MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by niwtsol | 2026-01-13 15:24:09+00:00
It is so wild to me the idea of large enterprises that rely on the big "old" databases (db2, IMS, vsam) - on one hand, I think "there must be a whole devops crew that supports these on-prem systems that are super old and unique" and the other hand is "they must be pretty reliable for the task at hand and no one wants to touch the migration project to update." Which makes me think these are still in use at the biggest and oldest enterprises( banks, government entities). Would love to hear any anecdotes from folks who work on those today.
by positron26 | 2026-01-13 15:24:31+00:00
> trying to legislate good use into licenses

Text files don't have power. Appealing to old power institutions to give them power is not the way to create new power either. Legacy systems with entrenched power have tended to insulate those at the top, killing social mobility and enabling those institutions to act against broad interests.

Open source has always been a force of social mobility. You could learn from reading high quality code. Anyone could provide service for a program. You could start a company not bound by bad decision makers who held the keys.

Open source always outmaneuvers inefficiency. Those who need to organize are not beholden to legacy systems. We need technically enabled solutions to organize and create effective decision making. The designs must preserve social mobility within to avoid becoming what they seek to replace. I'm building the technically enabled solutions for at https://positron.solutions
by cthalupa | 2026-01-13 15:24:32+00:00
Bhasin's study is fundamentally flawed in that it sampled muscle size while they would still have inflated muscle size from increased glycogen and water retention from the steroid use and didn't use a method of measurement that compensates for it. It is not a direct comparison of contractile tissue, which is presumably what we would care about.

Belgian Blues grow that large because of a mutation with their myostatin gene. This is hardly the same method of action.
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-13 15:25:13+00:00
Breton? Maybe I have the wrong one, it sounds (nyet nerodnaya?) chastushka to me:

А дела теперь пошли любо-мило,
Сколько сразу к нам земли привалило,

o.O (more cynical than triumphant?)

"D'Artagnan"'s appreciation of mammaries is a good shoutout to their Goldmundian namesakes; Aramis, who was doing a thesis (Narcissistic?) to become a cleric (on Augustine VIII.7/17?), was known for his cavalier chivalry.

mammaries...
light the corners of my mind...
by daveaiello | 2026-01-13 15:25:18+00:00
As someone who lives in the Bucks County, Pennsylvania that Stu Faigen calls home, I say that half of the county, which is about 325,000 people, should agree but will disagree because of how strident his politics generally are in favor of politicians and causes from one side of the aisle.

I say "his politics" but I mean his and those of the other contributors and staff of the Bucks County Beacon. It is a who's who of radical-left Bucks County politics.

You can't look at the decline in journalism in our country without looking at how one-sided the coverage provided by the journalists has been for the last 40 or 50 years.

If journalists had taken a neutral political position and called out wrong doing equally, they'd have at least 2x the paying subscriber base now.

Who knows how that would have affected the secular decline to this point?
by snarf21 | 2026-01-13 15:25:24+00:00
That is quite interesting to me as someone who is suffering from CIRS (chronic inflammation from toxic mold exposure). The prevailing wisdom in CIRS circles is that an ideal diet is nothing but unprocessed fresh grass fed beef and berries and greens. From what I've read, tallow doesn't oxidize as quickly as other oils and it has almost no linoleic acid (omega 6) which can create eicosanoids and crowd out omega 3s.
by Someone | 2026-01-13 15:25:50+00:00
> Pixelmator being the only 3rd party software because Apple never made a competitor to Photoshop

Pixelmator isn’t third party. https://www.pixelmator.com/blog/2024/11/01/a-new-home-for-pi...:

“November 1, 2024

A new home for Pixelmator

Today we have some important news to share: the Pixelmator Team plans to join Apple”

That deal completed almost a year ago.
by sighook | 2026-01-13 15:25:52+00:00
System State

============

* Kernel: 6.18.3

* Toolchain: GCC 14.3.0 · glibc 2.40 · binutils 2.44

* Xorg Server: 21.1.21

* Mesa: 25.3.3

* Drivers: amdgpu 25.0.0 · ati 22.0.0 · intel 2.99.917-923 · nouveau 1.0.18 · vesa 2.6.0

Highlights

==========

* New domain and redesigned website

* Distro tooling man pages migrated to scdoc

* Logging standardized via logrotate

* Cron tasks unified under run-parts / run-one

* New utility packages: logrotate, run-parts, run-one, popt

Links

=====

* Website: https://zeppe-lin.org

* Handbook: https://zeppe-lin.org/handbook.html

* Release notes: https://zeppe-lin.org/v1.2.html

* GitHub: https://github.com/zeppe-lin
by EGreg | 2026-01-13 15:26:06+00:00
I never understood why the journalism industry didn't go the way of wikipedia.

Britannica was the shining example of capitalism, being sold door to door. Encarta was done by Microsoft. Both got disrupted real quick by a million people making little edits to an open encyclopedia. An open-source gift economy with many contributors seems to beat capitalistic systems. Linux. Wordpress. MySQL. In general, science / wikipedia / open source projects also feature peer review before publishing, a desirable trait.

Everyone has a cellphone. It's not like we need professional cameras to capture things. What we really need is a place to post clips and discuss them in a way that features peer review. It would be better and strictly healthier than the current for-profit large corporations like Meta or X. That's one of the projects I'm building using our technology. Anyone interested, email me (email in my profile)

Compare:

1. https://www.laweekly.com/restoring-healthy-communities/

2. https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortu...
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-01-13 15:26:13+00:00
It's a collective action problem: it can't be solved by individuals like this. All you'll achieve is complicity in wage theft. A viable approach might be to prefer doing business with companies who promise their workers a good wage, but this requires that your local businesses actually make that commitment. To get that, you'll have to go outside the abstraction of the market, and actually talk to decisionmakers within the businesses. (This is sometimes called "activism".)
by jvanderbot | 2026-01-13 15:26:17+00:00
I think of the "tough warrior philosopher" messaging as the installation medium for this hack. All hacks need an attractive bait/installer.

Once the hack sets in, you start reading more b/c you identify partially as "philosopher", and you start to see more of the genuine, peaceful, forgiving side, like in Meditations. The "we are all flawed men" kind of thing.
Show HN: Qonvo –Group chat that visualizes conversations as a graph in real-time
by alphatesterguy | 2026-01-13 15:26:39+00:00
I built a group chat where every message becomes a node and replies create edges. The conversation turns into an interactive graph as you talk.

The idea came from losing track of discussions in group chats. Threads help, but I wanted to see the whole conversation structure at once - who's replying to whom, which topics are connected via hashtags, etc.

How it works:
- Send a message → it's a node
- Reply to someone → edge connects them
- Use #tags → lighter edges connect related messages across threads

No accounts, rooms auto-delete after 3 hours. There's a demo room you can try without creating anything.

Would love feedback on the UX – specifically whether the graph actually helps or just adds noise.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-01-13 15:26:44+00:00
You’ve never worked at BigCorp have you? At Amazon, part of the initial indoctrination when I was hired there was competitive messaging when talking to clients (I worked in ProServe) and what you were never allowed to say. I remember we could never say we had a “moat”.

I’m sure there is approved marketing copy.
Show HN: Add custom icons to macOS Finder sidebar favorites
by ivg-design | 2026-01-13 15:26:48+00:00
I built this because I wanted custom icons for my project folders in Finder's sidebar. macOS supports this via FinderSync extensions, but each icon requires its own app bundle.

SidebarFavorites Manager automates this - pick a folder, choose an SF Symbol (or import a custom SVG), and it generates the icon app for you.

- macOS 13.0+
- Uses native CFBundleSymbolName
- No daemon needed - icons persist after closing the manager
- MIT licensed

Demo video in the README. Happy to answer questions about FinderSync quirks.
by aspenmartin | 2026-01-13 15:27:03+00:00
I think this is the right take. In some narrow but constantly broadening contexts, agents give you a huge productivity edge. But to leverage that you need to be skilled enough to steer, design the initial prompt, understand the impact of what you produce, etc. I don't see agents in their current and medium term inception as being a replacement of engineering work, I see it as a great reshuffling of engineering work.

In some business contexts, the impact of more engineering labor on output gets capped at some point. Meaning once agent quality reaches a certain point, the output increase is going to be minimal with further improvements. There, labor is not the bottleneck.

In other business contexts, labor is the bottleneck. For instance it's the bottleneck for you as an individual: what kind of revenue could you make if you had a large team of highly skilled senior SWEs that operate for pennies on the dollar?

Labor will shift to where the ROI is highest is what I think you'll see.

To be fair, I can imagine a world where we eventually fully replace the "driver" of the agent in that it is good enough to fulfill the role of a ~staff engineer that can ingest very high level business context, strategy, politics and generate a high level system design that can then be executed by one or more agents (or one or more other SWEs using agents). I don't (at this point) see some fundamental rule of physics / economics that prevents this, but this seems much further ahead from where we are now.
by mock-possum | 2026-01-13 15:27:03+00:00
I think that’s the wrong takeaway - the point is that when it’s happening to someone else, it’s easier to see the ‘right’ attitude to take regarding misfortune.

Of course it’s awful to have your child die, but also it’s fairly commonly understood, that it can’t be the end of your life as well, you take the time you need to grieve, and then you go on living. “So it goes.”

The point with the cup is the same: it’s easier to council patience and forgiveness when your lap isn’t soaked with wine, when shards of your cup don’t litter the floor.

It’s demonstrating a route to removing yourself from the emotion of the present situation, to examine things rationally, dispassionately, like you would if they were happening to someone else, because it’s easier to see the right thing to do that way.
by ActorNightly | 2026-01-13 15:27:11+00:00
Man, its like everyone is blind to the current state of things.

Here is the truth:

* Everyone with above sentiment always votes for anyone libertarian, which is necessarily conservative, and all conservatives are pretty much liars.

* These same conservatives that champion against government overreach, for law and order, and for personal freedoms do the exact opposite once they get into office. Nor do they give a shit about the law.

So yea, the whole libertarian ideology is pretty much dead. Its pretty obvious that the best course of action is to sacrifice personal freedoms and elect a government that can keep a tight rein over the populace and keep things like Nazi ideology from spreading.
Show HN: DynamicScreen – Free dynamic screen tool for streaming and focus
by nio5787 | 2026-01-13 15:27:15+00:00
Hi HN,

I built DynamicScreen, a free web-based tool for generating dynamic screen colors and lighting effects. No signup or download required.

What it does:
- Creates dynamic color backgrounds for live streaming
- Provides ambient lighting for work/focus sessions
- Generates relaxation/mood lighting effects

5 core modes:
• Hard Cut – instant color switching for parties and beats
• Fade – smooth color transitions for relaxation
• Flash – high-frequency strobe effects
• Breathing – gentle brightness cycles for meditation/sleep
• Solid Color – static ambient lighting with filters

15 preset lighting effects:
- Time-based: Day/night cycle, dusk, dawn
- Seasonal: Spring, summer, autumn, winter themes
- Holiday: Christmas, Halloween, New Year
- Nature: Ocean waves, forest breeze, sunset glow
- Mood: Deep focus, total relaxation

Features:
- 60 preset colors + custom color picker
- Adjustable speed, frequency, and brightness
- Works offline after first load
- 25 languages supported
- Fullscreen mode with floating controls

Demo: https://dynamicscreen.online

Would love feedback from the HN community – especially on what features or effects would be most useful for your use cases.
by vile_wretch | 2026-01-13 15:27:34+00:00
$129/year is surely better than $300 once, 15 years ago. Though I'm guessing not offering it for free is to keep it distinct from iMovie and to maintain some semblance of "Pro"-ness (which I'm gathering is up for debate either way.. the last time I did any actual video editing it was on Final Cut Pro 5 so I'm out of the loop)
by Atomic_Torrfisk | 2026-01-13 15:27:34+00:00
I disagree. I limit the screen time of my kids to 20 min per day. I only allow them also to view certain content that is not too stimulating, just educational stuff. The kids do want to talk about the stuff they see and play out what they see afterwards. I see it as positive. Unlimited youtube kids, with weird slop content, absolutely harmful.
by widdershins | 2026-01-13 15:27:41+00:00
Fine, but also how to explain the crazy claims flying around the internet that London is a warzone and a no-go area? I live here and... seriously, nothing has changed. I feel perfectly safe and always have.

Yeah sure, there's some phone theft, it's not great. This phone theft wave is just a symptom of everyone carrying £500 devices around. Big cities have always had theft, pickpocket and snatching crimes. But it's nothing astonishingly new or different. I know one person who had their phone snatched, never seen it happen myself.

So how to explain this massive wave of social media posts making out that London's unsafe? There is definitely a narrative being pushed, whether by Russian bots or not, I cannot say.
Show HN: One RSS Feed for the Most Popular HN Bloggers (2025 Rankings)
by 7777777phil | 2026-01-13 15:27:48+00:00
Built this RSS aggregator based on the 2025 HN Popularity Contest rankings by Refactoring English [1]. If there's interest in other slices (top 10, top 200, etc.), happy to add them.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46478377
by red-iron-pine | 2026-01-13 15:28:06+00:00
> Once they've gotten enough real engagement that the algorithm thinks they're real people, they can pivot to something entirely unrelated to the political controversy they pushed. Change name, change style, suddenly the victim follows an account they don't remember but gives interesting advice on crypto investments.

bingo.

you need a trail of real-looking accounts. not just for posting, too, but also to link to, or retweet, or like, etc., in ways that get algorithms to put stuff on the top of a feed.

there may be only one actual account pushing the marketing or propaganda, but you need 5k more to upvote or share -- and those accounts can be just random AI slop or reposts of something. take the top replies of a popular post and shorten it, then post it a day or two later. or repost the most popular generic post of last month, etc.
by alephnerd | 2026-01-13 15:28:08+00:00
Because people have bills to pay.

The most dedicated Wikipedians in specific domains often tend to be academics in that space and whose day jobs tend to be adjacent to the niche they edit.

It's difficult to find the equivalent for local government, because the most knowledge are already active, in the loop, and in the same circles so social ostracism is a real risk that they might be viewed as airing dirty laundry.

The number of people in a Chamber of Commerce, PTA, City Council, School Board, Rotary Club, local Library Foundation, Church Board, Teachers Union leadership, City Workers Union leadership, Police Union leadership, and a couple family offices may number in the 50-100 range, so no one is anonymous.

And finally, most local news groups are now owned by the 3rd generation of that family, and most of them have either already or are in the process of getting out of the local news business.

The reality is, if you want to make an impact in your local community (especially politically) you will have to build local relationships and become extremely active in existing cliques - playing golf at the private golf club, attending church or temple, becoming a member of the rotary club, contributing to library foundation fundraisers, become a junior member of the Chamber of Commerce, etc.

Finally, your pitch is the exact same one NextDoor used when they were in Seed and Series A. Look at how that turned out.
by Nursie | 2026-01-13 15:28:17+00:00
> 20 years ago if you had told someone … you might get your messages and emails scanned in case you send something that the government deems suspicious to someone else, people would have laughed at you.

20 years ago we already knew the US government was watching everything.

You haven’t been paying attention.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
by prawn | 2026-01-13 15:28:27+00:00
Prostate cancer. 68yo.

From Wikipedia:

"In November 2025, he said his health was suddenly declining rapidly again, and took to social media to ask President Trump for help to get access to the cancer drug Pluvicto. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. replied saying "How do I reach you? The President wants to help." The following month he said he was paralyzed below the waist and had been undergoing radiation therapy."

"On January 1, 2026, Adams said on his podcast that he had talked with his radiologist and that it was "all bad news." He said there was no chance he would get feeling back in his legs and that he also had ongoing heart failure. He told viewers they should prepare themselves "that January will probably be a month of transition, one way or another." On January 12, Adams' first ex-wife, Shelly Miles, told TMZ that Adams was in hospice at his home in Northern California."
by piltdownman | 2026-01-13 15:28:49+00:00
Which is even more bizarre given appointing someone as divisive and pig-ignorant as Priti Patel the Home Secretary would have the tabloids crucifying a Labour PM. Johnson and his after-dinner speeches about the Mayor from Jaws forgave a lot of blunders during C19.

https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2021/0526/12239...

Remember also that when Sunak stepped down, Priti was put forward for leader. If she had played off her Zionist aspirations just a few years later she'd be right in the current newscycle re proscribed organisations and 'domestic terrorism' charges in the UK, and possibly in the running for the big chair.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priti_Patel#Meetings_with_Isra...
by AnnaMarieRerun | 2026-01-13 15:29:08+00:00
Rerun is building the data platform for Physical AI, robotics, autonomous systems, AR/VR, and other embodied ML systems. We help engineers log, query, and visualize large, multimodal datasets so they can actually understand what their systems are doing.
We started with an open-source Rust visualizer (built with egui, Apache 2.0 / MIT) that’s now used by teams working on real robotics and ML systems.
We’re now building out the deeper Rust infrastructure underneath it: data models, storage, indexing, querying, and SDKs.
Most of our core platform and performance-critical code is Rust.

Here’s more on what we do: https://rerun.io/docs/getting-started/what-is-rerun

This month we’re hiring for:

- Rust Backend Engineers
- Dataframe SDK Engineers
- Full-stack Engineer - Customer Portal
- Robotics ML Engineer

Check all roles and apply here: https://rerun.io/careers
by dkoy | 2026-01-13 15:29:19+00:00
Briefly checked out the repo and demo, looks neat!

Bookmarked to keep a tab on for future reference.

I noticed that SQLAlchemy (an ORM) is part of the stack, and that “Postgres support” is in the roadmap. For people coming from Supabase and the like which is Postgres-first, some upfront clarification around which database is already supported, would be helpful.
by DefineOutside | 2026-01-13 15:29:25+00:00
There was a promo from Straight Talk wireless, that a bunch of users on slickdeals used, for a $360 iphone 16e (+1 month service) with the intention of buying and unlocking to be used on another carrier. The FCC guidelines were explicit about being 60 days after activation without indication of fraud, with no mention of active service.

After the first few initial customers put in tickets to unlock their phones after 60 days passed, Straight Talk changed their policy from 60 days since activation to 60 days of active service, breaking the FCC guidelines knowing that no one would sue them in a federal court over a small amount. They forced users to buy a second month of service to unlock the phone. One user even successfully won in small claims court for breach of contract since Straight Talk refused to activate their phone, since you can't just change the contract after the sale is complete. You sadly can't sue for breaching FCC policies in small claims, that requires hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of lawyers. I put in a FCC complaint over this, but the FCC more or less ignored it.

Verizon is just doing this as a pretext. It's a continuation of them ignoring this policy after users were buying cheap phones to use on other carriers and waiting 60 days. It just looks better to claim you are defeating criminals.
by AlienRobot | 2026-01-13 15:29:37+00:00
Honestly, I don't like how webp and now jpegxl support both a lossless and lossy mode.

Let's say you want to store images lossless. This means you won't tolerate loss of data. Which means you don't want to risk it by using a codec that will compress the image lossy if you forget to enable a setting.

With PNG there is no way to accidentally make it lossy, which feels a lot safer for cases you want lossless compression.
by wewxjfq | 2026-01-13 15:30:01+00:00
I think Russia did, successfully for quite some time, attempt to direct anger towards the countries supporting Ukraine. Russia would drop a bomb on Ukraine and 90% of the comment section would hate the West for it. The goal was to fuel defeatism and infighting. The latter they encouraged from the start. Reading Reddit, you would have thought Germany had attacked Ukraine from the western flank. In the days and weeks before every major pending Ukraine decision in the US, you could see a noticeable uptick of Russian-friendly talking points. Before the US election, a suspicious amount of Redditors claimed that Trump would give Ukraine more weapons than Biden. These days, they are encouraging the Europe is weak rhetoric. If a toy drone gets spotted somewhere, the only acceptable response is nuking Moscow and EU should disband if they don't dare - that inane take to me is also trolling.
by jgrahamc | 2026-01-13 15:30:11+00:00
Sadly, Scott Adams' political opinions came to overshadow Dilbert, but I shall choose to remember him as Dilbert's creator and how Dilbert captured a moment in time and work so aptly.

Back when Dilbert was massive my company ran the following ad in cinemas in Silicon Valley: https://imgur.com/a/ZPVJau8 Everyone seeing that ad knew what we were referring to.