MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nobody9999 | 2026-01-10 23:37:33+00:00
That depends on relevant state laws. Perhaps Alabama wasn't the best example.

Regardless, as I said, organized shoplifting rings are mostly addressed by other laws (related to criminal conspiracy and other criminal enterprise laws) which do carry felony penalties.

If someone goes into Walmart three times a week and steals bread milk or eggs they should be charged with a felony and be sent to prison? Really? Shall we imprison those who sleep on the street too? How about speeders? Litterbugs? Jaywalkers? But we don't have enough prisons for that do we? Which leaves what? Summary execution?

As Anatole France[0] observed[1]:

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatole_France

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/361132-the-law-in-its-majes...
by m000 | 2026-01-10 23:38:00+00:00
As an outside observer of this beef tallow trend, it looks to me a lot like a fad driven by some internalized machismo: "It's not proper food if it's not from a dead animal." While this is not unique to the US, apparently believers of this in the US reached a critical mass enough to make it public policy.

I don't doubt that one can find health benefits in beef tallow. But I also vividly remember ads in the 80s and 90s that promoted the health benefits of seed oils and margarines, which years later proved to be cherry-picked facts. So, I'm skeptical on whether we have the same thing happening, only now it is beef tallow that is promoted by cherry-picking studies.

And frankly, RFKs "new pyramid" is at least misguided, if not worse. Bread and grains at the bottom of the pyramid make no sense. In mediterranean countries (e.g. Italy, Greece, Spain) bread and pasta are on the table in ample quantities every single day. And guess who has longer life expectancy than the US.
by onaclov2000 | 2026-01-10 23:38:00+00:00
Somewhat related I suppose, for reasons I am often in a situation where I can use matplotlib and make a plot then save it and then SCP it locally to view it. I got tired of that and started making command line plots so I can see the stuff I want right there, it's not insanely detailed but for my needs it's been fine. This def got me thinking about it lol
by Avicebron | 2026-01-10 23:38:39+00:00
I wish the author could address whether or not people can buy a house and raise a family by making hypercubes. The potter was able to make cups and pots because that's what the people needed. In this future of manufactured ceramics the author envisions, what is the material reality who dedicated themselves to the craft of pottery? How many ceramic factories do we really need?
by mitthrowaway2 | 2026-01-10 23:39:12+00:00
Yes. Another user could have restricted access rights on purpose, maybe? But I can still apparently seize them for myself by typing an arcane command into the terminal. Why shouldn't the UI give me a way to do this more easily?

If it requires typing in an admin password to solve, so be it, but at least the UI could lead me to the answer while offering a password prompt.

And yes, I wasn't telling you that Windows has no problems. In fact, Windows probably caused this problem -- this drive worked just fine with Linux the night before; then I transferred some files into it from Windows and plugged it back into my Linux computer and suddenly this happened. I have no doubt that Windows was responsible for messing up the drive state and causing the problem. But to a non-technical user, it's not a question of who is to blame; Windows reads the drive fine whereas Linux gives an error that has no obvious solution. And it can't be solved by right clicking the drive in the explorer and selecting "take ownership and mount" or something like that, it requires using an unfamiliar command into the terminal to fix the problem. And that's basically the case with most file-permission errors that I encounter on Linux systems.
by azangru | 2026-01-10 23:40:24+00:00
> any modern Laptop

When I looked up Dell Pro Max 16, I found a thread complaining that its camera doesn't work: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=307529

And there are numerous other reports of how various modern laptops have various problems under linux.

So no, "any modern laptop" is not a good recommendation. It should be specific models.
by kyboren | 2026-01-10 23:40:46+00:00
I'm sorry, I wasn't intentionally trying to write clickbait, I was just agreeing with the parent and did not consider how it would come off to other parties.

What happens is the calculator window pops up ~immediately, but the entire contents of the window are a stupid logo--for at least 5 full seconds--until the UI elements actually load and you can actually use the calculator to calculate things.

The most basic thing our PCs do is they calculate. The Intel 4004 was designed... for a calculator. calc.exe, that erstwhile snappy, lightweight native Win32 application is now apparently some Electron abomination with a footprint the size of Windows 98 and a launch time to match.
by cuttothechase | 2026-01-10 23:41:50+00:00
>> Incidentally, San Francisco public schools had a combined admission rate of just under 20%, well below the state average. Mission had the highest rate (26.5%) and Balboa the lowest (15.4%). It may or may not be a coincidence that 90% (the most of any SF school) of the applicants from Balboa were Asian whereas only 25% (the fewest of any SF school) of the applicants from Mission were Asian.

In order to promote diversity of the freshman classroom the college needs to suppress merit to achieve their diversity targets?
by Izkata | 2026-01-10 23:44:35+00:00
Seems like there's more going on with it than that, it's also affecting the lines that don't have emoji. It kind of looks like it assumes every vertical bar takes up two characters so a space before the bar is missing. Except not always.

Example 2 has five boxes in a row each with a number 1 to 5 in them, and each box is missing a single space before the second vertical bar... I think the problem might be centering, where it needs to distribute 3 spaces on either side of the text, divides by 2 to get 1.5, then truncates both sides to 1, instead of doing 1 on one side and 2 on the other. Doesn't quite fit with how many are missing in [PRODUCT IMAGE] right above that, though.

(Also I'm just eyeballing it from mobile so I may be wrong about exact counts of characters)
by JimmyJamesJames | 2026-01-10 23:44:44+00:00
Like this initial step and its findings.

#1: would a larger dataset increase the depth and breadth of insight ( go to #2)
#2: with the initial top 100, are there key ‘super node’ books that stand out as ones to read due the breadth they offer. Would a larger dataset identify further ‘super node’ books.
by anthk | 2026-01-10 23:45:01+00:00
My Geforce2 MX 200/400 with an Athlon and 256MB of RAM began to become useless in ~2002/2003 with the new DX9 games.

Doom3? Missing textures. Half Life2? Maybe at 640x480. F.E.A.R? More like L.A.U.G.H.
Times changed so fast (and on top of that, shitty console ports) that PCs didn't achieve
great numbers at home until 2009 with a new machine.

Altough I began to play games like Angband, Nethack and the like in that era and in opened an amazing libre/indie world until today.

And, yes, I replayed Deus Ex because it had tons of secrets and it ran on a potato. Perfectly playable at 800x600 at max settings.
by loup-vaillant | 2026-01-10 23:45:46+00:00
> What you get by using Unity or Unreal Engine is that a big team already worked through all this overhead.

Obviously, given the low-level subject matter, this post wasn't aimed at turnkey engine users. In fact, people interested in this stuff are probably actively trying to be independent of those engines.

I will add that we probably need more people able to implement rendering engines. Having to chose between two corporate giants and suboptimal engines isn't ideal, neither for developers nor for players.
Show HN: TheTabber – Create, repurpose, and post across 9+ platforms
by dibasdauliya | 2026-01-10 23:46:18+00:00
I've been using TheTabber primarily to repurpose my mom's TikTok content for other social media platforms. The available options are too expensive and too cluttered and confusing.

I thought, why not add more features with a clean and easy-to-use UI and publish it? So here I am.

I came up with the name TheTabber because the more tabs you have open for social media posting, the more of The Tabber you are--and this product is for you. LOL!

These are the available features so far:

- Connect 9+ social platforms
- Post or schedule image, carousel, video, or text content
- Repurpose content from other social media accounts
- View analytics of your posts
- Create UGC-style videos with AI help
- Create 2x2 image grid videos with AI help
- Generate captions, edit styles, split long video into segments with AI help
by fragmede | 2026-01-10 23:46:36+00:00
Of all the things to be impressed by you about, your patience is commendable. I'd be losing my shit if someone couldn't be bothered to read what I wrote and just spout off about something I'd addressed in my writing, but I suppose that's why your bank account has two commas and a bunch more. Thank you for everything. Can we go flying sometime?
by techpression | 2026-01-10 23:46:47+00:00
I find it very easy to understand, people don’t generally want to work for free to support billionaires, and they have few venues to act on that, this is one of them.

There are no ”commons” in this scenario, there are a few frontier labs owning everything (taking it without attribution) and they have the capability to take it away, or increase prices to a point where it becomes a tool for the rich.

Nobody is doing this for the good of anything, it’s a money grab.
Show HN: GlyphLang – An AI-first programming language
by goose0004 | 2026-01-10 23:46:58+00:00
While working on a proof of concept project, I kept hitting Claude's token limit 30-60 minutes into their 5-hour sessions. The accumulating context from the codebase was eating through tokens fast. So I built a language designed to be generated by AI rather than written by humans.

GlyphLang

GlyphLang replaces verbose keywords with symbols that tokenize more efficiently:

# Python
@app.route('/users/<id>')
def get_user(id):
user = db.query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = ?", id)
return jsonify(user)

# GlyphLang
@ GET /users/:id {
$ user = db.query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = ?", id)
> user
}

@ = route, $ = variable, > = return. Initial benchmarks show ~45% fewer tokens than Python, ~63% fewer than Java.

In practice, that means more logic fits in context, and sessions stretch longer before hitting limits. The AI maintains a broader view of your codebase throughout.

Before anyone asks: no, this isn't APL with extra steps. APL, Perl, and Forth are symbol-heavy but optimized for mathematical notation, human terseness, or machine efficiency. GlyphLang is specifically optimized for how modern LLMs tokenize. It's designed to be generated by AI and reviewed by humans, not the other way around. That said, it's still readable enough to be written or tweaked if the occasion requires.

It's still a work in progress, but it's a usable language with a bytecode compiler, JIT, LSP, VS Code extension, PostgreSQL, WebSockets, async/await, generics.

Docs: https://glyphlang.dev/docs

GitHub: https://github.com/GlyphLang/GlyphLang
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by cyberax | 2026-01-10 23:47:07+00:00
No, it was in doubt.

Now fentanyl is produced from readily available precursors in Mexico. In underground labs: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/world/americas/inside-fen...

Fentanyl is so potent that just one lab can easily satisfy all the US demand with it, around 10kg a day. That's also why it's ridiculously hard to fight, one smuggled barrel of pure product can supply the entire US for months.

So no, there is no "supply shock". There's just more free Narcan (naloxone).
by surgical_fire | 2026-01-10 23:47:24+00:00
Typically no (unless you're the UK with a very dysfunctional FPTP system).

Typically the parliament is fractured in multiple parties, because in parliamentarism there is not automatic incentive to vote for one of the big parties otherwise you are wasting your vote. If the party you vote for has 5% of the representation in the parliament, it can still be part of a coalition to form the government and influence decisions.
by diego_moita | 2026-01-10 23:47:38+00:00
That seems the most plausible explanation.

The article says something along these lines. Every pandemic has a peak point when people become alarmed, and there is a clear way to avoid contamination.

It happened with AIDS when people began stopping having risky relations. It is only natural that it would also happen in drug addiction when everyone sees its devastating effects.

The same thing might be happening to tobacco and alcohol consumption.

Deaths for lack of vaccines (e.g. measles) will also behave the same way. When people see very explicitly that risky behaviour has consequences, they think twice before doing it.
by alephnerd | 2026-01-10 23:47:58+00:00
That's my point.

Alma mater prestige is increasingly divorced from employability and thus financial prestige.

You don't need to go to an Ivy or Ivy adjacent to have a very successful career in Tech (software/hardware), Accounting, Actuary, Nurse Practitioners, and other high paying careers.

And historically (past 40-45 years) "prestigious" careers like law, consulting, marketing, advertising, publishing, and media with significant gatekeeping just haven't kept up.

A BBA from Purdue wouldn't get you an MBB interview, but that increasingly doesn't matter because now that BBA could land a PMM or FP&A role in a tech company and end up with a faster career potential than the MBB hire - both will end up fighting for the same job within 3-5 years of graduating anyhow.

Despite being an Ivy grad, I'm happy about this return to the pre-1980s norm.
by jimmydin7 | 2026-01-10 23:48:20+00:00
hey there, my name is jim. i am a 15 year old software developer. i have won an ai hackathon, worked as a swe at a us congress backed nonprofit, and i am part of a community of teenagers who build software and get funding for their projects.

for a long time, the full time staff in my community have been using granola ai for meeting notes, but that free plan is no longer being renewed for their 70 person team.

because of that, i started building notefy as an alternative with a few extra features. notefy turns your meetings into transcripts, summaries, and slides that are ready to present. it also gives you a conversational ai chatbot trained on your own meetings, plus integrations so you can share and work with your team more easily.

the tech stack is pretty simple. supabase for the backend, hosting on coolify running on my raspberry pi, and cloudflare tunnels for networking.

i would really appreciate any feedback or advice on how to get more waitlist signups.
by Aloha | 2026-01-10 23:49:14+00:00
I'm skeptical of that last one.

My dad was a heroin addict, and while he eventually got (mostly) clean, he wryly joked to me once "you know there aren't a ton of old heroin users for a reason"

Using street drugs kills - we can put people on opiates if done in a controlled way, for the rest of their lives, we instead have gone down the road of prohibition, closing off pathways for people to get maintenance dosing of opiates.
by DrewADesign | 2026-01-10 23:49:44+00:00
Surveillance gathered by an completely autonomous drone with no outside data, stationed far enough away to require refueling, close enough to enemy operations to be useful, that then needs to make its way back to origin, intact, through hostile territory, quickly enough for the gathered information to be useful, seems like a preeeetty big lift. Something a startup would promise to tackle with a star team of technologists over the course of like 10 years? Sure. Something they’d have designed within the past, like, year while getting shot at? I’d have to see that believe it.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2026-01-10 23:49:51+00:00
> Healthy people will have dramatically lower medical bills throughout their life, so why shouldn't they get discounted health insurance?

I never said they shouldn't. It's just a topic totally unrelated to whether or not people are forced to buy insurance, and I'm not interested in discussing that new, unrelated topic.

> Billy has to admit he just hates exercising.

This logic breaks down when Billy actually exercises and eats just fine, but was nonetheless born to a suboptimal combination of parents.
by ejncman | 2026-01-10 23:50:14+00:00
I run a few small services (APIs, bots and web apps) and I kept running into the same problem:

Most uptime monitoring tools are either

too expensive

too complex

or built for enterprise teams

All I really wanted was:

check if a URL is alive

know when it goes down

get notified when it recovers

see response time over time

So I ended up building a tiny tool for myself that does exactly that.

It monitors websites and APIs 24/7 and sends alerts via email, WhatsApp and webhooks.

I’m curious how others here handle this:
What are you using today to monitor uptime for small or personal projects?
by pentacent_hq | 2026-01-10 23:50:41+00:00
> Canola and other seed oils are made using toxic solvents which are not full removed from the final product.

This is simply untrue. Independent bodies all over the world regularly test commercially available oils for toxic solvents. While the solvent Hexane is indeed commonly used in the extraction of refined vegetable oils, it is later removed in the refining process.

For example Stiftung Warentest, an independent consumer advocacy organization tested 23 rapeseed oils available in German supermarkets and they all came out clean [1].

A few years earlier, they tested 25 "specialty oils" and found traces of Hexane in only one of them - but still way below the EU threshold of 1 mg/kg. [2]

Here is a study from Japan that tested a bunch of vegetable oils and came to the conclusion that none of the products contained dangerous levels of Hexane. The maximum amount the researchers found was 42.6 µg/kg (again way below the EU threshold) - but in most samples the amount they found was so low they couldn't even get a reading or they didn't find any Hexane at all.

Besides, for cold-pressed oils, no solvents are used at all.

[1] https://www.test.de/Rapsoel-im-Test-1816151-0/

[2] https://www.test.de/Gourmet-Oele-Fast-jedes-zweite-ist-mange...

[3] https://openaccesspub.org/experimental-and-clinical-toxicolo...
by 3form | 2026-01-10 23:50:51+00:00
> I feel like everyone hated on Gnome because it was different. They tried it for ten minutes, didn't bother trying to actually learn how to use it, declared it as "shit", and moved on

Anecdote time.

I was using GNOME for a substantial amount of time, despite all the issues that it was giving me - the regressions, removing functionality, breaking extensions every so often; but the final straw that broke the camel's back was a tablet thing. At some point I think the ability to resize the left panel in Nautilus went away? Or maybe was never there to begin with. In any case, I found a discussion about the exact issue where the outlook was that resizing the left panel will not be added, as there's no way to signal the ability to resize it on touch screens.

At this point I decided that enough is enough and moved to KDE.
by damnitbuilds | 2026-01-10 23:51:49+00:00
The NIH lost its scientific integrity when it started demanding social nonsense language like this in a MATHS grant application.

Don't pretend you're fighting for integrity because you don't want this nonsense taken OUT. If it was scientific integrity you wanted, you should obviously have fought the previous administration when it demanded this nonsense be put IN.

SCIENTIFIC integrity means the removal of SOCIAL language.
Whether that language is Nazis condemning jews or the DEI language you like, that language has NO place in SCIENCE.

Shame on you. Shame on the NIH.

"THE TARGET WORKSHOP AUDIENCE WILL INCLUDE JUNIOR MATHEMATICIANS WHO ARE AT DIFFICULT TRANSITIONAL STAGES IN THEIR CAREERS, ESPECIALLY THOSE FROM HISTORICALLY UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS. SPEAKERS WILL BE CHOSEN TO REFLECT THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF THE STUDENT PARTICIPANTS AND THE POTENTIAL FOR GREATER DIVERSITY IN OUR DISCIPLINE."
by lkbm | 2026-01-10 23:51:52+00:00
I mean, if I have to pay them by how much power I draw, I'm pretty glad they have a way to measure that, because I don't.

What's there alternative in this case? If I can land a drone on the power line and suck up some power, they can either charge me when I tell them I did it, or they can not charge me.
by dang | 2026-01-10 23:52:10+00:00
We've banned quite a few accounts on either side of that issue, not because of their position on the issue but because they were posting abusively, as you were. It's obviously a divisive topic and people's strong feelings and political commitments are unfortunately leading them to break HN's rules pretty much irrespective of which side they stand on.

You can't derive much signal from cherry-picked examples, because we don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here. When accounts are posting abusively and not getting moderated, the likeliest explanation is that we just haven't seen it yet. We don't see everything that gets posted here—not even close.
by tombert | 2026-01-10 23:52:37+00:00
I've been running desktop Linux for about eighteen years, though I did take a break and run a Macbook for about four years.

It's a little upsetting that Windows has gotten so terrible, because I think in a lot of ways the NT Kernel is a better piece of software than the Linux kernel. Drivers are simply easier to install and they generally don't require a reboot and they don't require messing with kernel modules, IO is non-blocking by default, and a bunch of other things that are cool and arguably better than Linux.

The problem is that, while the kernel is an important part of an operating system, it's not the only part. Even if the NT kernel were the objectively best piece of software ever to be written by humans, that still doesn't change the fact that Windows has become a pretty awful mess. They have loaded the OS with so much crap (and ads now!), the Windows Update tool routinely breaks your computer, their recovery/repair tools simply do not work, their filesystem is geriatric and has been been left behind compared to stuff like ZFS, btrfs, and APFS, and they don't really seem determined to fix any of this stuff.

Even if the Linux kernel were to be slightly worse, it's still good enough. Even if you do have to muck with kernel modules it's not that hard now with DKMS. Even if the IO is blocking by default epoll has been around for decades and works fine.

So at that point, if the kernel is good enough, and if we can get userland decent enough, then desktop Linux is better than Windows.