MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by js2 | 2026-01-30 15:05:36+00:00
The paper does a better job explaining why oats were chosen:

> Oats offer an interesting and promising approach for treating MetS due to their unique composition characterized by a high fiber content, especially β-glucan, essential minerals and vitamins, and various bioactive substances, including phenols which exert antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects that may improve metabolic function. Furthermore, oats are an accessible and sustainable food item.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-68303-9
Ask HN: Is free identity theft protection after a data breach worth the bother?
by daoboy | 2026-01-30 15:06:11+00:00
Following the most recent in a long line of data breaches (AFLAC this time), I am wondering if it is worth taking advantage of their 24 month free CyEx Medical Shield.

Has anyone ever used one of these after a breach? Any compelling reason not to use it?
by anonymous908213 | 2026-01-30 15:06:15+00:00
That is why I specifically included "or reshape". Atari was first for many genres, but it didn't meaningfully define them, or to the extent it did they were significantly reshaped by future games. Super Mario Bros. was far from the first platformer but it, and future developments in the franchise, were so much better than everything that came before them that they became the face of the genre. We see Metroidvanias copying the Super Metroid / Castlevania formula for three decades and counting. None of those copies, not even the wildly successful ones like Hollow Knight, reshaped the genre such that future games were made in their image. And so it goes for most genres. It is certainly possible to reshape a genre in the modern era; Stardew Valley did it, for example. But it is rare for new games to pull off a concept so well that everyone after them copies their homework. Everyone is still copying the homework of the games from 20, 30 years ago.
by eviks | 2026-01-30 15:06:20+00:00
> What drives someone to feel emboldened to park their car in the middle of an ICE operation and then attempt to drive off after being told to stop?

Maybe an order by another agent to drive off?
But also, it's not hard to see why you can't understand it - because none of the questions are based in reality, all the descriptions are false/twisted, it's like "I don't understand why the fans of that team that lost celebrate the win" when in reality the team won, that's why, easy to understand
by extraduder_ire | 2026-01-30 15:06:28+00:00
Found it. is was this line [0] specifically. "rm -rf /usr /lib/nvidia-current/xorg/xorg" instead of "rm -rf /usr/lib/nvidia-current/xorg/xorg", which will delete all of /usr and then fail to delete a non-existent directory at /lib/nvidia-current/xorg/xorg

0: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi...
by wasmainiac | 2026-01-30 15:06:29+00:00
> I think you're anthropomorphising the AI too much

I don’t get it. Is that supped to be a gotchya? Have you tried maliciously messing with an LLM? You can get it into a state that resembles psychosis. I mean you give it a context that is removed from reality, yet close enough to reality to act on and it willl give you crazy output.
Standalone Android utility apps and a VS Code companion I built
by kalinuxer | 2026-01-30 15:06:30+00:00
Hi All,

Over time I built a small set of Android apps, mostly single-purpose utilities and one
developer-focused companion tool.

Utility apps (no accounts, no subscriptions):
- Offline PDF & EPUB reader/editor
- QR & barcode scanner and generator
- Phone hardware and battery diagnostics

Developer tool:
- VSCoder Copilot – a mobile companion for VS Code / GitHub Copilot workflows

For the utility apps, the focus was:
- minimal permissions
- no background services
- all on-device processing

VSCoder is different by nature and supports optional paid features.

I’d appreciate feedback, especially on UX decisions, permission discipline, and whether
there’s still room for focused utility software on Android.

Google Play links:

PDF & EPUB Reader–Editor
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pdfepub.readereditor

QR & Barcode Scanner
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emirbaycan.qrbarcode.scanner

Phone Health Checker
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phonehealthcheckernew

VSCoder Copilot
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emirbaycan.vscodercopilot
by snarf21 | 2026-01-30 15:06:38+00:00
Serious question: If you are so sure that this is a big payday, have you put all your net worth into SpaceX? Seems like a no brainer if you fully believe it.

The reason for this "data centers in space" is the same as the "sustained human colony on Mars". It is all pie in the sky ideas to drive valuation and increase Musk's wealth.

Just a small sampling of previous failed Musk promises:
- demonstration drive of full autonomy all the way from LA to New York by the end of 2017
- "autonomous ride hailing in probably half the population of the U.S. by the end of the year"
- “thousands” of Optimus humanoid robots working in Tesla factories by the end of 2025."
- Tesla semi trucks rollout (Pepsi paid for 100 semis in 2017, and deliveries started in 2022, and now 8 years later they have received half of them.)
by sevensor | 2026-01-30 15:07:06+00:00
I used to think that ESR had slid slowly into the lunatic fringe, but it sounds like he was a crank from the start. He pursued fame but seems to prefer notoriety to compromise. I think there’s a lesson here, but I’m not sure what it is.

Humility maybe? No matter how right you think you are, beware: you might be ESR.
by js2 | 2026-01-30 15:07:27+00:00
> people in the study all had a trifecta

It's an intervention for people with metabolic syndrome, characterized specifically by those traits. Quoting the first sentence of the paper:

"Metabolic syndrome (MetS), characterized by the co-occurrence of central obesity, dyslipidemia, elevated blood pressure (BP), and dysglycemia, ..."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-68303-9
by fouc | 2026-01-30 15:07:28+00:00
there's no repair involved. imagine a series of throwaway satellites on an orbit that essentially leaves them close enough together for effective mesh networking, and probably on an orbit that slowly takes them away from earth.

the compute is used for training, not inference. the redundancy and mesh networking means that if any of them die, it is no big deal.

and an orbit that takes them away from earth means they avoid cluttering up earth's orbital field.
by simianwords | 2026-01-30 15:07:41+00:00
I have put as much money as I believe in it (risk adjusted). And same goes for Google, Spacex, Blue Origin and other companies.

This trope

> It is all pie in the sky ideas to drive valuation and increase Musk's wealth.

Really needs to stop. This is based on a naive interpretation of how wealth gets created. Musk has an amazing reputation getting things done and making things that people like. Whether you like him as a person or not, he has done stuff in the past and that's reason enough to believe him now.
by volkk | 2026-01-30 15:08:51+00:00
give me a break. have you read the other comments? the haughty, smug attitudes convinced they were correct. it's the definition of obnoxious. and that's not even counting the one guy that wrote "you sound and write like a bot", got downvoted and deleted the post. i don't have to take any high roads anywhere, it's the internet and as far as being "rude" it's a solid 2/10.
by its_ethan | 2026-01-30 15:09:12+00:00
> Due to the United States Supreme Court ruling in Wisconsin v. Illinois, the State of Illinois is not subject to certain provisions of the compact pertaining to new or increased withdrawals or diversions from the Great Lakes.

I mean it seems like there's already avenues to skirt around this compact?

Also, from what I can tell, this isn't some sort of ban on using water from the Great Lakes basin, it's just a framework for how the states are to manage it. It is entirely believable to me that this compact would actually support water being used for developing tech in the surrounding communities (like using it in data centers).
Evaluations for Testing Agentic AI
by stichers | 2026-01-30 15:09:26+00:00
What do you think about measuring agentic AI in practice. A few weeks ago I read something on Anthropic’s blog on evals for AI agents https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/demystifying-evals-for-ai-agents, and then yesterday saw this on Medium https://medium.com/quantumblack/evaluations-for-the-agentic-world-c3c150f0dd5a Feels like this is becoming a thing.
Anthropic talk about how to structure agent evals and what they’ve learned from running these internally. The QuantumBlack post clooks more programmatic or lifecyle focussed. How evals need to change once agents are combined and using tools. What to do whenthey're deployed, and how to factor them in early.

Curious what peeple are doing in the real world. Are you rolling your own task suites? Using offline + online evals? Or mostly vibes and logs for now?
by dragontamer | 2026-01-30 15:09:29+00:00
That's not the reason.

Alkaline batteries only have 1.5V for a short time. In practice, toys are designed to opeerate off of 1V to 1.5V, because Alkalines vary _wildly_ in voltage during use.

NiMH at 1.2V _STAYS_ at 1.2V, even when drawing 1Amp or more (under these conditions, Alkaline would have long dropped below 1V).

EDIT: This is also a problem because "nicer toys" will measure the voltage assuming an Alkaline is "full" at 1.5V and dies at 1.0V. However, NiMH starts at 1.35V, then "plateau" at 1.2V, and stays there for most of its life, before rapidly falling off to 1.0V or .8V like a cliff at the end of its life. So NiMH life "cannot be predicted" by any simple metric.
by syrusakbary | 2026-01-30 15:10:08+00:00
This is great!

While I think that with their current choice for the runtime will hit some limitations (aka: not really full Python support, partial JS support), I strongly believe using Wasm for sandboxing is the way for the future of containers.

At Wasmer we are working hardly to make this model work. I'm incredibly happy to see more people joining on the quest!
by whizzter | 2026-01-30 15:10:10+00:00
Cooling is the biggest reason for space datacenters, heat is movement of particles and vacuum being an absence of particles, so it's by definition cold.

Naturally the system needs energy, the sun giving radiation convertible to electricity should enable that.

Both parts are documented about ISS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_system_of_the_Inter...
by antonvs | 2026-01-30 15:10:13+00:00
That's not correct. It's a "warrant" in the literal sense: it authorizes federal immigration agents to detain someone for civil immigration violations. Since they're not judicial warrants, there are constitutional restrictions on how they can do that, which I enumerated in my previous comment.

The game ICE is playing takes advantage of the exact misunderstanding you've described - that anything called a warrant must be a judicial warrant. That's not the case, they're just exploiting people's bad assumptions.
by dragontamer | 2026-01-30 15:10:46+00:00
NiMH chemistry allows for safe overcharging though. If the chemistry allows for it, why not take advantage of it and have cheaper chargers?

The downside is that "save overcharging" only works at very low charging rates. That's why the double-charger designs all have 10+ hour charge times (mine actually has a 20-hour charge time).

But in practice? Its cheaper to buy 4 extra AA NiMH batteries to keep charged rather than upgrade to the faster chargers. So just keep some spares topped off and you should be fine.
by enopod_ | 2026-01-30 15:11:07+00:00
TIL about all that stuff, Moltbook, Openclaw, Gas Town, and I don't get it anymore. It's too much. Forums for chatbots with their own religion but its actually a crypto scam and vibecoded hypesoftware to scam people with sh*tcoins because yolo and whatnot. I'm out.
by lynndotpy | 2026-01-30 15:11:12+00:00
This is my perspective as well. I've been a big FOSS junkie and, in ~2015 or so, Blender had a repute similar to GIMP. (A free, worse version of proprietary tools).

By the time I picked Blender up in 2016 (before 2.8!) it felt pretty mature, but I used it (still) because it was the one that was free and which worked on Linux.

The time and energy I put into learning Blender feels like an investment that has paid off amazing dividends.

(I'd also picked up Godot at the same time, with much the same story of elation on its adoption rate).
by surgical_fire | 2026-01-30 15:11:15+00:00
Ahh ok. My bad, I really misunderstood your point then.

To expand on it, to not let the thread go to waste - I think there is value in nostalgia, we should not ignore our past, it makes who we are. But it is important to recognize when something is good only for nostalgia.

For example, I adore the original Phantasy Star. It was the first RPG I played and to this day I remember my absolute awe in exploring an open world. One of the first things I did there was to walk along a narrow path in between some mountains and the ocean, only to be slaughtered by a group of spiders way too strong for me. It was amazing. Getting out into the world, exploring caves, it felt like an adventure. And later getting into an starship and exploring other worlds. Alis Landale is to this day my spirit animal - When I am given the option to create a character I often make a girl with auburn hair and name her Alis.

I came back to this game twice in the past years - once playing it on Emulator with an improvement patch, another on the Switch re-release. I still had fun printing grid paper and drawing maps on my own, going into a 4 level cave to get to a cake shop, etc. But I recognize it is pure nostalgia. Recommending that game should only be done in a "if you want to see an early stage 8-bit RPG, you can do a lot worse than Phantasy Star". When I play a new RPG I am chasing the same rush my 8 year old self had when playing that for the first time.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, I have a lot of trouble nowadays to engage with modern "blockbuster" games, or triple-A if you want to call it that. Even darlings such as Elden Ring or BG3 failed to grab me. In current times, I do find my rush typically on Indies, or at most lower spec games when made by giant publishers. It is no coincidence that I still enjoy Nintendo games, I suppose.

Maybe I am just getting old and jaded lol.
by alnwlsn | 2026-01-30 15:11:17+00:00
Designers have a choice in lithium-ion though. 18650 is is pretty large cell but there's 14500 which is AA sized or 10440 which is AAA sized. They make versions with the usual battery "nub" rather than the flat faces for spot welding, and built-in protection circuitry to prevent over-discharging. You probably would want to use ones of a different size than normal 1.5v cells though. A personal favorite of mine is RCR123A/16340.

Even many of the pouch cells come in "standard"-ish sizes. An 803860 is nominally 8.0mm x 38mm x 60mm, but I am seeing more custom sizes recently.

Meanwhile, alkaline batteries can go to hell. You might as well plan on one leaking in the battery compartment. My favorite non-rechargable 1.5V AAs are Li-FeS2, which never leak and have spectacularly low self discharge (especially good for multi-year ultra-low-power projects), but are dammed expensive.
by Marsymars | 2026-01-30 15:11:35+00:00
> The analogy is closer to "take away their ability to get any job" and then it sounds even more harsh.

If you take away the license of a pilot mid-career, they may be able to pivot to something else, but have a huge sunk cost of education and seniority where they ground out poor pay/schedules and then never made it to the part of the career with better pay. For a substantial segment of them, the career impact would be comparable to taking away the ability to drive from a random person.

> For poverty, you kinda still need a car no matter what, that's just how the US is set up in most areas.

You really don't. If you don't already live somewhere with public transit, you'll probably have to move. You'll have to make some sacrifices. But it's workable, I lived without a car and relied on city busses for all my transportation for several years. (And while I wouldn't necessarily recommend it, prior to that, I lived in a small town of ~4k people without transit service. I walked everywhere, and took the inter-city bus when I needed to leave the town.)
by ojr | 2026-01-30 15:11:42+00:00
talk is even cheaper, still show me the code, people claim 10x productivity that translates to 10x of work done in a month, even with Opus 4.5 out since November 2025 I haven't seen signs of this. AI makes the level of complexity with modern systems bearable, it was getting pretty bad before and AI kinda saved us. A non-trivial React app is still a pain to write. Also creating a harness for a non-deterministic api that AI provides is also pain. At least we don't have to fight through typing errors or search through relevant examples before copying and pasting. AI is good at automating typing, the lack of reasoning and the knowledge cutoff still makes coding very tedious though.
by 1970-01-01 | 2026-01-30 15:11:44+00:00
Old joke:

If General Motors had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:

For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.

Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.

Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason, you would simply accept this.

Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.

Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive – but would run on only five percent of the roads.

The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single “General Protection Fault” warning light.

The airbag system would ask “Are you sure?” before deploying.

Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.

Every time GM introduced a new car, car buyers would have to learn to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.

You’d have to press the “Start” button to turn the engine off.
by newzino | 2026-01-30 15:11:55+00:00
The stall you're describing is the difference between users who think your tool is clever and users who have a problem painful enough to pay for solving it.

The most consistent pattern I've seen work: solve a problem developers already know they have, in a workflow they already use daily. Not "you should care about X" but "you already care about X and it's annoying - here's a faster way."

The dead ends are usually targeting problems developers don't feel yet. You can have a technically superior testing framework, but if the team's current setup "works fine" (even if it's objectively worse), there's no urgency to switch.

The narrow ICP approach works when it's narrow enough that you can actually list the companies. Not "Series A SaaS companies" but "these specific 30 companies using this exact tech stack with this known pain point." At that scale you can do real research on each one and outbound becomes viable.

The integrations play is interesting - it works when you're solving a gap in an ecosystem people are already bought into. Building a better Slack bot is hard. Building a tool that makes Datadog + PagerDuty work better together has a clearer value prop to people already paying for both.

One thing that seems underrated: finding where your ICP already hangs out and being genuinely helpful there without selling anything. Not "build in public" as content strategy, but actually solving problems in public. The conversion comes from "oh, the person who helped me with that gnarly bug has a product" not from announcement posts.
by countrymile | 2026-01-30 15:12:05+00:00
It's quite a bit of money, but a lot less than the equivalent Maya licenses. It would be great if more studios did this:

$240k "Press release, tech blogpost, dedicated product manager for your area" https://fund.blender.org/corporate-memberships/

Meta are paying $30k per year, which is crazy really, when you think how much Blender has assisted in getting content onto their platform. Nvidia is better at $120k, but again, think how many graphics card buys Blender cycles has driven.
by throwaway2037 | 2026-01-30 15:12:05+00:00
High level, yes, I agree that line of credits are different from currency swaps. However, in this case, when Argentina activates the currency swap, they are essentially sending toilet paper (nearly useless currency) to the US Federal Reserve and receiving something very valuable (US dollars). The Argentinan currency does not truly float (they have bizarre official exchange rules), so if the toilet flushes, the US Federal Reserve isn't left with anything useful. In the past (according to a brief Google search), the Central Bank of Korea had a currency swap agreement with the US Federal Reserve (or is it the US Treasury? I always forget those details). In this case, the Korean Won has real international value, so it is much less like a line of credit.
by Legend2440 | 2026-01-30 15:12:23+00:00
> I am certain that generative AI is a productivity amplifier, but its economic, environmental, and cultural externalities are not being discussed enough.

You sure? That’s basically all that’s being discussed.

There’s nothing in this article I haven’t heard 100 times before. Open any mainstream news article or HN/Reddit thread and you’ll find all of OP’s talking points about water, electricity, job loss, the intrinsic value of art, etc.
by lastofthemojito | 2026-01-30 15:12:23+00:00
Fred Lambert was an early Tesla evangelist - he constantly wrote stories praising Tesla and Elon for years. He had some interactions with Elon on Twitter, got invited to Tesla events, referred enough people to earn free Tesla cars, etc.

People roasted him for being a Tesla/Elon fanboy: https://www.thedrive.com/tech/21838/the-truth-behind-electre...

Fred gradually started asking tougher questions when Tesla's schedule slipped on projects and Elon ended up feuding with Fred (and I think blocking him) on Twitter: https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/bgmwk8/twitter...

Since then Fred has had a more realistic (IMHO) outlook on Tesla, although some might call it a "beef" since he's no longer an Elon sycophant.
by newzino | 2026-01-30 15:12:31+00:00
The confusion comes from conflating "repetitive in structure" with "repetitive in specifics."

Traditional automation handles tasks that are repetitive in specifics - the exact same input produces the exact same output every time. Press this button, get that result.

What AI handles is tasks that are repetitive in structure but variable in specifics. "Review this pull request" is structurally the same every time (read code, check for issues, suggest improvements), but the actual code and context varies. You can't write a script for it because the inputs are too variable, but it's not intellectually novel work either.

Same with writing boilerplate. The pattern is repetitive (create CRUD endpoint, add validation, wire up to database), but the specifics change each time (different fields, different validation rules, different table schemas). Traditional code generation works when you can parameterize everything upfront. AI works when the parameters are implicit in context you'd have to explain to another developer anyway.

The real threshold isn't repetitive vs. novel. It's "can the task be fully specified with formal rules" vs. "does it require judgment calls based on fuzzy context." AI is good at the latter in ways traditional automation isn't.