MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JoseOSAF | 2026-01-11 01:56:17+00:00
Yeah fair point on the medical MLLM stuff. FDA and modular approaches have never been best friends. That's actually why I'm most curious to see how it plays out - the ArXiv activity around safety grafting has been picking up but whether regulators actually buy it vs demanding full retraining... we'll see.
The OpenAI platformization one I'll admit feels safer. Curious though - do you think the window's already closing or is there still runway for the picks and shovels players?
by grogenaut | 2026-01-11 01:58:38+00:00
Agreed. AMD just works for me on linux. My problem is that I am addicted to 6+ monitors and top end gpus... nvidia just seems to hate linux for top end setups. Which is sad, windows just handles my dumb 5060+5090 setup easily. Gaming on linux has gotten way better, but I still can't gigure out how to get some games working. So I'm stuck between using linux + sway / i3 which I looooove... and not being able to get the value out of my $6k gaming rig. Sadly this is a tale that's been going on for 20 years for me.
by lightedman | 2026-01-11 01:58:50+00:00
UCR is where you want to go if you're going for Geology or Ag/Hort, you aren't really trying to go there for SWE or EE, it isn't exactly known for those sorts of programs.

Source: I live right next to their citrus and asparagus test fields and often visit their geology building to use their XRD and XRF systems.
by muzani | 2026-01-11 01:59:06+00:00
I stopped reading it at that point. I'm not against AI-written articles; I even think it's a little rude to accuse. But I agree.

I think we do develop "antibodies" against this kind of thing, like listicles, clickbait, and random links that rickroll you. It's the same reason the article isn't titled, "5 examples of ASCII-Driven Development. You'll never guess #2!"

Every article is a little mentor, and the thing with mentors and teachers is you have to trust them blindly, suspend disbelief, etc. But the AI voice also triggers the part of the brain designed to spot scams.
by tonyhart7 | 2026-01-11 02:01:21+00:00
"Poor countries have actually less impact on our planet than wealthy ones."

in the near future, richer countries would wage war againt "poor" country to take their water source

this is what gonna happen, not if but when

with the ever growing technology achievement and billions more people to come and desire to consume finite resources, what do you think gonna happen ????
by plst | 2026-01-11 02:01:51+00:00
Assuming the owner gave the shop the pin. If so, the shop can already steal a lot of data from the phone. Why bother with persistent malware at this point?

You already have to trust the repair shop with your data. Installing persistent malware on phones is already illegal. What's the point of this extra software protection in this case? To prevent a 0.00001% chance hack? The type of hack that would put the repair men in jail?

Not to even mention that modern phones are basically unfixable.
by skeptic_ai | 2026-01-11 02:03:42+00:00
You can’t even have dynamic
Classes: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/detecting-classes-in-source-fil...

> <div class="text-{{ error ? 'red' : 'green' }}-600"></div>

—-
I find it really crazy that they think would be good idea. I wonder how many false positive css stuff is being added given their “trying to match classes”. So if you use random strings like bg-… will add some css. I think it’s ridiculous, but tells that people that use this can’t be very serious about it and won’t work in large projects.

——
> Using multi-cursor editing
When duplication is localized to a group of elements in a single file, the easiest way to deal with it is to use multi-cursor editing to quickly select and edit the class list for each element at once

Instead of using a var and reusing, you just use multi cursors. Bad suggestions again.

—-

> If you need to reuse some styles across multiple files, the best strategy is to create a component

But on benefits says

> Your code is more portable — since both the structure and styling live in the same place, you can easily copy and paste entire chunks of UI around, even between different projects.

—-

> Making changes feels safer — adding or removing a utility class to an element only ever affects that element, so you never have to worry about accidentally breaking something another page that's using the same CSS.

CSS in js fixed this long time ago.

—-

<div class="mx-auto flex max-w-sm items-center gap-x-4 rounded-xl bg-white p-6 shadow-lg outline outline-black/5 dark:bg-slate-800 dark:shadow-none dark:-outline-offset-1 dark:outline-white/10">
<img class="size-12 shrink-0" src="/img/logo.svg" alt="ChitChat Logo" />
<div>
<div class="text-xl font-medium text-black dark:text-white">ChitChat</div>
<p class="text-gray-500 dark:text-gray-400">You have a new message!</p>
</div>
</div>

So many classes you need to learn to use it.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-01-11 02:04:53+00:00
Services that PE has ruined in my city by rent-seeking:

- Veterinary services
- Dental services
- Optometry services
- Urgent care services

I go out of my (sometimes significantly) to go to non-PE owned companies and services, and the experience is so much better it's like experiencing an entirely different quality of life. My 2¢ is that a decent chunk of the "dissolution of the social contract" in the US is due to the way that people are treated when they interact with these soulless entities.
by Neywiny | 2026-01-11 02:05:22+00:00
Thank you. I think each of my options are pretty trivial in C. I guess what I'm not understanding for #3 is if size is immutable, how the size changed which caused the issue? The post said they changed the size of the page without changing the underlying size of the allocated memory. To me this is the big issue. There was a desync in information where the underlying assumption is that size tells you where the data came from and that the size of the metadata and the size of the allocation move in tandem across that boundary.

#1 and #2 are fixes for breaking that implicit trust. #1 still trusts the metadata, #2 is what I'd consider the most robust solution is that not only is it ideally trivial (just compare if a pointer is within a range, assuming zig can do that) but it doesn't rely on metadata being correct. #3 prevents the desync.

I really don't understand the code base enough to say definitively that my ways work, which is I guess what I'm really looking for feedback on. Looking at the memorypool, I think you're right that my assumption of it being a simple contiguous array was incorrect.

ETA: I think I'm actually very wrong for #2. Color me surprised that the zig memory pool allocated each item separately instead of as one big block. Feels like a waste, but I'm sure they have their reasons. That's addCapacity in memory_pool.zig
by FloorEgg | 2026-01-11 02:06:46+00:00
After my first startup failed (didn't get PM fit) I got a bit obsessed with how to do good market research for innovation. Discovery interviews, JTBD, etc.

During my journey I took a beat and pointed my new skills at VCs. I interviewed a few dozen VCs trying to understand what they were trying to get done and what mattered to them, but with a bit of a bias trying to gauge whether they wanted to better predict market demand of their portfolio or prospective investments' products.

What I learned shocked me a bit. The sense I got was that they didn't really care about market demand or building a strong business, they mostly cared if the founder could sell the company up to food chain (series a, b, c etc).

Roughly speaking: "I don't care what value my portfolio companies create, I care about marking up my book so I can increase my take".

I don't know how much this had to do with ZIRP, but it really soured me to the VC industry. I've been committed to bootstrapping my companies ever since.
by al_borland | 2026-01-11 02:10:05+00:00
> A rough prototype, Masad said, allows leaders to ask a pointed question: Why should this take weeks to build if a version can be done in a few days?

I’ve had managers like this. These questions create awkward silences where the manager thinks he caught the team being lazy with nothing to say for themselves, but really the team is trying to think of how to frame a response without calling their boss ignorant… or worse.
by what-the-grump | 2026-01-11 02:10:48+00:00
Build a rag with significant amount of text, extract it by key word topic, place, date, name, etc.

… realize that it’s nonsense and the LLM is not smart enough to figure out much without a reranker and a ton of technology that tells it what to do with the data.

You can run any vector query against a rag and you are guaranteed a response. With chunks that are unrelated any way.
by gruez | 2026-01-11 02:12:04+00:00
>but it seems like a really good high flash point oil.

On what basis? Using the list of smoke point table someone else linked[1], tallow does indeed have a high smoke point, but it's unclear how it's better than many other oils in that list (peanut, sunflower, soybean) which are far easier to procure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Smoke_point_of_cookin...
by sheepscreek | 2026-01-11 02:12:17+00:00
> article points to a 50% decrease in purity, which a habitual user would compensate for by taking twice as much

I’ll be first to admit I’m generally pretty ignorant on this topic but I’ve heard a plausible explanation for how Fentanyl is actually used.

A medical professional shared with me that Fentanyl is too potent to be consumed as is. So generally, dealers use it as an additive. They lace other drugs with trace amounts of to make them more addictive. It’s the MSG of drugs.

So while ODing on say, drug A is possibly with 5 uses at once. When laced with Fentanyl, a person might OD in just 3 uses (because Fentanyl is much more potent than the actual drug the user bought).

Hence, less Fentanyl = less chance of ODing.
by heddycrow | 2026-01-11 02:12:20+00:00
Imagine calling a circle a sphere. But a circle is 2D projection of a sphere.

I suppose we are comfortable calling a 3D projection of a hypercube by its 4D name because there really is no 4D context which we can readily slip into. That and no shorter name than "3D projection of a hypercube".

I'm not a mathematician and I'm certainly guilty of uncareful thinking. And I'm not certain that careful thinking and speech is always necessary.

Maybe I just missed the whole point of this article. I have a math fetish and IRL hobbies with my wife, now listen to what I have to say about what code and AI are up to?

Code is clay. Code is foam. Code is water. Code is paper. Code is wood.

Why can't it just be code? Is it that hard to conceptualize? Is the point of the article to rage-bait nerds by making a loose comparison that might not hold up under scrutiny?

Just grumbling in the hopes that someone else will grumble and I won't feel like the only one. My apologies to those who really needed to read this article and feel insulted by my take.
by technothrasher | 2026-01-11 02:13:30+00:00
Not exactly the same scenario, but I definitely wondered whether something unsaid was going on last year when my child applied for colleges. He attended a special education high school and was accepted at all nine colleges he applied for, while most of his friends at non-special education schools were averaging about 33% acceptance at similarly competitive, and often the exact same, colleges. I mean, I think my kid is great, but that seemed like a pretty wide discrepancy.
by zarzavat | 2026-01-11 02:14:40+00:00
The point of CSS is specifically to separate styling and semantics, so that they are not tightly coupled.

If you were writing a blog post you would want to be able to change the theme without going through every blog post you ever wrote, no?

If I'm writing a React component I don't want it tightly coupled to its cosmetic appearance for the same reason. Styling is imposed on elements, intrinsic styles are bad and work against reusability, that's why we all use resets is it not?

I do agree that the class name system doesn't scale but the solution is not to double down on coupling, but rather to double down on abstraction and find better ways to identify and select elements.
by shark_laser | 2026-01-11 02:14:47+00:00
What did you think was going to happen when you've got guaranteed payments and a growing customer base as people celebrate their "neurodiversity" whilst at the same time demanding subsidies and yelling "ableist" at anyone who criticises them or the system?

So politicians pretend to care by throwing more money at their cronies and get away with it because won't someone PLEASE think of the children. And then people pat them on back and vote for them in the next election, and blame "capitalism" while the people they've just voted back in make millions.

They even say "We're also dealing with children who are largely insured by Medicaid programs" and yet still people are failing to join the dots...
by anonymouskimmer | 2026-01-11 02:15:25+00:00
I was also disappointed that they dropped Unity.

I stayed on a workable Unity install on 2020.05 LTS for as long as possible, then switched to 2024.05 LTS, at which point Unity, for some reason, no longer functioned (even though I was using the Ubuntu Unity flavor). Tried Gnome for a while but what ultimately lost me was the notifications. To close out a notification without switching focus I had to, very carefully, click right on the X in the upper right corner. Otherwise it would activate the notification and switch focus.

I've got a workable setup with XFCE4, the whisker menu bound to the super key, a few panel plugins to make a maximized app have the same behavior as they did in Unity, and the Plank docking program (along with a brief shell script bound to the dock that kills and relaunches Plank when it starts moving out of place). The notifications work the same as they did on Unity - clicking on them dismisses them unless you click on the "activate" button to switch focus.
by pgalvin | 2026-01-11 02:15:30+00:00
The s-, i-, and r-processes do however follow the same mechanism at the most fundamental level, even if it results in wildly different production paths. I think the author was simplifying for an audience unfamiliar with the details, for whom this distinction is less important.

(And I say that despite my own work and usual eagerness to tell people all about it!)
by pwdisswordfishy | 2026-01-11 02:17:29+00:00
Overtones designed to stoke outrage aside, this is very much in line with what the original vision of the Web was about. Amazon's tech here is acting as the user agent. (It happens to be that this UA that operates on/with the data that is supplied by some far-off website (the vendor's) is a UA that is itself presented in a web browser and accepts commands that way, and ferries them off the user's local device instead of processing the commands in right there e.g. with a native binary.)

This is a win for user control over how they interact with content on the Web.
by rsyring | 2026-01-11 02:17:53+00:00
Not 20h of regular laptop usage:

> The ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 Intel lasted for more than 21 hours in our Wi-Fi test (150 cd/m² brightness). This device will easily last more than ten hours in everyday use.

Also, tested on Windows not Linux. Still, if I could get 10 hours of regular usage on Linux, I'd be ecstatic.
Show HN: I made an Android app which sends Health Connect data to your webhooks
by mcnx097 | 2026-01-11 02:18:46+00:00
I was searching for this kind of app for a very long time. I checked HC-Gateway. But it needs external server or give hosted URL. I don't want to share my data to external service. So I went and built my own and made it source available. You can use this with n8n, activepieces, or any POST URL which accepts data. It's still in beta, feel free to try and share feedback.
by anonnon | 2026-01-11 02:18:58+00:00
> Way to prove my point about arrogance

What was arrogant about my post? My point was that Canadians (like you) often exhibit this baffling, unfounded sense of superiority, one completely at odds with cold, hard migration data, as well as the habits of successful Canadians. It's especially baffling in light of Canada's "lost decade" of flat real GDP growth. Canada now has a per capita GDP that's lower than all but one or two U.S. states, and its economic "growth" is just people selling overpriced houses back and forth to each other. Yet the arrogance and condescending attitude towards their southern neighbor remains.
by flibbity-spork | 2026-01-11 02:19:27+00:00
(Same person you’re replying to, new throwaway)

While I don’t appreciate the assumption that I commented in bad faith, I do greatly appreciate your earnestness in responding. I grew up in a very conservative area and have never been exposed to these ideas.

Nevertheless, I disagree strongly with this line of thinking. Hate speech is wrong, regardless of who says it, and who the target is; not just because it hurts the target, but because it emboldens the attacker and others to continue being hateful. Social media platforms are where people spend hours every day; and while you may be intelligent and mature enough to accept anti-white hatred as a measure to correct past wrongs, you severely underestimate the degree to which less intelligent and less mature people (whom I promise you’ve spent far less time with than I have) are vulnerable to grievance and negative-polarization. You have to consider them as well if your goal is to create true change outside of the institutions controlled by you and people with your beliefs.

I am not closed to the idea of affirmative action and benefit given to disadvantages groups to make right some past wrongs. I just warn you to not take a maximalist stance that causes resentment or assumes that POC should not have their anti-white speech policed because of “the soft bigotry of low expectations.”
by IgorPartola | 2026-01-11 02:19:31+00:00
I totally agree with the trailer concept. But you also need to pull it. And in case you have not done a lot of construction work, understand that while delivering materials is free, returning excess materials is not an option outside of carrying it back yourself.

Basically I can tell you that yes there are a lot of advantages. Another thing is carrying things like fill or gravel. Good luck with a van on that one. And while delivery is an option it depends on how accessible the area where you want it delivered is.
by momojo | 2026-01-11 02:19:57+00:00
Great work!

> In practice, that means more logic fits in context, and sessions stretch longer before hitting limits. The AI maintains a broader view of your codebase throughout.

This is one of those 'intuitions' that I've also had. However, I haven't found any convincing evidence for or against it so far.

In a similar vein, this is why `reflex`[0] intrigues me. IMO their value prop is "LLM's love Python, so let's write entire apps in python". But again, I haven't seen any hard numbers.

Anyone seen any hard numbers to back this?

[0] https://github.com/reflex-dev/reflex
by natepoirier | 2026-01-11 02:21:47+00:00
At first glance I can pretty much understand what it does.
My thoughts are that maybe you could show something like: “What mistake does this stop me from making?”
For example - try reframing the top section around a real scenario (accidental secrets, bad config, rushed deploys) before explaining how CommitGuard works. I think that would make it click faster for someone skimming.
by Rayosay | 2026-01-11 02:23:18+00:00
I haven't really played around with that much, sorry. I don't typically use sleep on my laptops. I prefer to either hibernate or just shutdown and start up again when I need it.

I'd guess that the X13s hardware support in Ubuntu is likely as good as Debian, and switching probably wouldn't help you much. I have noticed that newer kernel versions (notably 6.12 and later) and the latest firmware (as of sometime last year) really fixed a lot of little issues for the X13s. That probably makes a bigger difference than the distro. I'd check to see which versions you're using.
by soulofmischief | 2026-01-11 02:23:57+00:00
The idea of applying clean-room design to model training is interesting... having a "dirty model" and a "clean model", dirty model touches restricted content and clean model works only with the output of the dirty model.

However, besides how this sidesteps the fact that current copyright law violates the constitutional rights of US citizens, I imagine there is a very real threat of the clean model losing the fidelity of insight that the dirty model develops by having access to the base training data.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-11 02:24:34+00:00
That's called a hypothetical. I didn't say that we put an AGI into an F-16. I asked what the outcome would be. And the outcome is pretty similar. Please read carefully before making a false statement.

>You're claiming I said a lot of things I didn't; everything you seem to be stating about me in this comment is false.

Apologies. I thought you were being deliberate. What really happened is you made a mistake. Also I never said anything about you. Please read carefully.
by rvnx | 2026-01-11 02:24:41+00:00
Factually, I agree with you on both points. Like from the rule of law perspective.

Statistically you are right, but in practice I would be cautious. I'm betting on the fact that a mad world is going to be even more mad (I couldn't imagine US threatening to invade Denmark... though I understand the US opportunity as well).

10 years ago I would totally agree with you.

So let's see.
by maxbond | 2026-01-11 02:25:02+00:00
> The short-term incentives string together into a long-term plan.

Sustainability isn't different in this regard. Eg, algae farming is a promising way to produce protein and fix carbon. But the economics aren't there yet, so commercial algae farms are pursuing higher margin markets like supplements and inputs to cosmetics rather than food (with the notable exception of feed in aquaculture like salmon).

When solar was still very expensive it was deployed in weird environments like satellites and oil fields where the grid wasn't available. But that proved to be stepping stones to a much larger solar industry.

> Which has been enough urgency to do what exactly?

Lots of stuff, for instance the €5.5B MOSE seawall built by Venice and various projects along the Colorado River to secure the water supply of the southwest USA (to pick just one, Las Vegas' Third Straw at around $1.3B). When disasters happen we obviously spend hundreds of millions to a billion+ on cleanup, rescue, etc. It's also been urgent enough to drive a huge amount of research, advocacy, etc.

Granted, those are fairly low numbers in the scheme of things. But the inaction is driven by interests who stand to lose money, not by economic rationality. I don't think even those monied interests are acting rationally in the long run. They're protecting their interests in the short term but greatly jeopardizing them in the long term. That's a similar false economy/market failure.
by ActorNightly | 2026-01-11 02:25:25+00:00
The big problem is, everyone is so very attached to their comforts in their daily lives that its a big cost for anyone to resort to violence.

This is why I am hoping that Trump will go through with fascist takeover of US, because at a certain point, the economy is going to tank, and then when people start actually hurting, then there will be way less on the line to lose.