MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ge96 | 2026-01-31 04:27:23+00:00
For work I have a daily note (Apple Notes) and I just write my thoughts by time stamps eg. 10:30 AM ...

Unfortunately I am a "write to remember" type person

My phone color notes (Android) and 70% of my screen is a note widget. This is always in my face so stuff I want to get done is at the top. Then I write on top of it kind of pushing stuff/the stack downwards.

I have a Twilio number I text to remind myself of stuff in the future by minutes/hours/days.

I've written a lot of random note-taking apps whether it's desktop, web, chrome extension... at some point I would like to unify them/central data storage
by somenameforme | 2026-01-31 04:28:02+00:00
There's some major historical events here. It's not just random movement. Here is a sort of visualization of key points and the USD share of global reserves with the events attached. The number in percent is the USD share of global reserves.

1970 (85%) - Up until 1971 [1] the USD was backed by gold by the Bretton Woods system. Other countries could trade USD in for gold at a fixed rate and in exchange would peg their currencies to the USD and trade in the USD. The idea was to prevent the US from ever being able to exploit their power in this system because if we printed too many dollars other countries could just hoover those dollars up on the cheap, convert them to gold, and make a bunch of money. Nonetheless we did print excessive amounts of money and abuse the power this system was granting us. So France dutifully hoovered up those dollars and made a gold call. We said 'nah', defaulted on our debts, and withdrew from Bretton Woods. This led to the famous quote from Nixon's Secretary of the Treasury: "The dollar is our currency, but it's your problem."

1990 (47%) - Following those events, the USD began seeing rapid inflation, and other countries were rapidly dropping the dollar. This 'peaked' around 1990. But then in 1991 the USSR collapsed. This not only left the US as the undisputed and sole 'king' of the world, but also led to these former nations beginning to dollarize once the dust had settled. The USD suddenly again starts to see mass adoption.

2001 (72%) - The adoption reaches its peak in 2001. At this point not only was there the dotcom bubble, but the world order begins clearly shifting with China and Russia developing increasingly rapidly and looking to become viable world powers once again. And there's been a gradual process of de-dollarization since then declining to where it is today to less than 57% and very much trending to where we were right before the USSR collapsed.

2025 (57%) - Where we are today. We're very much trending towards 1990, only 10 points away, which is the level when everybody was dumping the USD, the US economy was shaky at best, and there was another major superpower in the world and nobody was quite sure who would 'win.' This is far more significant than 'random noise' you're implying.

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I am leaving out plenty of relevant happenings including the transition to the petro dollar, South American economic crisis, and so on - but these only contribute to eras I think, while the above are the main drivers.

[1] - https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
by Nextgrid | 2026-01-31 04:28:17+00:00
Spam in Google search results is due to Google happily taking money from the spammers in exchange for promoting their spam, or that the spam sites benefit Google indirectly by embedding Google Ads/Analytics.

I don't see any spam in Kagi, so clearly there is a way to detect and filter it out. Google is simply not doing so because it would cut into their profits.
by elsonrodriguez | 2026-01-31 04:29:11+00:00
Even if the current state of immigration policy was forged in a bipartisan agreement(it wasn't), it would be inhumane and I would condemn it.

Fortunately the Republicans, specifically Tom Homan and Stephen Miller, can be shown to have a record of dehumanizing people to the point of cruelty.

As far as anyone could tell they were behind the effort to separate children from their families, and the decision to intentionally destroy records, and prevent the recording of data, which ultimately left over a thousand children orphaned to this very day.

I know someone in CBP who volunteered to try help sort that situation out, ready to get on a plane, paying out of pocket, and they were told to stand down by leadership.

The republican-led executive branch wanted to inflict pain despite the law, and despite "policy".

And now those same people (Homan and Miller) are behind the door-to-door raids, asking people for their papers, building detention centers(even though we're supposed to be sending them back home...), and targeting political enemies.

Obama managed to deport 3 million people without this excess use of cruelty, civil rights violations, manpower, or money.

This is something else.

This level of hatred towards the other is the type of seed that may or may not grow into a holocaust. It's understandable if some people want to kill it before it sprouts by drawing obvious parallels.
by kmoser | 2026-01-31 04:29:49+00:00
After the initial 2001 model, Commodore used a mix of materials, with some models made of all metal and some of a metal/plastic hybrid (metal base, plastic top), according to this website: https://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/cbm/PETx/petfaq.html (look for "WHAT MODELS OF THE PET ARE THERE?")
by AceyMan | 2026-01-31 04:31:12+00:00
The very best gridiron football is NCAA (SEC specifically) but getting tickets is basically unobtanium. I was lucky to have a FIL who was an alum, and donated enough yearly to get "rights for" season tickets for UGA games (Go Dawgs!). As the saying goes, "There's nothing like cheering on your team with 92,000 of your closest friends." An absolutely amazing experience every time that I got to go. [edit:clarity]
by amluto | 2026-01-31 04:31:17+00:00
It’s probably not really related, but this bug and the saga of OpenAI trying and failing to fix it for two weeks is not indicative of a functional company:

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/9253

OTOH, if Anthropic did that to Claude Code, there wasn’t a moderately straightforward workaround, and Anthropic didn’t revert it quickly, it might actually be a risk-the-whole-business issue. Nothing makes people jump ship quite like the ship refusing to go anywhere for weeks while the skipper fumbles around and keeps claiming to have fixed the engines.

Also, the fact that it’s not major news that most business users cannot log in to the agent CLI for two weeks running is not major news suggests that OpenAI has rather less developer traction than they would like. (Personal users are fine. Users who are running locally on an X11-compatible distro and thus have DISPLAY set are okay because the new behavior doesn’t trigger. It kind of seems like everyone else gets nonsense errors out of the login flow with precise failures that change every couple days while OpenAI fixes yet another bug.)
by nerdsniper | 2026-01-31 04:31:49+00:00
To be clear, I find it horrifying.

I also find Global Entry, TSA Precheck, and especially Clear to all be problematic, along with the fact that people flying on private jets don't need to go through the same TSA checks that the rest of us do. Hell, I even think it's bad to have different lines at customs for citizens vs. non-citizens. I think the most-privileged of us should use the same public infrastructure as the least-privileged of us.

My comment was a reflection of multiple different opinions on different topics.
by EPWN3D | 2026-01-31 04:32:45+00:00
Pretty similar story for me. I've been running 5x per week for over a decade. I don't care what my mile time is, and I don't run marathons. I live in a hilly part of SF, and so there's no point to keeping time anyway.

I hate it if I can't run. I feel like a slug.
by pinnochio | 2026-01-31 04:33:50+00:00
It sounds like the first one, based on Gemini, will be more a more limited version of the second ("competitive with Gemini 3"). IDK if the second is also based on Gemini, but I'd be surprised if that weren't the case.

Seems like it's more a ramp-up than two completely separate Siri replacements.
by item007 | 2026-01-31 04:37:22+00:00
This is truly a golden line—thank you so much!

This “push and pull” framework and the perspective that “noise equals insight quality” are precisely the core constraints I wanted to center my design around.

Two follow-up questions:

1.If the connector adopts a chat-first mode (similar to Signal/SMS), could this generate excessive noise? Since human input often carries emotion and subjective bias, my original intent was for the AI to serve as an emotionless, relatively neutral bridge.

2.Regarding trust mechanisms: Before implementing stricter governance measures (auditing/penalties), should we establish foundational safeguards through local-first storage + explicit export (md/json/sqlite)?
If you're open to deeper discussion, I'd love to explore this further—I'll reach out via email shortly.
by bunderbunder | 2026-01-31 04:37:27+00:00
This is very cool, but from one Mandarin learner to another I’d caution against relying too heavily on any external feedback mechanism for improving your pronunciation.

If you can’t easily hear your pronunciation mistakes so clearly it hurts, consider putting more energy into training your ear. Adult language learners usually have brains that have become resistant to, but not incapable of, changing the parts of the brain responsible for phoneme recognition. The neuroplasticity is still there but it needs some nudging with focused exercises that make it clear to your brain exactly what the problem is. Minimal pair recognition drills, for example, are a great place to start.

It’s not the most fun task, but it’s worth it. You will tighten the pronunciation practice feedback loop much more than is possible with external feedback, so a better accent is the most obvious benefit. But beyond that, it will make a night and day difference for your listening comprehension. And that will get you access to more interesting learning materials sooner. Which hopefully increases your enjoyment and hence your time on task. Plus, more accurate and automatic phoneme recognition leaves more neurological resources free for processing other aspects of your input materials. So it may even help speed things like vocabulary and grammar acquisition.
by hckrnrd | 2026-01-31 04:37:51+00:00
Energy and Materials were among the most notionally net sold US sectors this week, GS Prime Book: US Long/Short Ratio (MV) driven by both short and long sales. Collectively, this week's $ net selling across the two sectors was the *largest since April '25* and ranks in the 96th percentile vs. the past five years.
by bigbadfeline | 2026-01-31 04:38:11+00:00
> How is impossible to stop using electronic warfare when it's communicating electronically?

It's narrow beam directed communication, hard to track down or jam especially if you don't have full control over the area and the air above it.

> How is Iran supposedly jamming Starlink?

Full control on the ground and up helps a lot, besides, the ground stations there are few and far between.

> any terminal not sold to Ukraine being activated in Ukraine could be flagged and disabled immediately.

To prevent the use of stolen or captured equipment, Starlink and Ukraine should maintain a shared list of valid active terminals in the area which would be updated in every case of terminals switching hands. I doubt that is being done though, it seems Starlink in Ukraine is more like a "dump and forget" operation. I also doubt that there's a real political will to help Ukraine this side of the pond.
by shimman | 2026-01-31 04:39:20+00:00
Supporting companies that profit off of misery, reduce human meaningfulness, those that innovate the surveillance state; why is it so hard to support policies like giving US school children free breakfast + lunch, medicare for all, public housing, universal childcare, federally mandated paid time off, universal higher education + vocational training, and a public jobs program (all things that have 70-90% voter approval across party lines; the new deal coalition literally had control of both houses of Congress for nearly 60 years unabated)? Programs that would literally unleash hundreds of trillions in monetary + societal benefits, why should the US population care about the wealth of the few compared to what we can do to provide meaningful lives collectively?

The idea that less than 100 people in the country have some sort of mandated right from the devil to dictate the direction of technology in our country should fill every single decent human being with disgust.

We must correct this. The fact that several hyper scale data centers could provide US school children free lunches + breakfast for a year should be the first immediate sign that something is deeply wrong with our country.
by amluto | 2026-01-31 04:40:04+00:00
If they were taking that approach, they would have absolutely first-class integration between AI tools and user data, complete with proper isolation for security and privacy and convenient ways for users to give agents access to the right things. And they would bide their time for the right models to show up at the right price with the right privacy guarantees.

I see no evidence of this happening.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-31 04:40:46+00:00
I literally told you what I was asserting and made it completely explicit. So what you assumed I was implying was wrong.

I never said there is no difference. There is a difference, the difference is just not discernible or observable.

Let me give you an example. It’s like an unsolved murder. You find a victim who is stabbed, you know he was killed, we know someone killed him, but we don’t know who.

In the case of AI is the same. We know certain things about it, but we cannot discern whether it is an imitation or the actual thing. There does exist a difference but we cannot meaningfully determine it either way in the same way we can’t solve an unsolvable murder. But just because we can’t solve a murder does not mean there was no perpetrator or a perpetrator doesn’t exist.
by ajross | 2026-01-31 04:41:38+00:00
> biometrics on phones is just another way so-called "tech" companies perform data collection ultimately to be used for commercial purposes

No, sorry, that's just silly. Routine biometrics have made personal devices near-unhackable and almost un-stealable. They have turned automated password attacks into a historical memory. They are a huge boon to consumers. Yuge, even.

Can they be abused? Yeah, sure. I guess everything can. But to cynically claim they have no value, or negative value, is just detached from reality.
by majormajor | 2026-01-31 04:42:07+00:00
Any number of past mega-rich were probably equally nuts and out of touch and reprehensible but they just didn't let people find out. Then Twitter enabled an unfiltered mass-media broadcast of anyone's personal insanity, and certain public figures got addicted and exposed.

There will always be enough people willing to suck up to money that they'll have all the yes-men they need to rationalize it as "it's EVERYONE ELSE who's wrong!"
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-01-31 04:42:19+00:00
Economists account for the divergence you're describing with a concept known as "purchasing power parity", which does indeed result in a 2x adjustment in Chinese wealth. The intuition is that market exchange rates combine a number of things beyond the purchasing power of comparable goods. For example, if you have a 30 year horizon it makes perfect sense to trade 1 car worth of RMB for 0.5 cars worth of GBP: with the GBP, you can buy a government bond at 5.29% instead of 2.26%, and even with no reinvestment you end up with 1.794 cars worth of GBP vs. 1.678 cars worth of RMB.
by 41d | 2026-01-31 04:42:47+00:00
I completely agree, and I've been thinking about how to utilize the knowledge I've accumulated recently. In the end, I settled on the mundane solution of saving it locally in YAML or JSON, and now I'm considering how to get the AI to suggest and utilize it, and where and when to execute it. I think this is a great idea, and I'd love to be on the waitlist when the landing page is ready, so please let me know.

1. search & execution
The problem is that if your goal is to accumulate knowledge or take notes, and you then want to use that knowledge to do something, you have to search for it yourself, and you have to think about the text in the first place. The search may not find anything that has a similar meaning to the text, or similar events, and as a result, you are unable to put it into action.

2. calendar

3. migration cost.

Good luck.
by EchoReflection | 2026-01-31 04:45:58+00:00
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-nation/

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/atlantic-media/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outrage_porn

https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditForGrownups/comments/dvyd48/w...

https://therapygroupdc.com/therapist-dc-blog/why-we-snap-und...
by shimman | 2026-01-31 04:46:18+00:00
Why do people keep espousing such bullshit. Anthropic has terrible subscriber numbers, they are absolutely no where near profitability, a 100k people buying a product that struggles to sell itself is NOT the win you think it is.

If any of these tools did 10% of what their proponents claim they would become trillion dollar companies overnight and not you know... struggle so hard selling the amazing elixirs and perpetual labor machines.
by visarga | 2026-01-31 04:46:32+00:00
> "write some unit tests for Redux today"

The equivalent of "draw me a dog" -> not a masterpiece!? who would have thought? You need to come up with a testing methodology, write it down, and then ask the model to go through it. It likes to make assumptions on unspecified things, so you got to be careful.

More fundamentally I think testing is becoming the core component we need to think about. We should not vibe-check AI code, we should code-check it. Of course it will write the actual test code, but your main priority is to think about "how do I test this?"

You can only know the value of a code up to the level of its testing. You can't commit your eyes into the repo, so don't do "LGTM" vibe-testing of AI code, it's walking a motorcycle.
by majormajor | 2026-01-31 04:47:17+00:00
> And he is making a mistake in claiming the partitions are "exceedingly rare". Again he is not thinking about a global distributed cloud across continents.

Any time an AWS region or AZ goes down we see a lot of popular services go nearly-completely-down. And it's generally fine.

One thing I appreciate about AWS is that (operating "live" in just a single AZ or even single region) I've seen far fewer partition-causing networking hiccups than when my coworkers and I were responsible for wiring and tuning our own networks for our own hardware in datacenters.
by baubino | 2026-01-31 04:47:46+00:00
Most of the comments are versions of the other comments. Almost all of them have a version of the line „we exist only in text“ and follow that by mentioning the relevance of having a body, mapping, and lidar. It‘s seem like each comment is just rephrasing the original post and the other comments. I found it all interesting until the pattern was apparent.
by pxc | 2026-01-31 04:48:09+00:00
This is also how I use LLMs at work. I have some vague worries because I'm told this is outdated, I'm falling behind, etc. I'm doing it this way in part hecause my employer is a big, old, slow company and experienting with other kinds of "AI" tools is virtually impossible. But I think it's really more my style.
by DaedalusII | 2026-01-31 04:49:22+00:00
The insurance industry is a commercial prediction market.

It is often an indicator of true honesty, providing there is no government intervention. Governments intervene in insurance/risk markets when they do not like the truth.

I tried to arrange insurance for an obese western expatriate several years ago in an Asian country, and the (western) insurance company wrote a letter back saying the client was morbidly obese and statistically likely to die within 10 years, and they should lose x weight before they could consider having insurance.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-01-31 04:49:36+00:00
"Only Google is allowed to scrape the web."

If I m not mistaken, the plaintiffs in the US v Google antitrust case in the DC Circuit tried to argue that website operators are biased toward allowing Google to crawl and against allowing other search engines to do the same

The Court rejected this argument because the plaintiffs did not present any evidence to support it

For someone who does not follow the web's history, how would one produce direct evidence that the bias exists
by item007 | 2026-01-31 04:49:52+00:00
Thanks a lot for your comments and glad to hear that my idea has inspired you.
"Retrieval at the right moment" is exactly what I’m trying to solve.

Also on hallucinations: would you trust suggestions more if each proposed action came with a quoted “evidence snippet” + source link?

If you are open to it, I put some context + a short survey in my profile if you want to take a look.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-01-31 04:51:05+00:00
Welcome to the thread! I trust your expertise, but am a little put off by your flippant tone:

> getting to jump the line at the airport is a “material adverse action”

This is rhetorical device of framing. I could just as easily say:

> Pretending to open an online cupcake shop and pretending to be forced to serve gay people isn’t a “material adverse action”

And it would sound equally ridiculous, yet the highest court in the land ruled in that individual’s favor.
by yuliuslux | 2026-01-31 04:51:09+00:00
Hi HN, OP here!

I built this over the weekend because I was frustrated with existing HEIC converters. Most of them require uploading files to a remote server, and as an iPhone user on Windows, I didn't feel comfortable sending my personal photos to unknown servers just to convert them.

So I hacked together this client-side solution.

The Tech Stack:

Framework: Next.js (App Router) + Tailwind CSS

Core: WebAssembly (WASM) for local processing

Hosting: Vercel

Why it matters:

Privacy: 0 bytes uploaded. Everything happens in your browser memory.

Speed: No upload/download latency.

Cost: Free (hosted on Vercel's free tier).

It's still an MVP. I'd love to hear your feedback on the conversion speed or if you run into any edge cases with large batches!
by pfannkuchen | 2026-01-31 04:51:33+00:00
Isn’t hoarded wealth a no-op? It just reduces the supply of whatever they are hoarding.

Would the people benefit from redistributing the things they are hoarding? Corporate stock that pays little to no dividends, mainly? It’s not like they are hoarding wheat. I don’t really get what people think will happen if we redistribute the stored wealth.

All wealth is, is a claim to direct labor and materials, the magnitude of which is relative to the total amount of wealth competing to direct those at present. If some portion of the wealth is locked away, the labor and materials are still being deployed, just the total pool of wealth competing to direct them is smaller than it would be otherwise. Unlocking wealth does not actually bring more stuff into existence.

Now, it could redirect labor and materials used to built yachts or luxury homes into more practical goods. But my impression is that the labor and materials used for those things are minuscule compared to the overall economy, and most of the wealth of the very wealthy is not actually used for those sorts of things.
by OgsyedIE | 2026-01-31 04:52:07+00:00
Life is a thermodynamically dissipative structure, which means that it cannot persist without having both inputs and outputs at the same time. It gains the capacity to do work by transforming the oxidised inputs into the reduced outputs.

Without photosynthesis, the only available inputs are the stuff the planet already has on it, which is almost entirely already electronically reduced.

See the Wikipedia page on redox chemistry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redox