MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fnoef | 2026-01-07 21:29:06+00:00
I’m kind of torn on this. From one side, I can’t seem to trust doctors any more. I recently had a tooth removed (by the advice of two different doctors), in a claim that it will resolve my pain, which it did not, and now 3 different doctors don’t know what’s causing my pain.

Most doctor advice boil down to drink some water and take a painkiller, while glancing for 15 seconds at my medical history before they dedicate me 7 minutes, after which they move to yet another patient.

So compared to this, AI that can analyze all my medical history, and has access to the entirety of medical researches that are publicly available, could be a very good tool to have.

But at the same time technofeudalism, dystopia, etc.
by SllX | 2026-01-07 21:29:08+00:00
What the military actually did was a raid which captured Maduro and his wife, and likely took out some of Venezuela’s anti-air capabilities—for all the good they did them—in the process. As far as we know, that was the intent. Actually establishing control is an occupational effort.

I see your argument, and I think it is even defensible but I think it falls short. An actual resolution to this question may require a judge to weigh in on the contract.
by margalabargala | 2026-01-07 21:29:27+00:00
This isn't true, per your own link.

The point the Cleveland Clinic page makes is that seed oils tend to be what's used in ultra-processed foods, and those are bad for you. So if you avoid seed oils, you wind up avoiding the bad things as a second order effect.

Aside from that it's just hand-wavey "they use chemicals to make it! It doesn't have nutrients beyond the fat!". There's nothing to indicate that using sunflower or peanut oil is any worse for you than using walnut oil.

The connection between omega-6 fats and inflammation is a whole lot more tenuous than the link between ultra-processed foods and inflammation.
by CPLX | 2026-01-07 21:29:37+00:00
Here's a few examples:

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/messing-with-texas-how-bi...
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-corpora...

It's not confusing at all. There's definitely issues with private equity ownership of single-family homes. Although it is fair to say that the BlackRock meme might not be accurate, they aren't necessarily the key player.
by themafia | 2026-01-07 21:29:41+00:00
That all makes sense but I don't think it gives anyone the right to make health care decisions for me. Nor does it give anyone the right to invent senseless and cruel policies designed to harm people who refuse to accept the common advice for what are possibly their own good medical reasons.

Your same logic could be applied to food. Hungry people are suffering. Why don't we apply the same "overly motivated interference" to this issue that we did to COVID?
by kace91 | 2026-01-07 21:29:47+00:00
Even discounting lines of code:

- get a feature request/bug
- understand the problem
- think on a solution
- deliver the solution
- test
- submit to code review, including sufficient explanation, and merge when ready

260 PRs a month means the cycle above is happening once per hour, at constant speed, for 60 hours work weeks.
by lucideer | 2026-01-07 21:30:16+00:00
At least this breakage is clear & obvious.

I did some testing of configuring Claude CLI sometime ago via .claude json config files - in particular I tested:

- defining MCP servers manually in config (instead of having the CLI auto add them)

- playing with various combinations of ’permissions` arrays

What I discovered was that Claude is not only vibe coded, but basic local logic around config reading seems to also work on the basis of "vibes".

- it seemed like different parts of the CLI codebase did or didn't adhere to the permissions arrays.

- at one point it told me it didn't have permission to read the .claude directory & as a result ran bash commands to search my entire filesystem looking for MCP server URLs for it to provide me with a list of available MCP servers

- when restricted to only be able to read from a working directory, at various points it told me I had denied it read permissions to that same working directory & also freely read from other directories on my system without prompting

- restricting webfetch permissions is extremely hit & miss (tested with Little Snitch in alert mode)

---

I have not reported any of the above as Github issues, nor do I intend to. I had a think about why I won't & it struck me that there's a funny dichotomy with AI tools:

1. all of the above are things the typical vibe coder stereotypes I've encountered simply do not really care deeply about

2. people that care about the above things are less likely to care enough about AI tools to commit their personal time to reporting & debugging these issues

There's bound to be exceptions to these stereotypes out there but I doubt there's sufficient numbers to make AI tooling good.
by dugidugout | 2026-01-07 21:30:32+00:00
You act as if there are not companion or derivative works ad-nauseam. The barrier is hermeneutic, not grammatical, which is a fundamental constraint on shared meaning. Thus the "real barrier" is innate and your particular fixation only serves artificial ones. But please do add more than a complaint to our canon of meaning, I do not mean to devalue the act you are advocating, just the notion of neglect in this respect.
by united8932 | 2026-01-07 21:31:40+00:00
Been coding while fasting on keto and it's absolutely amazing. Fasting is hard socially, being ketogenic puts a bit more stress on my kidneys, but for me (adhd) it's amazing.

remember your brain can run on ketones which provides a more stable energy than glucose spikes. the brain is metabolically flexible, can run on glucose, ketones or lactate
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-01-07 21:31:45+00:00
> I feel like there will be a difference between a handful of large corporations owning a majority of properties vs thousands of dentists and software engineers. Are you saying that all of these property owners are also soulless profit-optimizers?

Do we want to trade crazy high prices in the American real estate market for absolutely crazier high prices in the Australian real estate market?

That is a bit simplistic though, there could be other things going on in Australia, and all the other rich countries (e.g. Switzerland, England, China) where American prices look like a good value. I'm sure at the end of the day supply is the main factor, and not having a hot economy also helps, so I'm sure the USA will get there fairly quickly.
by sallveburrpi | 2026-01-07 21:31:54+00:00
This should be top comment

When I was visiting the US I was shocked how much more expensive “real” food is. Here I am spending more if I eat out or processed food versus cooking my own food at home.
In the US it was basically the inverse, didn’t make any sense to me.
(N=1 and 10 year old experience, but it seems to have only gotten more extreme since)
by thire | 2026-01-07 21:32:02+00:00
I understand the need for hoarding tabs but it boggles my mind how people navigate tiny tabs and remember where everything is. In fact, they probably don't since I keep seeing people clicking back and forth a few times before finding the right tab.

I have been using tree style tabs on Firefox for so long, I can't function without it. I can nest tabs together and collapse them, but most importantly, I can read all the tab titles due to the vertical layout.
by reorder9695 | 2026-01-07 21:32:10+00:00
If transport costs to a library are the limiting factor here, that's a person who's also unlikely to be able to responsibly buy other forms of entertainment though. Say it costs $10 transport to the library (probably an overestimate), and you go once a month to return old books and get new books, that's cheaper than a month's subscription to most streaming platforms. The only comparable form of entertainment (I'm excluding things like running for obvious reasons) I can think of that may be cheaper is video games, assuming you have a computer that can play at least more basic ones or are content with phone games.
by smashed | 2026-01-07 21:32:23+00:00
In the specific commit, what seems like a bot or automated script added changelog entries for 3 new versions in a single commit, which is odd for an automated script to do. And only the latest version had the date added.

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/commit/870624fc158...

That actions-user seem to be mostly maintaining the Changelog but the commits does not seem consistent with an automated script. I see a few cases of rewriting previous change log entries or moving entries from one version to another which any kind of automation would not be doing. Seems like human error and poor testing.
by themafia | 2026-01-07 21:32:30+00:00
> One's choice here affects everyone else

You still owe me a court trial if you want to act on that in a way that reduces my rights. Prove that my individual choices are affecting anyone.

> if a democratic process creates rules requiring us all to be immunized for the common good, that's okay with me.

Drinking is universally a harm. We should ban alcohol. It's for the common good, obviously, and there are zero arguments against this. Why do we allow drinking? At the very least we should ban _public_ drinking. There's no sense in socially allowing this to occur.
by kristopolous | 2026-01-07 21:33:00+00:00
I was around then as well but I'm not going to rely on the fickleness of 30 year old memories to be more authoritative than contemporaneous manuscripts.

The fact that you see buttons made exclusively for the web and existing exclusively on the Web and covering early web culture as not "web buttons" is an interesting distinction.

I mean you do you. Language is what we make it. I just wonder where such a perception comes from
by general1465 | 2026-01-07 21:33:38+00:00
I wonder when Russia will stop pretending that EU does not exist and will start talking to it like to equal and start negotiating with EU, not with remote USA which are trying to retreat from conflict.

Maybe Russia should recognize that EU has its own sphere of influence and Russia should respect it - so when is Russia going to demilitarize Kaliningrad, because having a military base so deep in EU is unacceptable?
by EForEndeavour | 2026-01-07 21:33:56+00:00
An estimated 371,000 people die every year following a misdiagnosis, and 424,000 are permanently disabled. https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/33/2/109?rss=1

Admittedly I am basing this on pure vibes: I'd bet that adding AI to the healthcare environment will, on balance, reduce this number, not increase it.
by bigbadfeline | 2026-01-07 21:34:07+00:00
> as progress depends more on massive training runs, it becomes capital-intensive, less reproducible and more secretive; so you get a compute divide and less publication.

In the area of AI, secrecy and inability to reproduce/verify claims can become a huge systemic and social problem, the possible damage is literally unbounded.

That's why I like open source AI, including training data and process, it solves the above problem as well as the problem of duplication of effort which leads to a huge waste of resources, a waste that is economically significant on national and global scales.
by kccqzy | 2026-01-07 21:34:23+00:00
Depends on how unique your legal name is. Buying your own home as an individual creates a public record with your address and your name. This gets ingested by lots of people search websites like https://www.fastpeoplesearch.com/ (which I have used and liked). But if your legal name is really common, it would be harder for anyone else to deduce which one is actually you.
by wt__ | 2026-01-07 21:34:23+00:00
Yes.. bought a Miele Complete C3 Auto Comfort Boost getting on for a decade ago. Really nicely designed. The one bit of 'questionable' tech it has is a remote control in the handle for power and controlling the suction level.

However you quickly realise that's logical, as otherwise you'd need a second cable, or to embed it in the tube somehow.

What's less defensible is not duplicating the +/- buttons on the vacuum itself, so if the coin cell battery fails you can only turn it on and off.
by bpt3 | 2026-01-07 21:34:25+00:00
I am slightly older than you, and literally don't know a person who isn't employed and doing well (including plenty your age and younger), though I am aware they exist.

It's almost like anecdotal reports are meaningless, and we should rely on well sourced data to determine how things like the economy are doing.

Spoiler alert: there is no indication we are in a death spiral, though in my opinion Trump seems to be doing his best to correct that. Fortunately, I don't think he's up to the task.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-01-07 21:34:51+00:00
Sure! But when you imagine using those terms:

> It is "progress" when class traitors displace labor, but it is "heartbreaking" when a class traitor gets displaced by other class traitors.

it becomes clear that the original comment was a pointless strawman of a position that nobody holds. A class traitor wouldn't be expressing sympathy about displacement in the first place. It only seemed to make sense because, when you say "tech bro", people superimpose the general category of technologists who think they can make the world better on top of one specific stereotypical guy who believes all the worst things they've ever heard a technologist say.
by flatline | 2026-01-07 21:34:58+00:00
I would gently suggest that you may be blinded by a cultural bias here, which has partly been formed by the dairy lobby over the course of every living American’s lifetime. While it is true that we are not the only culture that drinks cow’s milk, it is predominantly a Northern European and later American phenomenon, and the number of people who are intolerant to dairy on some level is very high. I’m not saying a balanced diet cannot consist of dairy, but implying it should, as the plate diagram does, is highly misleading and outright paid for.
by roger_ | 2026-01-07 21:35:04+00:00
In one case it was a urinary flow test (uroflowmetry). The results go to a lab and then the doctor gets the summary. Was able to diagnose the issue, prevalence, etc. and educate myself about treatment and risks before seeing a doctor. Papers gave me distributions of flow by age, sex, etc. so I knew it was out of range.

In another case I uploaded a CSV of CGM data, analyzed it and identified trends (e.g. Saturday morning blood sugar spikes). All in five minutes on my phone.
by jorblumesea | 2026-01-07 21:35:38+00:00
The current plan, as proposed, isn't even accurate or helpful. It has butter under healthy fats, which it is not. "meat" is thoroughly vague and red meat is very different from fish and poultry. Red meat of all types are filled with saturated fats associated with cvd and ldl-c levels.

It's not scientific and that's exactly what you'd expect out of RFK and MAHA movement.
by zabzonk | 2026-01-07 21:35:46+00:00
> How on earth did wokeness even come up there?

Wokeness is a control mechanism. If you tread one inch off the "correct" path (as any normal person is going to do occasionally), you will get stomped. For example:

[jane]
Using "delete this" is perfectly safe in C++

[neil]
Jane, not at all. For example .....

[moderator]
neil, i think you are disrespecting jane - 6 hour ban.

And I am not joking about this. But it was only the company employee moderators that did this, and they did it excessively. They also got rid of the few mods who knew how to mod and wouldn't toe the line.
by Asm2D | 2026-01-07 21:35:50+00:00
You need to rerun the benchmarks if you want fresh numbers. The post was written when Blend2D didn't have JIT for AArch64, which penalized it a bit. Also on X86_64 the numbers are really good for Blend2D, which beats Blaze in some tests. So it's not black&white.

And please keep in mind that Blend2D is not really in development anymore - it has no funding so the project is basically done.
by bs7280 | 2026-01-07 21:35:52+00:00
I propose two changes to (try) and broadly solve this:
- Additional property tax if you do not live in your home fulltime. This includes vacation homes.
- First time, US Citizen, non-corporate homebuyers can get a loan at the federal interest rate.

If I were to try and buy the condo I rent, due to interest rates, taxes, and HOA's I would be paying $1000 more per month. At the end of my mortgage I would given the entire cost of the property to a bank in the form of interest payments.

Rich investors and companies effectively get to buy homes at a discount vs average joes.
by onychomys | 2026-01-07 21:36:06+00:00
This is pretty fun! I'd suggest having the spellcheck suggestions not pop up correct answers (I typed "Ireland" and it asked if I meant Iceland, which was one of the answers I hadn't gotten to yet). And, for that matter, I'm not really sure why Ireland was wrong. I thought maybe it was because it shares its island with NI, but the DR shares its island with Haiti and DR was accepted.
by CharlieDigital | 2026-01-07 21:36:11+00:00
> Are they using AI because it’s better

Because it's better (versus the engineers they were able to hire).

> If I hire two sandwich artists for 6 months but nobody buys my sandwiches

Pivot is strong and in both cases where they went n -> 1, the pivots were dramatic. One went from building a (credit) card switching SDK to building a legal assistant AI. One went from building a fin-tech compliance product to a CRM for managing collections.

Because they went back to the drawing board, they ended up letting go of their teams and started using AI to build MVPs and then found that they could ship faster and better.
by mrguyorama | 2026-01-07 21:36:31+00:00
Half of the purpose of SNAP is to be yet more subsidy to American megafarms. That was literally how it was done by FDR, and why it is administered by the department of Agriculture. It intentionally drives food production that wouldn't necessarily be profitable on its own because most first world countries, including the US, found that letting Capitalism run free on your food supply would result in booms, busts, and cyclic famine.

Soaking up grain and corn syrup supplies is intentional. Ethanol in our gas has a similar purpose.

However, the primary reason you should not care about SNAP recipients spending money on soda or chips or junk is because it's usually a good price/calorie ratio, so for the half a percent of Americans that literally don't get enough to eat, it can be sustaining, if not healthy, but for the rest, the idea that people shouldn't be able to have a small luxury because it's socialized is just too much.

Taking candy from children is probably just not worth the squeeze. The entire federal SNAP program is ~$80 billion.

Lookup WIC. It is a very restricted program of food assistance, and spends immense effort and money of "only healthy" or "no junk" and parental education and supporting nutrition, and it really pays off, but it does that by relying on ENORMOUS free labor from parents and stores. A WIC checkout takes significantly longer than average, is more error prone, and is miserable for all involved, for like $30 of bread and cheese.
by mrguyorama | 2026-01-07 21:36:49+00:00
A hypothesis with zero supporting data and primarily argued in a couple pop culture books is not something you should give any weight.

Scientists do not write books when they have actual, meaningful findings.

You've made this claim all over this comment section, so it's pretty frustrating to find it comes from a pretty awful source.

I promise you, it is trivial to overeat protein. Americans love their 16oz steaks, and yet one pound of steak in a single meal is almost certainly "Too much" for a non-athelete diet.

Meanwhile, simply look to every eating competition which uses a meat. There does not seem to be any natural limitation to overconsuming meat.
by stanford_labrat | 2026-01-07 21:36:58+00:00
my own institution launched an internal investigation into a professor who i know for a fact committed fraud and was "unable to prove intentional wrongdoing". academic institutions have taken the "this never happens because we are morally pure" approach which we all know is a load of baloney, they are perversely incentivized to never admit fraud.

the witness and reportee who i am friends with was directly instructed by this professor to falsify data in a more positive light in order to impress grant funders. multiple people were in attendance in this meeting but even that was not enough to see any disciplinary action.

duke also has a notorious reputation for being a fraud mill.
by shimman | 2026-01-07 21:37:25+00:00
You convince the store owner in person, this was kinda the case throughout all of humanity until very recently.

It's not society's problem to ensure corporations are able to take prime real estate by abusing their customers.

They can meet with every shop owner and argue why their products should be sold, although if you ask me I bet the shop owner knows exactly what their customers want so once again where is the benefit for society here? That some greedy people aren't able to make a buck abusing human psychology?

Once again, what is the benefit for society here?
by skeuomorphism | 2026-01-07 21:37:39+00:00
>As I am fond of saying, he’s always “a day late and a dollar short” by ‘exposing’ scams after they have already run their course or ‘rug pulled’

So.. the author wants him to tell us before it happens, and be right?

There was one going on with MrBeast and some crypto, and there was one of Paul brothers and his scam game that he predicted correctly before it went south?

Should he stop explaining these scams after they happen, too? Why is that such an issue?
Show HN: Flatagents: State machine orchestration with stateless LLM agents
by beacon294 | 2026-01-07 21:37:54+00:00
This is a declarative orchestration framework for stateless short-lived LLM agents.

Agents are orchestrated by hierarchical state machines (HSMs).

The HSMs and agents are defined in YAML, with hooks and
webhooks for additional functionality.

* FlatAgent: A single LLM call: model + prompts + output schema.

* FlatMachine: A state machine that orchestrates multiple agents, actions, and state machines.

Examples:
- https://github.com/memgrafter/flatagents/tree/main/sdk/pytho...
- https://github.com/memgrafter/research-crawler-flatagents
- https://github.com/memgrafter/claude-skills-flatagents
by tills13 | 2026-01-07 21:37:57+00:00
It's just interesting because most of the talk is programmers talking about AI taking their job by replacing them not taking their job because it's taking away revenue from the business.

Reminds me of the problem with Google & their rich results which wiped out and continues to wipe out blogs who rely on people actually visiting their site vs. getting the information they seek without leaving Google.
by oliwarner | 2026-01-07 21:37:58+00:00
Wait, what? Subscribe for £4 a month to fund a for-profit company so they can buy rights to patch up old games I used to play so I can... Buy them again?

I've bought Resident Evil twice before guys, I'm not paying £7.99 to get another copy. I get that there's some service provision —maybe even some first party dev work— but patrons should either be the product and these games get released for free, or the price of the game should recoup the hassle of licenses.

What am I missing? It seems like they're trying to double-dip.
by kenjackson | 2026-01-07 21:38:11+00:00
ChatGPT has become an indispensable health tool for me. It serves as a great complement to my doctor. And there's been at least two cases in our house where it provided recommendations that were of great value (one possibly life saving and the other saving from an unnecessary surgery). I think that specialized LLMs will eventually be the front-line doctor/nurse.
by fabbbbb | 2026-01-07 21:38:11+00:00
To me it seems the point is “processed” == bad. Isn’t it? And NOVA seems to be the gold standard for what’s “processed”.

Of course there’s better things as whole grain bread in plastic foil (whole grain bread freshly made) or infant formula (breastfeeding). But they are more healthy than other things that rank better in NOVA.