MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FeteCommuniste | 2026-01-27 11:42:37+00:00
> Also, looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VO2_max#Reference_values, 30 is about average for men in their 40s/50s, which, form a quick google, I estimate is the author’s age range.

And the average man is his 40s or 50s is in...not especially good aerobic shape.
by poulpy123 | 2026-01-27 11:42:50+00:00
The iranian government is criminal, but it's absolutely not believable. The 6 months of the Anfal campaign where Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons killed between 50 and 100k people, the 2 years of the last gaza war with the carpet bombing killed 80k people, the tien an men massacre was in the hundreds, 4 years of civil in birmanie killed 80k people too
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-27 11:43:23+00:00
>What fascist tactics did they use to get rid of Hitler?

November 1921 (Munich): During a speech at an NSDAP rally in a beer hall, an unknown assailant fired shots at Hitler from the crowd amid a melee, but he escaped unharmed.

1923 (Thuringia): An unidentified person attempted to shoot Hitler during a rally, but Nazi supporters outnumbered opponents, forcing the attacker to flee.

1923 (Memmingen): Another unknown individual tried to assassinate Hitler with a rifle but retreated when confronted by his followers.

July 15, 1932 (Munich): An assailant fired shots at Hitler and SA leader Ernst Röhm while they dined at Cafe Heck, but both were unhurt.

1932 (Nuremberg): A bomb was planted in the lobby of Hitler's hotel, but it was discovered and removed before detonation.

1932 (Berlin and Munich): Two additional attempts occurred, one involving potential poisoning at the Hotel Kaiserhof in Berlin (where Hitler and staff fell ill after a meal, suspected to be deliberate contamination), though details are limited and perpetrators unidentified.
by handoflixue | 2026-01-27 11:43:27+00:00
What specific aspect of this is a GitHub feature? Can you link to the documentation for that feature?

The person you're replying to mentions a fairly large number of actions, here: "cloned the codebase, found the issue, wrote the fix, added tests. I asked it to code review its own fix. The AI debugged itself, then reviewed its own work, and then helped me submit the PR."

If GitHub really does have a feature I can turn on that just automatically fixes my code, I'd love to know about it.
by newlifehelp | 2026-01-27 11:43:33+00:00
It's not just about the tax rate; make sure you properly understand the residency requirements and where your tax domicile will actually be. Many "digital nomad" visas still have an income threshold or require proof of foreign income, so double-check the fine print.

When you're ready to seriously explore options, NewLife.Help (https://newlife.help) has a solid Move Planner and an excellent cost-of-living comparison tool that can help you weigh different paradises against each other.
by mgdev | 2026-01-27 11:44:12+00:00
I offhandedly set it up to do a weather alert every 4 hours during the big winter storm. Absent a well-specified API, I can only assume it was repeatedly doing a bunch of work to access some open API it discovered.

Very much the LLM equivalent of “to bake an apple pie you must first invent the universe”.

To its credit, it did a great job.
by zakhio | 2026-01-27 11:44:36+00:00
This reminded of me porting low-level JS library and its tests (~10k loc) to Java about 6 months ago (so mostly it was Sonnet 4)

My goal was to have 1:1 port, so later I can easily port newer commits from original repo. It wasn’t smooth, but it the end it worked

Findings:

* simple prompt like port everything didn’t work as Sonnet was falling into the loop of trying to fix code that it couldn’t understand, so at the end it just deleted that part :))

* I had to switch to file by file basis, focus Claude on the base code then move to files that use the base code

* Sonnet had some problems of following 1:1 instruction, I saw missing parts of functions, missing comments, even simple instruction to follow same order of functions in the file (had to tell explicitly to list functions in the file and then create separate TODO to port each)
by Mordisquitos | 2026-01-27 11:45:43+00:00
Let us assume that:

1. On average, it is a net negative for under 15s to participate in Instagram, TikTok, Xitter, YouTube, Snapchat, etc
2. On average, it is a net positive for under 15s to participate in HN, old-school forums, and the like.
3. It is not possible to legally differentiate services referred to in points 1 & 2, so a ban must be all-or-nothing.

Under those assumptions, the question becomes whether the overall net positive of allowing under-15s to participate in HN and old-school forums outweighs the overall net negative of allowing under-15s to participate in Instagram, TikTok, etc.

Given the relative number of under-15s participating in each category of services, do you think that is the case?
by newlifehelp | 2026-01-27 11:45:46+00:00
It's easy to get caught up in the allure of new places, but sometimes the biggest shift needed is internal, or within your existing country. Finding communities, expat or local, that actively seek connection often matters more than the specific longitude and latitude. Many move not just for location, but for a new mindset.Considering Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Costa Rica, or even staying stateside, you're weighing many factors. NewLife.Help is genuinely useful here; it lets you do side-by-side comparisons for cost-of-living, safety, and visa ease across all those options, making your decision much clearer.https://newlife.help
by Scoundreller | 2026-01-27 11:46:10+00:00
Heathrow is annoying in that you need to go through security every time you change terminal (or enter one for the first time when arriving internationally).

Had to go through security 4 times in a day due to a colossal fuck up by an airline.

Each time they flagged something different on a different person. Still no idea what they were looking for in a purse 3 of 4 times.

It’s wildly inconsistent and I kinda doubt it’s intentional fuzzy logic.
by i_don_t_know | 2026-01-27 11:46:23+00:00
I'm seconding the recommendation to look at Rodnay Zack's books. For example, I really enjoyed Advanced 6502 Programming. It's a project-based tutorial for a custom 6502 machine. The design and schematics are in the book.

https://archive.org/details/Advanced_6502_Programming/mode/2...
by FeteCommuniste | 2026-01-27 11:46:33+00:00
> My wife is a doctor and there is a general trend at the moment of everyone thinking their intelligence in one area (say programming) carries over into other areas such as medicine, particularly with new tools such as ChatGPT.

My wife is a lawyer and sees the same thing at her job. People "writing" briefs or doing legal "research" with GPT and then insisting that their document must be right because the magic AI box produced it.
by TheDong | 2026-01-27 11:46:58+00:00
Do you read Chinese, Hindi, and Vietnamese to read about thefts in those countries?

Latin-based-language countries also have more relations to the english world (mostly through Britain historically conquering most of them), and so as an English speaker you're more likely to see news about those countries.

I'm not sure if you're trying to imply something else, but if you are, please don't. The relationships between languages, what countries are reported in the western news, what countries americans (i.e. the HN audience visit), and so on is complicated, multi-faceted, and cannot be easily boiled down to language as a root cause of anything.
by bmn__ | 2026-01-27 11:48:04+00:00
The connection to the language spoken in the countries that you are making is completely spurious. The real reason is the the current elected politicians have a great deal of tolerance for the African thieving and fencing gangs, and exert their influence so that the gangs enjoy protection from the consequences of the justice system over the native population. A reduction in crime could happen from one day to the next if the people are willing to abolish the two-tier system, reintroduce a measurement of accountability and enforce the law.
by Gareth321 | 2026-01-27 11:48:24+00:00
I would like to challenge your suggestion - ignoring for the moment the practical issues like cultural and economic and educational roadblocks.

New York doesn't magically receive food. New York is a large net recipient of food imports. It produces value to society and exchanges some of that value for food farmed by others. The U.S. (and most of the West) is structured in such a way that productivity per capita is high, and it means everyone in the food supply chain can live a reasonable lifestyle with enough food. Most African nations do not structure their society this way. It's not an accident. This is the way they choose to live. I grew up in Africa and I'm happy to explain the many ways in which American and African cultures differ. For example, corruption isn't corruption in most of Africa. It's good manners. Gift giving has been happening in tribes for thousands of years. In business it is a common courtesy to provide a gift during negotiations. Of course the person with the largest gift is the most generous and the nicest person, so of course they get the contract. This is a fundamental difference in our cultural and social understanding of what is right and wrong.

What you appear to be exercising is a typical Western hubris: "if we can just get the savages to live with us, they would see the light and live like we do." This assumes that everyone want to adopt your values and way of living. They don't. The reason there isn't much food in Africa (relative to the population size) is not by chance. They live on some of the most fertile land in the world. Africa should be the breadbasket of the world. The issue is that they don't like the way you live and don't want to live that way. Any kind of mass migration strategy would merely result in lots of hungry people in America.
by troelsSteegin | 2026-01-27 11:48:42+00:00
heres's a corresponding video: https://www4.math.duke.edu/media/index.html?v=3d280c1b658455...

"We consider composite media with a broad range of scales, whose
effective properties are important in materials science, biophysics, and
climate modeling. Examples include random resistor networks, polycrystalline media, porous bone, the brine microstructure of sea ice, ocean eddies, melt ponds on the surface of Arctic sea ice, and the polar ice packs themselves. The analytic continuation method provides Stieltjes integral representations for the bulk transport coefficients of such systems, involving spectral measures of self-adjoint random operators which depend only on the composite geometry. On finite bond lattices or discretizations of continuum systems, these random operators are represented by random matrices and the spectral measures are given explicitly in terms of their eigenvalues and eigenvectors. In this lecture we will discuss various implications and applications of these integral representations. We will also discuss computations of the spectral measures of the operators, as well as statistical measures of their eigenvalues. For example, the effective behavior of composite materials often exhibits large changes associated with transitions in the connectedness or percolation properties of a particular phase. We demonstrate that an onset of connectedness gives rise to striking transitional behavior in the short and long range correlations in the eigenvalues of the associated random matrix. This, in turn, gives rise to transitional behavior in the spectral measures, leading to observed critical behavior in the effective transport properties of the media."
by iberator | 2026-01-27 11:49:27+00:00
Why? There is a low chance of FSB successfully prosecuting you as western Citizen doing illegal/silly things in Telegram.

Big Five of other hand (UK, USA, AUSTRALIA etc) spy network are already working with your western government...

So I would rather be compromised in Russia with 0 chance of extradition there than non 0 to USA, UK GERMANY etc

(Let's say you are producing fake Coco Channel perfumes)
by jackfranklyn | 2026-01-27 11:49:42+00:00
Something I've noticed: most of these techniques work partly because they force you to slow down and actually think about what you're asking.

The "ask for contrasting perspectives" prompt is annoying specifically because it makes you process more information. The devil's advocate approach forces a second round of evaluation. Even just opening a fresh session adds friction that makes you reconsider the question.

When I'm working in domains I know well, I catch the model drifting way faster than in areas where I'm learning. Which suggests the real problem isn't the model - it's that we're outsourcing judgment to it in areas where we shouldn't be.

The uncomfortable answer might be: if you're worried the model is reinforcing your biases, you probably don't know the domain well enough to evaluate its answers anyway.
by pelagicAustral | 2026-01-27 11:50:31+00:00
If you think you had it bad all these years, you should come and visit the Falkland Islands. I will be brief, but I will explain what going through the Mount Pleasant Airport (MPN) feel like for the average visitor.

For added context: Only one flight by a commercial airline a week on Saturday, comes in around 1300, departs around 1500. You miss it, you wait another week.

- The terminal is extremely small, the plane that comes around can probably fit around 180 pax, you could not fit that many people on the check-in lounge, which means a lot of times people have to queue outside, even in the winter.

- Check in is sluggish, with the Airline representatives in the Falklands calling for check in 4 hours in advance when a flight is full.

- After getting your ticket, security will check your bags and you will be asked to wait an undetermined amount of time, to see if a "random" check need to take place, again, the terminal is tiny, people often crowds waiting forever for their name the be shouted by some security person.

- If you manage to get passed this part, you are still not safe, security can still call your name when passing through or after immigration. Even if you are already in the wait lounge. Someone might still show up and shout your name.

- Immigration will scan your passport and charge you £40 for leaving the country.

- Now you are actually commit to the security checkpoint (these are the same guys that scan the bags on check-in). At any given time there is at least 10 in a 5m2 area. You are forced to take your shoes, no liquids are allowed, no toothpaste, take all electronics out of your bag, take jacket off.

- You are randomly tested for drug and explosive traces (GOING OFF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS)

- You may be patted

- All your belongings might be checked at this point as well.

All in all, you could be looking at a 2-hour ordeal from start to finish.

Do yourself a favor. Go to Maldives instead.
by FeteCommuniste | 2026-01-27 11:50:53+00:00
I don't see how it's "shitty." It portrays a usage of ChatGPT that I imagine is becoming pretty typical. People are treating "AI" as an oracle. The situation isn't helped by corporate heads and LLM boosters blathering on about how AI is soon going to replace most of the workforce, boost productivity by a gazillion percent, and cure cancer.
by animal531 | 2026-01-27 11:52:01+00:00
The funniest thing I've seen GPT do was a while back when I had it try to implement ORCA (Optimal Reciprocal Collision Avoidance). It is a human made algorithm for entities where they just use their own and N neighbours' current radii along with their velocity to calculate mathematical lines into the future, so that they can avoid walking into each other.

It came very close to success, but there were 2 or 3 big show-stopping bugs such as it forgetting to update the spatial partitioning when the entities moved, so it would work at the start but then degrade over time.

It believed and got stuck on thinking that it must be the algorithm itself that was the problem, so at some point it just stuck a generic boids solution into the middle of the rest. To make it worse, it didn't even bother to use the spatial partitioning and they were just brute force looking at their neighbours.

Had this been a real system it might have made its way into production, which makes one think about the value of the AI code out there. As it was I pointed out that bit and asked about it, at which point it admitted that it was definitely a mistake and then it removed it.

I had previously implement my own version of the algorithm and it took me quite a bit of time, but during that I built up the mental code model and understood both the problem and solution by the end. In comparison it easily implemented it 10-30x faster than I did but would never have managed to complete the project on its own. Also if I hadn't previously implemented it myself and had just tried to have it do the heavy lifting then I wouldn't have understood enough of what it was doing to overcome its issues and get the code working properly.
by maxglute | 2026-01-27 11:52:05+00:00
> China has the same problems as OAI

PRC pureplay AI only companies has same problems as openAI, that's not the same as huge tech companies like Baidu or Alibaba or Tencent (i.e. Google/Microsoft tier) who can afford to lose money on AI. And ultimately they are also not sinking 100s of billions in capex, they can't even if they tried due to sanctions. Their financial exposure is magnitude less, i.e. it matters if you're losing 500m a year vs 5 billion per year especially as systemic economic contagion risk - PRC and US bubble sizes as % of economy not the same.
by wongarsu | 2026-01-27 11:52:29+00:00
On the other hand, if somebody said "I'm here for terrorism" and the immigration officer laughed that off, imagine the shitstorm if that person turns out to be a terrorist.

For the individual employee the cost of wasting someone's time by escalating the case and detaining them is zero, the potential cost of letting someone slip by is realistically tiny but potentially huge
Ask HN: What is the psychology of Reddit users?
by ClipNoteBook | 2026-01-27 11:53:08+00:00
I’ve been using Reddit for a long time, and I’ve noticed inconsistent reactions to similar posts. Sometimes I receive positive feedback and upvotes; other times I receive a lot of negative responses with no obvious explanation. After two years of using Reddit, I still don’t understand how Reddit users think or the psychology behind these reactions
by WickyNilliams | 2026-01-27 11:53:13+00:00
Attempted assassinations by unidentified lone wolves, spread out over decades, are not "fascist" tactics. Obviously they are very bad for a political climate, but I think that's stretching the definition beyond any use.

You originally implied the Weimar Republic itself used fascistic tactics. But your examples show nothing of the sort (and are obviously just an LLM dump, which disinclines me to continue this conversation)
by mschuster91 | 2026-01-27 11:53:18+00:00
> I don't really care what Apple does on this regard, they were always doing things differently. IIRC, even Macs that supported EFI, only supported EFI 1.1, not 2.0, no?

Yup, but as long as you got an original Apple GPU that's enough to just stick a Windows or Linux USB stick and you can install straight from the stick. "Normal" PCI GPUs have to be reflashed with a GOP blob [1] so that Apple's EFI implementation can work with it.

Personally, I just went and installed OpenCore once and that's it.

[1] https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg/tree/master/Stagi...
by dvfjsdhgfv | 2026-01-27 11:54:36+00:00
This is one way. But one more popular is to force anyone doing serious business to do things that are formally against the law, but you can't function without them (like payments to some officers). In this way you make sure everyone is controlled and you can threaten them easily, no need to invent everything as it's already organized. And if they don't comply, the case is practically ready.
by asdefghyk | 2026-01-27 11:54:46+00:00
The answer would depend on what programming experience you have?
Do yo have any assembly language experience ? with other targets?
ie have you used an assembler ( and maybe linker ) before.

Id look for a book that targets Assembly programming on a Apple 2, ie not a book on general 6502 programming. Sucha book Id expect to discuss things like Apple 2 memory map , Apple 2 hardware and how they are used in assembler language.
Hopefully the book would also provide guidance using a particular assembler ( hopefully still available)
by likethejade87 | 2026-01-27 11:54:57+00:00
Hi HN,

I spent the last few months analyzing 2,200+ comments from places like StackExchange and Reddit...

In the data, I kept seeing founders describe:

"Parallel Sprints": Running a full discovery process alongside development just to avoid "analysis paralysis."

The Rework Tax: Spending 80% of a sprint on rework because initial manual research was incomplete or misinterpreted.

Pattern Spotting: Spending 10+ hours a week "listening" in subreddits, only to end up with a mess of Notion pages and no clear signal.

Validation often feels like a full-time research job. You end up with raw survey CSVs and gut feelings, but you still have to manually bridge the gap to a PRD or a pitch narrative.

I built HolyShift to automate the "scrappy" part. It listens and engages in relevant communities, analyzes and synthesizes the signals for you, and generates the assets you actually need to move forward:

A data-backed PRD grounded in real user needs.
A pitch deck built on validated pain points.
Marketing copy that uses the exact language of your users.
The goal is to move from "raw idea" to "data-backed roadmap" in hours, not weeks.

I’m curious how other solo founders or small teams handle the "research vs. shipping" tradeoff. Do you set a hard time limit on discovery, or do you just "figure it out as you go" and hope you don't hit the rework wall?
Show HN: Speech-to-Digits API – 95% accuracy on spoken numbers
by Tanziro | 2026-01-27 11:54:59+00:00
Hi HN,

I built EchoEntry (https://echoentry.ai) – a speech-to-text API optimized specifically for digits.

The problem: Generic STT APIs struggle with numbers. "One oh five" becomes "105" sometimes, "15" other times. For healthcare apps, warehouse systems, or IVR, this inconsistency breaks workflows.

My solution: Fine-tuned Whisper-small on 1-999 spoken numbers across 5 English accents. Gets 95% accuracy on 1-3 digit numbers.

Tech stack:
- Custom Whisper model (1.7GB)
- FastAPI backend
- Deployed on 8GB Linode
- FFmpeg for audio processing

Try it now (two commands, no signup):

# Download test audio
curl -O https://echoentry.ai/test_audio.wav

# Test the API
curl -X POST https://api.echoentry.ai/v1/transcribe \
-H "X-Api-Key: demo_key_12345" \
-F "file=@test_audio.wav;type=audio/wav"

Currently free beta (1,000 calls/month per key). Looking for feedback on:
1. What accuracy threshold makes this production-ready for you?
2. Are there other number-heavy use cases I'm missing?
3. Would you pay for this vs. using generic STT?

Docs: https://echoentry.ai/docs.html

Happy to answer technical questions about the fine-tuning process or deployment!
by lukan | 2026-01-27 11:55:02+00:00
"Actually, there is plenty of telling"

To this day, the official version is, nothing happened there and then. If you talk about it online inside china, or using chinese services outside of it, it will automatically be blocked.

So yes, people did get out, but till this day they will have to face persecution or other disadvantages and some want to to visit family again or not have them face consequences.

In other words I don't know about any numbers, but how can you claim to know, when the chinese government did all it could to prevent acurate information?