MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by palata | 2026-01-09 14:24:02+00:00
> Is there anything that stops today anyone from starting a new Google or a new Microsoft or a new Apple in Europe?

The same thing that stops anyone from starting a new Google or Microsoft or Apple in the US, probably.

And that's apparently not regulations.

> It's getting tiring of hearing of the big bad Microsoft that stops poor Europe from competing properly.

Who says that? I don't. What I say is that the big bad monopolies stop others from competing properly.

But the big bad monopolies being US companies, they are protected by the US government who doesn't really care about having US competition in the US, but cares about domining over the rest of the world.

> The EU tech salaries are ridiculously low and the tax burden is unreasonably high. Add on top of that an aversion to risk from the banks and VC funds in Europe and this is what you get.

Again, a handful of companies completely dominate the software industry in the US, too. Is that because of ridiculously low salaries and unreasonably high tax burden in the US? I don't get the reasoning.
by epiccoleman | 2026-01-09 14:24:04+00:00
This is such a common annoyance on the modern internet. I've recently been playing Minecraft with my kids, with a few mods, and I've been irritated to discover that - unlike when I'd mess around with mods a decade ago - lots of the "documentation" for mods now exists only in video form.

Anyway, I built / slopped out this little wrapper for yt-dlp that I call tuber[1], and it has a feature for grabbing a video's subtitles and summarizing them with Claude, if you've got the CLI. I've found it really handy for those annoying cases where some video seems to promise info I want but I don't want to sit through ten minutes of bullshit.

[1]: https://github.com/epiccoleman/tuber
by troad | 2026-01-09 14:24:14+00:00
Wild that I can't use Kagi in Safari on iOS, where my search options are still locked down to three~four Apple-approved choices, of which at least one is just a multi-billion-dollar paid product placement.

(Yes, I know about the extension that hijacks your searches to redirect them to Kagi, but how is that an acceptable state of affairs?)
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-09 14:24:15+00:00
Notably the authors made additive-free polystyrene particles that were labeled with gold.

On one hand it lets them say what PS particles without additives do, on the other hand, real plastic particles have additives and that is what you're exposed to.

(micro|nano)-plastics are not all the same, additives and morphology make all the difference.
by qwesr123 | 2026-01-09 14:24:46+00:00
Thanks! Daily confidence intervals are quite large and not super useful at the moment. Weekly aggregation is more sensitive. Hoping to increase sample sizes but it is quite expensive! Would be about $100-$150/day in API costs. We are using the Pro x20 subscription ($200/month).

Regarding more subtle degradation tracking, it is on the roadmap.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-01-09 14:24:49+00:00
Yeah, I've heard of people swapping out the model that Claude Code calls and apparently its not THAT much of a difference. What I'd love to see from Anthropic instead is, give me smaller LLM models, I don't even care if they're "open source" or not, just pull down a model that takes maybe 4 or 6 GB of VRAM into my local box, and use those for your coding agents, you can direct it and guide it with Opus anyway, so why not cut down on costs for everyone (consumer and Anthropic themselves!) by just letting users who can run some of the compute locally. I've got about 16GB of VRAM I can juice out of my Macbook Pro, I'm okay running a few smaller models locally with the guiding hand of Opus or Sonnet for less compute on the API front.
by nisegami | 2026-01-09 14:24:49+00:00
I'm currently on my second extended period of GLP1 agonist unavailability (country-wide). The one I have been using is dulaglutide which is much less potent than the newer ones (it's the only one legally imported here) but being cut off still sucks. However, it's far from the only medication I'm on and not even close to the worst one to be cut off from or the first one I've had issues getting. It's just part of life in the third world at this point.
by bienbien25 | 2026-01-09 14:24:56+00:00
Other studies [0] report that people end up under their starting weight

It seems this meta-analysis estimate the average amount regained this week and then projected that forward - but that doesn't quite match what is reported [0]? Does anyone know more about this?

[0] https://glp1.guide/content/do-people-regain-all-the-weight-l...
by codyb | 2026-01-09 14:25:10+00:00
One way to help stop it is to get off social media and stop giving these tech billionaires so much money.

The less people on social media, the less real the network effect is, the less people who join in the first place, the less money the billionaires have to throw hundreds of millions into politics, the less inadvertent cult members.

I've gotten to the point where I just leave my phone at home at this point, and it has been incredibly nice. Before that I deleted most apps that I found to be time wastes, deleted all social media (HN and two small discords are my exception).

It's very nice, I'm less stressed, I feel more in the moment, I respond to my friends when I check my phone every few hours on the speaker in the other room.

I encourage others to try it, add it to your dry January.

And ya know what I ain't doing a lick of? Sending money and reams of data to these billionaires I think are really lame individuals with corrupted moral compasses.

Now it ain't perfect, I'm sure Google's still getting reams of info about me from my old Gmail account that I still use sometimes, and Apple too from a few sources. But... getting closer!

So many folk sit here and recognize the same problems I do, the way it warps your attention, the addictiveness of the handheld devices, the social media echo chambers, the rising influence of misinformation, the lack of clarity between real and fake...

Seems like there's a solution in front of us :-)
by SockThief | 2026-01-09 14:25:42+00:00
ICE personnel who have died in the line of duty:

- Covid 19: 15;
- September 11 Related Illness: 7;
- Struck by Car: 1;
- Shot in Mexico: 1;
- Shot by US-Born Fugitive: 1;
- Heat Related Injuries Sustained During Training Exercise: 1;
- Heart Attack During Foot Pursuit: 1;
- Dengue Fever: 1;
- Accidental Discharge of Service Weapon: 1;

Apparently, since it's formation. I'm not sure about it. Records don't cover duty among Border Patrol.
by 9rx | 2026-01-09 14:26:07+00:00
> Are we going to suddenly realize all these productivity gains people are claiming are all lies

I'll grant you that many have become adamant that LLMs suddenly, out of the blue, became useful just last week, which is much too soon to have any concrete data for, but coding agents in some shape have been around for quite a while and in the data we have there isn't offering of any suggestion of productivity gains yet.

And I'm not sure many are even claiming that they are more productive, just that the LLMs have allowed them to carry out a task faster. Here's the thing: At least my experience, coding was never the bottleneck. The bottleneck has always been the business people squabbling over what the customers and business need. They haven't yet figured out how to get past their egos.

The most promise for productivity seems to be from lone startup founders who aren't constrained by the squabbling found in a larger organization and can now get more done thanks to the task shortening. However, the economic conditions are not favourable to that environment right now. Consumers are feeling tapped out, marketing has become way harder, and, even when everything else is in place, nobody is going to consider your "SaaS" when they believe the foundational LLMs will be able to do the same thing tomorrow.
by philschmidxxx | 2026-01-09 14:26:11+00:00
Instead of loading all tool definition upfront (static context), mcp-cli allows the agent to pull in only the information they need, when they need it.

Step 1: "What servers exist?" → mcp-cli
Step 2: "What are the params for tool X?" → mcp-cli github/search
Step 3: Execute → mcp-cli github/search '{"path": "README.md"}'
Show HN: RCS Composer – a visual editor that outputs RBM JSON
by lukaslukas | 2026-01-09 14:26:20+00:00
RCS Composer (rcscomposer.com) is a simple tool that allows you to receive an API payload for Google’s RCS endpoints (https://developers.google.com/business-communications/rcs-bu...).

It lets you build messages like rich cards and carousels and then copy the generated JSON to use in your integration.

Bonus: I added a quick reference list of carriers that support RCS on Apple devices.

Would love feedback from anyone building RBM tooling—what’s missing / what’s annoying in current workflows?
by einpoklum | 2026-01-09 14:26:37+00:00
I'm not such a fan of trying to cram everything-mathematically-relevant into a single huge book (and it is huge - 1048 pages).

Anyway, this reminds me of a rather different initiative in the same vein: The building of Mathematical principles based on the expediences of Computer Science: CONCRETE MATHEMATICS

by Donald Knuth, Ronald Graham and Oren Patashnik.

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/gkp.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_Mathematics

available on the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/download/concrete-mathematics/Concrete%2...
by palata | 2026-01-09 14:26:39+00:00
Not sure if you have a specific example in mind or speaking generally.

What I am saying is that generally, private companies abuse the government money when they can. Just like private companies enshittify their products to make more money. It's all about making money.

Why are governments getting bad software from companies? For the same reason users are getting bad software as well. The software industry produces money, not good software.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-09 14:26:43+00:00
They aren’t marketed as bankrupting fast food. They’re marketed as weight loss drugs, which is honest and accurate.

The stories about bankrupting the fast food industry were from journalists looking for sensational stories to write, not from the marketers.

> Seems like another instance of create a problem ("food" industry) and sell a recurring "solution" (big pharma).

There is no conspiracy between the food industry and pharmaceutical companies. They’re all just selling products that people demand.
by timerol | 2026-01-09 14:27:10+00:00
This is a really cool hack, and I wish I could pay for things with a dumb watch. It's just the right level of useful and silly to be up my alley. But the article, as others have mentioned, is a little off. The author did not "invent" the guess-and-check method for verifying resonance. That's been a staple of radio since the beginning, which is why original tuner dials were actually variable capacitors

> Therefore, an ideal antenna should consist of a 22.12 metre long wire, but by convention fractions of λ-lambda (λ/2, λ/4, λ/8, λ/16, etc.) are opportunely chosen.

This sentence is confused enough to be incorrect. λ/2 is generally preferred as an antenna length (standard dipole configuration) because it will resonate at the appropriate frequency with desirable standing wave characteristics (current maximum and zero voltage at input, voltage maximum and current minimum at ends). λ/4 can be used as a half-dipole, but it requires a ground plane to resonate properly. There are also arguments to be made for a 5λ/8 antenna, but none that I'm aware of for λ/8 or λ/16.

In practice for small antennas, physical length and electrical length are only tenuously related, so it's a matter of creating a circuit that acts like an antenna of the chosen length.
by jacek | 2026-01-09 14:27:16+00:00
I've been a Kagi user for months now and was really looking forward to testing this. However, I cannot find the download link. The page does not really contain any information on an actual release.

EDIT:
I found this in the docs:

> The alpha version of Orion for Linux is currently only available to [Orion+ supporters](../orion-plus/orion-plus.md) and can be downloaded from the [Billing Dashboard](https://kagi.com/settings/billing) under the Orion browser section.

So I still can't test this. Only for Orion+ supporters.
by astura | 2026-01-09 14:27:18+00:00
Exactly. Chronic conditions require chronic management.

Imagine if the headline was

"people who come off statins have higher cholesterol levels than people who lowered cholesterol with diet and exercise."

That's obviously stupid, so why are we treating GLP-1s differently?

I also hear people say things like "GLP-1s shouldn't exist because you'll gain weight when you go off them " which is as nonsensical (to me) as saying "you shouldn't exercise because the benefits of exercise will stop if you don't continue exercising."
by bigfishrunning | 2026-01-09 14:27:23+00:00
>The value I've personally been getting which I've been valuing is that it improves my productivity in the specific areas where it's average quality of response as one shot output is better than what I would do myself because it is equivalent to me Googling an answer, reading 2 to 20 posts, consolidating that information together and synthesising an output

>And that's not to say that the output is good, that's to say that the cost of trying things as a result is much cheaper

But there's a hidden cost here -- by not doing the reading and reasoning out the result, you have learned nothing and your value has not increased. Perhaps you extended a bit less energy producing this output, but you've taken one more step down the road to atrophy.
by dosinga | 2026-01-09 14:27:59+00:00
One thing that seems missing from a lot of these comparisons is the base rate of success for dieting itself.

Most people who “start a diet” never meaningfully lose weight in the first place, or lose a small amount and plateau quickly. The cohort of “dieters who regain weight” is already heavily filtered toward the minority who were unusually successful at dieting to begin with. That selection bias matters a lot when you then compare regain rates.

GLP-1s change that denominator. A much larger fraction of people who start the intervention actually lose substantial weight. So even if regain after stopping is faster conditional on having lost weight, the overall success rate (people who lose and keep off a clinically meaningful amount) may still be higher than dieting alone.

In other words: “people who regain weight after stopping GLP-1s” vs “people who regain weight after dieting” ignores the much larger group of dieters who never lost anything to regain. From a population perspective, that’s a pretty important omission.
by CGMthrowaway | 2026-01-09 14:28:15+00:00
The tone is a little anti-social, but it's an interesting point. The main thesis (quote):

"It's not impressive to do math. It is excruciating, long, tedious. And most people think doing math is simply balancing equations, just numbers, arithmetic. That's arithmetic. Numerology.

"Mathematics is the application of language. It's a set of instructions to describe very complicated phenomena. The people who study this, they do it because it's the only way humans can survive. If you choose math because you want people to think you're smart, you're never going to succeed. You're in the wrong field."
by metalman | 2026-01-09 14:28:16+00:00
this is so hard for me, I have been in several situations where guns have been drawn, including by police(for no reason), and others where guns have been fired as intimidation, and "accidental" discharges
and have always reacted instinctivly and yelled at and stood up to idiots and there guns, watching this video and the one where a civilian disarms one of the attackers on bondi beach, vividly shows the monsters and people who will stand up and fight or are just caught up in something they dont understand, but that the person in Miniapolis who filmed this, stood there and bore witness while this unfolded is something I could never have imagined, the ones at the top, orchestrating these public executions, should fear the implacable bravery of those who will stand firm far more than a reactionary like me.
Also, another person has documented ICE blocking an MD from assisting the murder victim, who is 20' away dieing.
by al_borland | 2026-01-09 14:28:52+00:00
This upsets me as well. I’ve sent Apple feedback[0] about it, I suggest others do the same.

I wanted to use Safari at work, but this proved too big of a barrier. I can’t use the App Store at work, so no extensions. I was more willing to give up Safari than Kagi.

[0] https://www.apple.com/feedback/safari/
by ToucanLoucan | 2026-01-09 14:29:07+00:00
I mean it isn't a conspiracy. People love food that makes them fat cuz it's fucking tasty. But being fat is cosmetically unappealing, is socially stigmatized, makes it hard to do things, and is bad for your overall health. All of this, the drugs, the fat burning "cures," diet culture, surgery, all of it going back to time immemorial is trying to resolve this inherent conflict:

* Shitty food is fucking delicious.

* For whatever reasons an individual cites, being fat is undesirable.

And... you can't. At least not with today's technology. But people hate that answer and so there's huge money in figuring out how to make it so people can eat like fatasses without being fatasses.

And... same. I'd fucking love that, I just don't expect it coming anytime soon.
by josu | 2026-01-09 14:29:12+00:00
Thank you. Yeah, I'm doing all those things, which do get you close to the top. The rest of things I'm doing are mostly micro-optimizations such as finding a way to avoid AVX→SSE transition penalty (1-2% improvement).

But I don't want to spoil the fun. The agents are really good at searching the web now, so posting the tricks here is basically breaking the challenge.

For example, chatGPT was able to find Matt's blog post regarding Task 1, and that's what gave me the largest jump: https://blog.mattstuchlik.com/2024/07/12/summing-integers-fa...

Interestingly, it seems that Matt's post is not on the training data of any of the major LLMs.
by epiccoleman | 2026-01-09 14:29:17+00:00
thanks for sharing, that's an interesting perspective actually. It's easy for us "pro devs" to kind of ignore platforms like Replit as "training wheels." I look at it and think "why would I use that, I have all my own stuff set up the way I like it locally".

But us older guys (i'm not that old, 34, but still) can easily forget how valuable and exciting it is to have tools that make the publication / deploy easy. It's cool to hear what the younger, less experienced crowd gravitates towards in the modern dev tool landscape. Thanks for sharing!
by danso | 2026-01-09 14:29:30+00:00
You condition your take with “I’m not talking about deepfakes of real people”, but why do you think it is that Grok offers users the ability to generate pornographic imagery of entirely fake digital people — even tailoring them to be as visually flawless as one could desire — and yet so many users end up using it to generate deepfake porn of real people?

So with that in mind, why should we assume that the unrestricted proliferation of fake child porn would not produce significant harm downstream to society? Is the assumption that unlimited fake child porn would satiate the kind of people who now seek out real child porn?
by Hobadee | 2026-01-09 14:30:20+00:00
> If an assistant offered up suggested code, the code ran successfully, and the user accepted the code, that was a positive signal, a sign that the assistant had gotten it right.

So what about all those times I accepted the suggestion because it was "close enough", but then went back and fixed all the crap that AI screwed up? Was it training on what was accepted the first time? If so I'm sincerely sorry to everyone, and I might be single-handedly responsible for the AI coding demise. :'-D
GLX: A New Programming Language, Replacement for Bash and Other Shell
by danishk-sinha | 2026-01-09 14:30:23+00:00
Link: https://github.com/glx101/GLX

GLX is an experimental programming language designed for system-level scripting with a cleaner and more structured syntax than traditional shell scripts.

It aims to reduce the complexity of Bash-like scripting by providing readable control flow, built-in data types (arrays, maps, ranges), bitwise operations, macros, and labels.

The language is implemented from scratch, including its lexer, parser, and interpreter.

GLX is open source and still evolving. I would love feedback from developers interested in language design, interpreters, or system programming.
by xpe | 2026-01-09 14:30:57+00:00
> Every prompt is a run of probability - It’s at the core of the technology to be unable to give reproducible responses and even after a while, Claude is just as likely to sneak-in crimes in every snippet it outputs.

Some readers might interpret "a run of probability" to mean "we can't say anything about the statistical distribution". I don't think the commenter means that, but still, communicating statistics is hard, so I suggest being careful.

For example, writing "even after a while, just as likely to sneak-in crimes in every snippet it outputs" is pretty attention-getting and even provoking. What does the commenter mean by it? What kind of 'crimes' do they mean? Does the commenter really mean 'just as likely'? Just as likely as what? I would think most readers would form very different takes.
by doodlesdev | 2026-01-09 14:31:45+00:00
> we are at 2MB compressed with https://minfx.ai

That's still pretty bloated. That's enough size to fit an entire Android application a few years ago (before AndroidX) and simple Windows/Linux applications. I'll agree that it's justified if you're optimizing for runtime performance rather than first-load, which seems to be appropriate for your product, right?!

What is this 2 MB for? It would be interesting to hear about your WebAssembly performance story!

Regarding the website homepage itself: it weighs around 767.32 kB uncompressed in my testing, most of which is an unoptimized 200+kB JPEG file and some insanely large web fonts (which honestly are unnecessary, the website looks _pretty good_ and could load much faster without them).
by amiga-workbench | 2026-01-09 14:32:36+00:00
I've switched to a low carb diet this year and have cut out just about all processed foods. I am considering getting a GLP1 injection privately in the near future. I'm hopeful that when I do get down to my target weight, my diet will remain changed, my habits will have improved and I'll be putting my new mobility to some use.

I don't plan on going cold turkey, I'll taper off the dose slowly and see what happens.
by nope1000 | 2026-01-09 14:32:48+00:00
> Dr Adam Collins, an expert in nutrition at the University of Surrey, says the way the jabs work in the brain and body might explain why weight regain is amplified once you stop taking them.
They mimic a natural hormone called GLP-1, which regulates hunger.
"Artificially providing GLP-1 levels several times higher than normal over a long period may cause you to produce less of your own natural GLP-1, and may also make you less sensitive to its effects.
"That's not a problem when taking the drugs, but as soon as you withdraw this GLP-1 'fix', appetite is no longer kept in check and overeating is far more likely."

If that is true, and it makes mechanistic sense if I think about opiod withdrawals for example, then it is a problem regardless. If you have a stronger hunger impulse then before AND a lower body weight and thus TDEE, I can imagine that it would be pretty tough mentally to maintain your weight, even if you count your calories.