MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by WorldMaker | 2026-01-12 16:21:09+00:00
Someone else posting to HN used cheap flash cartridges for a "music player" like this. There is something to be said about having a ROM or ROM-like media that can store even a few megabytes of data rather than QR codes being relatively bandwidth limited and so often needing a URL to data or more URLs.

The article points out there is a useful lesson in accidentally destroying/losing a physical object in the way that floppies or VHS tapes were easy to accidentally destroy and taught young childhood lessons. QR codes are a bit harder to destroy, which can be a benefit, but also loses this tiny lesson.
by observationist | 2026-01-12 16:21:17+00:00
This is where using frontier models can help - You can have them assist with configuring and operating wireguard nearly as easily as you can have them walk you through Tailscale, eliminating the need for a middleman.

The mid-level and free tiers aren't necessarily going to help, but the Pro/Max/Heavy tier can absolutely make setting up and using wireguard and having a reasonably secure environment practical and easy.

You can also have the high tier models help with things like operating a FreePBX server and VOIP, manage a private domain, and all sorts of things that require domain expertise to do well, but are often out of reach for people who haven't gotten the requisite hands on experience and training.

I'd say that going through the process of setting up your self hosting environment, then after the fact asking the language model "This is my environment: blah, a, b, c, x, y, z, blah, blah. What simple things can I do to make it more secure?"

And then repeating that exercise - create a chatgpt project, or codex repo, or claude or grok project, wherein you have the model do a thorough interrogation of you to lay out and document your environment. With that done, you condense it to a prompt, and operate within the context where your network is documented. Then you can easily iterate and improve.

Something like this isn't going to take more than a few 15 minute weekend sessions each month after initially setting it up, and it's going to be a lot more secure than the average, completely unattended, default settings consumer network.

You could try to yolo it with Operator or an elevated MCP interface with your system, but the point is, those high tier models are sufficiently good enough to make significant self hosting easily achievable.
by unfold_ai | 2026-01-12 16:21:18+00:00
I built mcp-apps-kit to solve the pain of duplicating code when targeting both Model Context Protocol (MCP) apps (e.g., Claude hosts) and ChatGPT's Apps SDK.
Key wins:

Define type-safe tools (Zod) + UI once
Direct UI binding to tools via defineUI + ui prop
React hooks for dynamic client UIs
Unified runtime handles OAuth, state, deployment (Express/serverless)

Quick start: npx @mcp-apps-kit/create-app@latest my-app
Repo: https://github.com/AndurilCode/mcp-apps-kit (MIT, v0.4.0 just dropped with better examples)
Curious what folks are building with MCP/ChatGPT apps? Happy to answer questions, brainstorm integrations, or hear feedback!
by KineticLensman | 2026-01-12 16:22:04+00:00
Exactly.

In fact, when Gandalf catches up with Aragorn/Legolas/Gimli in 'The White Rider' chapter, he explicitly tells them that Sauron has committed a major strategic blunder: attacking too early, as soon as he thought the Ring was in play. If he'd kept some forces back to guard Mt Doom, he'd have been alright. Especially because, as later becomes clear, Mt Doom isn't a normal volcano where you could just lob the Ring in from your low-flying eagle. The Cracks of Doom are in a chamber deep inside the mountain.
by davidwritesbugs | 2026-01-12 16:22:54+00:00
Read his books as a schoolboy, stopped taking him seriously when in one of his books he reproduced an ancient picture of a skeleton and said “this was /centuries/ before x-rays were discovered. How would they know bone structure without [alien advanced tech]” I kinda laughed and threw away his books. Still, he grifted a good living so props.
by abetusk | 2026-01-12 16:22:54+00:00
Yes.

I have stated, explicitly, at the beginning, that the person opening the doors knows where the prize is, will only open doors without a prize and that the prize doesn't change positions.

This is demonstrated by the fact that when we actually play the game, I write the door number down on a piece of paper before the game starts.

This supposed ambiguity is touted as the key to why the puzzle is so difficult but, in my experience, it makes absolutely no difference.
by space_ghost | 2026-01-12 16:23:01+00:00
This [0] is pretty close. IBM made a version of the Model M with Trackpoint but those are rare. Lenovo also sells [1] a keyboard that's basically a Thinkpad keyboard with trackpoint in a separate chassis.

[0] https://tex.com.tw/products/shinobi
[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CS1FVF2
by peteey | 2026-01-12 16:23:02+00:00
Generally agreed. Though, Daniel Tiger and Paw Patrol should be judged differently. Paw Patrol is mindless and addictive.

If you desperately need a distraction, PBS shows are less bad. A few moments of pacification may be worth not disturbing the other airline travelers.

Daniel Tiger may be helpful to parents too. Interacting with children is not intuitive. Techniques from PBS shows have helped me. For example, singing to kids about trying food is move effective than a well reasoned monologue.
by BirAdam | 2026-01-12 16:23:08+00:00
I am not an Apple Card user, so that mention meant little to me.

I am, however, a user of many of their other services. In particular, I really love iCloud's email aliases and such. Great added benefit. My only real complaint with Apple is having ads in News+. If I am paying, take out the ads please.

Edit: AdGuard DNS profiles are amazing for removing ads from apps, but seriously, I shouldn't need to do that when paying for a "premium" experience.
by IOT_Apprentice | 2026-01-12 16:23:14+00:00
It appears to be lack of competence given they lied about the initial features of Apple Intelligence.

First, they touted features that no one actually built and then fired their AI figurehead “leader” who had no coherent execution plan—also, there appears to have been territorial squabbling going on, about who would build what.

How on earth did Apple Senior Management allow this to unravel? Too much focus on Services, yet ignoring their absolute failures with Siri and the bullshit that was Apple Intelligence, when AI spending is in the trillions?
by toast0 | 2026-01-12 16:23:18+00:00
The spec for wp8 was a lot higher than wp7. There was a bit change from WinCE kernel to WinNT kernel, etc. Without much confidence, I think wp8 was dual core or higher and wp7 was single core... and maybe there was a ram upgrade too.

All that said, WP8 did a lot better than WM10, where the WP8 phones were promised to be upgradable, and then the promise was walked back for low mem phones, and the experience was poor for qualifying phones anyway.

The final build of WM10 was actually ok on my Lumia 640; but that was way after everything was canceled and mobile Edge (this was the first non Chrome Edge) was still less usable than mobile IE, even though the renderer was better.

The really poor rollout of wm10, plus the tradition of forcing developers to make split builds to support multiple versions of windows phone/mobile made things pretty bad at the end. Calling the build for WM10 only 'universal' was icing on the cake. Android has all sorts of problems, but you can have a single APK that works on lots of versions, with some amount of new features get pushed to old OS with libraries and some new features have to be detected at runtime and use alternate flows. On the other hand, Microsoft kept making new features require using new foundation libraries that were unavailable on old phones. WinCE -> WP7 -> WP8 -> WP8.1 -> WM10 was too many step changes and developers bailed at each one.

Also, they managed to make upgrade from wp8 to wm10 break installed apps sometimes. That wasn't great.

#notbitter
by ljm | 2026-01-12 16:23:41+00:00
I updated to iPadOS 26 on my iPad Pro, opened Safari, and tried to log into a website. For some reason the full-screen keyboard didn't load, all I could get was a miniature thing that floated on the left part of the screen (like the two-handed layout but with the full keyboard in one half, like typing on an iPhone 5s).

The memes about Steve Jobs turning in his grave are true. He would not have stood for slop like this for even a moment. Apple's quality game was miles higher back in the day.

Even if they tried to do some kind of Snow Leopard maintenance release for all of their products, I don't think they could raise the bar on quality high enough in just a single release. They'd have to do it a few times with nothing new to show for it.

This speaks nothing of the transition to MacOS looking more and more like a dysfunctional toy since Jony Ive left and Alan Dye took over.

Tiger and Snow Leopard were the peak.
by pypt | 2026-01-12 16:23:41+00:00
I'm working on https://aero.zip, a file transfer service designed to handle massive workflows (like raw video or huge project directories) directly in the browser without the usual speed caps or browser crashes.

The goal was to build something as fast as a native app but with the convenience of a web link. Some of the technical bits:

* Instant Streaming: Recipients can start downloading a file the moment the first chunk leaves the sender's computer. No waiting for the full upload to finish.

* Bespoke Chunking Protocol: To handle "unlimited" file counts (tested into the millions), we group small files into larger chunks and split massive files down, so many small files and a few large files can get transferred at similar speeds.

* Auto-Resume: Both uploads and downloads automatically resume from the exact byte where they left off, even if you switch networks or close/reopen your laptop.

* E2EE via Web Crypto API: Everything is AES-GCM-256 encrypted. The secret key stays in the URL fragment (after the #), so it never gets sent to our servers.

* Zero-Knowledge Auth: We use the OPAQUE protocol for logins, meaning we can authenticate users and store their encrypted Data Encryption Keys (DEKs) without ever seeing their password or having the ability to decrypt their files.

* Passkey + PRF: We support the WebAuthn PRF extension. If your passkey supports it (like iCloud Keychain or YubiKeys), you can decrypt your account's metadata without the password.

* On-the-fly Zipping: When a recipient selects multiple files, the browser decrypts and zips them locally in real-time as they stream from our server.

* Performance: Optimized to saturate gigabit connections (up to 250 MB/s) by maintaining persistent streams and minimizing protocol overhead.

Everything is hosted in Germany (EU) for GDPR compliance. I'd love to hear any feedback on the streaming architecture or the OPAQUE implementation!
by Fazebooking | 2026-01-12 16:23:41+00:00
"Global investment in clean energy and fossil fuels" shows a decline in fossil.

And there are plenty of good reasons why the investment in fossil fuels is still there because these investments can easily be not because its is still competitive, but its still competitive because base costs have been written off.

Aka the replacment of that coal power plant might have been 'competitve' because the whole infrastructure around it is still there and usable, because they might just replace the main burning chamber. Because for current stability reasons its easier to add gas turbines or keep them alive as backup because the renewable energy build out takes more time.

Nonetheless, the overall statistics says that renewable + batteries are now the cheapest energy source on the planet. Locally it might not be doesn't change the fact.

And no we do not need nuclear for baseload. Wind and solar are capable of baseload.

Alone my 4 year old EV has a batterie of 100kWh which would allow a heat pump to heat a house for 2.5 days.

Also countries in the north like Canada has plenty of waterenergy for baseload and countries closer to the aquator have extreme amount of sun.

Earthenergy can be still used in the most northern countries.
by Workaccount2 | 2026-01-12 16:24:30+00:00
If nothing else, this was likely driven by Google being the most stable of the AI labs. Gemini is objectively a good model (whether it's #1 or #5 in ranking aside) so Apple can confidently deliver a good (enough) product. Also for Apple, they know their provider has ridiculously deep pockets, a good understanding and infrastructure in place for large enterprises, and a fairly diversified revenue stream.

Going with Anthropic or OpenAI, despite on the surface having that clean Apple smell and feel, carries a lot of risk Apple's part. Both companies are far underwater, liable to take risks, and liable to drown if they even fall a bit behind.
by mrweasel | 2026-01-12 16:24:37+00:00
It's not just the TV, it's the weird take that tuners are bad, apparently. I helped my mother-in-laws friend, a lady in her 60s, getting her TV working after a move. The local cable providers don't care to offer their coax solution anymore, you need their box. To be fair, the box is nice enough, but it's way more complicated than simply hooking up the tuner.

Modern Samsung TV are also awful, there's no longer a source button on the remote, so you have to use their terrible UI to navigate to the bottom of the screen, guess which input you want, which takes 10 - 15 seconds. If you can find it in their horribly busy UI.
by forgotpwd16 | 2026-01-12 16:24:42+00:00
They're are certainly going to be lots of languages because now with LLMs it's easier (trivial?) to make one + library (case in point: just within last month there're have been posted here ~20 new langs with codebases 20k~100k LOC) but don't really see them competing. Rust and Zig brought actual improvements and are basically replacing usecases that C++/C had limiting the space available to others.
by vel0city | 2026-01-12 16:25:01+00:00
Some people really get the idea of only handling it around the edges. Lots of other people just handle them however they want and have no problems touching the media anywhere. Especially kids, which often don't have the cleanest hands at any given moment.

Lots of kids will handle them however they want. They'll pick them up with greasy, sticky hands right on the media section. They won't necessarily care about ensuring they're properly in the drive tray. They'll jam all kinds of things into the drive slots. They'll drop them on the floor and step on them, toss them in a toy box when told to clean their room, etc.

Obviously not all kids will be this way, but many will.
Ask HN: How do you automate your release notes?
by dustfinger | 2026-01-12 16:25:11+00:00
How are you generating release notes in your projects?

I just had to backfill a year of docs release notes for an OSS repo. I ended up writing a small release tag driven generator: it walks git tags, collects merged PRs between releases, buckets them into categories, and renders Markdown/MDX grouped by year -> month -> category -> version. I also added an optional LLM step that outputs structured JSON via Pydantic schema for PR bullets that includes monthly summaries. It is idempotent and preserves manual edits or omissions, so you can auto-generate, then curate over time.

I’m curious what works for you in practice:

- Towncrier?

- reno?

- GitHub Releases / auto-generated notes?

- something else?

What do you like/hate about your current setup? Any tools you’d recommend?

If anyone wants to see the script I wrote, I am happy to share it and would love some constructive feedback.
by plastic-enjoyer | 2026-01-12 16:25:24+00:00
I don't doubt this, however, the question is if AI will do this in our life-time. The industrialization has led to prosperity in the long term, but initially it led primarily to the proletarianization of the people. Are you willing to accept a devaluation of your skills and a decline in your prosperity so that in 50 to 100 years there is a chance that AI will lead to a better future?
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-01-12 16:25:34+00:00
It would be useful if you had some documentation (or maybe you do?) as to how you are integrating scribe with Claude Code etc (same for Gemini CLI, or different?), and what your work flow looks like if necessary. Do you have something like scribe.md so that Claude Code is automatically invoking scribe when appropriate, or are you invoking scribe manually?

Has anyone tried scribe for larger scale projects, and green field development?
by fadedlight | 2026-01-12 16:25:35+00:00
1X has released a new update for their NEO humanoid, shifting from traditional hard-coded simulators to a data-driven "World Model." It uses internet-scale video data fine-tuned on robot interactions to allow the robot to "hallucinate" the outcome of its actions before performing them. This approach aims to solve the evaluation problem in robotics: how to test a general-purpose AI across thousands of novel tasks without needing a manual digital twin for every scenario.

You can read more about it on their website: https://www.1x.tech/discover/world-model-self-learning
by gpt5 | 2026-01-12 16:25:43+00:00
Your comment completely doesn't understand how hard it can be to be on a sustained diet.

The funny thing is that ever since starting to take GLP-1, I've kind of gain empathy to the "just stop eating so much" crowd. When you are on GLP-1, you lose a lot of the feeling towards food, so it's easier to understand how a person who has never had the same level of urges and difficulty would feel.

FWIW, there is no research on "natural" diet that shows sustained long term meaningful weight loss. And even the most controlled and extreme short term diets of people in controlled living spaces with prepared food shows 17% weight reduction at the state of the art. While GLP-1 medication reach 20%+ on average without any lifestyle change. It's just not comparable.
by zobzu | 2026-01-12 16:26:24+00:00
it really doesnt have to be golf though lol. its all just excuses. i worked minimum wage (actual minimum mind you, no tips, nothing) for about 7 years and i didn't get obese, must be magic.

my hobbies included waking and running around, making stuff on an old laptop (I kept that one!), reading, making planes out of whatever material i could get my hands on that sort of stuff. i ate pasta, eggs, rice, water, tomatos. i never cared about eating the same thing everyday (i still don't but ive learned to eat a little better).

theres plenty more hobbies, obviously none of these being forbidden in the USA lol. and most make more money than I did, not to mention have food stamps and the like.
Show HN: Subtle – Local, open-source analytics for Claude Code sessions
by itsderek23 | 2026-01-12 16:26:33+00:00
I’m used to having good observability for systems and workflows, but now that I generally start development with Claude Code vs my IDE, I lost a layer of visibility into how my code is produced.

Subtle (https://github.com/itsderek23/subtle) is a free, open-source app for analyzing Claude Code logs that runs entirely on your local machine. It lets you:

* See overall Claude Code usage over time (broken down by AI vs tool time)
* Count Claude-assisted Git commits over time
* Visualize individual sessions with a trace showing how time is spent
* Filter sessions by message text
* View session transcripts

I don’t yet know what “good” Claude Code usage looks like ... fewer interventions? Smaller commits and PRs? Lower code churn within a session? Would love your thoughts.
by Tade0 | 2026-01-12 16:26:53+00:00
I don't believe that this is going to be the case simply because it's more expensive.

Sure, Apple can and will do it, but hardly anyone has an iPhone in, say, India or is willing to shell out this much for a phone.

This business model will be largely restricted to developed countries where Apple has an established presence. Other companies either can't or are unwilling to go in Apple's footsteps.
by 6510 | 2026-01-12 16:27:20+00:00
I think the tech is advanced enough to recognize a user by their choice of words. Not to downplay the problem but currently a new user might start out with a few comments on the poor side then talk into the shadow realm indefinitely. In my not very humble opinion the asshole level of the poor comments can easily be lower than the asshole level of the response.

I wrote a fun solution one time where the document comes with a token that needs to mature for a duration depending on the user. Then, when your [say] 30 seconds are expired the input area is displayed but the submit button only appears if you input enough characters - where enough again depends on the user. If you are likely to make low effort postings I want at least 500 or 1000 characters worth of low effort. In even worse cases ill also hold the comment for moderation - until I get to it. (which might be a long time)
by rootusrootus | 2026-01-12 16:27:23+00:00
> FWIW tirzepatide is the more expensive of the GLP1s right now.

That's not surprising, it is the most effective -- for now. On the gray market, reta is even more expensive than tirz, and also more effective. I expect it will be the most expensive at retail, as well, and I hope that the net effect is to make tirz more affordable.
by Fazebooking | 2026-01-12 16:27:34+00:00
Wind appears to be similiar than nuclear.

Nuclear has a few other major flaws: Uranium aka nuclear weapons risk, Dependency on uranium (yes china finally solved the Thorium issue but that happened this year?), geopolitical/terrorism risks (see ukraine).

And because i'm from germany: do you know that in bavaria, you still have to check certain meat for radioactivity?
by al_borland | 2026-01-12 16:27:38+00:00
I’m using an AppleTV HD with Peacock and it’s pretty bad. I wouldn’t consider NBC a niche service. After an episode ends, I need to wait for the new one to start to be sure it marks the last one as watched. When going back to the main screen, it can take upwards of 30 seconds, maybe more (it feels like an eternity), for the “watch next” to update. If I don’t wait for it to update, it will start playing an old episode the next time I try to launch it. This lag also persists over app switching. So if I stop watching a show, switch to something else for a while, then go back to Peacock and quickly go into the series I was watching, it will play old stuff.

Even switching between 2 series in my currently watching list can take an exceedingly long time. Sometimes I try to switch back and forth to force and update and it feels like I’m back on 56K.

The Apple TV HD is old, technically legacy, but still supports tvOS 26. I have an Apple TV 4K in the house as well, which I’ve been meaning to migrate to, to see if it’s any better. But the HD works fine for pretty much everything else. Peacock as a service seems to have an extreme amount of lag.
by ilamont | 2026-01-12 16:27:43+00:00
The shopping app I have used in my area for the past 7 or 8 years shows the number of "deals" in each category. This week there are 36 deals in "Cookies, Snacks & Candy" (up from 20-25 from winters past) and 19 in "Frozen Food" which is also higher than years past.

The big processed food brands are clearly more aggressive in their discounts. Lower demand overall from GLP1s or common sense is part of it. But the other factor relates to the huge increases in prices starting during the pandemic.

I mean, 13 ounce bag of Doritos for $7.29? A box of freaking Cheerios for $5.99? Few people will touch that, so they're in a situation where they must discount heavily to move product. These particular products are on sale 2-3 weeks every month at $2.29 to $2.99 (see https://www.starmarket.com/weeklyad)