MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vladdoster | 2026-01-14 12:10:31+00:00
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by nativeforks | 2026-01-14 12:10:38+00:00
Good question! “Offline-friendly” mainly refers to the core compass and sensor features, which work fully offline.

For maps, it’s a bit different users initially see an online basemap (requires internet). Instead of forcing them to download an entire map upfront like some libraries (e.g., MapsForge), they can crop or select specific areas to download.

This makes it convenient to get only the map they need.
Of course, if they prefer online maps, the app will cache tiles automatically. In remote areas, offline maps can be used as planned.
by sjw987 | 2026-01-14 12:10:59+00:00
“users who stop taking it gain the weight back” is not a baseless claim.

Most of the people on GLP will come off the drugs and regain the weight back to their original weight, if not heavier, just like people who temporarily restrict eating in any other way (discipline). You need real lifestyle change. Even the people shilling the drugs tell people that.

Personally, I hope all of these business fail. Screw the fast food industry, dieting companies (they don't want customers to actually succeed), and the pharma companies that are restricting access to people who actually need GLP drugs.
by Am4TIfIsER0ppos | 2026-01-14 12:11:52+00:00
No it's to punish us when it isn't us causing the alleged plastic problem. When the orders went out all the western media took holidays to the far east to film garbage filled rivers in india, the philippines, indonesia. Your disposable plastic straw wasn't ending up there. Your plastic bottle might have been but that's only because of the recycling scam. It should have been burned like the oil it is.
by tdeck | 2026-01-14 12:12:46+00:00
It's because when the term was first used, newer electronics to generate those frequencies had only recently become available.

The HF band is 3-30 MHz. Maritime navigation was operating on 500kHz (.5MHz) for most of the 20th century because that was what Marconi's alternators used at the beginning of the system. These machines produced the carrier frequency mechanically by rotating a disc with lots of tiny magnets on it at high speed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexanderson_alternator
by gregw2 | 2026-01-14 12:13:03+00:00
Feedback: This agent didn't really work well when I tried it with a specific non-famous, but definitely publicly known individual with known connections to Epstein. I'd rather not post a specific name here. I found more documents with keyword searches. I guess it did get me to the conclusion that there wasn't much out there, but it didn't even mention stuff that showed up in name keyword searches.

To replicate though, you might look at the list of individuals mentioned in the brief email from Epstein to Bannon a couple weeks before Esptein died containing ~30 names and phow your engine works with each one. See how a keyword search does on library of congress vs your agent.
by Muromec | 2026-01-14 12:13:26+00:00
Sure. The situation before:

The hospital has 100 beds, 30 in personnel and some amount of equipment to maintain, repairs to make, etc. They get funding from the ministry based on that. Then the head of the hospital pockets some of the allocated money on repairs and gets some percentage off bribes that doctors get from patients. If nobody ever visits the hospital, no surgeries are performed and no x-rays are done, they still have the same funding. People mostly can only go the hospital in the locality where they have their registered address (which you don't get if you live in the privat rental, but it's a different problem), unless they pay a bribe (see above).

After: the hospital is still government (or city) owned, but it has to generate revenue by proding actual services. Since health is a basic constitional right, the government still pays for most of the stuff, but only after they get the itemized bill of services and materials provided. Itimized services and materials have fixed prices set by the government too. Government or a city can still give the hospital a subsidy if they want for some capital heavy stuff, but they then see how good it's utilized.

Now the best part -- if you are a doctor and head of your hospital is a cunt, who still does the habitual stuff, you can get from your ass and open your own one-person practice, sign a contract with the government and they will pay the same amount to your directly. The patients can choose freely where they get the service and will not pay for it anyway. In practice it also means not having to pay bribes to actually have it provided.

You can think of it as a government operating an insurance company that is funded directly by the taxpayers and then dealing with health providers on a regulated, but open, market.
by bob001 | 2026-01-14 12:13:32+00:00
I was talking about the good days over the last decade and not now. As someone noted Europe made $50-80k. So around $250-400k. I knew a ton that made that. Basically anyone above junior at a tech company including late stage startups and second tier tech companies. Fully remote in many cases. At Staff+ FAANG if you were there a couple years then your RSUs would very likely push you above $1m and possibly above $2m. I think the most I heard of was someone making $10m/year and being deathly afraid of a layoff. Nowadays its AI companies which if you're lucky enough to get into and know ML will pay $2m+/year as your comp even at merely staff levels. If the bubble doesn't burst before IPOs then I know ICs whose next few generations won't need to work.
by ptero | 2026-01-14 12:13:54+00:00
TLDR: "previous years of boom provided 100k jobs straight out of college, 200k jobs and a guaranteed path to wealth soon after that. That time is over."

Right. And this, IMO, is not a bad thing. We had a long, multi-year bubble and bubbles are not good for anyone. Deflating bubbles can be painful, but they are less painful than bursting ones.

And the current software bubble is deflating, not bursting -- there are still plenty (say, compared to the last 50 years average) of jobs where a good engineer comfortable with programming will make a very good living. So do still learn CS or SE in college, but as a minor to another STEM field. My 2c.
by xtiansimon | 2026-01-14 12:14:36+00:00
> “…LLM vendors [are responsible for the message?] We should be afraid […] The purpose here is not to responsibly warn us of a real threat. If that were the aim there would be a lot more shutting down of data centres…”

Let’s not forget these innovations are on the heels of COVID. Strong, swift action by government, industry, and individuals against a deadly pathogen is “controversial”. Even if killer AI was here, twice shy…

I’m angry about a lot of things right now, but LLM “marketing” (and inadequate reporting which turns to science fiction instead of science) is not one of them. The LLM revolution is getting shoehorned into this Three Card Monte narrative, and I don’t see the utility.

The criticisms of LLM promise and danger is part of the zeitgeist. If firms are playing off of anything I bet it’s that, and not an industry wide conspiracy to trick the public and customers. Advertising and marketing meets people where they’re at, and “imagines” where they want to go, all wrapped up with the product. It doesn’t make the product frightening. It’s the same for all manner of dangerous technologies—guns, nuclear energy, whatever. The product is the solution to the fear.

> “The LLMs we have today are famously obsequious. The phrase “you’re absolutely right!” may never again be used in earnest.”

Hard NO. I get it, the language patterns of LLMs are creepy, but it’s not bad usage. So, no.

I can handle the cognitive dissonance of computer algorithms spewing out anthropomorphic phrasing and not decide that I, as a human being, can no longer in humility and honesty tell someone else they’re right, and i was wrong.
by jeroenhd | 2026-01-14 12:15:22+00:00
Slightly more context: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/115893088600630096 (and his recent posts in general)

Curl's main author has been vocal about the project getting overwhelmed by slop on their bug bounty platform for a while now. It's hardly a surprise that something had to change and the slop machine isn't going away any time soon.
by sjw987 | 2026-01-14 12:15:41+00:00
I don't think this is based around GLP drugs. I've noticed the gym, swimming pools, running and cycling routes I usually frequent have been lower every year for the past 5 years or so (the spike in January is smaller every year).

I think new years resolutions are dying out, or people are doing non-fitness based resolutions (eg. Dry January) more often now.
by DrScientist | 2026-01-14 12:15:42+00:00
> What about saving 50 people, and then killing 49? Should they cancel each other, too?

Only if they were linked - you blew up a plane that was about to be flown into a building for example.

That's completely different from one day taking over a plane and landing it safely because the pilot was out of action, and the next day shooting down a plane for fun.

You can't save up to murder your wife by giving to the homeless.
by trio8453 | 2026-01-14 12:15:59+00:00
1. Get assessed by a psychiatrist for ADHD.

2. If you're diagnosed, start medication and see if it works for you - it's by far the intervention with most evidence behind it for alleviating ADHD symptoms. It's not for everyone but for many of the people it helps starting medication is an absolutely life changing decision in the best possible way.
Show HN: DailySpace, Android app for exploring space photos and rocket launches
by DailySpace | 2026-01-14 12:16:09+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve always been fascinated by space and how much is happening beyond what we usually see day to day. I wanted a simple way to explore space photography and learn what I was actually looking at, without jumping between lots of different sites or long articles.

So I built DailySpace, an Android app for exploring a large collection of space photos with short and clear explanations. You can browse thousands of images of galaxies, nebulae, planets, stars, black holes, Earth, and different NASA missions organized into categories or found through search.

As I kept using it myself, I added things I thought were missing elsewhere, like a rocket launches and space mission tracker where you can see upcoming launches, revisit past missions, and read about their goals, vehicles, agencies, and timelines.

I’d love feedback on:

What features are missing?
Would you use such an app?
Is the app works smoothly on your device?

Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.daily.spac...

Happy to answer questions!
by cons0le | 2026-01-14 12:16:50+00:00
Weed disposables are a whole rabbit hole by themselves.

You want to buy a disposable? Ok, here, $20 and you're done.

But if you want to make the oil at home? Ok, $2000 for lights, timers, nutrients, seeds, and a grow tent. Plus another ~$10,000 for a basic short path distillation setup. And honestly to make anything close to what you get in the disposables, you'll need to hire an expert with experience. And you need a lot of space for your new secret lab. For 99.999% of people, it's super not worth it to make at home.
by kristianp | 2026-01-14 12:16:51+00:00
With a full screen browser on a 14 inch laptop, the content takes up less than half the width of the browser window. The screenshots are slightly narrower. As a result I can barely make out the text in the dialogue box screenshots. Is it really that hard to format content well?

Anyway, interesting tool and nice that it is implemented in Rust. Where is the prompt that tells the agent when to call the popup tool?
by Qmppu842 | 2026-01-14 12:17:25+00:00
Heh, since for us it was time with our dad, we needed to be able to chat.
So before first test play we decided not make rules around speaking.

After that many people find it really hard to grasp the rules and possibilities.
"How can the rules change without anybody knowing?"
"How can they be enforced?"
And so on.

To me the ideal would be no rules explained but as the embasidor, I do not get such possibility.

To others I explain some rules and example rules, such that we often want to sosialice so while you can make speaking rules they may be bit meh.

No one but one person made voice rules.
My god I got burned in that game.
I was constanly speaking as the explainer and keeping turn order up.
I did not figure it why I got so many penalties from them, I had small feeling but could not figure the exact thing.

Turns out he was bit annoyed by me and the rule was: "you are not allowed to speak on your turn"

Obv I was not mad, I was amused when I got interesting game.
Good times.
by somenameforme | 2026-01-14 12:17:47+00:00
I had pretty much the exact same experience as the peer comment in this thread. They were videos I was interested in, or at least got clickbaited into, but the fact that they were AI generated destroyed their value. At scale I think the most likely outcome of this is not that people embrace AI for this sort of stuff, but rather that it also destroys the value of genuine content by making people doubtful of the authenticity of anything that seems improbable.
by pj4533 | 2026-01-14 12:18:11+00:00
All I know is that I have built more in the past 10 months than I ever have. How do you quantify for the skeptics the mental shift that happens when you know you can just build stuff now?

COULD I do this stuff before? Sure. But I wouldn’t have. Life gets in the way. Now, the bar is low so why not build stuff? Some of it ships, some of it is just experimentation. It’s all building.

Trying to quantify that shift is impossible. It’s not a multiplier to productivity you measure by commits. It’s a builder mind shift.
by northfield27 | 2026-01-14 12:18:32+00:00
I agree with your POV. Technology has been improved exponentially and from a human POV having systems smarter than us can be good (if we have control over them but to think about that makes us smarter and powerful, but that's another discussion).

I agree with this but I just don't believe that the "promised AI" would be an LLM but some other technology.

> But specialized harnesses paired with frontier models are also better security engineers than I am, dollar for dollar versus my cost. They're better pentesters than me, for the relative costs.

Don't mind but some parts of cybersecurity are more brute-force in nature, where AI excels, but using that to claim frontier models are better security engineers than humans is a bit of an oversimplification. You are BETTER because of your expertise of X years in cyber security, and I can assure you that there is not frontier model out there with the context capacity to challenge you on that. And that makes you a 10x or even 100x more cost effective (dollar-wise). And your (perceived) cost will go on increasing with each adding year to your experience. AI can do things faster than you but your judgement on which subtree/direction to traverse while pentesting makes you a better than an LLM and the cost of this (human) judgement will increase day-by-day because other humans need other humans to take accountability.
by palata | 2026-01-14 12:19:01+00:00
> Let’s all not forget the ones who wouldn’t want this to happen are the same ones who hold all the power. No government will ever force this.

I think this is an important point: it's already impossible to enforce antitrust laws because TooBigTech has the power, and when an entity big enough tries to regulate (like the EU), then the US government prevents them from doing it.
by sigmoid10 | 2026-01-14 12:19:11+00:00
This way it wouldn't be much better than instructing the model to elicit a particular behaviour using the system prompt. Limiting tokens to a subset of outputs is already common (and mathematically equivalent to a large shift in the output vector), e.g. for structured outputs, but it doesn't change the actual world representation inside the model. It would also be very sensitive to your input prompt to do it this way.
by throwaway2037 | 2026-01-14 12:19:53+00:00
There are hundreds of small film festivals all over the United States each year. The biggest that I know is probably Sundance Film Festival. They have just as much "taste" (whatever that means) as Cannes (Film Festival). France also produces lots of shitty French language films that never leave the French-speaking world. Canal+ is the gold standard for French language film production.
by mattkevan | 2026-01-14 12:19:59+00:00
Graphic, formerly iDraw, is one of my favourite vector design tools, but it's been abandoned since being dropped by Autodesk in 2018.

At one point it had genuine potential to be a viable lightweight Illustrator alternative, similar to Pixelmator vs Photoshop. Autodesk's purchase and sale killed all that momentum and it's not been updated since.

The iOS and iPad apps are still the excellent vector tools even in their current half-broken state.

I'd love to discover who currently owns it and what their plans are - it's a great app and I hate to see it rot.
by bonoboTP | 2026-01-14 12:22:03+00:00
Recently asked Claude Code how to do more thorough tests and described how I imagine it and it set up Hypothesis and mutmut testing. The latter is quite cool, it introduces bugs in the code like swapping values and relational operators and checks if any test catches the bug. If not, your tests are probably not thorough enough. Better than just line coverage checks.
by jonnyzzz | 2026-01-14 12:22:45+00:00
My main goal is to collect scenarios and feedback. There is no public GitHub link yet.

Look at my posts X (@jonnyzzz), LinkedIn (jonnyzzz), and on jonnyzzz.com, e.g., https://jonnyzzz.com/blog/2026/01/04/mcp-steroids-intellij/

At this stage, I aim to gather more feedback before going public.
by gibsonsmog | 2026-01-14 12:23:20+00:00
If you can, find an old tape deck at a thrift store and look into cassettes as well. They're super fun to find and you can buy new ones from groups on Bandcamp usually way cheaper than any other merch offerings and still get the high quality FLAC files. I spent some time last year going through a variety of tapes that were up to 40+ years old and was shocked at how good some of them still sounded.
by developer786 | 2026-01-14 12:24:07+00:00
A classic example of this is the Google Nest Learning Thermostats Version 1 and 2. With a decent bounty, these £220 ($400+) devices have been given a new lease of life by the team behind:

https://nolongerevil.com/

Repurposing bricked Nest Gen 1 & 2 thermostats with custom software. Giving old hardware new life through open source innovation. No Longer Evil is a right-to-repair firmware and cloud replacement for Nest Thermostats that frees your device from Google’s cloud dependency. By flashing custom firmware, your thermostat will operate independently and connect to No Longer Evil’s platform (or your own self-hosted server), giving you complete control over your device data and settings.
by clarionbell | 2026-01-14 12:24:18+00:00
This hardly matters unless electricity prices for end consumers go down. And that can hardly happen without improved transmission lines and storage. And those are consistently being blocked by NIMBYs.

This is not a matter of policy, but of physics. Producers are far from consumers, in both time and space. Wind turbines are dispersed and far from cities, wind doesn't blow when there is high demand. And yet, these sources are being plugged into a grid that was built over decades under completely different assumptions.

No wonder the energy prices are high.
by sermah | 2026-01-14 12:24:40+00:00
Sorry, but this sounds straight up like “lock yourself up in echo chamber”. I don’t completely disagree that many things just don’t work, especially planners. Meds are just too easy to use, you basically buy yourself a “walking stick” and do nothing to learn walking by yourself. This is something a lazy/ADHD person would do, not a one willing to strengthen their mind.
Lago (Open-Source Billing) is hiring across teams and geos
by Rafsark | 2026-01-14 12:25:59+00:00
Here's the official job board: https://www.getlago.com/hiring

We're open-source, mainly use Ruby.
Billing is interesting because it lays the ground for the monetization system of any company.
Because we're heavily developer-focus, we fit very well with complex use cases for either infra companies and/or enteprises.
Companies like Groq, Mistral, CoreWeave or PayPal chose Lago.

We're now heavily investing in step 2: on leveraging the usage and billing data to make the RevOps stack make more sense.
Examples: https://github.com/getlago/lago-agent-toolkit or https://www.getlago.com/platform/ai

If this resonates, reach out to talent@getlago.com (whether the job is listed or not)!
by jijijijij | 2026-01-14 12:26:14+00:00
The point isn't the technical inability to block particular IPv6 addresses efficiently, but anticipating abuse potential by IP. You can change IPv6 addresses freely compared to IPv4. With IPv4 it's easy to determine, if you are dealing with a residential IP or VPN. No heuristics or analysis needed. IPv4 addresses are blocked preemptively, that's not really a thing for IPv6. Eg. VPN providers wouldn't have static endpoint addresses with IPv6. So you may be able to limit spontaneous abuse such as DDoS attacks, but it's a lot harder to filter technically legitimate traffic, which is merely unwanted for your data aggregation.
by Terr_ | 2026-01-14 12:26:36+00:00
192 bits?

I must be missing something here, there are 25 unique dice that can be permuted, each can have six potential sides showing, and 4 potential orientations of the displayed face... So (25!)×(25×6×4) ? Isn't that more like only 93 bits?

Well obviously harder to scan from a phone, I think a deck of playing cards would be easier to acquire and store. Shuffling 27 would give you 93 bits, shuffling the full 52 would be ~226.