MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by munksbeer | 2026-01-08 08:57:53+00:00
> Billionaires don't. They're literally gambling on getting rid of the rest of us

I'm struggling to parse this. What do you mean "getting rid"? Like, culling (death)? Or getting rid of the need for workers? Where do their billions come from if no-one has any money to buy the shares in their companies that make them billionaires?

In a society where machines provide most of the labour, *everything* changes. It doesn't just become "workers live in huts and billionaires live in the clouds". I really doubt we're going to turn out like a television show.
by geocar | 2026-01-08 08:58:14+00:00
> If a state actor were trying to intercept traffic (MITM), the last thing they would do is pad the AS path

That's presumptuous: A state actor would (and could trivially) pad the wrong directions to flow traffic down to pops that are not making new announcements (and thus not-implicated by cloudflare and other "journalistic" efforts).

There's also a lot between fat-fingers and deep-state: I know of some non-state actors who do this sort of thing just to fuck with ad impressions. I also doubt much usable intelligence can be gained from mere route-manipulation thing, but I do know that if it is a fat-finger, every techdude in the area was busy at that time trying to figure it out, and wasn't doing their best work twelve hours later...

> most likely a route map intended to manipulate traffic engineering for their own upstream links

...that being said, this does seem plausible: Most smaller multihomed sites I've seen (and a few big ones!) have some kind of adhoc health monitoring/rebalance function that snmp or something and does autoexpect/curl or something-else to the router to run some (probably broken) script, because even if your uplinks are symmetrical, the rest of the Internet isn't, so route-stuffing remains the best way to manipulate ingress traffic.

> Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by a missing export filter.

As soon as I peer with two big sites that don't peer directly with each-other, they both gotta let me forward announcements unfiltered across them. Once I have a third, I have a legitimate need to manipulate my own ingress.

The problems with the BGP are legion, and not just one thing that prevents BGP and security from sharing time in a sentence.
by PunchyHamster | 2026-01-08 08:58:19+00:00
> I'm not a go developer and must be misunderstanding something...

I think it's coz not EVERY language's lockfile comes with checksum

So, Go's go.mod is functionally equivalent Ruby Gem lockfile (that doesn't have checksum) but need to get go.sum to be equivalent to npm's (that does come with checksum)

Author just compared it to languages where lockfile means just version lock
by defrost | 2026-01-08 08:58:47+00:00
Missing data and incomplete layers I'd say.

I know the areas from Alice west to the coast and north to the equator fairly well.

Rail lines are missing, it appears to be just "big" power lines and that's 'accurate' in the sense that South Australia doesn't share power across the Nuallabor to Western Australia and many northern towns are 'independant' of any state or territory grid, running on a local generation basis.

Doesn't show Pine Gap or the Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt base either . . . :-)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Communication_Station_Ha...

(Ground to space and Ground to underwater communications)
by Zanfa | 2026-01-08 08:58:57+00:00
> I'm not saying this product is good, it's looks interesting but in reality will suck (due to not being able to just close the laptop)

It's one of those situations where the more seamless they make the experience, the quicker the user will end up totalling either the laptop screen / hinges or the touchscreen. Given the position of the connector and how people generally close laptops, it's the perfect lever to crack something.
by flave | 2026-01-08 09:00:07+00:00
This just isn’t true - I sort of wish it where.

> If they intend to purchase properties, it benefits them to depress pricing in the area

Yeah, that’s true of everyone but how would a bank/individual do that? By selling… But if they sell while they’re depressing prices, they lose money!

> Normal landlords don't have effectively infinite money with no forces bearing prices down

Neither do banks. They have quarterly earnings, tax bills, they need to buy more stock, cost of capital etc etc.

> It's a very nuanced and complex system in which these institutional investors have very outsized influence.

Just saying ‘it’s complex’ is trivially true. But, supply and demand isn’t some small factor in that calculation - it’s an iron law that exerts itself at all times.

If a bank wants to ‘manipulate prices’ then, without a monopoly, the only way to do that is to dump or buy. But if you buy up homes to ‘push up prices’ … then you end up with a bunch of homes which you paid more than their current value. Not a great business.

The person who has the real unfair advantage in the US happens to also be the most sympathetic person - the owner occupier.
by mixermachine | 2026-01-08 09:00:18+00:00
Fully agree.
ChatGPT is often very confident and tells me that X and Y is absolutely wrong in the code.
It then answers with something worse...
It also does rarely say "sorry, I was wrong" when the previous output was just plain lies. You really need to verify every answer because it is so confident.

I fully switched to Gemini 3 Pro.
Looking into an Opus 4.5 subscription too.

My GF on the other side prefers ChatGPT for writing tasks quite a lot (school teacher classes 1-4).
by PeterStuer | 2026-01-08 09:00:36+00:00
I woder wether this will have the same pitfalls as regular ChatGPT.

The latter implicitly assumes all your questions are personal. It seems to have no concept of context for its longer term retentions.

Certainly for health, non accute things seem matter a lott. This is why yoir personal doctor that has known you for decades will spot things beyond your current symptoms.

But ChatGTP will uncritically retain from that time you helped your teacher relative build her lesson plans that you "are a teacher in secondary education" or that time you helped diagnose a friends car trouble that you "drives a high performance car" just the same as your regular "successfully built a proxmox datacenter".

With health there will be many users aking on behalve of or helping out an elderly relative. I wonder whether all those 'diagnoses' and 'issues' will be correctly attributed to the right 'patient' or just be mixed together and assumed to be all about 'you'.
by jackfranklyn | 2026-01-08 09:01:17+00:00
The state machine race pattern resonates beyond kernel work. I've seen similar bugs hide for years in application code - transaction state edge cases that only trigger under specific sequences of user actions that nobody tests for.

The median lifetimes are fascinating. Race conditions at 5.1 years vs null-deref at 2.2 years makes intuitive sense - the former needs specific timing to manifest, while the latter will crash obviously once you hit the code path. The ones that need rare conditions to trigger are the ones that survive longest.
by hipaa_eng | 2026-01-08 09:01:21+00:00
As a software engineer, seeing hardware projects like this makes me want to go back to school and pick up a few electrical engineering courses. The hardware space just seems to unlock so much (honestly blown away with the LCD retrofit at the end of the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igVscvWAR1s )

I've played with simple electronics on the arduino and raspberry pi platforms but this is a whole new level. Anyone gone down this path? Something you would recommend?
by philipallstar | 2026-01-08 09:02:07+00:00
Yes - I see what you mean. There are degrees of ease of use at between - at the extremes - what writing assembly provides, which technically can do it too, and what something like, say, Haskell provides. C++ is of course closer to Haskell than Assembly, but there's still quite a headache in using your solution that is down to absent C++ language features.
by grokys | 2026-01-08 09:02:14+00:00
I also made a horrible life decision in starting a company around developer tools, and I agree. Taking one of the comments from the PR:

> It's insane to blame everybody else for not being able to create a viable business model from an OSS project. Everybody who is using Tailwind is actually SUPPORTING Tailwind. Everybody who is reporting bugs properly is SUPPORTING Tailwind. Everybody who is collaborating and PRs changes is SUPPORTING Tailwind.

> Tailwind grew a lot due to community acceptance and support, and collaborations.

> The only person to blame here is the CEO/Main maintainer of Tailwind. They've made bad decisions, hired coders without knowing how to make enough money to pay them.

> If you want to monetize a free service, you either know what you do or you make mistakes and lose what you've built. It was always a risk; we are not at fault.

> @adamwathan I respect you for everything you've done, but you need to take a few breaths, take a walk, think, sleep, and come back, ask apologize of the community, and start working on solutions/crisis management.

And you always know that when you open the GH profile of people saying such things, you'll see an empty timeline. This particular user has a single repository which he's committed to a handful of times over the last year and has setup a GitHub sponsorship for it.

I try to remind myself that these types of people are a (loud) minority but it's absolutely soul destroying.
by Centigonal | 2026-01-08 09:02:33+00:00
It's more complicated than that.

Many foods in the United States are sweetened with high fructose corn syrup (which is very cheap compared to cane sugar because growing corn is very cheap in the United States because of climate, infrastructure, and extensive government subsidies). In soft drinks, the syrup is roughly 55% fructose, 45% glucose.

Table sugar is usually sucrose, which is a compound sugar (disaccharide) comprised of one fructose and one glucose molecule. In many bottled soft drinks, the low pH of the beverage hydrolyzes the sucrose into its component sugars, resulting in a solution of 50% fructose and 50% glucose.

Chemically, we're comparing a 55/45 mixture of fructose and glucose to a 50/50 mixture of fructose and glucose. HFCS has become a bogeyman in American society, but evidence since the 1980s seems to show that, when it comes to soda, the excess fructose isn't nearly as bad as the whole "recreationally drinking 40g of instantly available sugar" part.

Mexican coke does taste different, but it may have more to do with the other flavorants and the bottling process than the source of the sugar.

Here's a fantastic video about this all: https://www.pbs.org/video/everyone-is-wrong-about-mexican-co...

Edit: I found a cool 2014 study that actually assayed the sugar content in various soda pop brands: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089990071...

Looks like some HFCS-sweetened soda pop has up to a 70/30 fructose/glucose ratio. It's also worth noting that corn syrup contains maltose and various polysaccharides not present in table sugar, but I think most of that is refined out in colas, since there only seems to be 1% maltose present in the colas analyzed by this paper.
by Lio | 2026-01-08 09:03:09+00:00
This actually highlights a big privacy problem with health AI.

Say I’m interested in some condition and want to know more about it so I ask a chatbot about it.

It decides “asking for a friend” means I actually have that condition and then silent passes that information on data brokers.

Once it’s in the broker network it’s truth.

We lack the proper infrastructure for to control our own personal data.

Hell, I bet there’s anyone alive that can even name every data broker, let alone contacts them to police what information they’re passing about.
by pjmlp | 2026-01-08 09:03:17+00:00
I am mostly on Windows now, but once upon a time I was a GNOME fanboy, did some minor contributions to Gtkmm, the most relevant one was an article on The C/C++ User's Journal raising awarness of its existence.

When using GNU/Linux VMs with desktop experience, I never use GNOME unless I am not able to change to XFCE, KDE, or even my oldie WindowMaker. e.g. I don't own the VM.

No idea what is their supposed target audience nowadays.
by agsnu | 2026-01-08 09:03:23+00:00
Huh? Cashback cards on VISA/Mastercard have all but disappeared, I think Lloyds still do one but it has a promo of 1% for the first year then drops to 0.25% after. American Express will give you 0.75% on first 10k spend then 1.25%. 2% is unheard of (unless it's promo or heavily capped).
by yawa_me_worht | 2026-01-08 09:03:54+00:00
Thank you, I did not know about Fairphone - I will give it a closer look. It looks interesting.

Honestly, sel-hosting email, DNS, etc. seems perhaps too “advanced” for me - I am not sure I would be able to do it without causing more problems than I solve.

I am resigned to the fact that I cannot be completely independent, protected from surveillance by any state, etc. At this point, I am just looking for ways to prevent catastrophic scenarios, such as Trump blocking (or threatening to block) Europeans' access to American clouds and the like.
by metalman | 2026-01-08 09:04:00+00:00
I already have experience with intermitent wipers, they are impossible to use reliably, a newer car I have made the intermitent wipers fully automatic, and impossible to dissable.Now they have figured out how to make intermitent wipers talk, and want to put them in everything.
I forsee a future where humanity has total power and fine controll over reality, where finaly after hundreds of years, there is weather controll good enough to make it rain exactly the right amount for intermitent wipers to work properly, but we are not there yet.
by 4ggr0 | 2026-01-08 09:04:37+00:00
Fedora Atomic and RHEL used to ship with rpm-ostree, new versions are now using bootc. the base philosophy is still to ship the OS as an image, but bootc goes more into layering like docker-images, so that you can deploy changes a bit more easily/dynamically.

they're different technologies with bootc being the new kid. bootc means "bootable containers". rpm-ostree has not much to do with containers and is more like managing your OS with git-logic.

forget about "imagemode", that's the marketing-term RedHat uses for bootc.

i imagine bazzite will migrate to bootc sooner or later, but of course that requires a new way to build and ship it.
by Eufrat | 2026-01-08 09:06:10+00:00
I don’t think this is a fair retort. This is not being marketed towards people who have any inkling about how any of this works. The linked press release is clearly trying to get the average person jazzed up about wiring their medical history and fitness data to ChatGPT.

ChatGPT is just suppose to “work” for the lay person and it just doesn’t quite often. OpenAI is already being sued by people for stochastic parroting that ended in tragedy. In one case they’ve tried to use the rather novel affirmative defense that they’re not not liable because using ChatGPT for self-harm was against the terms of service the victim agreed to when using the service.
by mlyle | 2026-01-08 09:06:20+00:00
> A state actor would (and could trivially) pad the wrong directions

This isn't how BGP works. An AS-PATH isn't the path the traffic will follow; it's the path that this overall announcement has allegedly tranversed and is (one of many attributes) used to judge the quality of route. The next hop tells our peer where they should send the data if they like this route.

Putting more things in the AS path makes the route less attractive. Leaking a new route isn't going to magically make some other route become more preferred.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-08 09:06:58+00:00
Can't really compete with LLMs on duration of attention - SOTA LLMs can ingest years of research on the spot, and spend however long you need on your case. No place on Earth has that many specialists available to people (much less affordable); you'd have to have 50% of the population become MDs, and that would still cover just one sub-specialty of one specialization.
by sublimefire | 2026-01-08 09:08:09+00:00
I bet the core of the problem for Google is that more folks use programmatic access to search which is not great on their side. Naturally you end up using Serp or other similar search APIs as they are great for the job. I believe this is also an issue especially in cases where search is performed on behalf of the user (scripts, ai tools). Google is just losing ground here, why would they bother otherwise, think what will happen to their stock if the search usage will drop? Another thing is that this builds pressure to whoever is integrating such a search tool in their products, clearly Google wants to grab that market as well.
by csomar | 2026-01-08 09:08:16+00:00
> I personally don’t care who has access to my health data

There's a reason this data is heavily regulated. It's deeply intimate and gives others enormous leverage over you. This is also why the medical industry can charge premium rates while often providing poor service. Something as simple as knowing whether you need insulin to survive might seem harmless, but it creates an asymmetric power dynamic that can be exploited. And we know these companies will absolutely use this data to extract every possible gain.
by tempestn | 2026-01-08 09:08:32+00:00
I've been using both GPT 5.2 and Gemini 3 Pro a lot. I was very impressed with 3 Pro when it came out, and thought I'd cancel my OAI Plus, but I've since found that for important tasks it's been beneficial to compare the results from both, or even bounce between them. They're different enough that it's like collaborating with a team.
by rcMgD2BwE72F | 2026-01-08 09:08:43+00:00
Move to Fastmail. It has snoozing and memos https://www.fastmail.com/blog/introducing-memos/

That's the ideal combination. I use it 20x a day.

Got an email I can't act on now? Snooze it to when it's the right time and add a note with the reminder.

eg

- grandpa ask to bring a tool: snooze to early Saturday with a note "get him the tool"

- send "GDPR art. 17 account deletion request email" and snooze in 2 months to check account deletion

- recieve invoice due in a month, snooze in a month and write amount reminder in memo

I have a Saved search also that look for memos with text "TODO". Fastmail shows the memo content in the email snippet list, so you can see and process everything at a glance. And you can further filter by labels and more.

Gmail (which I've been using for 22 years) is just crap nowadays. If you can afford Fastmail (and Kagi), switch already. You will regret not to have moved earlier.
by jemmyw | 2026-01-08 09:08:55+00:00
That's not it at all. I do ditch books I'm not into. The situation I'm describing is usually where the story has some tension or I feel like the next chapter might have tension, and I don't want to push on for the time being. I need some calming space, and another story is perfect for that. Edit: I said "sick of" in my previous comment when really I should have said tired of.
by thefirstname | 2026-01-08 09:10:23+00:00
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by gterez | 2026-01-08 09:10:26+00:00
Early customer here too. Tailwind UI was one of my best purchases in the sense that it helped me learn and use Tailwind in the best way possible, by showing me, not telling me.

It was never sustainable as a product/business, as this pricing model requires constant growth. What I've seen along the way was a heavy pivot towards React (which left me wanting: I mostly use the Vue components & the HTML/JS components with Astro.js in the projects I work in) and even in the case of React, they haven't managed to arrive at a full, mature component library offering (while others have!).

TL;DR: I'd be struggling to justify it as a purchase for a new user now, even before factoring AI in.
by dave771 | 2026-01-08 09:10:40+00:00
Yeah, you are. You're limiting your view to personal use and just the text modality. If you're a builder or running a startup, the price-performance on Gemini 3 Pro and Flash is unmatched, especially when you factor in the quotas needed for scaled use cases. It’s also the only stack that handles text, live voice, and gen-media together. The Workspace/Gmail integration really doesn't represent the raw model's actual power.
by nadam | 2026-01-08 09:10:41+00:00
I am amazed at the false dichotomy (ChatGPT vs. Doctors) discussed in the comments. Let's look at it from the perspective of how a complex software is developed with a team of software engineers and with AI assistance. There is GitHub, Slack discussions, Pull Request, reviews, agents, etc...

Why a patient's health cannot be seen this way?

Version controlled source code -> medical records, health data

Slack channels -> discussion forum dedicated to one patient's health: among human doctors (specialists), AI agents and the patient.

In my opinion we are in the stone age compared to the above.
by donbrae | 2026-01-08 09:10:48+00:00
You can get all the nutrients you need, easily, from a vegan diet, with the exception of B12 (a cheap supplement will cover that).

Also, human ‘canines’ are pretty pathetic. They’ll do the job in getting meat off bones, sure, but are nothing compared with my dog’s teeth – he has proper canines. (He also doesn’t have to prepare and cook meat before tucking in. Humans are actually pretty lame meat eaters even in comparison to other omnivores like dogs, let alone carnivores like lions.)
by piker | 2026-01-08 09:11:48+00:00
I'm not sure deliberate manipulation per se, but the market would be warped by a single participant that owned 4% of the aggregate market. This is especially true if that participant didn't adhere to the normal holding periods and purchasing rationale as the remainder of the market participants. Consider that market manipulation concerns are (some of) the reasons significant holders (>= 5%) of even extremely liquid public companies are required to publicly report ownership and ownership changes.
by mckn1ght | 2026-01-08 09:11:54+00:00
Could we be thinking about different social situations? I’m not turning to people on the bus and asking what their hobbies are. And it’s not my first question of people visiting my office happy hour.

If you’re at my home for dinner, I hope anyone that still feels this way does answer “the details of my private life are none of your business” when I’m trying to get to know them as a friend, so I know never to waste another good meal on them.
by twixfel | 2026-01-08 09:12:04+00:00
Doesn't look like that at all to me. He wasn't hit, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to stay standing whilst shooting her in the head multiple times. Shooting her in the head made no sense anyway because of course once you're dead you just accelerate. Nothing about what he did made any sense nor was appropriate. She was clearly just trying to escape.

> People demonize ICE

ya cos they murder people lol