MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by modeless | 2026-01-01 18:04:41+00:00
Apple is going to (mostly) obey the letter of the law but they will continue to resist strongly in every way they can. Onerous requirements, arbitrary restrictions, overzealous enforcement, and most of all bad APIs with limited capabilities and no workarounds for bugs.

Shipping a good and complete browser engine on iOS will require more than just developers. You'll also need a team of lawyers to threaten and sue Apple to get their policy restrictions relaxed and APIs fixed.

I doubt Mozilla or Google will be willing to spend the many developer-years and lawyer-years it will take to fully port every feature of a whole engine and properly maintain it in such a hostile environment, just for the Japan market. I expect to see some hobbyist-level ports but not something worth using for a long time. Unless other countries follow suit.
by ProllyInfamous | 2026-01-01 18:04:55+00:00
>There’s a massive disconnect between people with rules-based morality and people with outcome-based morality ... it’s important to understand how people actually think.

My most-sobering book read in 2025 was Tim Urban's What's Our Problem — it definitely helped me better understand my two lawyerbros — there is an inner gollum driving everybody, and we need to ascend towards higher thinking.

[•] <https://www.amazon.com/Whats-Our-Problem-Self-Help-Societies...>

Thanks for your perspective.
by dijit | 2026-01-01 18:05:00+00:00
I agree, but it sort of doesnt change anything.

You buy Windows as a product, and those subsystems are so spidered in that turning them off is not possible, and if it even was possible it would have some impact.

You buy Windows for games, thats been the consensus for years, the NT kernel could in theory run games 10x better, but it doesn’t mean anything because you only get it, with Windows.

So, an Apples to Apples comparison is Bazzite. The general purpose operating system you install and play games on. No need to apologise for Microsofts choices.
by DivingForGold | 2026-01-01 18:05:16+00:00
On the other hand, prepaid credit cards seem to be one of the only ways to prevent merchants from "running up" the charges on a customers account. Sure, a customer can go through the dispute process but it's quite a hassle. Just "limiting the amount of money you place on the table" is quite effective. Giving a merchant your credit card with say a $5,000 or more available balance seems like insanity, like laying out 50 of $100 bills on the table: "here, go ahead, can I trust you to take only what you should" ? I would pay extra to have a VISA or MC credit card that only offers say a $200 limit, just for dubious situations, but again, providers have a "conflict of interest" in that they only make their "cut" when the charges go through, so the more and the larger the charges - - the more "cut" they obtain.
by thechao | 2026-01-01 18:05:22+00:00
PostDocs review the review. PI's sign off on PD's to make sure they're not idiots. Only big labs have enough PD's to let them do reviews. And, for sure, in CS there's almost no big labs. I was under Bjarne Stroustrup, and the larger umbrella group was probably 40ish staff, in total. That'd be: 3 lead PIs (Bjarne, Nancy, Lawrence); there were a small core of assistant profs (Jaakko, Gabi, etc. — maybe 4 or 5 of them?) There were no PD's: just 25ish grad students, and then a rotating stable of undergrads. We were extremely well funded (JP Morgan, MSFT, the fed).

Our "sister" lab over in computational biology had a few PD's, but was 2x as big, and had easily 5x the funding.
by seydor | 2026-01-01 18:05:24+00:00
that's like saying that apple should sell the iphone for $10 to capture the market. meanwhile apple does the opposite

The chinese are not entering a saturated market here, they are building it and apparently dominating it by creating the best value

They did the same with PV panels, their plan was to make PV cheap for china, and in the process they became supercheap for the rest of the world too.
by leptons | 2026-01-01 18:05:35+00:00
I accused another user of writing AI slop in this specific thread, and here you are inserting yourself as if you are replying to comment I made to the other user. You certainly seem desperate to boost "AI" as much as you can. Your 37 day old account is also just as suspect as their 3 day old account. I'm not engaging with you any more so replying is kind of pointless.
by Y_Y | 2026-01-01 18:05:45+00:00
Amazing as usual.

I am always on the lookout for the classic sin of making it look like electromagnetic waves wiggle in space like a snake. I know it's convenient to glue the tangent space to the underlying physical space, but I think it confuses students.

To be clear: the amplitude of the electric and magnetic fields (and hence their components in each direction) oscillate in space/time. Any particular wave though should travel in a straight line (usual caveats apply). Of course you may incidentally also get e.g. sinusoidal variations in intesity perpendicular to the wavevector, but that will be because of the overall beam characteristics.

I don't mean to say I know a better way to show this, and I am aware of many complicating factors. I just think lots of people (my former students and self included) can come away with a wrong idea about how these waves work.
by Ray20 | 2026-01-01 18:06:45+00:00
> people who continue to work when all of their basic needs are met

There are no such things as "basic needs". If people can easily satisfy their basic needs, they simply expands this concept until it ceases to be easily satisfied

In other words, abundance is a myth promoted by mentally ill cultists, and meeting the basic needs of all people is unattainable.
by skeeter2020 | 2026-01-01 18:06:52+00:00
The Chinese tax payer isn't voluntarily helping you though, it's China's forced resource extraction from its own citizens (wage and QoL suppression), to maintain a stranglehold on global manufacturing. Everybody (except your specific car purchase) would be better off if they used these resources domestically. Do you think they'll ever want payback? if not from you, then from the next generations.
by concinds | 2026-01-01 18:07:05+00:00
The separate-binary requirement makes it completely DOA, so they're still breaking the law. Deliberately.

It specifically bans actions that make it unlikely for browsers to adopt alternative engines.

And they mandate no sharing of login-state with any other app from the same developer, despite violating that themselves (Safari sync is turned on by default, no encryption by default). Funny. And they mandate blocking third-party cookies, great but completely inappropriate for an OS to impose.

The most hilarious:

> Prioritize resolving reported vulnerabilities with expedience [...] Most vulnerabilities should be resolved in 30 days, but some may be more complex and may take longer.

Apple does not comply with this.
by gf000 | 2026-01-01 18:07:09+00:00
Still, a "given all else, this optimal thing giving +1% growth" is negligible percentage, when all the other mentioned factors are several orders of magnitude more important.

My point is, simply doing it consistently, even if slightly less optimally, will trivially surpass anything else in the long run and there are no "silver bullets" in training.

The only importance is safety, avoiding injuring oneself.

Also, the article also states this: "RET-induced hypertrophy is mediated to a far greater degree by inherent endogenous biological factors"
by machomaster | 2026-01-01 18:07:10+00:00
Wrong.

Getting more muscles leads to more strength (because the strength of the muscle is determined by the cross-sectional area).

But you can definitely be natually strong without having a lot of muscle.

And you can definitely get much stronger without getting much muscle.

In other words, any person with big pecs and triceps will be strong in bench (even without training). But strong bencher will not necessarily have big pecs/triceps to show.

That's the whole premise behind the popularity of the Anatoly gym pranks.
Show HN: Latent Signal - Curated feed for AI news
by humships | 2026-01-01 18:07:47+00:00
I kept losing track of what was happening in AI. It's scattered across Reddit, Discord, Twitter, arXiv, GitHub, Hugging Face. Things slip through constantly. So I built Latent Signal to consolidate it for myself.

It's a curated feed for AI news. Right now it's just me, but the goal is for the community to help surface what matters. Covers LLMs, image gen, video, audio, 3D, world models, tooling, and more.
The design is entirely inspired by Hacker News.

Currently pulling from these sources:
- Reddit
- arXiv
- Hugging Face
- GitHub
- Hacker News
- Lobste.rs

You can browse immediately without signing up. Accounts are only needed if you want to vote or submit.

This is the first time I'm sharing it publicly. Would appreciate feedback on what's missing, what's broken, or if something like this already exists and I missed it.

https://latentsignal.fyi/
by QuantumNomad_ | 2026-01-01 18:07:53+00:00
For anyone else wondering what the definition in Budapest Open Access Initiative is:

> By “open access” to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself

https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read/
by nextaccountic | 2026-01-01 18:07:55+00:00
Thanks for the response. I am more worried about losing already committed data due to an error

https://www.sqlite.org/mmap.html

> The operating system must have a unified buffer cache in order for the memory-mapped I/O extension to work correctly, especially in situations where two processes are accessing the same database file and one process is using memory-mapped I/O while the other is not. Not all operating systems have a unified buffer cache. In some operating systems that claim to have a unified buffer cache, the implementation is buggy and can lead to corrupt databases.

What are those OSes with buggy unified buffer caches? More importantly, is there a list of platforms where the use of mmap in sqlite can lead to data loss?
by chrsw | 2026-01-01 18:08:25+00:00
It's abuse. Sugar coating it will only empower the perpetrators. Is it the most inhumane thing possible? No, obviously not. But these sites are taking advantage of the fact that you're there to do something, learn something, get something done, etc and they have your eyeballs. What they're doing is intentional, distracting and getting worse.

I don't care what the commercial status of the site is that I'm visiting, you will not hijack my attention.
by Nevermark | 2026-01-01 18:08:58+00:00
My life has had a 5 year event horizon since I left my family home. I.e. every 5 years has seen major changes I could not have predicted.

For much of that there have been critical pressures making most days important. Which makes them memorable.

Subjectively and objectively, things have changed so much, and so many times, I feel like I have had several lives, so far.

Right now I am in a “make” or “break” situation going three productive years. I solved some very difficult problems that I put myself in a “must solve” position. Each problem solved had significant life impact.

The indicators for “make” are going up month-to-month now, making it a tough but intense and wonderful time. Feels a lot like my early 20’s when I started a dream business (for me) while in school.

Definitely don’t experience time as indicated by those graphs.
by JimmyBiscuit | 2026-01-01 18:09:10+00:00
Theres C++ in military airplanes, they just cut out 90% of the features: https://www.stroustrup.com/JSF-AV-rules.pdf

And heres a nice video about it: https://youtu.be/Gv4sDL9Ljww?si=Z4riPMKAKcIKaU0s
by loudmax | 2026-01-01 18:09:17+00:00
The "US plan," is driven by the executive office. That is to say, the by the US president.

Insofar as there is any plan, the current officeholder's priorities are to project the appearance of personal power on television. If you're wondering what's going on strategically, don't go thinking that there's some grand plan, or even an intention to benefit the United States in the long term. There are some people in the cabinet who are thinking long term, but that's not universal, and that's not what they're selected for. Every action that is taken is to satisfy the president's narcissism and ego in the present moment. You have to understand the "US plan" in this light for anything coming out of the executive office to make sense.
by max_lt | 2026-01-01 18:09:19+00:00
Thanks! Main differences:
1. Complete stack: workerd is just the runtime. OpenWorkers includes the full platform – dashboard, API, scheduler, logs, and self-hostable bindings (KV, S3/R2, Postgres).
2. Runtime: workerd uses Cloudflare's C++ codebase, OpenWorkers is Rust + rusty_v8. Simpler, easier to hack on.
3. Managed offering: Yes, there's already one at dash.openworkers.com – free tier available. But self-hosting is a first-class citizen.
Ask HN: When do we expose "Humans as Tools" so LLM agents can call us on demand?
by vedmakk | 2026-01-01 18:09:31+00:00
Serious question.

We're building agentic LLM systems that can plan, reason, and call tools via MCP. Today those tools are APIs. But many real-world tasks still require humans.

So… why not expose humans as tools?

Imagine TaskRabbit or Fiverr running MCP servers where an LLM agent can:

- Call a human for judgment, creativity, or physical actions

- Pass structured inputs

- Receive structured outputs back into its loop

At that point, humans become just another dependency in an agent's toolchain. Though slower, more expensive, but occasionally necessary.

Yes, this sounds dystopian. Yes, it treats humans as "servants for AI." Thats kind of the point. It already happens manually... this just formalizes the interface.

Questions I'm genuinely curious about:

- Is this inevitable once agents become default software actors? (As of basically now?)

- What breaks first: economics, safety, human dignity or regulation?

- Would marketplaces ever embrace being "human execution layers" for AI?

Not sure if this is the future or a cursed idea we should actively prevent... but it feels uncomfortably plausible.
by eudamoniac | 2026-01-01 18:09:43+00:00
The average male 20-29 in USA is 85KG. A deadlift of barely over 2x bodyweight is not remarkable at all! The average young man does not train and when they do they train stupidly; this has no bearing on the fact that they could achieve a 400 deadlift within a few years of intelligent training.

Most gyms are not serious. You'll find no one lifting heavy at Planet Fitness, and you'll find that a 350 deadlift is one of the weakest in a dirty powerlifting gym. Among people who actually do the activity, it's not impressive. The thing is you just have to actually do the activity. My metrics are only "absurd" if you think I'm saying that the average man has the willpower and interest to achieve this; of course they don't; the average man is obese and lazy. My claim is that the average man has the physical capacity to achieve this.

Please don't misconstrue my claim of what is possible for what is likely. The average man can easily learn to cook well, read a few books per year, get their chess elo into the top 30%, run a 5k, learn to draw basic portraits, deadlift 400 pounds, and many other things that the average man will never do because they don't want to train for it.

If I said the average man could practice drawing for a few years and end up drawing basic portraits, or study chess or cooking for a few years and end up better than almost anyone they know, this is mostly uncontroversial. When I say the same for strength training, it seems to anger a lot of people for some reason. My experiences tell me that these are comparable levels of goals.

To the original point, seriously, my 102lb wife squats more than 1 plate and she's been training for 4 months.
by 5ver | 2026-01-01 18:10:06+00:00
Yes, I can’t prove I have pi. But you can’t prove that I don’t. I’m not a physicist I’m a mathematician. Quantum phenomena appear to actually, in reality be “probabilistic” and to actually involve irrational numbers.

If rationals exist in reality and you are comfortable with Graham’s number existing in reality (which has more digits in its base 10 representation than the number of particles in the observable universe) then why not irrationals? They are the completion of the rationals.

Unless you are a finitist.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-01 18:10:11+00:00
Disagree. Citations below. Please consume more data and update priors accordingly.

How much growth is required to achieve good lives for all? Insights from needs-based analysis - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S245229292... | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100612

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43465127 - March 2025 (26 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42529256 - December 2024 (10 comments)

(Decent living standards for 8.5B would require 30% of current resource use)
by JeremyNT | 2026-01-01 18:10:14+00:00
Yes! The "lean mass" caveat is oft ignored by bro scientists, and even LLMs have incorporated the error due to training on bro science forums.

I use this as a bit of a canary. If you see somebody making this basic mistake (like the post you're replying to did), you should be highly skeptical of their other claims too.
by oarfish | 2026-01-01 18:10:20+00:00
I think there was a study last year or so that investigated whether protein rich meals actually made people consume less calories, and i think it didnt really, despite the fact that it feels more satiating and the TEF is also higher than for carbs.

So i think for long term weight changes it doesnt really help, at least not via its satiety response. Probably more through displacing other stuff from the diet and improved body composition.
by quesera | 2026-01-01 18:10:44+00:00
This is true. I get arguments or indignation every time I say it, but spam is a solved problem, and has been for at least 20 years (thanks Paul!).

If you get more than "insignificantly little" spam in your inbox, you are using the wrong mail provider.

My email address is on every spam list under the sun. I get 600 spam messages per day[0], but only a few per week hit my inbox.

[0] It was 600/day before I made a small change to my mail configuration. Now it's only about 50/day which is few enough that, every month or so, I actually check for false positives. I occasionally see a low-value marketing list message that isn't technically spam in the sense of being entirely unsolicited, but content-wise it's not differentiable. Zero legitimate personal messages. I can live with this.
by apothegm | 2026-01-01 18:10:46+00:00
For side projects, a TODO.md with Now, Next, Later, Maybe headings is usually perfect.

I find that insufficient when there are non-technical tasks involved in a project, tho, and have yet to find a satisfactory solution.

For tiny teams, Github Projects. For teams >4, Jira with streamlined kanban workflows and minimal bureaucracy.
by fractalf | 2026-01-01 18:10:52+00:00
Hi, author here. I was wondering why the hell my server was acting strange, then checked counter.dev and saw a huuuge spike. Ah, hackernews..

Anyway, thanks for the feedback regarding the site itself, both positive and negative. This is a 1-2 man project, just for fun, but any feedback are always welcome :)

AMA
by clankenfoot | 2026-01-01 18:10:58+00:00
Potentially dangerous to put this idea in others' heads without being more explicit about the role of timing and the risk of harm.

A dual effect of N-acetylcysteine on acute ethanol-induced liver damage in mice - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16439183/

> By contrast, post-treatment with NAC aggravated ethanol-induced hepatic lipid peroxidation and worsened acute ethanol-induced liver damage in a dose-dependent manner.

Mice be warned!
by ceroxylon | 2026-01-01 18:11:26+00:00
I left Facebook over a decade ago, and it was painful to realize how many people simply forgot that I exist, and how many events I missed because many people exclusively use it to invite people.

Similar experience where I met someone in 2017 and was enraptured with them, and we eventually drifted apart because they only communicated through Snapchat and Instagram.

I often wonder if abstaining from the platforms that I dislike was worth the increase in loneliness and detachment from society, but I don't have access to the alternative universe where I decided to grit my teeth and accept the data hoarding companies and dark patterns as a tradeoff for being able to interact with people who couldn't care less about the technicalities.
by nullorempty | 2026-01-01 18:11:48+00:00
> Exactly when do you believe this decline started?
with 'perestroyka' in the USSR which predates end of the cold war - ever since they thought they won over communist/socialist ideas and accelerated with the breakup of the USSR

>I wonder what it is that you want to say but can’t.

Nice try, this won't provoke me.

>That’s true. Unelected officials can stay in power and accrue wealth for much longer than elected officials.

Sure, sure. The systems are setup differently but you are using the same logic for both coming from the assumption that power is used to acquire personal wealth.

For some (many) power isn't about acquisition of wealth but about responsibility, taking care of a hard chore. It's a mistake to think that Xi is in power for wealth.

I often draw a parallel with being a father. You have some power, but mostly you have responsibilities.
by dzonga | 2026-01-01 18:11:53+00:00
what Buffet shows is the power of understanding fundamentals & sticking to your strengths

remember this was a guy picking stocks in the middle of nowhere - Omaha Nebraska using just Newspapers, Annual Reports and a phone. With the power of conviction.

not internet like we have to do or "A.I" - yet he built the largest conglomerate known to man
by nradov | 2026-01-01 18:12:11+00:00
China doesn't particularly need US soybeans but they're going to have to continue importing soybeans from somewhere (like Brazil or Canada) indefinitely. Like any commodity, soybeans are (somewhat) fungible. China doesn't have the right combination of arable land and cheap fertilizer necessary to be self-sufficient in soy at an economically viable cost. Of course, China's population is now declining so ironically that could increase their food security in a few decades.
by wussboy | 2026-01-01 18:12:21+00:00
I disagree with this idea. The current model (generally free content that is supported by advertisers) is not the only model that can exist. Yes the Internet would be vastly different if there were no ad revenue. But the Internet existed without ads before, and certainly could do so again. Services like Meta/X couldn't exist in that market, but would that be so bad?