MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zdragnar | 2026-01-07 21:50:22+00:00
Not every human visits to buy either.

The real signal is conversions. If the percentage of people who visit and then buy / sign up remains constant, while traffic goes down, you can conclude LLMs are part of the cause.

OTOH if traffic goes down but conversions goes up in percentage, then it's hard to say LLMs are having a negative consequence.
by indymike | 2026-01-07 21:50:24+00:00
> Additional property tax if you do not live in your home fulltime.

In states I've lived in with property tax there is a homestead exemption for the house you live in. In my current state that's about twice the tax.

The effect: Rent goes up to cover the tax and margin is added, so the rent goes up more than the tax.

>Rich investors and companies effectively get to buy homes at a discount vs average joes.

Usually the difference is that the big investor bought the property at lower price, and your rent is based on the lower valuation. Annual rent increases are usually are much lower than market increases - there's a lot of value in keeping a tenant year over year.
by hairofadog | 2026-01-07 21:50:42+00:00
The problem in my eyes is that it's performative. They're making this announcement as if they're doing something revolutionary (they're switching the food pyramid diagram around) while at the same time doing so much to damage the health of Americans: dramatically cutting healthcare access, bringing vaccine denialism to the mainstream, holding press conferences in which they wildly assert that nobody should ever take Tylenol, elevating discourse around quackerism like Methylene blue. The list goes on. And they're making this announcement after spending the entirity of the Obama administration vilifying Flotus for trying to raise awareness of healthy eating.
by wubrr | 2026-01-07 21:50:46+00:00
> What does reading a great novel or starting a garden specifically accomplish?

It accomplishes many things - specifically granting entertainment, pleasure, etc that practitioners like.

> It seems to me that you are starting from the viewpoint that everything has to prove its worth before you accept it

I'm starting with the viewpoint that there are literally thousands of various different practices out there have have existed for a long time and have been practiced by many people. Many of these are complete bullshit. How do you filter out the good from the bad/useless?

> even if millions of people before you have found it fulfilling and worthwhile

Millions of people have found many many different things fulfilling and worthwhile over the ages, some of these things we've since realized are bullshit/bad. Do you accept every single belief/practice based on how popular it has been?

> If you had never read a book before, and someone was trying to convince you to try it, what could they point to that would fulfill all your criteria?

They could say: it's entertaining/interesting/pleasurable, they could say that knowledge/insights are contained in books, that different/interesting perspectives and other people's thoughts are contained in books (which are objective facts), etc. Saying 'it makes you smarter' is vague and unconvincing.
by ryanthedev | 2026-01-07 21:50:51+00:00
i see it as skills being logical grouping of a set of prompts, which achieve a goal. Like my optimize-critical-path skill.

It's more than a single prompt, but less than an entire agent. I find skills to be the tools you use on the fly. Like how I might have a wrench,screw-driver, hammer in my tool box.

tools vs skills is all about context efficiency from what I see. and yes, this isn't novel of claude. but they are the first to offer this abstraction.
by EvanAnderson | 2026-01-07 21:51:07+00:00
> You seemed vaguely tech savvy, so someone asked you for help and emailed you a file containing the data (or perhaps just handed you a laptop and turned you loose). The rest is history.

I know that someday I'll work in something other than IT. When I do I am going to make for damned sure that I don't express even the slightest bit of tech savvy for exactly this reason.

It's similar to playing dumb w/ people I encounter outside work who find out I work in IT. If I get asked a question I play dumb and cop to working on some highly siloed subject (usually I'll claim to only work on "networking" or firewalls... >smile<).
by afrazullal | 2026-01-07 21:51:10+00:00
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by ycombiredd | 2026-01-07 21:51:34+00:00
I can't quite figure out what sort of irony the blurb at the bottom of the post is. (I'm unsure if it was intentional snark, a human typo, or an inadvertent demonstration of Haiku not being well suited for spelling and grammar checks), but either way I got a chuckle:

> Disclaimer: This post was written by a human and edited for spelling, grammer by Haiku 4.5
by nomnomconflicts | 2026-01-07 21:51:45+00:00
> They paid a total of 2 people $50,000 (edit: in 2016 dollars).

> That doesn't seem like enough to entirely shape worldwide discourse around nutrition and sugar.

A contradictory example where this does occur is in propaganda. Technology can be applied to maximize the reach and influence of otherwise inferior arguments at a fraction of the cost. A relatively small sequence of "shows" or "films" can disproportionately affect the world view of billions.

edit: The adoption of cigarettes across the world was affected by a significantly much smaller investment in ad placement compared to its global adoption and affects due to the reach and amplification "of technology".
by SamInTheShell | 2026-01-07 21:52:03+00:00
I’d urge you to report it anyway. As someone that does use these tools I’m always on the lookout for other people pointing this type of stuff out. Like the .claude directory usage does irk me. Also the concise telegraphing on how some of the bash commands work bug me. Like why can it run some commands without asking me? I know why, I’ve seen the code, but that crap should be clearer in the UI. The first time it executed a bash command without asking me I was confused and somewhat livid because it defied my expectations. I actually read the crap it puts out because it couldn’t code its way out of a paper bag without supervision.
by darth_avocado | 2026-01-07 21:52:15+00:00
People who don’t make money, have to take care of childcare while working 2-3 jobs, probably aren’t able to cook themselves. Nor are the people who live in food deserts that only have limited options able to optimize around a specific diet that’s not restricted by availability.

I cook my own food and optimize around eating healthy. I wouldn’t be able to do it if I made less money or had a more demanding job or didn’t have great grocery stores in a 10 mile radius or had to spend time in childcare or any of the other completely valid reasons people have.

Besides, you yourself just described “do things in moderation” yourself: holidays, Christmas, restaurants etc. That’s really what the philosophy is.
by chasil | 2026-01-07 21:52:28+00:00
There is one company who decides what PowerShell is, and they are not known for stability in many areas.

Just as easily as Aero switched to Metro, syntax in PowerShell will do what they want, despite impacts to your legacy scripting.

The POSIX shell, on the other hand, is a POSIX standard controlled by the Austin group. The classic adaptation is the Debian Dash shell, which is both tiny and fast, and changes are very, very slow.

Dash can be linked with libedit and used as an interactive shell. Everyone should do so, before learning non-standard extensions in Korn, Bash, Zsh, et al.

Shells are a matter of taste to a great extent. These are different envelopes of features, stability, and portability.
by epistasis | 2026-01-07 21:52:29+00:00
No, as long as the housing is bought and sold and priced by the market it's always investment. Homeowners talk freely about how it's an investment, choose their own home for its investment properties.

It's not circular it just is, under our ownership scheme. Adding a 100% land value tax does remove the investment characteristic, though, as it removes the speculative aspect of land, and in fact drives the price of land to $0.
by Kerrick | 2026-01-07 21:52:30+00:00
ratatui_ruby % git remote -v
origin https://git.sr.ht/~kerrick/ratatui_ruby (fetch)
origin https://git.sr.ht/~kerrick/ratatui_ruby (push)

ratatui_ruby % git checkout v0.8.0
HEAD is now at dd3407a chore: release v0.8.0

ratatui_ruby % git log --reverse --format="%ci" | head -1 | read first; \
echo "First Commit: $first\nHEAD Commit: $(git show -s --format='%ci' HEAD --)"
First Commit: 2025-12-22 00:40:22 -0600
HEAD Commit: 2026-01-05 08:57:58 -0600

ratatui_ruby % git log --numstat --pretty=tformat: | \
awk '$1 != "-" { \
if ($3 ~ /\./) { ext=$3; sub(/.*\./, "", ext) } else { ext="(no-ext)" } \
add[ext]+=$1; rem[ext]+=$2 \
} \
END { for (e in add) print e, add[e], rem[e] }' | \
sort -k2 -nr | \
awk 'BEGIN { \
print "---------------------------------------"; \
printf "%-12s %12s %12s\n", "EXT", "ADDED", "REMOVED"; \
print "---------------------------------------" \
} \
{ \
sum_a += $2; sum_r += $3; \
printf "%-12s %12d %12d\n", $1, $2, $3 \
} \
END { \
print "---------------------------------------"; \
printf "%-12s %12d %12d\n", "SUM:", sum_a, sum_r; \
print "---------------------------------------" \
}'
---------------------------------------
EXT ADDED REMOVED
---------------------------------------
rb 51705 18913
md 20037 13167
rs 8576 3001
txt 6651 1390
ansi 5025 996
(no-ext) 4072 2157
lock 2231 231
rbs 2139 569
rake 1632 317
yml 1431 153
patch 894 894
erb 300 30
toml 118 39
gemspec 62 10
gitignore 27 4
css 22 0
yaml 18 2
ruby-version 1 1
png 0 0
gitkeep 0 0
---------------------------------------
SUM: 104941 41874
---------------------------------------

ratatui_ruby % cloc .
888 text files.
584 unique files.
341 files ignored.

github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 2.06 T=0.26 s (2226.1 files/s, 209779.6 lines/s)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Language files blank comment code
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ruby 305 4792 10413 20458
Markdown 60 1989 256 4741
Rust 32 645 530 4400
Text 168 523 0 4358
YAML 8 316 17 961
ERB 3 20 4 246
Bourne Again Shell 2 24 90 150
TOML 5 16 10 53
CSS 1 3 8 11
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUM: 584 8328 11328 35378
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
by tasuki | 2026-01-07 21:52:44+00:00
You can write boring code in Scala, but in my (limited) experience, Scala developers don't want to write boring code.
Guilty as charged!

> They picked Scala not because it was the best tool for the job, but because they were bored and wanted to flex their skills.

Guilty as charged!

> Disregarding the other 95% of programmers that would have to work with it.

No. Your coworkers end up being the other 5% of programmers that have the same taste as you. Interviewers ask about monads and lenses. It's fine, as long as everyone is on the same page. Which... they kind of have to be.
by toast0 | 2026-01-07 21:52:49+00:00
Window can get BIOS updates through windows update, if the OEM participates and packages them. I haven't seen BIOS updates through windows update on my systems where I built it from components, I've only seen it on integrated systems from major builders (HP, Lenovo, etc).

The BIOS update instructions for my retail packaged motherboard indicate to turn off BitLocker before doing upgrades to prevent loss of TPM turning into a loss of access, but it'd be easier if it were automated.
by Hikikomori | 2026-01-07 21:52:56+00:00
Nazis had street fights with socialists and communists for years. They were the first to be purged together with homosexuals, transvestites, handicapped, etc.

Media were largely acting like our current media, woefully ineffective and passive reporting on right wing violence. Hitler called then lugenpresse, now its fake news.

Resistance continued after that but not in the open, can be seen in the large number of assassination attempts.
by saghm | 2026-01-07 21:53:04+00:00
For what it's worth, I just searched that site you linked with my name and the zip code I lived in for the first 18 years of my life, and it seems to have a pretty muddled view of who I am. It has my correct age, full legal name, and current address, as well as two of my past apartments and my address for those 18 years where I lived in the zip code I searched, but it also lists my parents current home that they bought over a decade after I had permanently left that state in a city I've never lived in. The landline number it lists is the number my parents had at the house I grew up in, but they don't even use it now, and it wouldn't have been an effective way of reaching me since I used to live at that house, and the mobile number it lists is one I've never seen in my life. For family members, it lists one of my brothers and parents, but not my other brother or either of my two living maternal grandparents, although it has a strangely long list of names I've never heard of, some of whom have my mother's maiden name but aren't my grandparents or any of my relatives with that name who I'm aware of, as well as a bunch of people whose names I don't recognize with last names I'm not aware of being in my family tree.

I'm not saying that site isn't potentially useful as a starting point to find out some stuff, but it hardly seems worth influencing a major decision like what legal entity to purchase a home with.

(edited to add): It also says there's no public record of me being married, which definitely is not the case. My wife literally co-owns and also lives in the house it lists me as living in (and has the correct purchase date for it), so you'd think that whatever algorithm is used to build the dataset would be smart enough to see if there's any other ways we're legally tied together. It also says it doesn't have any records of business associations I have when last year I registered a single-member LLC for contract work last year. The LLC literally has the same name as me followed by " LLC", because apparently no one else had registered that before in my state, which at least gives some evidence that my name isn't overwhelmingly common.
by devilsdata | 2026-01-07 21:53:14+00:00
You're talking about Samatha-vipassanā which is the cultivation of stable attention and mindfulness as two skills. Your skill can be measured by the nine stages of tranquility:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samatha-vipassan%C4%81#:~:text...

But this is only one form of meditation. There are others, such as Maitrī/mettā meditation.
by iknowSFR | 2026-01-07 21:53:46+00:00
Couple things to add. First, rates are much lower when you’re leveraging 10,000 homes at 3:1. That allows you to purchase 20,000 additional homes, which isn’t something the normal individual can do. Second, most of this borrowing was done during the 0% interest days and when rates went up after Covid, a lot of the operations grinded to a halt. Third, there’s no regulatory environment for rent rates and rate increases.
by apical_dendrite | 2026-01-07 21:53:46+00:00
Seems like the car was turning relatively slowly away from the ICE officer. At 00:18 in the video when you can hear the gunshots, he's not in the path of the vehicle. Even if he somehow thought the vehicle was heading towards him, it looks like he could have easily stepped back.

If a masked federal law enforcement officer can shoot someone with impunity in a situation that could have easily been avoided, then we are in a very dangerous place.
by bpt3 | 2026-01-07 21:53:47+00:00
Have you considered that those "protections" you mention in Europe are in fact counterproductive and actually are a large reason why they are less productive, and therefore less competitive and less wealthy (even when accounting for hours worked)?

I personally would like to see some sort of system where we account for discrepancies in regulations related to worker protections, government subsidies, and environmental standards through taxation (e.g. Chinese crap is no longer as cheap as it is right now because we account for the substandard worker conditions and environmental damage being done), but I think restricting the labor market too much would be incredibly damaging.
by xpe | 2026-01-07 21:53:50+00:00
We all know the dueling aphorisms of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" versus "no risk, no reward", so I'll just say this: there is a middle way. I keep a whole lotta Zsh and Bash scripts. But for work on systems I control, Nushell is a boon. I use it for interactive work and add scripts when I see a need.
by mbesto | 2026-01-07 21:54:10+00:00
Also, the headline on HN is downright wrong.

"US will ban Wall Street investors" != "Trump says he will ban Wall Street investments..."

This a Truth Social post from the President. It doesn't mean it has happened, will happen or will happen in the form that either Trump says it will or is being implied here.

This is a very difficult issue to properly address for lots of legal/logistical reasons. For example - many legitimate homeowners have their homes registered as LLCs and most home legislation is governed by states.
by coldtea | 2026-01-07 21:54:19+00:00
One can think of a lot of obvious improvements to a MVP product that don't requre much regarding "get a feature request/bug - understand the problem - think on a solution".

You know the features you'd like to have in advance, or changes you want to make you can see as you build it.

And a lot of the "deliver the solution - test - submit to code review, including sufficient explanation" can be handled by AI.
by llm_nerd | 2026-01-07 21:54:26+00:00
Phew! Finally Americans can stop eating according to the old dietary guidelines! Everyone clear out your pantries and fridges and get with the new hotness. Those old guidelines, you see, were the cause of all of the obesity and poor health!

...wait, you mean to tell me extraordinarily few Americans actually listened to guidelines? That this is all performative nonsense?

Honestly, it isn't as ignorant as I expected (although it of course pushes for "whole milk" and other bits of ignorant advice), but it's basically playing on the ignorance of the readers. Americans already eat some of the most amounts of protein worldwide -- yet of course proclaims an imaginary "war on protein" strawman -- yet also are one of the fattest and least healthy countries.

People actually following the prior guidelines in earnest would likely be in great metabolic shape. But Americans don't: They gobble cheeseburgers and drink a dozen cokes and complain that stupid big medicine is trying to con them, while reciting some nonsense a supplement huckster chiropractor told them on YouTube.
by echelon | 2026-01-07 21:54:37+00:00
Never in a million years.

Rust's Cargo is sublime. System apt / yum / pacman / brew could never replace it.

Cargo handles so much responsibility outside of system packages that they couldn't even come close to replicating the utility.

Checking language versions, editions, compiling macros and sources, cross-compiling for foreign architectures, linking, handling upgrades, transient dependency versioning, handling conflicts, feature gating, optional compilation, custom linting and strictness, installing sidecars and cli utilities, etc. etc.

Once it's hermetic and namespaced, cargo will be better than apt / yum / etc. They're not really performing the same tasks, but cargo is just so damned good at such important things that it's hard to imagine a better tool.
by andruby | 2026-01-07 21:55:39+00:00
It seems like every (coding) AI model out there is generating html with TailwindCSS styling.

@adam: this is just an idea. Have you tried reaching out to OpenAI, Anthropic et al to become sponsors of tailwind? Could that be a viable revenue path?

Maybe you could offer LLM friendly docs to them, or access to something valuable for them? Or maybe they’re just happy to sponsor.

Tailwind and its popularity make LLM’s more valuable, so I’m sure the model makers want Tailwind to thrive.

Any other monetization ideas to help Adam?
by Bostonian | 2026-01-07 21:56:08+00:00
...

'Furiosa’s AI chip is dubbed “RNGD”—short for renegade—and slated to start mass production this month.

Valued at nearly $700 million based on its most recent fundraising, Furiosa has attracted interest from big tech firms. Last year, Meta Platforms attempted to acquire it, though the startup declined the offer. OpenAI used a Furiosa chip for a recent demonstration in Seoul. LG’s AI research unit is testing the chip and said it offered “excellent real-world performance.” Furiosa said it is engaged in talks with potential customers.

Nvidia’s graphic processing units, or GPUs, dominated the initial push to train AI models. But companies like Furiosa are betting that for the next stage—referred to as “inference,” or using AI models after they’re trained—their specialty chips can be competitive.

Furiosa makes chips called neural processing units, or NPUs, which are a rising class of chips designed specifically to handle the type of computing calculations underpinning AI and use less energy than GPUs.

Paik said Furiosa’s chips can provide similar performance as Nvidia’s advanced GPUs with less electricity usage. That would drive down the total costs of deploying AI. The tech world, Paik says, shouldn’t be so reliant on one chip maker for AI computing.'

...
by 7e | 2026-01-07 21:56:17+00:00
People want the value of their house to go up after they buy it, but stay low before they buy it. This is all nonsense. If people in an area keep breeding, housing costs will go up. It's that simple. Increasing housing prices are actually one of the only checks that keep humans from overbreeding and ruining large swaths of desirable places to live.