MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by spoiler | 2026-01-07 19:35:21+00:00
> and nobody knows what is going on there.

For what its worth, I had the same experience with Tailwind. I regularly see classes that don't have an meaningful outcome.

I don't think the problem is Tailwind or CSS (well, I guess Tailwind is CSS with extra steps but you get the idea) syntax (or any of the CSS preprocessors), but the fact that styling in browsers has accumulated a lot of cruft, and people who haven't "grown up" with it over the years don't fully understand it (I am more competent than most with it and there's still times I screw up).

One thing that's kinda nice about Tailwind is that it made copy-pasting components easier. So people can get something decent without fully understanding what's happening
by 4ggr0 | 2026-01-07 19:35:40+00:00
> rpm-ostree is a PITA

yup...at first i thought, "at work i have to manage rpm-ostree servers, so why not use the same tech at home?", well, because the tech is freaking buggy, annoying and deprecated already (imagemode/bootc).

Bazzite also had strange issues with the XBOX controllers i use, those issues went away with CachyOS. in the end it doesn't matter that much, on both i use(d) KDE Plasma. GF also uses the PC with her own useraccount to play her games. overall very satisfied, can't complain.

don't lynch me, decided to go for the pretty standard instead of Sway or Hyprland, as i feared that this would bring more issues with gaming. maybe that's an irrational fear, who knows.
by array_key_first | 2026-01-07 19:36:05+00:00
The thing is basically nobody eats enough fiber, so that's one big ticket optimization you can make. And the trouble with "eat less carbs" is that people take that and run with it, and cut out fruits and veggies, which is not going to help them.

I agree people should eat less carbs in general, but we need to be careful. Ultimately, replacing kale or something with bacon, which is basically tobacco in meat form, isn't going to improve their health. Eat less carbs, eat more protein, but eat the right protein, and the right carbs.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2026-01-07 19:36:11+00:00
I dunno man, like Ireland was incredibly poor even in my lifetime and I'm in my 40s. The changes from 1997 to 2007 were absurdly large and the changes from 1987 to 1997 were similarly large (but I was younger so less exposed).

That being said, I come from a pretty long line of culchies so maybe that's it ;)
by tracker1 | 2026-01-07 19:36:12+00:00
The most significant physical experiment on the issue seems to suggest otherwise. Beyond this, "Kaplan Meier graphs showed no mortality benefit for the intervention group in the full randomized cohort or for any prespecified subgroup."

Reducing saturated fat can reduce serum cholesterol... that doesn't mean improved all cause mortality or coronary events.

https://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i1246
by zahlman | 2026-01-07 19:36:50+00:00
The gamification was in large part misaligned with the site's objectives. It's a shame Atwood and Spolsky didn't realize the problems and didn't explicitly solicit and incorporate feedback about it basically ever. (Not that random user proposals were ever especially good, but.)

At Codidact we're trying to build systems that hand out privileges based on actions taken that are relevant to the privilege. There's still a reputation system but the per-user numbers are relatively de-emphasized. And posts are by default sorted by Wilson score, with separate up/down counts visible to everyone by default, so that downvotes on an upvoted post (and vice-versa) have meaningful effect and "bad" voting can be more easily corrected. There's also a system of "reactions" for posts so that people willing to put their username behind it can explicitly mark an answer as outdated or dangerous.
by viraptor | 2026-01-07 19:36:57+00:00
> The Venezuelan VP is now in charge and the government is largely intact. It's hard to see how this affects any meaningful change in the country.

It's a threat - "Do as we say or you're next." Which the US was pretty public and explicit about. They don't need anyone on site for that. It's not like they actually care what happens beyond the resources use.
by jjk166 | 2026-01-07 19:36:59+00:00
The o-ring was still the weak link, a small part that decision makers assumed was insignificant whose failure caused the complete destruction of a massive system and tragic deaths. The organizational failures are just why the weak link wasn't addressed. We can say with hindsight that things should have been better communicated and the warnings should have been heeded, but the fact is they were dealing with a complex system where the risk was sufficiently non-obvious that they could disregard the warnings.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2026-01-07 19:37:21+00:00
I dunno...

I've seen so many right-wingers self-own themselves when asking Grok to either debunk a left-supporting article or back up a right-supporting one. I've seen people refer to Grok as Elon's Little Nazi Bot, but aside from that one afternoon where it referred to itself as "Mecha-Hitler", that label is far from the truth. Grok tends to actually be pretty factual.
by qnleigh | 2026-01-07 19:37:29+00:00
I think you're misunderstanding my point. If you can crank out a custom app this quickly, you don't make a commercial app and then try to sell it on an app store. Customers pay you to make apps for their specific usecase. One app, one customer. And if a week later they want some new features, they pay you (or another freelancer) to add it.

Put another way, we programmers have the luxury of being able to write custom scripts and apps for ourselves. Now that these things are getting way cheaper to build, there should be a growing market that makes them available to more people.
by nerdjon | 2026-01-07 19:37:47+00:00
I am also trying to think of what else could actually be fueling this, since it sounds very... not republican. Quite literally the opposite.

Like you said that also assumes it actually happens and isn't another incoherent ramble that is conveniently forgotten about or claimed he never said.

I mean if its legit I will cheer it on... but I remain skeptical.
by soulofmischief | 2026-01-07 19:37:50+00:00
Nothing in my comment addressed outlawing meat. It's especially absurd to think that any sane person, vegan or not, would want to prevent someone from eating meat if a medical condition limits their options.

What you're doing is projecting an insecurity you have that vegans want to outlaw meat onto my comment, and I'm not even a vegan. This creates a straw man, and now we are off-topic, discussing something I never proposed.

> I'm even fine with improving quality of life for farmed animals

That's gracious of you.

> I draw a hard, firm line at outlawing meat.

Can we get back on topic now?
by usefulposter | 2026-01-07 19:37:54+00:00
>purpose-built encryption and isolation

Repeated 2x without explanation. Good start.

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>You can further strengthen access controls by enabling multi-factor authentication

Pushing 2fac on users doesn't remove the need for details on the above.

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>to enable access to trusted U.S. healthcare providers, we partner with b.well

>wellness apps—like Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal

Okay...?

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>health conversations protected and compartmentalized

Yet OAI share those conversations with enabled apps, along with "relevant information from memories" and your "IP address, device/browser type, language/region settings, and approximate location"? (per help.openai.com)
by jajuuka | 2026-01-07 19:38:13+00:00
>Where are the Gamepass games with Arm ?

https://www.theverge.com/news/758828/microsoft-windows-on-ar...

>Microsoft if they wanted to fund it right could get popular 3rd party software ported.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/your-win...

These devkits are old and have already been released to consumer laptops over a year ago. So if you want to you can pick up pretty much any CoPilot+ PC. I'm not sure what your problem here is though.
by mattkrause | 2026-01-07 19:38:36+00:00
Speech can certainly be an action.

"I'm running now" doesn't make you jog if you're sitting down, but it certainly kicks off a campaign if you were considering elected office.

JL Austin called these sort of statements "performative utterances" and there's a lot of linguistic debate about them. Nevertheless, "I declare war", uttered by someone with the power to do so, is pretty unambiguously an example of one.
by maxkfranz | 2026-01-07 19:38:36+00:00
For those interested in learning more about meditation related to muscle tension (as in the author's article), body scans [1] and progressive muscle relaxation [2] are often-used techniques.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness#Watching_the_breat...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_muscle_relaxation
by motbus3 | 2026-01-07 19:38:40+00:00
Same where I work for 30% on some regions and for those where they put money only saw a minimum increase.

I honestly think the company is run by some good folks that are really trying to do some positive impact.
They refuse so all sorts of bs ad-tracking gray area stuff, yet, people don't give a dime.

We caught over and over anthropic and others using shade tactics to bypass bot protection. They get the content, plagiarise it and contribute absolute nothing back.
For weeks, openai was crawling our resources on DDOS levels of traffic.

F them. They just are just stealing and making businesses fail. This will be a catastrophe for many but yet, people think there is no relation.
by JoshTriplett | 2026-01-07 19:39:05+00:00
One additional important detail: if this gets implemented at all, hopefully it does not affect the common practice of having a self-owned LLC owning your home. This is common for the purposes of keeping your personal name out of public records; it is far too easy to link someone's name and address, and people at risk of doxing can do this to protect themselves.
by cyberax | 2026-01-07 19:39:10+00:00
It might help in the long term, as it can force cities to stop densifying. And as we all know by now, densification is the leading cause of unaffordability. The US has more houses than households, but people are forced by economic forces to move into denser and denser areas.

But short-term it'll hurt availability. One of the most common ways to enshittify cities is buying an SFH, demolishing it, and plopping a 3-4 apartment complex in its place.
by EA-3167 | 2026-01-07 19:39:16+00:00
What baffles me is why people still take it all seriously, we've had well over a decade to examine his patterns of behavior and the takeaway is that fully 99.999% of his utterances are worthless. In the rare case that his promises are turned into some shambling semblance of reality there's always plenty of warning; in the case of VZ and Maduro you had significant troop movements for months for example.

Unfortunately by treating his every utterance as requiring attention he gets what he wants, the media gets clicks, bloggers get clicks, and people get to use it as part of an eternal argument over "what comes next".

People here at least should be more adept at recognizing and responding to patterns.
by array_key_first | 2026-01-07 19:39:28+00:00
We are very confident that high saturated fat causes metabolic disorders, and we're more confident that unprocessed red meat causes cancer than we are there aspartame causes cancer. Which is really saying something, because it seems like in the zeitgeist everyone just thinks diet coke is cancer juice.

Point is, health is complicated, and replacing kale and spinach with cheeseburgers and milkshakes is a bad deal. Ultimately I think most people eat PLENTY of meat. But they certainly don't eat plenty of high-fiber foods like vegetables.
by vjerancrnjak | 2026-01-07 19:39:39+00:00
No, LLMs like NextJS style injection as much as anyone.

There is nothing magical about topological sort and calling constructors in the right order, which is all DI is.

I dislike it a lot, it is exactly like any other construct that allows you to throw code at anything in a way that sucks (Haskell lens, optics, monad transformers).

It allows people to granularize the whole codebase to the point where you can’t do much about it. For most, they should just stick with functions, no one can build 100 levels deep function callstacks without it being cumbersome, but DI makes it a breeze.
by shadowgovt | 2026-01-07 19:39:57+00:00
It also doesn't mean he can actually do it. There's no obvious mechanism by which this can be enforced without a law from Congress, and it's not entirely clear such a law would be Constitutional (they'd have to base it in the right of the federal government to regulate interstate commerce if they're going to base it in anything, which presupposes an interstate market for shelter, and there's a reasonable argument to be made that maybe that's not a thing; housing is a local concern, and home prices in Topeka don't impact me, a buyer in Boston, if I want to live in Boston).
by steveklabnik | 2026-01-07 19:40:09+00:00
I'd believe it, but from talking about this with the Ferrocene folks, there's just structural issues why it was much easier to qualify rustc than it has been to qualify C compilers. This is how they're able to offer the product at a significantly lower price point, and how they've been able to fairly regularly re-qualify new versions quickly.

It is certainly non-trivial.
by anonymars | 2026-01-07 19:40:16+00:00
> also hurts many families borrowing power and net worth

This is part of the crux, isn't it? It's a backbone of families' wealth and positioned as an investment. So there seems to be no winning: either choke off the young trying to buy or crack the nest egg of the old

See also: Bitcoin and the like (wild value fluctuations are the hallmark of a good currency)

Related article of interest: https://archinect.com/news/article/150496266/is-this-swiss-h...
by ebbi | 2026-01-07 19:40:16+00:00
Sure. The exact seller I purchased from doesn't have the product, but in AliExpress if you search...

"For iMac A1419 A2115 5K LCD Screen Driver Board LM270QQ1 LM270QQ2 Retinal Control Motherboard 5120*2880 QQHD HDMI DP Type-c"

...it will come up with what I have used in the last few conversions.

Though I have seen Quinn Nelson (Snazzy Labs on YouTube) released a video recently that shows his process which is a bit more involved, but better. Apparently his method is better to remove risks of power surges from the controller board (I haven't experienced it yet...!), but his method also retains the speakers, and relocates the I/O inputs to be more accessible.
by theshrike79 | 2026-01-07 19:40:37+00:00
> I am curious where your confidence that this is true, is coming from?

We have a legal binding contract with Anthropic. Checked and vetted by our laywers, who are annoying because they actually READ the contracts and won't let us use services with suspicious clauses in them - unless we can make amendments.

If they're found to be in breach of said contract (which is what every paid user of Claude signs), Anthropic is going to be the target of SO FUCKING MANY lawsuits even the infinite money hack of AI won't save them.
by swores | 2026-01-07 19:41:02+00:00
Are LLMs too expensive, or not reliable enough at not making mistakes, or just something you haven't considered?

It's not something I generally need to do, so I haven't been keeping up with how good LLMs are at this sort of conversion, but seeing your question I was curious so I took a couple of examples from https://www.json.org/example.html and gave them to the default model in the ChatGPT app (GPT 5.2 - at least that's the default for my ChatGPT Plus account) and it seemed to get each of them right on the first attempt.
by chankstein38 | 2026-01-07 19:41:36+00:00
Tangent, I was searching for 3mm spherical magnets last night and literally every retailer's search is total garbage and delivered any kind of magnet you can imagine while occasionally sprinkling in things that were vaguely related to "3mm spherical magnets"

I don't understand how it's useful to anyone, even the companies. I just leave without buying things so why would their searches not just search for the specific thing that I ask for?
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-01-07 19:41:36+00:00
I'm sure plenty of it boils down to matter of priorities (I feel the same way about breakfast burritos as you do about NYC style pizza), but I'd rank cities on my "diverse selection of quality restaurants, weighted for rarely walking into a bad restaurant" scale with LA, NYC, Istanbul, and Edmonton in order at the "I do not need to look up restaurants, I will walk into the next restaurant I see and be pleased" tier.
by iyn | 2026-01-07 19:41:42+00:00
Thanks, I'll reach out!

Re AIQ, I've actually built a couple of devices myself (using different sensors, plantower being the most popular one, but I've played with sensiron and others as well) but I've mostly focused on the PM monitoring.

The sockets that have strange "smell" are actually on the (inside) wall that is the building boundary (i.e. not a wall with a neighbour — these sockets don't "smell"). Still, it's a bit shocking to me that this could happen. Do you know how the humidity "got" onto your wall? How were you able to find out? I'm pretty early in my mini "investigation".
by Supermancho | 2026-01-07 19:42:07+00:00
The US didn't kill all Iraqis, so it was just a "limited" military action or "raid" also? The intent was a nation removing the head of another nation to cede control of the nation to the invading nation. If you kill 1 or 100,000, it's still an invasion.

If a nation assassinates a leader, then leave the country to their own devices (which may include a more friendly replacement), I could see the ground on this logic. NEITHER of these events (killing nor elected replacement) has happened. The US has asserted control.
Show HN: Basic AI agent that auto-generates B2B sales follow-ups
by sneurgaonkar | 2026-01-07 19:42:31+00:00
I built this to solve a problem we kept hitting: deals would go quiet, and by the time we noticed, the context for a good follow-up was scattered across HubSpot, Slack conversations, and old call transcripts.
The agent runs daily and:

* Pulls stale deals from HubSpot (configurable pipeline stages)

* Researches each prospect by aggregating context from multiple sources: HubSpot contact/deal/account data, internal Slack discussions about the prospect, Fireflies call transcripts, and recent company news via web search

* Uses Claude to generate personalized follow-up emails that reference specific pain points or initiatives mentioned in past conversations

* Delivers a daily HTML digest for review before sending

It’s essentially giving your sales team a research assistant that remembers every interaction and can craft contextual outreach at scale.

Tech stack: Python, HubSpot API, Slack MCP, Fireflies API, Claude API. Setup takes about 10-15 minutes if you have the accounts already connected.

GitHub: https://github.com/sneurgaonkar/sales-followup-agent

I’m actively working on this and would love to hear what features would make it more useful for your workflow. What other data sources would be valuable? Different notification methods? Integration with other CRMs?

Happy to answer questions about the implementation or help anyone get it running.
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-01-07 19:42:32+00:00
I have to disagree about the author's described purpose of programming languages. PLs exist to provide elegant expression to a curated subset of ways of expressing solutions to problems.

At the extremes, we call these paradigms. Functional languages, Object Oriented languages, Array languages, etc. But every language exists to make some subset of "shapes" of solutions easier to read and write. Elixir encourages you to describe your programs as a distributed system of programs each running a series of transformations to data, thanks to its pipeline system, and to push your branching to function-call level with its pattern-matching multiple dispatch.

Java encourages you to write your application as a collection of things, that know stuff and do stuff, including telling other things to do stuff based on things they know.

C and Go encourage you to write your programs as an ordered series of atomic tasks for the computer to complete.

SQL has you describe what you want your output to look like.

Etc, etc. There are inherent trade offs between languages, because what you make inelegant to express or even inexpressible carries value, too.
by legitster | 2026-01-07 19:42:34+00:00
Investor owned housing is a bit of a sensationalist scapegoat. Publicly traded companies account for a tiny, tiny fraction of available single family homes in the US. And so long as the tax code doesn't change, it strongly favors private/individual homeowners, and corporations only account for the margins where housing appreciates so fast or rental incomes are disproportionate to asset values.

This is an easy thing for Trump to promise (after all, little family-owned real-estate developer operations like his would never be affected). But who owns the homes is not going to change the problem that Americans have underdeveloped housing supply by over a million homes.
by lxgr | 2026-01-07 19:43:01+00:00
> the popular conception of insider trading as a problem of fairness to other traders on financial markets is misapprehended

Well, it's the legal theory underpinning insider trading laws in much (all?) of the EU.

And the US might have a different legal theory underpinning their regulations, but practically, it largely amounts to the same effect, so under POSIWID, it's questionable whether the difference matters much.

> no, it's not at all true that the only rational actors on financial markets are insiders.

Then a non-insider-trading prediction market should be possible and at least somewhat useful too, no? You'd essentially create incentives to do thorough research and analysis of public information and publish the results.

Whether it's practically possible to enforce is a different question.
by notahacker | 2026-01-07 19:43:36+00:00
If the US planned to invade rather than raid Venezuela, I don't think the inability to capture a single forward operating site clandestinely would lead to the entire operation being called off. If they didn't, the alleged beachhead is moot. They had boots on the ground when capturing Maduro too.

What's more likely: the US "desperately" stumbled upon a capture of Maduro at almost zero cost to them after their real plan to seize Venezuelan territory went awry due to heroic Venezuelan defending as the parent implies, or that the intention was to capture and remove Maduro without invading and this was what they did, regardless of whether a few peripheral targets got missed?