MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by amake | 2026-01-11 07:42:55+00:00
Creator of Orgro here.

> they only support a tiny subset of the format

I think Orgro's parser[0] is pretty complete at this point. If you can find an Org syntax that Orgro doesn't support, please let me know.

However I should be very clear here:

> they can't support any of the features that require the rest of emacs to be present which is a lot of of the value

This is absolutely true and unlikely to change anytime soon. As I'm sure you know, parsing the syntax correctly is not at all the same as supporting all of the features built on top of the AST.

[0]: https://github.com/amake/org_parser
by paulbjensen | 2026-01-11 07:42:55+00:00
I completely get where this person is coming from (being interested in lots of things, diving down rabbit holes and then losing passion and moving onto the next interesting thing).

It feels like minimising distractions is one piece of the puzzle, but the other is having something that is going to help you to stay focussed and complete the goal/task that is right in front of you.
by madaxe_again | 2026-01-11 07:43:49+00:00
The metal coil will hold the actual fibre itself, yes - after a few more layers of protection. This is what is usually called “armoured” cable and is suitable for suspension and direct in ground. Dunno why he’s using it indoors.

Honestly, this writeup is… weird? Dude doesn’t know you can terminate fibre at home with like $50 of gear?

I had a fucking fox attack a freshly laid line, literally the day before I was going to stuff it in conduit and bury it.

Did I cry? Did I despair? Did I launch a baby with bathwater into the sun?

No. I bought a cleaver, some alcohol wipes, some stripping pliers and a whole bunch of mechanical terminators.

Needn’t have worried. Repaired it, outdoors, first attempt, in the rain, and have since buried it - no problems five months on.
by carlmr | 2026-01-11 07:44:02+00:00
They have, kind of. Check out Gaggiuino. Sadly not really open source (Gen3) but you can get a cheap $500 Gaggia Classic and add fine grained control with an Arduino and display: https://gaggiuino.github.io

Then there's the really open source Rancilio PID Clever coffee project:

https://github.com/rancilio-pid/clevercoffee

Different machine, similar approach, a bit more DIY since you can't buy a kit.
by crote | 2026-01-11 07:44:08+00:00
"10GBASE-T runs hot" is only half true.

The real problem here is that 10GBASE-T is ancient. The spec dates back to 2006! And worst of all: it only saw lukewarm adoption by the datacenter industry, so there hasn't really been a reason for manufacturers to refresh their lineups. This means that SFP+ transceiver you buy in 2026 might be using chips manufactured using a 20-year-old node. No wonder it is running hot!

2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T are essentially using the same technology, but you don't hear anyone complaining about it running hot: hardware for this only recently started to become available due to consumer demand, so any hardware for that is being manufactured using more modern technology, which means a lower power use.

It's still going to consume more power than fiber, but a modern 10GBASE-T SFP+ transceiver should not be burning hot.
by on_the_train | 2026-01-11 07:45:10+00:00
Fun story to add: I can't get my heart rate measured. I get so nervous about it that I immediately double my heart rate. Of course it's impossible to communicate that with doctors. One even equipped me with a 24h heart monitor. Only to have my stupid brain go on overdrive and clock my heart at 120+ for the entire time, with 0 sleep. I literally fainted when getting ekg cables on me. I now have on record a heart condition without having one: I just get nervous from measurements lol
by wakawaka28 | 2026-01-11 07:47:23+00:00
I got that impression too. Gatekeeping information sensitive information is not necessarily bad, but the entire thing is sketch. For example, is it legal or ethical for this group to have Washington Post data that was leaked or stolen? Are we really supposed to be against something called "Free Speech Union" because of the owners having controversial views? There is clearly a political angle to most of the stuff I've seen at a glance, and a lot of politics on one side only.
by moshetanzer | 2026-01-11 07:48:02+00:00
Linters are great for style and syntax, but logic errors still rely heavily on human review.
Do you think a linter for code logic - for example: risky condition changes, missing error handling, inconsistent early returns, or unsafe null/undefined assumptions - would be useful in practice if it ran at lint-stage or commit time?

Curious to hear what would actually help
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-11 07:48:06+00:00
> I’ve heard a plausible explanation

To be blunt it was total bullshit. Pharmaceuticals have an extremely wide range of dosages. Fentanyl is on the extreme low end, benadryl an adult might take 25 mg or 50 mg, tylenol an adult might take 500 mg, and something like amoxicillin an adult might take as much as 3000 mg for a severe infection. There are standard, extremely reliable ways to prepare pills that contain the correct dosage regardless of the potency of the pure chemical.

Obviously fentanyl (or its precursor) is imported (ie smuggled) in highly pure form in order to minimize the size of the shipment. Obviously it can't be consumed in that form.

The combination of being potent and cheap to smuggle lends itself nicely to cutting other (more expensive) products with it.

When laymen who don't know what they're doing, don't have access to proper facilities, and certainly can't set up proper quality controls process something that potent it's no wonder that things go wrong and people die. If (for example) the same victims had purchased fentanyl from a pharmacy (as opposed to whatever it was they thought they were consuming) they almost certainly would not have had any issues. Almost no one ODs intentionally.

The point is that it's not "fentanyl is toxic so you OD" it's "the person compounding the pill messed up the dosage, you took more than you thought, so you OD". This could happen just as easily with any other drug. The danger here is due to pills not containing the dosage that the consumer believe them to.
by shloveai | 2026-01-11 07:49:49+00:00
Someone said 2025 was the year of Agents. I feel like 2026 would be the year of evaluation. Seeing more and more agents are hitting the wall and increasing needs to keep all data and evaluation on local, I built Evalyn — a local-first evaluation pipeline for LLM and agent apps. It traces real executions, evaluates them with suggested metrics and LLM judges, and automatically calibrates those judges using a small amount of human feedback, all without sending data to a SaaS.

It’s open-source, CLI-driven, and meant to make evals something you can actually trust to evolve your GenAI app. Would love to white-glove support for whom are interested in it.
by vga42 | 2026-01-11 07:50:08+00:00
> Sorry but there's no way #BEGIN_xxx is better than ```

Ok, I can give you that as a subjective thing you might have.

> or 4-space indent.

Ok, you saying this practically invalidates every single opinion you have on everything. So thanks for playing, I won.

Seriously though, you don't have to like org.
by heddycrow | 2026-01-11 07:50:39+00:00
Thanks for taking the time to respond. Where I come from, apologies are a dime a dozen.

It's a bit more than it not doing it for me. I'm a bit tired of "AI and coding" takes over the past few years.

You are right. I don't have to agree and I don't have to be quiet about it. But it's going to be okay.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-11 07:52:24+00:00
> running out of people to kill with our indifference.

I wouldn't call it indifference. It's the drug policies that we've very intentionally adopted in the west that result in people purchasing from the black market. It's about as indifferent as the deaths due to denatured alcohol poisoning during prohibition when the additive was silently switched.
by fractallyte | 2026-01-11 07:53:44+00:00
This could be a lot better (potentially ground-breaking) if you allowed more fine-grained control over the book content.

Allow the user to provide an arbitrarily-detailed outline, chapter by chapter, with characters, situations, dialog, emotions,... - everything that could be an ingredient in a book "recipe".

And I wouldn't package it into a completed book just yet - instead, provide a formatted file which is open for revisions and rewrites, before inserting it back into the pipeline for final packaging.

What you have here is a high-level concept with premature pricing options. I would withdraw it, and keep developing it into something which offers unprecedented assistance in novel writing.

Oh, and at the very least, provide an example of the finished product, so users know what they're paying for!
by epistasis | 2026-01-11 07:53:52+00:00
I don't think I've ever read an article using the term "US regime," as that usually refers to an undemocratic or authoritarian government. You might want to clean up your information diet if you're reading lots of articles over the years with that term...

Yes it is a value judgement, but Iran's government is nothing if not oppressive and authoritarian. Until recently the US had taken pride in being nothing like a regime, but that may change in the coming years.
by littlestymaar | 2026-01-11 07:54:17+00:00
The idea is very compelling, it solves a real use-case. I will definitely take inspiration from that.

However, the execution is meh. The UX is terrible (on mobile at least) and the code and documentation are an overly verbose mess. The entire project ought to fit in the size of the AI generated readme. Using AI for exploration and prototyping is fine, but you can't ship that slop mate, you need to do the polishing yourself.
by zmgsabst | 2026-01-11 07:54:26+00:00
Field theories are aether theories; as is GR. (Wilczek says as much.) You’re fixated on a particular model of aether, rather than addressing the broader concept. But that’s as illogical as me insisting atoms aren’t real because the Bohr model of electron shells was wrong.

The current aether for light is called “EM field”; matter is made of other fields demonstrated to unify at high energies by the LHC and similar experiments, within the standard model. But you knew all that.

You’re just pretending ignorance to avoid addressing my central thesis: fields are aethers.
by ksec | 2026-01-11 07:55:18+00:00
They together with property agency, owner, investors dont want to trigger re-evaluation because it hurts their LTV ( Loan-to-Value ). Which for a set percentage is defined by law along with adequate cash reserve. It is also what causes HSBC to buy its subsidiary HSB. And Bombcar above has already replied. It is rather obvious not something to do with big short but not understand how the financial world of property market works.
by wakawaka28 | 2026-01-11 07:56:03+00:00
I bet a lot of the people who signed up to that site were just white people interested in dating people similar to themselves without being shamed for it. There is a lot of shitting on white people out there and the liberal media is just starting to barely acknowledge some of the damage they've done. The dating site in question did not advertise any Nazi affiliation from what I saw of it, and nobody could see what was in it without signing up.
by starky | 2026-01-11 07:56:05+00:00
EndeavourOS with KDE. For some reason, I always seem to have issues with non-Arch distros, even back when I ran Linux on a netbook. After my Fedora install on my Framework 13 broke, I had switched to Manjaro, but after doing a bit of research when I decided to jump in with my desktop 1.5 year ago I went with EndeavourOS and have been quite happy with it.
by timabdulla | 2026-01-11 07:56:23+00:00
This seems cool, but beware that Fly's other products are not exactly models of stability and polish.

API downtime is a semi-frequent occurrence, as are transient API errors and slowness.

I've also had a ticket open with support for weeks due to rampant billing issues. For instance, a destroyed instance still shows up in my usage report as actively accruing billed time, and at a rate faster than is even possible (something like 2 hours for every 1 actual hour that has passed.)

They've released two new products in the AI space, this and Phoenix.new, and my worry is that they are focused on new products over making what they have good and reliable.
by dotemacs | 2026-01-11 07:56:53+00:00
I saw this headline, saw the tweets and missed what this was about.

Then read Simon Willison's breakdown and got the 'Aha!'.

I like what they've done, played with it and immediately started to plan how I'd try to implement it myself.

I guess this will be the way to go, for development setups instead of using a dedicated machine. Especially when mobile clients are created for Sprites.
by jmward01 | 2026-01-11 07:57:22+00:00
I'm glad to see things like this get built. I hate to admit it but I rarely consider impaired usecases when building things. I wonder how technology is changing this usecase lately both on the user end and the design end. (I know, AI) I imagine an LLM could help discover inadequate UI and build alternative workflows into products more easily.
by imiric | 2026-01-11 07:57:50+00:00
It can. The problem is the practice of using open source as a marketing funnel.

There are many projects that love to brag about being open source (it's "free"!), only to lock useful features behind a paywall, or do the inevitable license rug pull after other companies start profiting from the freedoms they've provided them. This is the same tactic used by drug dealers to get you hooked on the product.

Instead, the primary incentive to release a project as open source should be the desire to contribute to the corpus of human knowledge. That doesn't mean that you have to abandon any business model around the project, but that shouldn't be your main goal. There are many successful companies built around OSS that balance this correctly.

"AI" tools and services corrupt this intention. They leech off the public good will, and concentrate the data under the control of a single company. This forces well-intentioned actors to abandon open source, since instead of contributing to human knowledge, their work contributes to "AI" companies. I'm frankly not upset when this affects projects who were abusing open source to begin with.

So GP has a point. Forcing "AI" tools, and even more crucially, the data they collect and use, to be free/libre, would restore the incentive for people to want to provide a public good.

The narrative that "AI" will bring world prosperity is a fantasy promoted by the people who will profit the most. The opposite is true: it will concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a few even more than it is today. It will corrupt the last vestiges of digital freedoms we still enjoy today.

I hope we can pass regulation that prevents this from happening, but I'm not holding my breath. These people are already in power, and governments are increasingly in symbiotic relationships with them.
by crote | 2026-01-11 07:59:09+00:00
10G is looking to be the end for twisted-pair copper.

25GBASE-T and 40GBASE-T were standardized 10 years ago, but there are still basically zero products available with support for it. The datacenter market just wasn't interested and chose to use fiber and DAC instead. Worst of all: it requires Cat8 cables and is limited to 30 meters. This means it can't reuse existing cabling, and doesn't have the reach for many home applications - OPs blog post mentions the longest run in their apartment being 55 meters.

Combine that with the general death of wired networking for home & office use, and it is extremely unlikely the market of hardcore tech enthusiasts is big enough to warrant massive investments into developing some kind of 25G-over-Cat6-for-100m standard.

10G is pretty much the standard for high-end gear these days. This means any kind of future-proof setup needs to be prepared for a future upgrade to a fiber-based technology.
by jemmyw | 2026-01-11 07:59:17+00:00
I mean, I had a similar experience with the old doctor not being very worried when I had the same symptom. But when I raised that I was worried about having a heart attack and dying he was equally unworried about that "people die, don't worry about it". And yeah a surprising number of athletes also die suddenly from heart conditions, so I'm not sure I find that very reassuring.

In any case, they did diagnose SVT or some variant. But it pretty much went away, it seemed that getting dehydrated and/or alcohol was triggering it for me.

I actually find a smartwatch that monitors my heart rate very reassuring. I have suffered from anxiety in the past and if I think I'm having anxiety symptoms I can glance at my watch and it tells me everything is fine before I start stressing and making it manifest physically.
by silisili | 2026-01-11 08:01:45+00:00
Good idea. I don't, but hopefully I or my wife is around to tell them.

What's funny, or depressing depending on how you look at it... when I told my dad the terrible news, he said 'oh yeah, that's been happening to me for years.' Like I mentioned, nobody, including my parents, seem to teach you about getting old...which is terrible for anxious people like myself.
by madaxe_again | 2026-01-11 08:01:56+00:00
You can kink the shit out of fibre and it’s fine. Like, I’ve accidentally managed ~15mm diameter loops while pulling and then proceeded to yank on them. The Kevlar takes the brunt. Only time I broke a fibre was when it was me and two other guys pulling on it as hard as possible - and instead of moving it went “ping”.
by kouteiheika | 2026-01-11 08:03:08+00:00
> when we could have had an open world with open models run locally instead where you got to keep your private health information private

But we can have that? If you have powerful enough hardware you can do it, right now. At very least until the anti-AI people get their way and either make the models' creators liable for what the models say or get rid of the "training is fair use" thing everyone depends on, in which case, sure, you'll have to kiss legal open-weight models goodbye.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-01-11 08:04:10+00:00
This is a textbook case of mass hysteria. A whole lot of people in one place, all coming down with a mystery illness, with no apparent cause, and everyone has different symptoms. Instances like these have been reported multiple times in the past 20 years, as well as for thousands of years in the past. They all genuinely feel the symptoms. But the cause is clearly no physical thing in the environment.
by vaylian | 2026-01-11 08:04:11+00:00
> I've never seen a complex website redesign that didn't involve almost gutting the HTML either. CSS isn't powerful enough alone

I recognize your experience. But I would also like to argue that good semantic CSS class names require active development effort. If you inherit a code base where no one has done the work of properly assigning semantic CSS names to tags, then you can't update the external stylesheet without touching the HTML.

https://csszengarden.com/ shows how a clean separation between HTML and CSS can be achieved. This is obviously a simple web site and there is not much cruft that accumulated over the years. But the principles behind it are scalable when people take the separation of content and representation seriously.
by bawolff | 2026-01-11 08:04:27+00:00
The article seems quite speculative.

I'm sure the Iranian regime would live to jam starlink, but i don't think we have any ability to know what is actually happening here.

The article claims 80% packetloss. That's still 1 in 5 packets getting through. That is annoying but not going to stop information getting out.

I also wonder, if all other coms are cut off, is it possible star link in the country is just overloaded?
by pseudohadamard | 2026-01-11 08:04:32+00:00
I also think of him as a ten-year-old boy with access to infinite amounts of other people's money. Embarrassing stunts like "let that sink in" is the sort of thing my friends and I would have done at age ten thinking we were being awfully clever and witty, but no-one past the age of about fourteen or fifteen would still think that. And stuff like the Cybertruck is what you'd expect if you gave a ten-year-old (or Homer Simpson) some pencils and paper and said "draw your dream vehicle".
by madaxe_again | 2026-01-11 08:04:39+00:00
They can survive a 500m pull (in 100m stages, or the friction is too high) in mud and rain, through active water line.

Honestly, fibre, even unarmoured with just a standard Kevlar & HDPE sleeve is hardy stuff. When I first started mucking around with it a few years ago I was like “don’t breathe on it too hard”, now I’m like “tie the fibre in a knot on the bullbar and pull it with the truck”.
by RadiozRadioz | 2026-01-11 08:05:17+00:00
I'm generally very positive about using AI as a tool day-to-day, but, wow, I think I hate this. I think I _really_ hate this.

I like reading. I dedicate a good amount of my time to reading. I find it quite a personal experience to read an author's work. They have put far more time into the book than it takes me to read it, it feels like their thoughts and ideas have been carefully distilled down. The Mark Twain quote about writing a shorter letter, I think is a good analogy - with some books I can feel the care that was taken to respect the reader's time.

This use of AI is the opposite. I find it repulsive and disrespectful to the reader. I don't want to read a hundred pages of slop. The same negative sentiment as many people feel towards AI art and music.

I don't mind if an author asks an LLM to rephrase a sentence or touch-up grammar, but I would never want to read a generated book like this.
by troupo | 2026-01-11 08:07:22+00:00
erm, no? React has painted itself into a usability and optimisation nightmare corner by insisting that components are the most granular level of resctivity.

That's why they need 20 different hooks to do anything.

You want signals in the browser for granular reactivity, and they are making their way there: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-signals
by RobRivera | 2026-01-11 08:08:15+00:00
>But I think that knowingly causing miscarriage of a pregnancy should be investigated as manslaughter.

A) op didnt clarify who was doing the initiation of a miscarriage. There's unclarified ambiguity.

B) charging manslaughter for one person, and providing medical support for another for the same action of facilitating a miscarriage enters a very real legal discourse know as the entire debate around women's rights. If you would like to know more you can review the legal precedents associated therein.
by madaxe_again | 2026-01-11 08:09:35+00:00
9/10 times the problem is at the terminator - they can get yanked out of position if they are pulled rather than the sleeve. Snip off the pulled end of the suspect line with Kevlar shears and shine an OFF down the other end - and you’ll probably see laser. It’s then a surprisingly simple job to re-terminate with mechanical connectors.
by jrflowers | 2026-01-11 08:09:45+00:00
> The answer is "nothing"

Wait by “nothing” do you mean that there is no cause for the disease that the link you posted says has an unknown cause, or “nothing” do you mean that they don’t actually have anything wrong with them but you’re sharing a neat link about a disease that has an unknown cause?

I normally wouldn’t question an hour old throwaway that knows many neurologists, but what exactly are you applying the word “nothing” to here? You started with one statement, said that you don’t like a guy, and then wrote another statement that negates your first statement.

Like by “nothing” do you mean “I personally do not know, so my knowledge of what is causing this is nothing, but I want to share that I don’t like that one doctor”?