MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tshaddox | 2026-01-07 22:14:16+00:00
I don't think that's quite what the comment is claiming. They're not saying that some small portion of homeowners are working together to raise prices. I think they're more talking about the concept of "marginal buyers." It's the marginal buyer that sets prices, not the average buyer. And particularly when supply is heavily restricted, the marginal buyers can be a very tiny portion of all buyers, and can look very different from the average buyer.
by alexpotato | 2026-01-07 22:14:26+00:00
I switched to using Pinboard [0] for all bookmarking and never looked back.

The real unlocks were:

- using the bookmarklet that pops open a small browser window with the page title, suggested tags

- doing the same on my iphone

- have a couple in browser bookmarks that point to the tags for important things

It's so good I even used it to track all of my LinkedIn connections tagged by location, job function etc (inspired by Derek Sivers post on having a database [1])

0 - https://pinboard.in

1 - https://sive.rs/dbt
by nextaccountic | 2026-01-07 22:14:29+00:00
I want to comment that in Buddhism, the role of meditation isn't (just) to reduce anxiety or manage emotion. Indeed if this was the role, then other techniques of anxiety reduction or emotion management could replace meditation.

Instead, the ultimate role of meditation is to experience your inner reality. And it's really the experience that is important, just thinking about it doesn't have the same effect
by anon7000 | 2026-01-07 22:14:41+00:00
Yep. There are plenty of activities, skills, hobbies, whatever, where being able to remember something in the moment is very helpful. Sometimes it’s an edge case, maybe it’s a safety thing. You just want to remember whatever it is.

Or, hell, just for conversations, I’d love to better remember insightful things I read about and then promptly forgot.
by conductr | 2026-01-07 22:15:00+00:00
> You do not have to meet the seller to check the VIN of a vehicle sitting on the street.

You're assuming the vehicle remains where the photo was taken.

> Well yeah, because you only filtered on 2 of the dozen or so attributes that you might know.

Those were the only attributes that were apparent in the photo. I said I ignored Wagon because that was a cherry picked unique filter. If it wasn't a wagon, your analysis is the same as mine, >100 vehicles in the SF bay area (I only filtered on 100 mile radius). But again, why steal a vehicle and post it for sale in the same city you stole it from? Criminals already move stolen vehicles, this is all but obvious.

Basically, this helps you catch the dumbest of the dumb criminals. Someone that steals a very unique car and posts it for sale in the same area they stole it from and also leaves the car parked in the same place they took the photo. There's also a time element, if they hide the vehicle for a few weeks, then post it for sale it's more likely the initial active investigation has faded and the cops aren't actively hitting refresh on marketplace.

Glad you believe this is useful, I'll continue to disagree - it might have some value but it's usefulness is being exaggerated in the article.
by seizethecheese | 2026-01-07 22:15:04+00:00
Really strange comment. You're offended by the implication that what we eat may impact our health?

Regarding the class comment, sure a access to some food is class based, but pretty much all westerners can afford basic "real food". I know because I've lived on minimum wage and could buy eggs, rice, beans, chicken thigh, etc.
by smy20011 | 2026-01-07 22:15:09+00:00
According to https://cdn.realfood.gov/Daily%20Serving%20Sizes.pdf, their recommendations do not meet their calories goal. Eg, for 2000 calories, you can eat 4 egg, 3 cup of milk, 4 slice of bread, 2 apple and 3 tbsp of oil per day.

Total calories will be 1,608 kcal/day.

It's a very depressing diet menu.
by arthurstarlake | 2026-01-07 22:15:10+00:00
wow. i couldnt unsee it :(

I found a path from Piano to Volcano with 21 generated topics!
Piano → Yamaha Corporation (places)
Yamaha Corporation → Yamaha Corporation headquarters (places)
Yamaha Corporation headquarters → Yamaha Headquarters (places)
Yamaha Headquarters → Iwata (places)
Iwata → Shizuoka (places)
Shizuoka → Mount Fuji (places)
Mount Fuji → Volcano (broader).

Try it yourself at www.llmgame.ai
by 5upplied_demand | 2026-01-07 22:15:15+00:00
> who live in a desert with no natural resources. Quite remarkable.

Almost as remarkable as your ability to completely invent something, and then present as a fact. It is similar to how you claimed Trump has a concrete policy of abandoning unfounded foreign policy engagements 2 weeks before he invaded Venezuela on charges the DOJ now admits were fake [0].

The state itself debunks your claim, from geology.utah.gov: "Utah has abundant and diverse energy resources including conventional fossil fuels, unconventional oil shale and oil sand resources, and areas suitable for renewable resource development" [1].

Site selection magazine also disagrees [2].

Utah Business disagrees, too, specifically: "Utah is blessed with abundant natural resources, many of which have played a critical role in shaping our economy" [3].

Another one: "In 2019, Utah remained one of the top 10 U.S. states for metals and industrial minerals production, with continued active exploration" [4].

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/us/trump-venezuela-drug-c...

[1] https://geology.utah.gov/energy-minerals/

[2] https://siteselection.com/got-minerals/

[3] https://www.utahbusiness.com/thought-leadership/2023/07/17/u...

[4] https://naturalresources.utah.gov/dnr-newsfeed/utah-one-of-t...
by estearum | 2026-01-07 22:15:20+00:00
> Landlord, or property management,

This is literally not true.

A landlord owns the property. Property managers operate the property. Sometimes these are the same people (in mom and pop scenarios), but typically and at scale they certainly are not.

Property management is a job. Landlording is not. It is simply owning an asset.

+1 on taxing land though.
by Jcampuzano2 | 2026-01-07 22:15:23+00:00
Doesn't matter. Even if people were for some reason still going to their docs there would simply be no need for the types of paid products they offer - prebuilt template components.

Why pay for a template when AI's can shit out your entire design system and multiple templates in 5 minutes, not to mention competition from other template systems like shadcn that are completely free.

And yes they might not be the best quality but you just prompt it until you like it and then use it as a reference.
by Terr_ | 2026-01-07 22:15:52+00:00
Is there a particular reason for so many [dead] submissions for 404media?

I suspect a lot of people on HN rely on GitHub for work and personal projects, so any changes in its reliability or governance are of-interest. If there's some new accountability-sink [0] process going around banning people, I wouldn't want to be a victim just because (for example) I have some "hacking" code for brute-force decoding an easter-egg message from a game.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unaccountability_Machine
by slyn | 2026-01-07 22:16:15+00:00
Just had a system board replaced on a device in my org, Dell laptop.

As part of setting up a device in our org we enroll our device in Intune (Microsoft's cloud-based device management tool aka UEM / RMM / MDM / etc). To enroll your device you take a "hardware hash" which's basically TPM attestation and some additional spices and upload it to their admin portal.

After the system board replacement we got errors that the device is in another orgs tenant. This is not unusual (you open a ticket with MS and they typically fix it for you), and really isn't to blame on Dell per se. Why ewaste equipment you can refurbish?

Just adding 5c to the anecdata out there re: TPM as an imperfect solution.
by kiba | 2026-01-07 22:16:18+00:00
The problem is not owning multiple properties, but untaxed land ownership. There's a prexisting solution for what you want to solve. It's called the Land Value Tax, which imposes a tax on land, but not on buildings and other improvement.

Property tax has a known problem of taxing improvement in addition to land, which constrict urban development. Plus, imposing additional property tax means improvements are further penalized, which means efficient land ownership are penalized.

You should look up Georgism and read up on what they have to say. It's a reaction to the 19th century economic condition but it very much apply to our 21st century situation and even more relevant today.
by Dig1t | 2026-01-07 22:16:24+00:00
I tend to agree, the words someone chooses tell you about the kind of person they are. Context is usually obvious, you can tell if someone is trying to be edgy, if someone normally uses the word in their vocabulary with their friends, or if they are genuinely using it in a hateful way.

The genuine hateful usage is the actually bad thing that people want to stop, but many people mistakenly think they are fighting hatred by policing other people’s vocabulary.
by ncallaway | 2026-01-07 22:16:31+00:00
> I get priorization but this isn't really that. He's not saying "I'll get to this when I find some time. Busy with high-priority business-related things right now."

I don't really understand how you can find a difference between your sentence with what he wrote:

> I totally see the value in the feature and I would like to find a way to add it.

> But the reality is that 75% of the people on our engineering team lost their jobs here yesterday because of the brutal impact AI has had on our business. And every second I spend trying to do fun free things for the community like this is a second I'm not spending trying to turn the business around and make sure the people who are still here are getting their paychecks every month.

Pretty sure those are the same picture
by pksebben | 2026-01-07 22:16:53+00:00
The warrant was issued by Trump - originally at 15M, Biden bumped it to 25, but Trump then bumped it again to 50. Not here to defend Joe, but you also shouldn't be defending Trump. Both bastards, but the Maduro thing is almost entirely on El Presidente Orangina.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Maduro_et_al.
by estearum | 2026-01-07 22:17:31+00:00
> The effect: Rent goes up to cover the tax and margin is added, so the rent goes up more than the tax.

Well-established effect and it applies to everything. A huge portion of all technological improvement/productivity gains and nearly all public investment money ultimately accrues to land rents which we then later just call "the cost of living."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George_theorem
by vhiremath4 | 2026-01-07 22:17:38+00:00
I will be honest. I love open source. But something that really annoys me about the open source community is that the developers take this holier-than-thou approach to backing up maintainers in circumstances like this, but obviously they are not paying with their own money. They are just complaining, and it feels a lot like virtue signaling at worst and pure naivety at best. It feels extremely disengenous at this point, and it's annoying.

What do we actually know?

1. People are inherently selfish. If you give me this shit for free, I'm gonna use it for free. Obviously everyone is doing this. Spare me the "but I go to this conference or that conference".

2. Code is cheap. Why would I ever pay for something that is not gated behind a service with API limits and costs?

3. Coding as we know it is getting commoditized. That's correct. We are all going to lose our jobs as we know it today. Clearly that's the future. Wake up!

But when making these points, open source devs (and honestly a lot of people on hacker news) whine and complain. I don't really know why I'm leaving this comment - I just feel like I'm at an annoyance breaking point. This guy is obviously struggling to pivot and all the grandstanding and virtue signaling just feels like additional noise and wanting to feel good with very little action.
by tshaddox | 2026-01-07 22:17:39+00:00
> Landlord, or property management, is a job, same as any other job you might have.

Let's ignore property management for now and focus on landlords (i.e. people who own homes and collect rent from the people who live in the homes). That is very much not the same as any other job. Most jobs do not consistent entirely of literally rent-seeking.
by Jtsummers | 2026-01-07 22:17:40+00:00
> Schools made bad predatory loans.

So you're an idiot. The schools don't make the loans, and you make that claim twice. The generous interpretation of your comment is that you're an idiot, the less than generous interpretation is that you're deliberately trolling and making bizarre claims to mislead or confuse other people.

And if schools were the ones making the loan, the government wouldn't need to take money from them. The schools already have the money in your bizarro world. They make a loan to students who then pay them tuition and fees. So the gov't doesn't need to take anything, it needs to force the schools to forgive the loans they didn't make (but you strangely believe they did).
by mindslight | 2026-01-07 22:17:53+00:00
We can condemn each individual criminal for their personal choice to steal, but this does not have much bearing on the overall situation. There is no "government enabling them", rather there is a government that is necessarily choosing how to optimize its limited resources.

Meanwhile, a large store full of goods manned by a skeleton crew, which doesn't even hire a single person to chase down thieves, seems like quite the attractive nuisance. Why is it governments job to subsidize the security of this store's stuff through the threat of expensive post-facto enforcement against a bunch of judgement-proof perpetrators? Why do you keep absolving the well-capitalized corporation of responsibility and even agency ?
by woodruffw | 2026-01-07 22:18:12+00:00
> People now have assigned extra qualities to such releases and it pushes the ecosystem towards more dependency on closed CI systems such as github and gitlab.

I think this is unfortunately true, but it's also a tale as old as time. I think PyPI did a good job of documenting why you shouldn't treat attestations as evidence of security modulo independent trust in an identity[1], but the temptation to verify a signature and call it a day is great for a lot of people.

Still, I don't know what a better solution is -- I think there's general agreement that packaging ecosystems should have some cryptographically sound way for responsible parties to correlate identities to their packages, and that previous techniques don't have a great track record.

(Something that's noteworthy is that PyPI's implementation of attestations uses CI/CD identities because it's easy, but that's not a fundamental limitation: it could also allow email identities with a bit more work. I'd love to see more experimentation in that direction, given that it lifts the dependency on CI/CD platforms.)

[1]: https://docs.pypi.org/attestations/security-model/
by AlekseN | 2026-01-07 22:18:15+00:00
Good catches!

1. You're right I should clarify: the formula uses Σ⁺ (1189.37 MeV),
not Σ⁰ (1192.642 MeV). Different isospin states.

Σ⁺ - Λ = 73.69 MeV
UCT: 12² × mₑ = 73.58 MeV
Error: 0.14%

2. Two parts:

a) "Any number expressible in base π" true, but the claim isn't
that 137 ≈ something×π. It's that α⁻¹ = 4π³ + π² + π with
INTEGER coefficients {4, 1, 1} arising from kissing number geometry.

b) "Units issue" these are dimensionless coefficients, not literal
m³ + m² + m. The "volume/surface/circumference" is structural
(π³, π², π¹ powers), not dimensional.

Fair questions thanks for the rigor check!
by thesz | 2026-01-07 22:18:24+00:00
I am not a weightlifter, I am an amateur powerlifter, and I do pretty intense resistance training for my age (54yo) and my weight (112kg) and I eat about 800g to 1kg a day of meat - duck, pork or beef. Even if I eat 1kg Wagyu beef, it would give me about 3000 calories, slightly less than 3500 calories I need to keep my muscle mass. I would happily eat even more meat but circumstances prevents me to do so.

I used to drink protein shakes, but now I am actively against these. Artificial sweeteners provoke insulin release [1] [2] that leads to type-II diabetes.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2887503/

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10568...
by Jcampuzano2 | 2026-01-07 22:18:32+00:00
Being 100% honest even though it sucks to be the truth - it doesn't matter if its customizable or accessible or not because you just ask the LLM to do that for you.

Or ask the LLM to customize it to your specific use case since most people really only really care about their situation - not for it to be customizable to everyones use case.
by umanwizard | 2026-01-07 22:18:46+00:00
No, I have the same question as that other poster. It is not a bad faith question.

There are a lot of problems that would be solved immediately if "we" (i.e. all of humanity, or all of the U.S. or some other country) decided collectively to do something: climate change, nuclear weapons proliferation, war, and so on. But that's effectively wishing for magic -- there is no way to get everyone to collectively agree on something, so unless you explain how to cope with that fact, you haven't actually made any progress.

Given that I personally don't control humanity as a hive mind, what can I do to fix this problem? You haven't proposed an answer to that.
by hanche | 2026-01-07 22:18:53+00:00
There’s an old story about that. Possibly apocryphal, but here goes:

IBM mainframes used to come with documentation in ring binders. Some pages might indeed be marked “This page intentionally blank”. And they would from time to time send out update packages to their customers, with instructions to replace pages so-and-so with the included replacements. On the replacement pages, text that had been altered would be marked with a change bar in the margin.

Lo and behold, one day an update package was received, replacing one completely blank page with one bearing the text “This page intentionally blank”. Complete with a change bar in the margin.
by nicoburns | 2026-01-07 22:19:10+00:00
It's not a formal benchmark, but my Browser Engine / Webview (https://github.com/DioxusLabs/blitz/) has pluggable rendering backends (via https://github.com/DioxusLabs/anyrender) with Vello (GPU), Vello CPU, Skia (various backends incl. Vulkan, Metal, OpenGL, and CPU) currently implemented

On my Apple M1 Pro, the Vello CPU renderer is competitive with the GPU renderers on simple scenes, but falls behind on more complex ones. And especially seems to struggle with large raster images. This is also without a glyph cache (so re-rasterizing every glyph every time, although there is a hinting cache) which isn't implemented yet. This is dependent on multi-threading being enabled and can consume largish portions of all-core CPU while it runs. Skia raster (CPU) gets similarish numbers, which is quite impressive if that is single-threaded.
by whstl | 2026-01-07 22:19:24+00:00
You were linking to their React-only offering above, but the actual Tailwind Plus website is this one: https://tailwindcss.com/plus

The Tailwind UI blocks are a similar offering to Basecoat, and are available in non-React format.

The "Tailwind React Templates" are not really similar to Basecoat.
by tolerance | 2026-01-07 22:19:37+00:00
For those who are wondering: https://klim.co.nz/fonts/die-grotesk/#information

I think Kris Sowersby is my favorite contemporary typographer.

https://klim.co.nz/collections/untitled/
https://klim.co.nz/collections/tiempos/
https://klim.co.nz/collections/soehne/
by ctoa | 2026-01-07 22:19:53+00:00
When I did strength sports and would eat ~180g protein a day (which for me was 1.8g/100kg), I ate a lot less meat than you would think, I was carefully tracking all my food for a while and you have to count the whole diet.

I really like this study of a population of highly trained athletes and their diets/protein intake: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27710150/

In that study they eat > 1.2g protein/kg body weight, but 43% of that is "plant sources", meaning grains, legumes, fruits and vegetables. Like one serving of oatmeal is 6g, things you don't think of as "protein" add up and you have to count them. The athletes in that study are Dutch and 19% of their protein intake came from bread.

But what always happens with protein recommendations is that they say "x grams protein/kg bodyweight" but people hear "protein is meat, you are telling me to eat x grams/kg bodyweight of meat." Very few people ever look closely enough at their diet to develop an intuitive sense for counting macros.
by dang | 2026-01-07 22:20:28+00:00
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by genuser | 2026-01-07 22:20:47+00:00
Viewed through the narrow lens of discontinued products and deprecated services, 2025 felt quieter than previous years a year of subtle endings rather than seismic shocks. Gone were the massive, headline-grabbing exits like the iPod or Google Stadia. Instead, the losses of 2025 carried a different weight. A collective sigh of nostalgia and a series of quiet confirmations of the industry’s relentless direction. For the long-time observer, these ten farewells are less about the death of technology itself and more about the closing of chapters, the shifting of corporate priorities, and the quiet erosion of certain freedoms in the digital landscape. They mark the end of accessibility, the triumph of ecosystems over openness, and the final victory of touchscreens over tactile buttons.
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by RealityVoid | 2026-01-07 22:22:07+00:00
Very informative post, and for background, I am not an us citizen. I have no issue with the idea of small luxury because it's socialized, but I do have the impression that obesity is a huge issue in the US and these kind of consumption patterns cause reinforcement and lead to worse outcomes. I have nothing against cheap food and cheap calories(actually I think they are super useful) but I do think healthier people are an aim we, as a species, should target.
by klipklop | 2026-01-07 22:22:52+00:00
I feel the numbers that show investment groups that own X number of homes is highly misleading. More than likely these investment groups form multiple companies when they buy up the homes. Likely state or regional. From there the larger parent company is invested. So I wonder if there are hundreds or thousands of "small" investment groups that are essentially a shell for a larger private equity group.

So my big worry is that the Trump admin will say they are going to only eliminate the most obvious cases and the problem will remain. The LLCs and shell corps, etc.

EDIT: Also it does not address the massive amount of housing stock that is foreign owned by people that don't even live in the country.
by kijiki | 2026-01-07 22:22:53+00:00
I've never understood why Intel didn't just soft-disable AVX512 on P-cores until the OS writes a value to some MSR that means "I understand that only some cores have AVX512".

From the OS side, the change to support it is pretty simple. On the first #UD trap caused by an AVX512 instruction being missing, pin the process to just the P-cores and end the process's timeslice.