MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by piva00 | 2026-01-08 14:28:53+00:00
Same, migrated away from GMail about 5 years ago, had the same account since around 2004 when it was still invite-only. I got scared after a friend's experience getting their Google account locked after setting up AdSense for a side project.

Chose Fastmail over Proton just due to the convenience of search, I appreciate that Proton is more privacy conscious with the full encryption but I can only manage my emails if I can search them, I'm not well organised but can remember the right keywords to find anything in the tens of thousands emails I have from all these years.
by lionkor | 2026-01-08 14:29:00+00:00
All the Americans here arguing why this is a good thing, how your system is so flawed, etc. remember that this will be accessible to people in countries with good, free healthcare.

This is going to be the alternative to going to a doctor that is 10 minutes by car away, that is entirely and completely free, and who knows me, my history, and has a couple degrees. People are going to choose asking ChatGPT instead of their local doctor who is not only cheaper(!!!) but also actually educated.

People saying that this is good because the US system specifically is so messed up and useless are missing that the US makes up ~5% of the world's population, yet you think that a medical tool made for the issues of 5% of the population will be AMAZING and LIFE SAVING for the other 95%, more than harmful? Get a grip.

Not to mention shitty doctors, which exist everywhere, likely using this instead of their own brains. Great work guys.

I suspect the rationale at OpenAI at the moment is "If we don't do it, someone else will!", which I last heard in an interview with someone who produces and sells fentanyl.
by spockz | 2026-01-08 14:29:09+00:00
Basically almost anything electronic? Camera’s, microphones, wireless microphones, battery packs, etc.? Plethora of kids toys all made in china. Most of them are crappy throway, so whether they are really cheaper than the quality toys you can play with for longer…

Then, I noticed that some frozen salmon in our supermarket was mega cheap at €9/kg, as opposed to the more standard €14-16/kg, and the country of origin???? China.
Show HN: Input password by twist your MacBook's lid
by huang4fun | 2026-01-08 14:29:21+00:00
1. The Flappy Game
What it is: A Flappy Bird clone.
The Twist: You control the bird by physically flapping your laptop screen.
Ideal Use Case: Asserting dominance in quiet libraries.
2. Universal Key Simulator ⌨
Power User Mode: Map your lid angle to ANY key.
Examples:
Map to Space -> Play Chrome Dino game physically.
Map to W -> Walk forward in Minecraft by oscillating your screen.
Map to Cmd+S -> Save your work with a slam.
3. Lid Password (007 Mode)
Security through Obscurity: Unlock your Mac with a secret "Lid Handshake".
Trigger: Rapidly Open/Close your lid 3 times (configurable).
Result: It types your password faster than you can explain why you're doing it.
Note: Now featuring "Ghost Input" protection (we exorcised the bugs).
by 15155 | 2026-01-08 14:29:42+00:00
> they make no money from cash buys because of that economic perversion.

This is completely false. This might be surprising to learn, but for normal car dealerships (not buy-here, pay-here or used car dealerships) a huge amount of their compensation rides on receiving holdback payments from manufacturers, as well as per-unit bonuses that often have cliffs.

Cash buyers paying invoice price are welcomed (if they aren't too big of a headache) because they push a dealership over or at least closer to the next sales-volume bonus cliff.

Holdback alone is worth more than any realistic origination fee.
by deepvibrations | 2026-01-08 14:29:56+00:00
Definitely possible - I used to get 100g easily. Simple example would be some granola (with lots of nuts/seeds) with soya milk for breakfast, big tofu scramble for lunch, poki bowl with lots of veg, edamame and tempeh for dinner.
You could probably just do this with big portions to get to 130 tbh.
by api | 2026-01-08 14:30:04+00:00
It's the largest reason by a gigantic margin. Economies of scale are exponential in manufacturing. Things get exponentially cheaper as you make more of them.

CRTs got cheap too (relatively speaking), but the scale was smaller back then. The bulkiness and high power requirements of CRTs limited their use to a narrower set of applications, and the overall global economy was smaller. They never saw this scale.

Today the number of TVs plus commercial displays plus phones plus laptops plus gaming consoles plus cars plus consumer appliances with screens is just gigantic, and they all use flat panel displays. While there are different variations on flat panels there are ultimately only a few core technologies and there's a lot of overlap in how the fabrication process works for all of them. They are all delicate sandwiches of micro-electronics and light-modifying layers and various exotic materials that block, reflect, or emit light.
Show HN: MirrorMate – A self-hosted AI smart mirror with local LLMs
by orangekame3 | 2026-01-08 14:30:35+00:00
Hi HN,
I built MirrorMate, a self-hosted AI smart mirror that runs entirely on your own hardware.

It connects to a local LLM (Ollama), supports speech (STT/TTS), embeddings, and simple memory via RAG.
The goal is to have a persistent, always-on personal assistant without sending data to the cloud.

It’s still experimental, but usable today on a Raspberry Pi or a small home server.

A short demo video is available in the README.

GitHub: https://github.com/orangekame3/mirrormate

Feedback welcome.
by dijit | 2026-01-08 14:30:42+00:00
probably not far off it, and to be honest, that's actually better than 99% of spam filtering that exists.

I think it's more likely a "confidence" between 0-1, and then you can customise what is an acceptable threshold per account. Business accounts needing confidence 0.7 and free accounts needing confidence 0.6.

That's how I'd think about it at least. Boolean is slightly too lossy.
by gck1 | 2026-01-08 14:30:51+00:00
You can make PINs as complex as you want, there's only a maximum length limitation of 20 characters. There's no difference between passwords and PINs in Windows except that Windows calls it a PIN if it's used with TPM. And yes, it does nudge you in the direction of making it simple because "TPM guarantees security", but you don't have to.
by rendx | 2026-01-08 14:30:56+00:00
Who or what defines what is "too much" of any ingredient? Isn't that a scoring system too?

European NutriScore "assigns products a rating letter from A (best) to E (worst), with associated colors from green to red. High content of fruits and vegetables, fibers, protein and healthy oils (rapeseed, walnut and olive oils) per 100 g of food product promote a preferable score, while high content of energy, sugar, saturated fatty acids, and sodium per 100 g promote a detrimental score." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutri-Score
by rvnx | 2026-01-08 14:31:15+00:00
Though you have to be careful if you do it for privacy reasons, because it is hands right in the honey.

When you own such providers, you are easily pressured by the police or intelligence service.

Refuse to comply, and they will investigate your other businesses.

Accept, and investigators are way more chill when dealing with you, because they see you as an ally.

It's illusion that owners in Lithuania (or as they say, "Switzerland") would refuse to collaborate, lose everything they have, and accept to go to jail for you to protect one person storing pictures of kids, or someone planning a terrorist attack.

Though now with this Gemini scanning all the emails, Google can now reliably flag content at scale "to protect children / fight terrorists / flag illegal content".

Before, they had to do broad keyword match and this ancient picture database matching.
by mvkel | 2026-01-08 14:31:25+00:00
One thing I think it's still always valid to complain about is when your time is stolen. It's precious, and you can never get it back. If the unpaid experience slows you down unnecessarily, I think it's okay to be frustrated.

The truly infuriating experiences are like cable tv, where the paid experience is terrible, too.

Google does know how to do the paid version well. YouTube Premium is a great example. Massive music library and no ads, ever. It's astounding how much better the experience is.
by chaps | 2026-01-08 14:31:40+00:00
I program without syntax highlighting. Comes from a combination of learning shell scripts within vi (not vim) and the bloatedness of syntax highlighting and autocomplete nonsense. Coding without it all is a nice way to ensure that everything can be encapsulated within your brain. Leads to different abstractions and such. It's fun and I highly recommend it.

Also, the comments in here are really strangely negative. Let people have their preferences, weirdos.

Also also: so much of syntax highlighting and such is designed by people without color blindness. So a lot of syntax highlighting just doesn't work for me. It's wild to me that color blind people still have to be vocal about it.
by kcplate | 2026-01-08 14:32:11+00:00
Because the administration’s rhetoric doesn’t matter to the legality surrounding this shooting. Those are just words from politicians. Just like the governors, the mayors, city council…etc… Its just noise.

Also, the motivation of the woman who was killed doesn’t really matter either (unless it’s somehow proven that she was there in a protest capacity). All of the commentary on here about who she was, what she might have been doing there, and the actions she took or didn’t take are just noise too.

The ONLY thing that matters to the legality of this killing is whether that officer reasonably felt that he and others were in harms way from the actual actions of that driver (regardless of motivation) and whether or not he followed his training protocols for this type of situation. That’s the signal.

I am not trolling. What I am trying to do here is get people focused on the signal, not the noise. To look at this without the emotion and through the eyes of someone who will be evaluating this incident from what the legal perspectives are and how they will be applied.
Ask HN: Feeling irrelevant in back end. How to pivot to automotive software?
by culopatin | 2026-01-08 14:32:22+00:00
I have a decade of mixed experience: 10+ years in IT, 2 years on a professional motorsports team (Tony Kart, Ducati, Miata), and 4 years in software (refactoring old .NET to Spring Boot/Angular and some greenfield projects). I self-taught my way into dev and finished a CS degree while working.

I’m currently at a {big_slow_corp} and feeling the AI squeeze trying to switch jobs. My exp is not public facing so the “experience building scalable apps to disrupt the market” requirement I think is my weakness. I’ve also realized my heart isn’t in web frameworks. I’m the guy bored on a plane talking to his gf about flap software, throttle response, and suspension geometry like a kid showing a toy to his mom.

I want to move "closer to the metal", ECUs, controlling machinery, I’d love ML applied to machinery, even infotainments!, but my professional resume is strictly high-level. My tinkering experience includes building MegaSquirts and using ESP32s for signal filtering and logic, data loggers and wiring things you’d find in a race car, but I currently lack a project car to demonstrate new work.

How can I bridge the gap from Java/Angular to automotive software?

Does a decade of IT and 4 in backend experience carry weight in the "Software Defined Vehicle" world, or am I starting at zero?

What "proof of work" can I build to wow recruiters at places like Toyota Research or Tesla (any brand with US presence really) without a physical car to hack on?

I'm ready to pivot to where my passion actually is. Any advice is appreciated.
by grimgrin | 2026-01-08 14:32:25+00:00
i was gonna post this 15 hours ago but was sure someone would

warning, this ranking will put the horny muds up top: https://mudstats.com/Browse

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my MUD history goes: in '98 i got into realms of despair, played for years. another mud phase is awarded to trenton for his dbzfe/ff1 muds, both having tilesets if you preferred the pueblo mud client. dbzfe was unique in its real time combat, dodging left a right punch, or parrying it high, or ducking. all timing-based, high adrenaline moments for me

but, the past ~7 years or so, i just log into discworld. i made a very ugly site for it, not mobile friendly. https://badteeth.neocities.org/ not even eyeball friendly

seems i like throwing up pages for _things_. i briefly played a finnish mud: https://icesus.neocities.org/
by 63stack | 2026-01-08 14:32:34+00:00
>The first thing one thinks when going from highlighted to unhighlighted code might be «This code is just a grey mash of symbols». Though, this sensation quickly fades as one gets engaged in the code. This “getting in to the groove”-part of the programming session is remarkably short, and afterwards code is more readable than English.

>If the code is neatly organised, the «grey mash» quickly crystalises into a beautiful little universe of logically connected parts; each standing by it self, on its own line or in its own scope, but referencing each other in clear and beautiful ways

Delusions packaged as deep insights.
by hackeraccount | 2026-01-08 14:32:49+00:00
I don't have time to read the article but did they do a control? I would be interested - and this speaks to my prior beliefs - about the life expectancy of people who tried to become famous.

In other words something like compare the life expectancy of people who don't play the lottery vs. people who win and then add in people who play as much as the winners but never win.
by ogogmad | 2026-01-08 14:32:53+00:00
Is there a proven and guaranteed way to do this? Because otherwise it sounds very idealistic, almost like "if everything were somehow better, then things would be less bad". Doctor time will always be scarce. It sounds like it delays helping people in the here and now in order to solve some very complicated system-wide problem.

LLMs might make doctors cheaper (and reduce their pay) by lowering demand for them. The law of supply and demand then implies that care will be cheaper. Do we not want cheaper care? Similarly, LLMs reduce the backlog, so patients who do need to see a doctor can be seen faster, and they don't need as many visits.

LLMs can also break the stranglehold of medical schools: It's easier to become an auto-didact using an LLM since an LLM can act like a personal tutor, by answering questions about the medical field directly.

LLMs might be one of the most important technologies in medicine.
by avar | 2026-01-08 14:33:24+00:00
> The one thing I'll want is what we'll never
> get which is just making it easier to delete
> e-mails in bulk.

This already "exists", go to a label, tick the top checkbox above all the rows, then "Select all 5,192 conversations in 'ThisLabel'", then "Delete".

"Exists" in scare quotes because their own interface is absolutely atrocious for doing this, as on e.g. a label with ~50k messages (I was mass-deleting some large mailing lists recently) there's maybe a 5-10% change the operation will eventually finish, and not just leave it at ~45k or whatever.

But you can do this by setting up a local IMAP client and doing mass-deletes that way. Perhaps the easiest on e.g. *nix systems is to use isync (the "mbsync" command) to "sync" between two folders locally and remotely, with a rule saying "anything deleted locally, delete it on the remote too".

Then just sync between an empty local folder and your remote target folder, and it'll slowly grind through it. You can also use a local GUI E-Mail client, but most of those become slow/unresponsive with a mass-delete operation, whereas you can spin up multiple "mbsync" commands with retries.

Beware that GMail has (or did, last I tried this) some sort of per-account I/O limit or similar, so if you're doing background operations like this you might find the web interface (even on an unrelated computer/network connection) becomes slow or unresponsive.
by andy99 | 2026-01-08 14:33:50+00:00
My highlight are

During his own Google interview, Jeff Dean was asked the implications if P=NP were true. He said "P = 0 or N = 1." Then, before the interviewer had even finished laughing, Jeff examined Google's public certificate and wrote the private key on the whiteboard.

Jeff Dean wrote an O(n^2) algorithm once. It was for the Traveling Salesman Problem

I read it more as a parody of The Most Interesting Man in the World as opposed to Chuck Norris.
by devilbunny | 2026-01-08 14:34:02+00:00
Which works, but is priced very high - and not just for the fact that the seller can't monetize ads. Digital signage displays are designed for much higher duty cycles than a home TV, for display in areas where ambient brightness is much higher on average. You're paying for the tech that you want, but you're also paying for a lot of tech that you don't want or need.
by x187463 | 2026-01-08 14:34:35+00:00
A nice feature of the Apple Card is the very fast processing of transactions. I can pay for something and have it show up as pending and clear within a day. Whereas my bank credit card will leave transactions pending for an average of five days. The fast clearing is not a huge deal, but it's nice as it pairs well with a daily YNAB routine.

The actual rewards are pretty average, but that's okay. I don't really get the elitism I'm seeing in the comments from people who act like you're an idiot for not juggling a half-dozen cards with varying annual fees and rotating bonus points categories. For people who don't travel, rent cars, dine out, etc. the Apple card is a fine everyday card given the number of places that qualify for 2%. In the end, for people making the average US salary, +/-1% in limited categories is not worth the administrative overhead and credit impact of managing a bunch of cards.

I personally enjoy some of the min-maxing involved in managing cards/finances, but I wouldn't go as far as to call somebody 'financially illiterate', as one commenter did, for using the physical apple card and receiving 1% back on the rare occasion contactless payment doesn't work somewhere.
by conductr | 2026-01-08 14:34:41+00:00
I’m speaking mostly from memory of it when it occurred in the US , was Covid era housing market 2020-2021 is when prices surged the most and was when they had a marked increase in their activity. Again, it seems small overall but they were the cash offer 50k over ask that everyone trying to buy a house was competing with. It doesn’t take much to move a market this size as it’s relatively low inventory and volume. It’s like how a whale could transact move bitcoin price so easily because so much of it is illiquid. It’s gotten more difficult as the price is much higher, but still possible. Also, prices tend to correct faster in that market than they would in housing market.

Googles AI overview of my search for “ covid era corporate home purchases”, also plenty of substantiating references in those search results;

> Corporate home purchases surged during the COVID-19 pandemic, driven by factors like low mortgage rates and increased demand for single-family homes. While this trend has plateaued since the peak, investor activity remains above pre-pandemic levels and has sparked significant public debate and legislative action.

A tidbit from an article indicates they doubled their prior investment activity. Probably more than double because investors bought homes increased and their share of that metric doubled.

> Prior to the pandemic, mega investors averaged about 7% of overall investor purchases and their share increased to 14% during the pandemic — it has now slowed
by IAmBroom | 2026-01-08 14:34:44+00:00
Fascinating repy:

> I often have very strong knee-jerk reactions to these kind of comments.

OK, YOU have an overwhelmingly emotional reaction to these comments. That is not a very successful path to understanding anything.

> It's usually from some person that has not spent very much time meditating at all or invested much time around the various cultures which treasure and pride themselves in their meditative practices. It usually goes something like:

> "[Some kind of reasoning], therefore, there is no need to meditate."

I do not see anyone arguing anything remotely like this. Perhaps your "knee-jerk reactions" are distorting what people are saying.
by smeej | 2026-01-08 14:34:51+00:00
> Insurance companies completely dictate what she can and can't do, and frequently she is unable to do more in-depth, best-practice analysis because insurance won't pay for it.

The distinction between "can't do" and "can't get paid for" seems to get lost a lot with medical providers. I'm not saying this is necessarily what's happening with your wife, but I've had it happen to me where someone says, "I can't do this test. Your insurance won't pay for it," and then I ask what it costs and it's a few hundred or a couple thousand dollars and I say, "That's OK. I'll just pay for the test myself," and something short-circuits and they still can't understand that they can do it.

The most egregious example was a prescription I needed that my insurance wouldn't approve. It was $49 without insurance. But the pharmacy wouldn't sell it to me even though my doctor had prescribed it because they couldn't figure out how to take my money directly when I did have insurance.

I get that when insurance doesn't cover something, most patients won't opt to pay for it anyway, but it feels like we need more reminders on both the patient and the provider side that this doesn't mean it can't be done.
by TZubiri | 2026-01-08 14:35:23+00:00
>Tyson foods and other meatpacking companies lobbied and funded RFK.

So? They are fighting fire with fire.

Or should sugar,casino and tobacco industries have all the lobbying

Also this doesn't surpass the minimal threshold for being shocked anymore, there's more critical shit going on, I can't be here being outraged at checks notes meat companies pushing that meat is healthy
Show HN: GhostMark – A bookmark manager that uses GitHub Gists as its database
by abishekvenkat | 2026-01-08 14:35:34+00:00
I wanted a dead-simple cross-device bookmark manager without setting up a real database.

GhostMark uses a "secret" GitHub Gist as the backend - free, no infrastructure, and surprisingly fast. The whole thing is a single 200-line serverless function on Vercel.

Features:
- PWA that works offline and installs to home screen
- CLI for terminal users (ghostmark -l <url>)
- iOS Scriptable integration for quick saves from Share Sheet
- No dependencies (native fetch only)

Total stack: 1 JS file + 1 JSON gist.

Feedback welcome! - especially from anyone who's used Gist for unconventional storage before.
by mothballed | 2026-01-08 14:35:34+00:00
Lon Horiuchi was charged with sniping an innocent woman holding a baby but I'll admit he wasn't convicted.

So it's totally possible the murderer gets locked up for a few years while facing trial and then released. Which would be at least a couple years sentence since murder trials take 1-2 years to prepare and you get basically no compensation for time spent imprisoned awaiting trial.