggregate).

I agree that an unsustainable government deficit is bad, but that's bad regardless of whether it's foreigners or locals who finance the government.

> So (when) the AI financial bubble explodes, How would America even rebuild itself?

You can look at what happened in the past after similar episodes.

Btw, for an interesting history lesson look at what happened after 1987's Black Monday: https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/356376-black-monday-less...

> I am sorry to say but the future seems bleak. I hope I am wrong but I wish the average american the best of luck and hope in a better future for the whole world combined but being honest, the future doesn't feel good for America.

I don't live in America, but from the outside it seems like the place still has a lot of life and dynamism left.

The main thing that would keep me from moving there is their asinine NIMBYism in the big cities and car infestation of the whole country. I'm not too worried about their economy, and I have about 50% of my investment portfolio in US stocks.
by overgard | 2026-01-08 01:59:29+00:00
Carbohydrates are sugars (from the first sentence on wikipedia): "A carbohydrate (/ˌkɑːrboʊˈhaɪdreɪt/) is a sugar (saccharide) or a sugar derivative." Saying you need "50-75% of your energy from [sugar]" illustrates why that is a somewhat odd statement. Yes, glucose is much better than fructose, but eating a ton of glucose will still lead to high insulin spikes and inflammatory diseases. Complex carbohydrates are better in that they take longer to digest, not because they're magically different. Vegetables are good for nutrients not because you need their carbs.
by presentation | 2026-01-08 01:59:35+00:00
Not true re #1, yes creating a glut of housing beyond demand in the market would reduce home prices, but other markets like Tokyo that do build a lot of housing still see increasing home values despite stable prices. Land value goes up, but units per unit land goes up too, so each individual unit does not necessarily go down. Maybe the value of your physical single family home goes down, but the value of the land it stands on goes way up when the density and infrastructure around it intensifies, so it does not follow that the homeowner loses out (most likely they make money)

Subsidizing first time buyers does increase prices overall but you have to consider the effect of such a policy relative to its cost. It has potentially positive externalities so that’s worth considering while balancing it out eg with the previous policy.
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-08 01:59:54+00:00
>Most jobs do not consistent entirely of literally rent-seeking.

First off you're using "rent seeking" wrong, it's a specific economic term that means something else.

But using your definition....

There's entire industries built around renting capital investments. Sometimes purely, like rental equipment. Sometimes the investmentents are so expensive they come with the labor to operate them (the way many buildings have a building manager and a desk person). Many industrial transactions are structured basically the same way as commercial rent.