MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 453yuh46 | 2026-01-12 15:06:09+00:00
I think you are very close to explanation. Ideas in human minds can be presented as facts. If you decide that you are happy by some setting - that becomes a fact to you, while in reality that is a belief. The same about depression and sadness - you can get impacted by information you did not knew and would not be impacted if you were in blissful ignorance and some people choose exactly that choice. Some people get psychosis and their mind is hallucinating that they are on fire - that is real to them as what are your experiences, though those also are not based on facts, but serve as an information delivery to your brain.

The whole issue with human minds is that it is not built to deal with scientific facts, but with socium of other people. You can't use facts when operating with society - you have to use symbols, that they will associate with. And I think that the issue is with you(as it is my experience as well) - I can guarantee, that there are people, that will explain to your family members EXACTLY the same ideas, that you are trying to explain to them... and they will agree to that person - and not to you, because you are clearly doing it wrong.
by CGMthrowaway | 2026-01-12 15:06:13+00:00
>I was wondering how you could get such a high impact overall. But it seems one in 6 households are on GLP-1 drugs in the US.

I had the same question and did some back of the envelope math. The data I have seen says the average American eats 400-700 excess daily calories, and 3600 daily calories total. That means 10-20% excess per person. If everyone started eating the right amount overnight, grocery spend would drop 10-20%.

But since it's 16% on these drugs, and figure since they are Losing Weight (not maintaining), safe to say those 16% of Americans are eating 20-30% less... 20-30% times 16% = 3-5% decrease in spend.

So it tracks, roughly. And we are not at the bottom yet.
by Mountain_Skies | 2026-01-12 15:06:29+00:00
And yet the current administration, like every other administration since the mid 90s, still sets labor immigration policy on the testimony of the tech industry that there is still a critical shortage of tech labor so the doors must be remain open for the 30th year of the temporary program that's only going to be in place until the tech companies have time to train domestic talent. If you have a problem with this, you're a racist Nazi who should be excluded from society. Left, right, up, down, they all agree on this, as does the vast majority of posters here. Their defense for this is that little down arrow since they have no other legitimate defense for the 30th something year of the temporary program to give them time to train the talent they claim doesn't exist in the United States.
by abielefeld | 2026-01-12 15:06:49+00:00
Yes, it's all about fast turnaround without pain.

Manufacturers in china just do it fast, and avoid all the pains, they actually care about customer experience above all, something we have to learn from ourselves obviously!

As I said in another comment, I fully expect things to change for the better: Some manufacturers will go out of business, but yet others will turn around in time.

All these people that were laid off will find jobs again, revitalizing moribund companies. Some will create their own companies, I view myself as part of this group.
by bee_rider | 2026-01-12 15:07:05+00:00
I think these things tend to be somebody’s fun little mini project, so polish is not a high priority. Realistically a big community of contributors isn’t going to grow around cloning a UI that Linux users intentionally left behind.

The beautiful thing about Free software is that people can do whatever they want! In a way is is quite impressive that somebody can get into the uncanny valley with this sort of project, right?
by smeeagain2 | 2026-01-12 15:07:14+00:00
As for me, I've just been broke and unemployed since 2010.

Looking back, I was essentially railroaded into a dead end career by society, and any attempt to get into software engineering over the years has been blocked by the simple fact I don't possess the right piece of paper. Nor am I willing to spend a shit ton of cash and more importantly time "going back to school" to learn what I already know pretty damn well already, given that I've been programming since I was 8 and it was the strength of my computer skills that got me into the other career in the first place.

My actual accomplishments in the world of computing, sitting here day to day in front of my personal computer, are the stuff of legends. Things like building my own Linux distro completely from scratch, now consisting of over 1,500 packages, cross compiling to multiple platforms. How many people with a Master's degree or Ph.D. ever did this as part of their degree program? Yet I'm looked upon as unemployable detritus compared to some kid fresh out of college with a newly minted BullShit degree.

Over the years the problem has gotten worse and worse. First it was just being filtered out by HR. Now it's all the other craziness also, like going to 7+ interviews only to be told you're rejected, and so on, and that's after putting in hundreds of applications to get one callback. How the hell am I supposed to go through that? I Fucking Refuse.

Thank God I'm OK with living out of the Piggly Wiggly dumpster.

Protip: living out of the Piggly Wiggly dumpster is actually a pretty good alternative to absolute slavery to government/corporations. Your very entitled and spoiled American wife probably won't agree however. Thank God I don't have one of those.
by lm28469 | 2026-01-12 15:07:34+00:00
They still have a brain capable of complex thoughts and should be able to prioritise long term health over short term pleasures.

Again I don't really care, I managed to help people around me following this dead simple recipe, if you want to make excuses for yourself or others go ahead and suffer. Suffering from obesity is much harder on the body and soul than "suffering" from skipping a snack or counting calories
by jacobthesnakob | 2026-01-12 15:07:41+00:00
Which is no surprise to anybody with common sense, the data for discontinuing GLP-1s show exactly the intuitive outcome. Zero diet change, zero habit change for the vast majority of users. Weight loss is accomplished via biochemical tricks to eat less volume of calorie dense junk food, rather than diet substitution. When the artificial appetite suppression ends, volume of the same food increases again leading to weight yo-yo. Plus why start to exercise when you’ve got a magic weight loss drug?

Don’t get me wrong, there are some people using these drugs to get out of a pit of inertia with weight and sedentary lifestyles. But it’s small. GLP-1 drugs will have most users hooked for life because they don’t have the discipline and motivation to maintain the weight loss without it. Cha-Ching!
by greensh | 2026-01-12 15:08:01+00:00
But USA can't even be on the side of their own people. I can see the recent ICE shooting, health care issues, clearly corrupt government officials. Why should anybody trust them with another country?

Also the US has massive protests aswell, would it be okay for china to liberate the USA, since china itself is lead by a "democratic party"? They could argue the USA isn't a real liberal democracy.

> why not let them vote in fair elections?
Elections can be faked, people can be mislead, oppositions and media can be bought.
by taykolasinski | 2026-01-12 15:08:14+00:00
That initialization strategy (effectively starting as identity to match the standard residual stream) is clever. It would let you surgery an existing model like Llama-3 and fine-tune it into an mHC architecture.

The main risk I see is that the 7x signal amplification happens very aggressively. Even with a gentle initialization, you’d likely need very strict gradient clipping or a tiny learning rate on those new routing matrices to prevent them from blowing up the pre-trained features in the first few steps.

Also, I think there's a mix-up here between mHC (this paper, expressivity) and MLA (latent attention, which provides the massive context efficiency). mHC doesn't save memory, but it might make the model 'smarter' per parameter.
by joshstrange | 2026-01-12 15:08:19+00:00
Oh Product Farm, I do love his videos. His testing methods are... interesting sometimes but always entertaining and very much "What do I have laying around that I could test this thing with".

While I don't always agree on the rankings that's absolutely fine because I can cherry-pick the stats I DO care about and see products used in different scenarios than you get from the product page alone.
by chipotle_coyote | 2026-01-12 15:08:46+00:00
Shortcuts are (probably) never going to be consistent across Linux apps; that's something Mac, and to some degree Windows, developers just historically care about more. I've also never found a better hardware trackpad than Apple's, nor found better OS-level drivers for trackpads than Apple's. (I'm sure somebody out there is ready to tell me their experience is different, but I've used many Linux distributions, many PC laptops with trackpads and at least two different PC desktop trackpads, and many Macs over the past quarter century and at least for me I'm going to stand by that.)
by prassamin | 2026-01-12 15:08:51+00:00
### Discussion Type

Question

### Discussion Content

Hey

I have an idea I wanted to share with you all.

I’ve been using *Upstash* for a long time across a bunch of projects, and honestly, I really like it.
Redis-over-HTTP has saved me so much pain with serverless stuff.

This idea actually came up while working on a *client project* recently.

The client gave me a *VPS* and wanted everything to live there - including Redis.
That’s where I got stuck thinking:

> “If Redis already exists on the client’s VPS, how do I still get the Upstash style features?”

Using Upstash directly felt a bit awkward in this case:

* it becomes an *external dependency* the client has to maintain later
* billing, accounts, ownership - all outside their infra
* but at the same time… I really wanted the HTTP API + serverless-friendly behavior Upstash gives

That’s when I started wondering:

What if there was a way to:

* point something at *any Redis* (VPS / on-prem / managed)
* and still get *Upstash like HTTP endpoints*
* without vendor lock-in
* and something the client could fully own or self-host?

So I started hacking on a small experiment around that idea:
an *open-source, self-hostable Redis-over-HTTP proxy* (working title: Redion).

It’s very early and very much a “thinking out loud” phase right now.

I’m mostly curious:

* Have you run into this kind of situation before?
* How do you handle Redis + serverless when Redis isn’t “yours” to choose?
* Does “bring your own Redis but keep HTTP semantics” sound useful?
* Any obvious downsides or red flags you see immediately?

Not trying to replace or hate on Upstash at all - this question only came up because I’ve been happily using it for so long
Just wanted to sanity-check the idea with other devs before going further.

Would love to hear thoughts, even if the answer is “nah, I’d never use this and here’s why”
by spmartin823 | 2026-01-12 15:09:15+00:00
I'm working on creating Lovable for popular CMSs like wordpress, ghost, substack etc.

I've spent that last year working with news organizations to improve their online presence and a lot of my job has ended up being translating their ideas into wordpress clicks using Claude or ChatGPT. They can't take advantage of products like Lovable because the resulting code won't work with the CMS that their staff is used to.

Email me if you'd like free access! seamus@presspass.ai
by graemep | 2026-01-12 15:09:22+00:00
> Was it always the case that Western Capitalism was about optimising profits for an over-class, the optimising of resources was always just propaganda, or did it once have ethics?

Adam Smith wrote a whole book about ethics.

I actually think the ethical corruption has been very recent and driven by multiple factors, but the most important is the myth that people are rich because they deserve to be, and if they are poor it is because they are stupid or lazy. The rich therefore tend to feel far less noblesse oblige.
by diego_moita | 2026-01-12 15:09:23+00:00
You're assuming that the company uses the same formula as then. That would be really awesome.

The original formula contained coca leaves (the raw material for cocaine) and extract from kola seeds (that's where the name comes from).

Beverages containing cocaine were very common until the beginning of the century (search for "Vin Mariani"). Even today you can buy coca leaves in the supermarkets of some Latin American countries (Bolivia, Peru, etc).

An huge corporation using the raw material of cocaine to produce the most popular soda in the world would be the funniest story of our times.
by junon | 2026-01-12 15:10:50+00:00
To dismiss it as total fraud is disingenuous, but I do agree that the personification of some of those videos is quite egregious. I don't think anyone expected a chimp to make coherent, grammatically correct sentences. But the relationship between sign/vocalization and emotion/desire is strong and seen in many animals, such as parrots. It depends on your definition of communication I suppose.
by user34283 | 2026-01-12 15:11:01+00:00
Yes, I agree. But do they have to?

It would seem to me that tokens are only going to get more efficient and cheaper from here.

Demand is going to rise further as AI keeps improving.

Some argue there is a bubble, but with demand from the public for private use, business, education, military, cyber security, intelligence, it just seems like there will be no lack of investment.
by kasabali | 2026-01-12 15:11:13+00:00
First thing I did after installing upgrading to Windows 8 was installing Startisback and I forgot I was even running it. I'm not exaggerating, one time a friend sitting by asked if I was it was Windows 8 and I had to think for a moment.

Windows 8.1 combined with StartIsBack was a much better OS than Windows 10 I was actually surprised when everyone praised that ad pushing piece of crap with mandatory spyware, forced updates and inconsistent UI all over the place.
by Rooster61 | 2026-01-12 15:11:19+00:00
The question that I haven't seen answered yet is whether or not we will reach a sort of "peak vibe coding" phase. What I mean by that is, right now, LLM's are somewhat decent at writing workable code. That code, however, needs babysitting to keep from going off the rails. And that code is sourced from training, which has been gleaned from the billions of lines of code written by hackers everywhere and pushed to source control.

We currently have engineers competent enough to use an LLM, review the code written, and fix the places where the LLM writes poor code. We also still have engineers pushing novel code themselves. That means we are on the up-slope. Right now, nascent hackers are learning perhaps the old ways, but also are for sure paying attention to and using vibe coding. That creates a negative feedback loop. As greybeards age out of programming, so to does the knowledge foundation that allowed LLM training to take place in the first place, and more importantly, that trained the next generation of hackers. AI is going to increasingly begin consuming AI code, and I haven't seen solid evidence yet that it is capable (at least currently) of putting truly novel ideas into code.

There will be an inflection point where AI's are consuming their own output more than that from competent hackers, and that's when things will go downhill unless there is a significant breakthrough in actual reasoning in AI.
by simonw | 2026-01-12 15:11:28+00:00
I would not say that about a framework like Django - though I would encourage people not to under-invest in understanding web fundamentals since once you have those Django, Rails, Next.js etc are all quick to pick up.

I would say that about LLMs.

That's why I'm ringing the alarm bells here. LLM skills are not the same as framework or library usage skills. They aren't clearly documented or predictable - they're really weird!

If you assume learning to use coding agents is the same category of challenge as learning to use something like Django you'll get burned by that assumption.
by notahacker | 2026-01-12 15:12:31+00:00
That isn't really true though, unless your itinerary is focused on the centre of major cities and you're determined to stay in chain hotels, eat international food and get taxis everywhere (if your main experience of travelling overseas is business, it might look like this)

Sure, Premier League branded football shirts turn up in the unlikeliest of places and it turns out that actually people don't wear what the internet says is their national dress all that much - that's one of the first things you learn when you travel - but there's plenty that's different, even if you can only communicate with the English speakers.
by ubermonkey | 2026-01-12 15:12:47+00:00
I'm as picky as the next guy, but I'm not seeing Tahoe being THAT BAD. I was holding off, but various events led to me buying a new laptop so I got it by default.

Resizing isn't great, but it's also deeply shitty in Win 11. I feel like window manager thought leadership has failed across the board, but the regression isn't that big of a deal in day to day usage, and is definitely not unique to Apple.
Show HN: I ported classic flash game Bloxorz to Game Boy Advance
by jcoughenour | 2026-01-12 15:13:25+00:00
I had 2 weeks of holiday vacation and I wasn't interested enough to work on my other long running projects so I decided to get into GBA homebrew when my brother gifted me a Game Boy Advance SP for Christmas. I was going to remake Wordle but someone else already did that so Bloxorz was my second choice.

Most of the hard work is done by the Butano engine: https://github.com/GValiente/butano
I'm also using go to process the original assets and prerender the static part of the levels.

It runs on real hardware but you can (ironically) play it now in the browser thanks to EmulatorJS: https://nostabyte.itch.io/bloxorzgba

I might writeup a full tech breakdown of how it works at some point if anyone is interested.
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-01-12 15:13:54+00:00
It's fine, but it's still "make big giant plan then yeet the impl" at the end. It's still not appropriate for the kind of incremental, chunked, piecework that's needed in a shop that has a decent review cycle.

It's irresponsible to your teammates to dump very large giant finished pieces of work on them for review. I try to impress that on my coworkers, and I don't appreciate getting code reviews like that for submission, and feel bad if I did the same.

Even worse if the code review contains blocks of code which the author doesn't even fully understand themselves because it came as one big block from and LLM.

I'll give you an example -- I have a longer term bigger task at work for a new service. I had discussions and initial designs I fed into Claude. "We" came to a concensus and ... it just built it. In one go mainly. It looks fine. That was Friday.

But now I have to go through that and say -- let's now turn this into something reviewable for my teammates. Which means basically learning everything this thing did, and trying to parcel it up into individual commits.

Which is something that the tool should have done for me, and involved me in.

Yes, you can prompt it to do that kind of thing. Plan is part of that, yes. But planning, implement, review in small chunks should be the default way of working, not something I have to force externally on it.

What I'd say is this: these tools right now are are programmer tools, but they're not engineer tools
by ayush_poddar | 2026-01-12 15:14:04+00:00
Building DitchSpam (https://ditchspam.com) - temporary phone numbers specifically for enquiry forms.
The problem: every time you fill out a quote form (insurance, home services, loans, B2B demos), your number enters a lead-selling ecosystem. These forms sell contact data into telemarketing databases within minutes. Result: 5–50 spam calls/day that DND and Truecaller can't block because they're real call-center numbers, not spoofed.
Americans received 52.5 billion robocalls in 2025. 31% of adults get at least one scam call daily . Average loss per scam victim: $3,690. And only 44% of phone companies have fully installed mandated anti-robocall software.
DitchSpam flips this. Prevention over reaction. Generate a temporary number (1–30 day validity), use it on any lead form, receive calls/SMS in your dashboard. Number auto-expires. Telemarketers hit a dead end.
Built for anyone in the US, UK, or Canada who fills out high-intent forms but hates the spam spiral that follows. .
Would love feedback from anyone who's dealt with this problem.
by F7F7F7 | 2026-01-12 15:14:11+00:00
Meh. I’ve never used my x20 Max account in OpenCode because the Oauth solution was clearly “hacky”.

But to me the appeal of OpenCode is that I can mix and match APIs and local models. I have DeepSeek R1 doing research while KLM is planning and doing code reviews and o4 mini breaking down screenshots into specs while local QWEN is doing the work.

My experience with bugs has also been the exact opposite of what you described.
by cpgxiii | 2026-01-12 15:15:01+00:00
> For example, you could imagine a situation where the white lane divider thermoplastic markings on a road has been masked over with black paint and new lane markings have been painted on - but lidar will still detect the bump as a stronger signal than the new paint markings.

Conflicting lane marking due to road work/changes is already a major problem for visual sensors and human drivers, and something that fairly regularly confuses ADAS implementations. Any useful self-driving system will already have to consider the totality of the situation (apparent lane markings, road geometry, other cars, etc) to decide what "lane" to follow. Arguably a "geometry-first" approach with LIDAR-only would be more robust to this sort of visual confusion.
by lm28469 | 2026-01-12 15:15:08+00:00
I'm convinced it is but you can't help people who don't want to be helped. People who want to be helped get out of the problem in a matter of months.

Fix your shit, it's much better than taking pills for life to fix your obesity, which is arguably the very last link of a long chain of problems. Eat clean, exercise, understand that food is fuel, understand how the fuel is used, learn discipline, learn timing, learn to recognise good and bad fuels... pills won't do any of this, and being skinny won't bring health if you don't do/learn the things I just enumerated. Obese people need a complete lifestyle overall, not pills. No amount of pills will help if they keep everything else the same, and if they implement the changes they don't need the pills to begin with
by JCattheATM | 2026-01-12 15:15:17+00:00
> Even in the news related to FSF, people didn't mention the Librem phone:

Because people don't care. It isn't good enough for most peoples needs. You only push it because of your hyperfixation on free software, but most people balance caring about free software with other concerns.

> I participated in most of them.

And you think that makes your evidence not anecdotal?

> prefer to just dismiss all my arguments.

I'm saying your evidence is poor and your reasoning is shoddy and explained why. I'm not dismissing out of hand or for no reason.
by DonHopkins | 2026-01-12 15:15:24+00:00
Astrillogical Signs are powerful tools for fooling and manipulating people and LLMs, so they do have practical applications! ;)

Timothy Leary used his own Interpersonal Circumplex to break out of jail!

https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/tree/main/skills/mind-mi...
by ezconnect | 2026-01-12 15:15:34+00:00
My 3 year old learned how to use the remote and watched by himself. We just instructed him not to watch silly stuff and he learned which show teaches him something and discovered numberblocks and alphablocks by himself on youtubekids. My other son just can't comprehend how to use the remote and learned it when he's already 4.5 years old. The main method they use for discovery is the speech search.