MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by semiquaver | 2026-01-29 14:28:18+00:00
It’s very easy to find examples of stock prices jumping after major layoffs going back may years, e.g. https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1996/jan/03/att-rings-in-y...

That article even says “ Wall Street, in keeping with its cheerful attitude about layoffs, […] investors bet that profit-sweetening job cuts, though perhaps not as dramatic as AT&T’s, would remain in vogue among large corporations.

Large layoffs have always been looked upon favorably by investors.
by grep_name | 2026-01-29 14:28:39+00:00
N=1, but last yearly physical my primary care doctor asked me if I ever had anxiety. I said yes, but that I wasn't really interested in treating it outside of lifestyle change. They asked if I wanted a prescription for prozac, without explaining anything about how to does it or titrate up or down or a time frame. I said I wasn't interested again, and that I particularly didn't want to take any medications that you can't just stop taking one day on a whim (a statement she didn't respond to).

She then proceeded to say "well I'll just write you the prescription anyway and you can do your research later and decide to fill it or not".

I was actually shocked by this interaction, and think about it often. She's a regular family doctor with the local hospital system, and this was just a regular checkup. I answered one question with a "yes, but it's manageable and I think I can handle it with lifestyle change" and then said no twice to medication and ended up with a prescription, which I ignored but don't appreciate having on my record, since it's a false indicator for future prescribing physicians.
by Daviey | 2026-01-29 14:29:05+00:00
I understand (and largely agree with) the intent behind this policy as written in the Jellyfin LLM guidance: it’s trying to protect contributor and maintainer time by preventing low-effort, unverified, "looks plausible" LLM output being dumped into issues, PRs, and support channels.

That said, I don’t think a blanket "never post LLM-written text" rule is the right boundary, because it conflates two very different behaviours:

1. Posting unreviewed LLM output as if it were real investigation or understanding (bad, and I agree this should be discouraged or prohibited), versus
2. A human doing the work, validating the result, and using an LLM as a tool to produce a clear, structured summary (good, and often beneficial).

Both humans and LLMs require context to understand and move things forward. For bug investigation specifically, it is increasingly optimal to use an LLM as part of the workflow: reasoning through logs, reproduction steps, likely root cause, and then producing a concise update that captures the outcome of the investigation.

I worked on an open source "AI friendly" project this morning and did exactly this.

I suspect the reporter filed the issue using an LLM, but I read it as a human and then worked with an LLM to investigate. The comment I posted is brief, technical, and adds useful context for the next person to continue the work. Most importantly, I stand behind it as accurate.

Is it really worth anyone’s time for me to rewrite that comment purely to make it sound more human?

So I do agree with Jellyfin's goal (no AI spam, no unverifiable content, no extra burden on maintainers). I just don’t think "LLM involvement" is the right line to draw. The right line is accountability and verification.
by clumsysmurf | 2026-01-29 14:29:14+00:00
> Note the paradox here: one of the principles of training is to stimulate the body, to “wear it out” at a given moment in time in order to trigger the physiological processes that will lead to improved capabilities, the fight against fatigue… and, ultimately, increased resistance to physical stress.

A somewhat recent paper:

Systematic review and meta-analysis of antioxidants with or without exercise training improving muscle condition in older adults

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12491480/

Seems to imply that as we get older, antioxidants might help the body recover from exercise. More specifically, antioxidants may help resolve exercise induced inflammation in adults aged over 55 years.

So it seems that, yes, as you get older, its easier for the body to wear down, but this can be mitigated somewhat.
by gwbas1c | 2026-01-29 14:29:37+00:00
> And to add insult to injury, even GM Super Cruise is widely renowned as better and safer than Tesla’s current “FSD”.

My Huyndai's Autopilot equivalent (I don't even know what they call it) is better than the enhanced Autopilot in the Model 3 that I traded in. It actually changes lanes when I put on the blinker, instead of only changing lanes 70% of the time, and the other time just sitting with the blinker on and a clear lane.
Show HN: InterviewHUD – Real-time interview copilot for Zoom (Electron/Gemini)
by carlossouzarj | 2026-01-29 14:29:55+00:00
Hello HN,

I built a desktop app to help with interview anxiety. It's an overlay that sits on top of Zoom/Teams, listens to the interviewer's audio, and flashes relevant bullet points from your own resume/projects.

Tech Stack:

Electron + React (Vite)

Gemini 2.0 Flash for low-latency transcription & reasoning.

Client-side RAG (Your resume is the context).

Privacy: It uses a BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) model. Audio streams directly to Google; nothing is stored on my servers.

I built this because I often "blank out" on dates/metrics during behavioral questions. It’s not about cheating, but about having a "memory jogger" HUD.

Would love feedback on the overlay UX.
by yoyitotv | 2026-01-29 14:30:01+00:00
I built a mobile app that transcribes meetings and lets you chat with your transcripts, running entirely on-device.

I built this because I do consulting work under NDA a lot of the times and maybe I'm too paranoid but I didn't feel comfortable using cloud transcription apps. Even the ones that promise not to store your data still process it on their servers and passed to openai or other. I wanted something where audio literally never leaves the device.

And yes there are some apps that do this already but what I wanted was to record audio locally, transcribes using whisper.rn (using react native) then I knew VERY little times I was going to read an hour long meeting what I mainly want is for the times my mind goes in the cloud and something being said I dont hear it or a date or something important or how a feature is suppose to work so chatting with a local on device llm in this case llama 3.2 3b or qwen3 4b for iphone 17s and ask simply about it and more in detail. Finally everything being stored encrypted on device storage.

Also thought about what happens if i decide to switch devices, so i built a simple export import system you put a password on the db and everything plus audios get ziped into a .viska file then you just put that on the new device and import it into the new phone where you have the app also.

*Stack:* React Native, Expo, whisper.rn, llama.rn

The performance is not bad at all specially for ios, tested on iphone 16 pro 2hr recordin in around 15 min. For android sucks but no gpu via llama.rn yet so it is slow but because android is more gracious with background processing you can just leave and come back later while the app is transcribing.

This is a One-time purchase ($9.99 iOS / $7.99 Android launch price). No subscription, no accounts, no telemetry.

I think this would be good for anyone who can't or won't use cloud transcription: lawyers, doctors, execs, journalists, or just privacy-conscious people.

Here is the links to the apps:
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/viska-local-ai-meeting-notes/i...
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.robkicksta...

Happy to answer questions about the on-device ML implementation or anything else.
by sceptic123 | 2026-01-29 14:30:14+00:00
Google Reader, mentioned once in the text but not really explored, was a different experience. I pretty much stopped using RSS when that went away. Every other reader would either mangle the experience or add a paywall.

It had a magic simplicity that could be summed up as: "without me doing anything, give me the next thing I want".

Similar story with Google Podcasts IIRC, none of the current ones work the way that did either.
by thinkingtoilet | 2026-01-29 14:30:18+00:00
Any discussion of Tesla without mentioning Musk's actions is missing the most important piece. I heard someone on this site use the term "mind share", as in before Musk decided to alienate his main customer base, Tesla had the biggest "mind share" of any company in the world. I looked forward to buying a Tesla one day. Now, with Musk licking Trumps boots and actively doing very real damage with his work in DOGE and other things, I will literally never buy anything from that company ever again. It doesn't matter what Chinese car companies are doing. It matters that he stands for everything I don't so I will not give him my money.
by mexicocitinluez | 2026-01-29 14:30:38+00:00
> Aren't they still going to need to reach out to the big players because of the regulatory environment?

First, saying "We can now build software faster" doesn't imply that "we" won't eventually include professionals. There is nothing stopping someone from building up an app and having people come in to polish it up.

Second, "regulatory environment" doesn't actually mean somethin because every part of the industry has different regulations and requirements. There are different standards for what big hospitals can use and the software requirements than there are for home care software. So trying to wave this "you can't because of regulations" wand doesn't make sense if you're actually in the business.

Third, I was speaking more to the small-medium sized agency.

Fourth,

> We don't need hospitals handing over the public's health data to the cheapest person they can find to prompt it all into Claude.

Means absolutely nothing since you don't need to feed health data into a Claude instance to build healthcare apps. It sounds like you aren't in the field or familiar with it.

And lastly, if you're a Microsoft customer with a BAA, then you're already covered by HIPAA. Again, not something you would know if you weren't in the industry, but now you do.
by mothballed | 2026-01-29 14:30:45+00:00
It's not throwing your hands up. I still do deal with private organizations, knowing they will do the same thing. It's doing a risk analysis. I expect everyone I do business with will fuck me the most they can the millisecond they have a chance. Thus I try to do business with people with the least incentive to do so, or failing that, those with the least leverage to do so.
by bmn__ | 2026-01-29 14:30:50+00:00
To Mahad and people who share the same mindset: If "Do better" the worst you can say at the end of an essay, you made yourself inconsequential. Nothing will change, except everyone in the world starts mocking you for being so weak and agreeable in the face of people who in turn care exactly nothing about you and see you merely as an object to be exploited.

Here's what Asmongold would say. Coercion and incentivisation work. Charge everyone involved at gov.uk and Pwc with fraud, from the decision makers top to the lower decks doing the actual work. Enact immediate severe and drastic punishment, put them in a box for ten years and let them work off their debt to society by turning big rocks into little rocks or something. If the law is a hindrance, just change the law. It's not a real thing, it's made up, a shared idea in people's mind. If the state officials do not want to enact the will of the people, then use the 2nd box of liberty to replace them with those who do want. Anyone thinking about enriching oneself by following example of the offenders should become deathly afraid to do so. Defrauding the taxpayer would stop being a widespread problem over night.

If any of this causes a revulsion of abhorrence in your mind, then discharge yourself of social programming and put this into perspective. This is the reasonable and fair approach. They receive grace and get to keep their life. In other places and times of the world, they would simply beheaded and that would be the end of it.

If anyone reading this just wants to down-vote out of disagreement in the typical fashion of left-extremist knee-jerkers, then be advised that this bad faith acting changes no one's opinion, you're just feeding into making HN an echo chamber for radicals and you put yourself automatically on the wrong side of history for anyone to see. Try your hand not being a dismal coward by actually engaging in discussion.
by senordevnyc | 2026-01-29 14:30:55+00:00
I have multiple friends who have 6+ cars. To be fair, they're pretty well-off (mid six figure income), but one for example:

- Husband Tesla daily driver
- Wife Bronco daily driver
- Truck to pull their boat
- Campervan for outdoor adventures
- Older car for teenager to drive
- 90s convertible for summer fun
by mycall | 2026-01-29 14:31:00+00:00
> Where do I start?

I hate to say but GitHub Copilot can get you started. It slurped up all of Microsoft SDK and docs and open source libs. It is a decent reference.

I'm also kinda impressed by the Debugger Agent [0] built into Visual Studio 2026.

[0] https://medium.com/@onu.khatri/copilot-squad-in-vs-2026-ca88...
by stuaxo | 2026-01-29 14:31:09+00:00
Exactly.

I can be in a non-technical team, and put the LLM code inside docker.

The local dev instruction is to install ollama and use it to pull the models and set some env vars.

The same code can point at bedrock when deployed there.

Using straight llamacpp at the time I wrote that it wasn't as straightforward.
by zigman1 | 2026-01-29 14:31:36+00:00
To add to this discussion as someone who had above experience this winter, after (literally) years of mood fluctuations, fatigue and brain fog.

I have started taking SSRI after a harder-than-usual body collapse, and after no matter what I did my mood hasn't improved for a month. Regular running, meditating, writing, crafting, coding etc were my antidote to my mood swings but this time it didn't work. Started taking SSRI and continue doing all this things, and I was reborn.

My therapist said that a big chunk of why i am feeling better is also because I kept doing things that are good for me. That she sees with a lot of her patients that they think a pill will magically change the situation. It doesn't work on itself, you need to show up and do things that release serotonin in your body.

But seriously, unbelievable, years of frustration and friction in my life disappeared and I have never felt better.
by vlod | 2026-01-29 14:31:39+00:00
I've been trying to find a decent 16'' laptop (to replace my thinkpad x1 carbon).

Been running linux (popos) for donkey years and I entertained the thought I should go back to Apple and get the MacbookPro-16 (which is probably the best laptop you can buy imho).

Then I remembered all this crap that Apple does and dismissed it.
by NoGravitas | 2026-01-29 14:32:17+00:00
> "They are trying to control a narrative from the very start, and they don't seem to care when they're proven wrong," said David Lapan, who was the DHS press secretary in 2017, during Trump's first administration.

That's the key bit. They don't need to be proven right. They don't even need their story to be consistent.

> “Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
> ― Jean-Paul Sartre
by panick21_ | 2026-01-29 14:32:23+00:00
The problem is just there is no concept of a car company where they only sell their standard mass market vehicles. Somewhat more expensive higher margin vehicles are in the lineup for almost all the other companies. Its kind of strange to suggest its not worth it when it is seemingly worth it for most other companies.

Maybe the wisdom of having a 'full lineup' is wrong and has to do with making dealers happy.

On the other hand, having 99% of your sales be 2 very similar vehicles seems questionable strategy.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-29 14:32:45+00:00
Vitamin D and Omega-3 are the two supplements that consistently appear to be super powerful in small studies and then fail to do anything significant at all in larger studies.

Pause for a moment and consider the mere plausibility of the claims in the first few paragraphs: The effect size for antidepressants is 0.4, but the effect size for Vitamin D is 1.8? Are we to believe that Vitamin D supplements have an effect size 4.5X larger than antidepressant drugs, and nobody noticed this massive discrepancy until now?

Effect size is also a favorite metric in this vein of supplement-over-pharma writing because it’s so commonly misunderstood and it’s so easy to find small supplement studies that have outlier effect sizes.

To put it in context, even common OTC pain meds can have effect sizes lower than 0.4 depending on the study. Have you ever taken Tylenol or Ibuprofen and had a headache or other pain reduced? Well you’ve experience what a drug with a small effect size on paper can do for you.

Please be very careful when someone tries to tell you that supplements are miraculous and pharmaceutical drugs don’t work at all. I know too many people who delayed trialing SSRIs for years due to internet driven fears and lost many years of their lives to depression based on content like this. People with cabinets full of dozens of supplement bottles that were chosen based on studies, too. Then they finally decided to try real antidepressant medications and wished they’d done it sooner.

As much as I wish we could all just cure depression by taking a simple Vitamin D supplement that has 4.5X higher effect size than antidepressant drugs, this claim just isn’t passable.
by Topfi | 2026-01-29 14:32:58+00:00
If you are referencing Nvidia, note that Vertex, Groq, Cerebras, etc. all do not rely on GPUs for much or all of their inference and are all the better for it.

Kind of why Nvidia see themselves forced to make such deals, to lock labs in before they loose another to objectively superior inference.

Staying purely with US labs, they just lost Meta and both Anthropic and Gemini models have been available on Vertex without relying on GPUs for a while. OpenAI equally is turning towards Cerebras so yeah, those deals will mean little for inference.

Those circular deals aren’t a thing for the inference providers I tend to go for and they don’t change the fact that using a full GPU purely for inference is like using a pickup truck for a track day. It can be done and the flexibility has advantages, but once you focus on one task, there are better tools for the job.
by delta_p_delta_x | 2026-01-29 14:33:29+00:00
> the utterly insane UX around the C++ redistributable

It could be worse—it could be Linux, with no forward compatibility. The VC/C++ redistributable means that applications can be written on modern Windows that targets much older Windows, by simply providing a sidecar installer that brings with it a newer C/C++ standard library. This situation is basically impossible on Linux without messing with Docker.
by ncasenmare | 2026-01-29 14:33:44+00:00
Hi, author of the blog post here! Thanks for your concern. I do still stand by my claim, since more recent peer-reviewed studies have shown that up-to-10,000 IU is safe. As written in the post:

> McCullough et al 2019 gave over thousands of patients 5,000 to 10,000 IU/day, for seven years, and there were zero cases of serious side effects. This is in line with Billington et al 2020, a 3-year-long double-blinded randomized controlled trial, where they found "the safety profile of vitamin D supplementation is similar for doses of 400, 4000, and 10,000 IU/day." (though "mild hypercalcemia" increased from 3% to 9%. IMHO, that's a small cost for reducing the risk of major depression & suicide.)

So why then does Mayoclinic, etc, all say 4000 IU is the limit? I think because policy is decades behind science (this happened with trans fats), and also policymakers are much more risk-averse. (this is why in California, thanks to Prop 65, up until ~2018, there used to be a warning in every coffeehouse that coffee causes cancer.)

But thanks to your comment, I will edit the intro to note what the official max safe dose is, and that more recent peer-reviewed research shows it's too low!
by lambdaone | 2026-01-29 14:34:33+00:00
If the humanoid robots are no better than the cars, it's unlikely. Unitree and Boston Dynamics are pretty much there in terms of solving the hardware problem, and the rest is software and the hardware manufacturing learning curve.

The Chinese are massively out-manufacturing Tesla in the electric car market - would you bet on Tesla somehow being better than the Chinese at manufacturing?

The rest as I said is software; given Tesla's consistent lack of success in "Full Self-Driving", would you bet on them outengineering the rest of the world in the software aspect of robotics?
by ivm | 2026-01-29 14:34:56+00:00
> There is nothing special about tea that breaks the rules of caffeine.

There's definitely something special, just poorly studied: typical "how much caffeine is in X?" tables show tea having caffeine levels similar to coffee, but I never feel the same effects.

> Caffeine pills generally have really high dosages, FYI.

I use 200 mg tablets split into quarters for doses of 50–100 mg. Yet, they produce a much milder curve than coffee (which I no longer drink) and, as a side effect, cause no gastrointestinal side effects!
by nucleardog | 2026-01-29 14:35:26+00:00
When I look back, seems to me the default was sort of "anything can copy and modify anything" because without additional measures or rules... what's stopping them? We added copyright as a time-limited exclusivity available to the creator to encourage people to create things (knowing they would have time to recoup some of their effort commercially).

With anything else (books or stories, pictures or movies, etc) the ability to modify or extend the work was the default. Copyright was a carve-out in this.

With software it's actually the reverse--the ability to modify or extend the work is _not_ the default. It takes explicit action by the creator to make that reasonable without substantial effort in most cases. We're actually dealing with an entirely different situation here, and providing that exclusivity on top really does seem like a bad deal for society in a lot of ways.

Is there anything else that's covered by copyright that's in a similar sort of situation as software? Where the thing that's covered by copyright _isn't_ really modifiable to begin with?

Which is a lot of words to say--on the surface, yeah, I agree with you. Besides shorter terms, I think if you want that exclusivity from society you should be required to give something back in return... like the source code so everyone can benefit from and build off of your work after your period of exclusivity expires.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-29 14:35:31+00:00
> Maybe just a direct layer on top of vllm

My dream would be something like vLLM, but without all the Python mess, packaged as a single binary that has both HTTP server + desktop GUI, and can browse/download models. Llama.cpp is like 70% there, but large performance difference between llama.cpp and vLLM for the models I use.