MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pksebben | 2026-01-07 17:45:58+00:00
I can only speak for myself, but it feels like playing with fire to productize this stuff too quick.

Like, I woke up one day and a magical owl told me that I was a wizard. Now I control the elements with a flick of my wrist - which I love. I can weave the ether into databases, apps, scripts, tools, all by chanting a simple magical invocation. I create and destroy with a subtle murmur.

Do I want to share that power? Naturally, it would be lonely to hoard it and despite the troubles at the Unseen University, I think that schools of wizards sharing incantations can be a powerful good. But do I want to share it with everybody? That feels dangerous.

It's like the early internet - having a technical shelf to climb up before you can use the thing creates a kind of natural filter for at least the kinds of people that care enough to think about what they're doing and why. Selecting for curiosity at the very least.

That said, I'm also interested in more data from an engineering perspective. It's not a simple thing and my mind is very much straddling the crevasse here.
by legitster | 2026-01-07 17:46:03+00:00
"We're ending the war on protein"

Weird branding and culture war stuff aside, this is probably the least objectionable thing this health administration has done.

That said, I don't know if this would actually move the needle much. The Japanese diet includes so much more processed foods and less protein and they still live longer, healthier lives. I think the ultimate factors are still portion sizes, environment, activity, and genetics.
by filleduchaos | 2026-01-07 17:46:08+00:00
See the pesky thing is that if you actually read the paper you've been linking as opposed to just running with "NASA said it's possible", you'll notice that like I alluded to, at Mach 1.3 (theoretically!) "boomless flight" is much slower than Concorde's Mach 2+ cruise that the company certainly wants you to think of when you do your back-of-the-napkin supersonic flight time savings maths. And that's on top of requiring optimal atmospheric conditions, so not even a guarantee to begin with.

The laws of physics funnily enough are not something you can "move fast and break" or PR-speak your way around.
by kstrauser | 2026-01-07 17:46:18+00:00
I disagree, and that’s what I value here: you can add your tags, and we can opt to follow or ignore them as we see fit. That’s far better than the SO model of a site participant having the ability to shut down the conversation for everyone.

But also, a note: conversations are never finished. People talked about this broad topic yesterday, but I didn’t see it yesterday to be able to weigh in. I’m here today, saw this topic, and started talking about it with the other people who stumbled across it just now. I would be highly annoyed with a friend if I brought up an interesting subject and they replied that they’d already discussed it with someone else over dinner last night so there’s no need to talk about it again. I wasn’t there last night. Even if there was a recording of it, that would be a stale artifact I could interact with, other than to contact last night’s debaters and try to continue on with a subject they’d already finished with.
by the_af | 2026-01-07 17:46:20+00:00
> But we are talking about World War II, and a war in which the United States and Japan fought, with millions of casualties. Pardon me if I'm not particularly interested in what someone from South America thinks about saving American lives by using a weapon we had to stop a war that we didn't start.

This is not an argument for "civilization", so it's very hard to follow your point. You just seem confused.

If you don't care what I think, why bother debating with me at all? Why inject yourself in the debate?

> I don't think the numbers matter and shifting around from 50,000 to 5 million or anywhere in proximity to those numbers doesn't change the categorical argument.

On the contrary, it does change the categorical debate because the original argument ("it also saved Japanese lives") depended on those numbers. You seem to want to argue about something else? Maybe in another thread?

> Japan could have surrendered and then it wouldn't have been used.

It has been argued quite convincingly, multiple times already, that the Bomb would have been used nonetheless. The effort to develop it had been made, now they wanted to use it on real population centers. They were biased and primed to action. Also, to send a message to the Soviets.

None of this has much to do with Operation Downfall or whether Japan wanted to surrender (there were a pro and anti surrender factions, and the hardliners could maybe have been appeased. It's not self-evident there was no other way.)

More importantly, this is not a valid argument if we're going to argue about civilization. If you want to make a separate argument, go ahead, but maybe discuss it elsewhere.

Also, preempting your likely "I don't care about civilization": if you don't, why are you arguing in a thread precisely about this?

> "The US didn't do anything [in WW2]"

Awful strawman.

> "The Soviets were the good guys fighting the good fight against the Nazis".

I'm struggling to see the connection here. Was it because I mentioned the Bomb was also signalling to the Soviets? But that'd be true regardless.

> For example, a lot of folks will claim things like the Soviets bore the brunt of the war

They did.

> it was the Soviets who helped Germany kick this thing off by illegally invading and partitioning Poland

That's a very simplistic take, but I suspect you aren't interested in more nuanced takes. There's a lot to read on this matter.

> So... maybe those 40 million deaths were deserved

Wow. Just wow.

> I wouldn't care what you thought? In wartime, as an American, our soldier's lives are worth more than any enemy lives.

Why argue with me? You obviously care. Also, "our soldier's lives are worth more" is an argument, but not one out of civilization, which is what we were debating. As in "dropping the Bomb was a civilized option because [...]".

> But if you want to insist you think your countrymen's lives

I was just telling you how you sound when you say "our lives matter more..." as if everyone here was US American.
by wg0 | 2026-01-07 17:46:21+00:00
While I'm a shameless freeloader with mostly backend skills - Adam has my utmost respect for out of the box innovation.

I did buy some of this books. Not the Tailwind UI though.

Adam, you gotta pay bills too. I understand that. And I respect that.

The day a product of mine starts making money, I'll come knocking your door.

Thank you.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-01-07 17:46:25+00:00
This is by design by replubicans so that they can claim government doesn't work, or so that they ca kneecap programs before becoming successful and permanent.

Look at their plan to 'starve the beast'. They claim they are for fiscal responsibility as their number one priority, but they would rather bankrupt the country in order to get their political way than be fiscally responsible. They have zero morals. It's hard to have a working government when half the people in charge don't want a working government.
by andai | 2026-01-07 17:46:26+00:00
Is that a context issue? I wonder if LSP would help there. Though Claude Code should grep the codebase for all necessary context and LSP should in theory only save time, I think there would be a real improvement to outcomes as well.

The bigger a project gets the more context you generally need to understand any particular part. And by default Claude Code doesn't inject context, you need to use 3rd party integrations for that.
by gruez | 2026-01-07 17:46:26+00:00
>But when you get to the top 0.1% or whatever it is, things like "income" and "tax" get ambiguous. I suppose a lot of the ultra rich don't have much earnings, at best cap gains, and even that can be offset, boxed and off-shored ad nauseam.

But the denominator isn't "income", it's GDP. That's far harder to "offset, boxed and off-shored ad nauseam".
by cogman10 | 2026-01-07 17:46:39+00:00
That wasn't what was said.

Businesses price in shrinkage. The more theft occurs, the more employees they hire and the higher they mark up goods.

There's a difference between having a 2% margin and having a 30% markup. Margin includes things like employee salaries, spoilage, theft. That's why buying goods in a remote location will often carry a high price tag. The store selling that produce needs to account for these things in order to stay afloat. So even though they are selling something for $10 that you can get in a city for $5 that doesn't mean they aren't making the same 2% margin.
by sublinear | 2026-01-07 17:46:42+00:00
The funny part is how they think this will give them the power to take control of what is the defacto standard and circumvent standards.

It will instead further distinguish what is AI slop because it doesn't work and be siloed off to people who don't care about the code so can't fix it.

If people want good interoperable production ready code that can be deployed instantly and just works and meets all current standards and ongoing discussions, we've had it for many decades and it's called open source.
by ericmcer | 2026-01-07 17:47:03+00:00
People will want what LLMs can do they just don't want "AI". I think having it pervade products in a much more subtle way is the future though.

For example, if you close a youtube browser tab with a comment half written it will pop up an `alert("You will lose your comment if you close this window")`. It does this if the comment is a 2 page essay or "asdfasdf". Ideally the alert would only happen if the comment seemed important but it would readily discard short or nonsensical input. That is really difficult to do in traditional software but is something an LLM could do with low effort. The end result is I only have to deal with that annoying popup when I really am glad it is there.

That is a trivial example but you can imagine how a locally run LLM that was just part of the SDK/API developers could leverage would lead to better UI/UX. For now everyone is making the LLM the product, but once we start building products with an LLM as a background tool it will be great.

It is actually a really weird time, my whole career we wanted to obfuscate implementation and present a clean UI to end users, we want them peaking behind the curtain as little as possible. Now everything is like "This is built with AI! This uses AI!".
by testfrequency | 2026-01-07 17:47:18+00:00
I’ve lived in both and I can say confidently I spent more on groceries, dining out, and drinks overall for me in Seattle…despite not feeling like the care or quality was always there. The hardest thing about Seattle for me was the lack of food variety. I could only eat so much teriyaki and pho..I know these are fighting words..but I actually would rank Portland above Seattle strictly on food alone. Portland has a great food scene, and it’s not obscenely priced.

Locals would (passive aggressively) remind me though how amazing Seattle is, and I should be grateful for no income tax
by figassis | 2026-01-07 17:47:19+00:00
Today, I wanted to add tailwind to a new project and realized I had purchased it back in 2022. So I went to the website and realized it had moved to tailwind plus. That’s how distracted I’ve been. To my surprise my access worked and I could still download the full UI kit.

I know they promised lifetime, but I did not expect updates forever. This looks like the first issue to fix. I would have no issues paying 20% of purchase price for an updated version, that gave me access to 12 months of free updates.

Also, what about paid access to skills or MCP server for design systems and components?

I know these may be things he already considered, so don’t want to presume I have an answer. But as a customer, totally willing to support a good product that has supported me.
by nickjj | 2026-01-07 17:47:23+00:00
I'm happy to see this, not because I wish Adam failure. I am a Tailwind user myself and use it in all of my projects. Generally am a fan of Adam and respect his business.

The happy (in a bad way) part is seeing very successful projects like Tailwind get financially fucked by AI. It means it's not just me.

I am a small tech course creator who was able to make a living for 10 years but over the last 3 years it has tanked to where I make practically zero. Almost all due to less traffic hitting my blog which was the source of paid course purchases. I literally had to shift my entire life around after 25 years of being a successful contractor because of this.

I hope the world understands how impactful (both good and bad ways) having an unchecked AI scrape the world's content and funnel everything directly through their monetized platform while content creators get nothing in return is.
by everdrive | 2026-01-07 17:47:40+00:00
This is a great example of how harming your own credibility can damage an otherwise correct and uncontroversial message. RFK Jr. has surrounded himself in controversy, and that controversy is really dominating a lot of this conversation and drowning out the message. Given how he's acted, I don't blame anyone for being skeptical of him, even if this particular food pyramid seems to be a good move that would itself be uncontroversial if provided by a different messenger.
by adamnemecek | 2026-01-07 17:47:47+00:00
I started using nushell around April 2024. While it is much better than other shell languages, the lack of proper types is painful.

Shell languages make sense if you believe in the Unix philosophy. For me, the problem with the Unix philosophy is the endless serialization and deserialization as well as lack of proper error handling. So nushell for me is a good answer to an ill-posed question.

The approach I have been taking is a single binary with a billion subcommands and aliasing these.
I currently have two of these in Rust, one in Swift. I tried going all Rust but integrating with certain aspects of macOS is just so much simpler in Swift.

Like the recent push to make CLI development suck less (e.g. argument parsing used to be painful but is solved now) has made developing CLI tools a lot less painful.
by neutronicus | 2026-01-07 17:48:26+00:00
> Governments could and should make conditions in those professions more tolerable, and use money from A.I to retrain people into them.

FWIW, my vision was not really this utopian. It was more about AI smashing white-collar work as an alternative to these professions so that people are forced into them despite their preference to do pretty much anything else. Everyone is more bitter and resentful and feels less actualized and struggles to afford luxuries, but at least you don't have to wait that long in the emergency room and it's 10 kids to a classroom.
by peteforde | 2026-01-07 17:48:29+00:00
Yep, that's exactly what I meant when I said that CC is moving past it's CLI-first roots.

I haven't personally tried the CC extension because like you, I concluded that it sounds like a single-company Cursor with way fewer points of integration into the IDE.

I hate bikeshedding and rarely do I switch tooling unless something is demonstrably better; preferably 10x better. For me, the Cursor IDE experience is easily 10x better than copying and pasting from ChatGPT, which is why I created this thread in the first place.
by BadBadJellyBean | 2026-01-07 17:48:36+00:00
I have always struggled a bit with shell replacements. I use zsh but only because of oh-my-zsh. Apart from that I always thought of shell scripts as a necessary evil for interoperability. Today you can usually expect a linux system to have bash or at least sh. That is why I do shell scripting. Nushell is usally not preinstalled on a system and so I cannot expect it.

If I want to do real scripting/programming I use python or another dedicated programming language. I don't really know what the value of Nushell is for me. Maybe the plugin system is amazing but at the moment I miss nothing in my zsh.
by x0x0 | 2026-01-07 17:48:47+00:00
Beyond even the cops and DA absolutely refusing to do their jobs in any way, it also severely degrades the shopping experience.

You can either go to costco which is always mobbed, or if you make the mistake of going to Target, you will have to repeatedly get someone to unlock cabinets which hold laundry detergent, deodorant, toothpaste, etc.
by jandrewrogers | 2026-01-07 17:49:13+00:00
Seattle used to have good food at reasonable prices. The extreme increase in costs, much of which is self-inflicted, has killed any restaurant that didn't both dramatically increase prices and cut corners on quality. Almost all of my favorite restaurants in the city are no longer around.

Seattle had much better food 15 years ago. The average food quality has noticeably deteriorated at the same time as prices skyrocketed. It is a shame really.
by buildbot | 2026-01-07 17:49:19+00:00
Mmm 14$ sounds nice! In Seattle a burrito is hard to find for under 17$ IMO. For example, a local and delicious place in a nearby liquor store has 18$ burritos: https://eltacolocoballard.com/seattle-ballard-el-taco-loco-f...

Or a longtime establishment of the area offers 15$ ones - https://www.gorditosmexicanfood.com/menu#menu=burritos Granted these are massive compared to basically anywhere else.
by snielson | 2026-01-07 17:50:09+00:00
The "Files-On-Demand" feature of OneDrive makes it possible for everyone in the family to login into any computer with OneDrive and quickly access all their files (I have 500/500 fiber). Because some/most of the files are stored on the cloud and only downloaded when they are accessed, the hard drive of the computer can be smaller (1TB) than the total sum of all the files stored by all the users (6TB). It's very nice. I can also turn off Files-on-Demand and everything will be stored locally on my computer. It sounds like many people are bothered that Files-on-Demand is enabled by default.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-01-07 17:50:12+00:00
> She claimed the bigger problem financially is employees in retail, i.e. stealing clothes in large scale to be sold on eBay.

One of Kanye's early songs he mentions stealing kakis from his job before he quit to become an artist. Not surprised, if you're an employee you have access to all sorts of things a customer does not. I imagine you also have access to areas where there are no cameras.
by HaZeust | 2026-01-07 17:50:14+00:00
"We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food, even baseball... What bothers me isn't that fraud is not nice. Or that fraud is mean. For fifteen thousand years, fraud and short sighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once. Eventually you get caught, things go south. When the hell did we forget all that? I thought we were better than this, I really did."

- Steve Eisman, 2008
Ask HN: How are you preventing sloppy verification with AI-assisted coding?
by rmnull | 2026-01-07 17:50:19+00:00
After the introduction of agentic code tools,
the development speed has increased rapidly, but i have been struggling to keep up with the verification of these tools, since some of these things "just work"(reminds me of the old joke, "it compiles").

So i wanted to know whether this is a me problem, or others are also going through it and what your workflow for this looks like.
but mostly I'm interested in the way you approach the work and the thought process behind that.

========

P.S: I'll leave the approaches i have tried before()

* always verify the work and only then approve. But this always leads me to a cognitive load and fried brain state at the end of the day. As a side effect producing poor quality work.
And to resolve that i started approaching the work more slowly. This has brought down the development speed a lot but this has been good for my mental health.

* Other thing that i have been meaning to try is to get the development things done quickly, then spend another 1 or two days verifying things. This leads to continous iteration that i want and get the insights that only come after building.

* Other option i have also tried is, write tests and then refine ask it to generate code till those tests work, again the initial barrier entry becomes high, because there's so much of cases to be specified and generated and verified(this is the most reliable approach and happy path I've gotten till now that gives some sense of guarantee about whatever is built).
Sometimes gain with agentic tools this initial verification has to be laid out clearly which consumes time and sometimes makes me wanna curse at AI because it misses out on somethings that i said(or i thought was clear with the spec)
by geo255 | 2026-01-07 17:50:22+00:00
You actually can edit your redirects in Firefox Mobile (at least it works in Nightly). There is a focus bug in the Edit Redirects popup.

Tap the Edit Reditects button. Nothing seems to happen, but then tap the back-arrow at the top. Go to your Firefox tab switcher, and you should now see a "REDIRECTOR" tab. This is the editor.
by RickS | 2026-01-07 17:50:24+00:00
This tracks with.... basically everything except the official numbers. I routinely see people who record their grocery prices finding increases that start in the 40% range. Certainly true for soda and snacks in my experience.

There's a new second-order concern where I'm now alarmed by low prices. For example: I have no idea what johnsonville did to keep their brats at $4.99 over the past 5 years while the more local ones shot to $9-11, but it makes me grossed out and skeptical.

As the article notes, opposite effect in tech. I was perusing ipad mini and mac mini yesterday and couldn't believe what I paid $500 for in 2021. The amount of apple you get for $350 on the refurb market is absolutely batty. You can get a shitty intel mini for well under 100 bucks. Tempted to start slinging them around like chonky raspberry pis.
by t8sr | 2026-01-07 17:50:41+00:00
Something about the way the author expresses himself (big words, “I am so smart”, flowery filler) makes me unsurprised he finds it hard to have satisfying conversations with people. If he talked to me like this IRL I wouldn’t be trying to have a deep conversation either, I’d just be looking for the exit.

Lacking a theory of mind for other people is not a sign of superiority.
by loeg | 2026-01-07 17:50:42+00:00
The establishment guidelines on protein intake for decades (since the 80s) have been very minimalist, only looking to balance nitrogen -- leading to guidelines in the 0.8g/kg range. This is what they're referring to. Yes, it's still hyperbolic. But they're not talking about a relatively recent popularity/marketing swing. The new guidance of 1.2-1.6g/kg is 50-100% higher.
by jqpabc123 | 2026-01-07 17:50:43+00:00
Which will make you fatter?

A) Eating a pound/kg of fat

B) Eating a pound/kg of refined sugar

Correct answer: B

Sugar enters your blood stream almost immediately --- starting in your mouth. Unless you're doing heavy exercise and burning lots of calories, your body has to store most of this excess energy --- as fat.

The only way to get consumed fat into your bloodstream is to first convert it into sugar --- which itself burns some energy.
by sxp | 2026-01-07 17:50:52+00:00
> And for San Franciscans, the price on the menu is rarely the price you pay. Add in sales tax, a default 18-20% tip on the tablet screen, an SF Mandate or Cost of Living Fee, and 8.625% sales tax. Soon that seemingly cheap $15 lunch might be $20.

This is a key metric that the article doesn't properly account for when it comes to food prices. The asshole restaurateurs got an exception to the anti "drip-pricing" law that required all fees to be rolled into the listed cost: https://oag.ca.gov/hiddenfees