MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bulbar | 2026-01-12 16:14:35+00:00
Exactly, because an MRI is not a simple "shows problems" machine. It provides a very simplified model of certain aspects of the state of the body. We very often can't know if parts of that state are a health problem or not.

To my knowledge, studies have not shown any benefit to regular full body MRI's. You might find a problem, or you might find a non-problem and in the process of fixing it (aka operation / medication) you create a problem. Those two effect seem to balance out each other on average.
by mysteria | 2026-01-12 16:14:52+00:00
I feel that the push will not be towards a general computing device though, but rather to a curated computing device sort of like the iPhone or iPad. Basically general in theory but actually vendor restricted inside a walled garden.

With improved cellular and possibly future satellite connectivity I feel that this would also be more of a thin client than a local first device, since companies want that recurring cloud subscription revenue over a single lump sum.
by eli | 2026-01-12 16:15:07+00:00
Well, yeah, Apple's Maps.app wasn't good enough when it launched (it's solid now though). That feels like a separate thing from white labeling and lock-in. Obviously they would have to switch to something of similar or better quality or users will be upset.

But it's a whole lot easier to switch from Gemini to Claude or Gemini to a hypothetical good proprietary LLM if it's white label instead of "iOS with Gemini"
by SoftTalker | 2026-01-12 16:15:12+00:00
Yeah I preferred tapes myself rather than deal with the stupid criminal warnings, unskipable content, and often bizarre menu organization on DVDs. Tapes are simple.

One other thing a lot of older people learn is that if they don't want to deal with something they can feign helplessness and someone else will jump in and do it for them.
by sureshcsdp | 2026-01-12 16:15:42+00:00
Author here. Built CleanCloud after seeing AWS Nuke delete a staging database.

CleanCloud is read-only by design - it cannot delete anything, even by accident. Scans AWS/Azure for orphaned resources and gives you evidence-based recommendations.

Key differences from other tools:
- No Delete permissions required (read-only IAM policy)
- No automated cleanup (you decide what to delete)
- Conservative confidence scoring (HIGH: 90%+, MEDIUM: 70-90%)
- Open source (MIT), runs locally

1,800+ downloads in 6 weeks. Interesting signal: 21% manually download to audit code (vs 2% typical).

Technical details:
- Python CLI, uses standard AWS SDK (boto3)
- Finds: Unattached EBS, old snapshots, infinite CloudWatch retention
- CI/CD ready: JSON output, exit codes
- No external API calls (runs entirely locally)

Would love feedback on what resources to check next!

GitHub: https://github.com/cleancloud-io/cleancloud
Website: https://getcleancloud.com
by wffurr | 2026-01-12 16:15:45+00:00
>> started crying when we hid it after only a very short time

I'd cry too if you showed me a bright colorful shiny fun new thing and then took it away after only two minutes.

Part of what you're seeing is the novelty. There does seem to be something about screens, but it's possible to have healthy screen habits as a young child. My 3 year old enjoyed an episode of Wild Kratts on PBS Kids on our TV while we finished packing up for a trip to the aquarium today. No problems turning it off once the episode was over and it was time to go. It's not his first time watching TV though.
by Fazebooking | 2026-01-12 16:15:55+00:00
Yes for sure it just doesn't happen because huge projects like this have to be aligned and coordinated on complete different scales.

Thats why the french build a reactor in UK.

Even the CDU/CSU political party in germany, who was in power for 16 years uninterupted wasn't doing it.

So whatever we wish or think would happen doesn't matter if the only ones investing in nuclear are techcompanies and as somone else stated, they do this primiarily for existing nuclear capacity.

But whats happening now is a renewable revolution. Batteries are very cheap now and get cheaper and easier to make and you need the manufactoring capacity for them anyway (cars, storage projects) that they will break up every other area like normal housing.

Especially because now it reached africa as a continent and asia. Its exploding.

And its very easy to just extend this potential. Many normal areas are still vacant.

A LOT of countries probably will either neve be able to afford nuclear or will not be allowed to have it anyway.
by mdasen | 2026-01-12 16:16:15+00:00
I think that's the thing: Apple is good at very little, but they seem like they're good at "everything else" because they don't do much else. Lots of companies spread themselves really thin trying to get into lots of unrelated competencies and tons of products. Apple doesn't.

Why does a MacBook seem better than PC laptops? Because Apple makes so few designs. When you make so few things, you can spend more time refining the design. When you're churning out a dozen designs a year, can you optimize the fan as well for each one? You hit a certain point where you say "eh, good enough." Apple's aluminum unibody MacBook Pro was largely the same design 2008-2021. They certainly iterated on it, but it wasn't "look at my flashy new case" every year. PC laptop makers come out with new designs with new materials so frequently.

With iPhones, Apple often keeps a design for 3 years. It looks like Samsung has churned out over 25 phone models over the past year while Apple has 5 (iPhone, iPhone Plus, iPhone Pro, iPhone Pro Max, iPhone 16e).

It's easy to look so good at things when you do fewer things. I think this is one of Apple's great strengths - knowing where to concentrate its effort.
by tibbar | 2026-01-12 16:16:19+00:00
I just don't see the distinction. Looking at it from the other direction: most CS degrees will have you spend a lot of time looking at assembly language, computer architecture, and *nix tools. But none of these are mathematical inevitabilities - they're just a core part of the foundations of software engineering.

However, in the decades since this curricula was established, it's clear that the foundation has expanded. Understanding how containerization works, how k8s and friends work, etc is just as important today.
by Jimmc414 | 2026-01-12 16:16:20+00:00
I put together a spec for this where the entire LLM agent landscape adheres to the "Everything is a file" constraint. It uses the FUSE filesystem in the way described. I also created a possible limitation document to describe some areas where I thought it might be overengineered or locking in technical debt.

https://github.com/jimmc414/AgentOS
by abielefeld | 2026-01-12 16:16:21+00:00
That's the dirty secret of "the employment shortage".

Under pay, no one takes the job, so justify off-shoring.

The truth, having talked to employees at big firms, is that in the past, entire factories were off shored to save 10 cents from one single part in a product.

Today, most jobs are not just under-paid, they are undignified. Because any job can be gratifying in the right circumstances, even a job on a factory line, it just has to:

1. Pay a fair wage
2. Be designed to be gratifying

Companies dont even care about their customers anymore, we all know it's been more than 15 years since they've cared about their employees. That's how entshittification goes.
by taykolasinski | 2026-01-12 16:16:33+00:00
This is a fantastic catch. I hadn't realized Gemma 3n was already shipping with a variant of this in production.

It feels like we are entering the era of residual stream engineering. For a long time, the standard x + F(x) additive backbone was treated as untouchable. Now, between mHC (weighted scaling) and LAuReL (low-rank projections), labs are finally finding stable ways to make that signal path more dynamic.

I'm curious if the Low-Rank constraint in LAuReL acts as a natural stabilizer against the gradient explosion I saw with unconstrained hyper-connections.

Thanks for the paper link, definitely reading that tonight.
by haritha-j | 2026-01-12 16:17:13+00:00
Agreed, especially since this is a competitive space with multiple players, with a high price of admission, and where your model is outdated in a year, so its not even capex as much as recurring expenditure. Far better to let someone else do all the hard work, and wait and see where things go. Maybe someday this'll be a core competency you want in-house, but when that day comes you can make that switch, just like with apple silicon.
by pingananth | 2026-01-12 16:17:17+00:00
I sell a niche educational tool for technical leads($19 one-time access).

I get decent traffic from India/Southeast Asia, but 0 sales.

I’ve read conflicting advice:

The "SaaS" View: Don't lower prices; filter for high-value customers.

The "Game/Ebook" View: Lower prices significantly (60%+) to match local purchasing power, because zero marginal cost = free money.

Since my product has no server upkeep (it's just a Next.js app), I just enabled aggressive PPP.

Has anyone here successfully monetized a one-time purchase dev tool in India? Or is the "Free or Nothing" culture too strong?
by dchftcs | 2026-01-12 16:17:20+00:00
Anthropic and OpenAI are essentially betting that a somewhat small difference in accuracy translates to a huge advantage, and continuing to be the one that's slightly but consistently better than others is the only way they can justify investments in them at all. It's natural to then consider that an agent trained to use a specific tool will be better at using that tool. If Claude continues to be slightly better than other models at coding, and Claude Code continues to be slightly better than OpenCode, combined it can be difficult to beat them even at a cheaper price. Right now, even though Kimi K2 and the likes are cheaper with OpenCode and perform decently, I spend more than 10x the amount on Claude Code.
by rspoerri | 2026-01-12 16:17:25+00:00
Understanding of what is happening is often very limited. When I read books or talk to her, I sometimes use words that are unknown to her, she only started asking for the meaning of them recently (she just turned 3). So she will probably only understand 20%-30% even when she understands conversations quite well at home. She is still missing cultural context. She is only starting to understand the difference between a living and a stuffed animal.

In an animation movie somebody might hit somebody else, which appears funny to an adult. A child might just take this as normal behaviour and repeats it the next time she sees somebody and doesn't understand why it's not funny.

Understanding the real world is difficult enough for her.
by bsimpson | 2026-01-12 16:17:34+00:00
Well I guess the iMac Pro isn't on the lucky list then. I know it's losing updates (and therefore support) this year.

Unfortunately, I looked into it, and my other options are an Asus CX54 Chromebook or a Lenovo X1. There simply aren't competitive alternatives to Mac hardware, at least not at modern Google.
by asielen | 2026-01-12 16:17:45+00:00
I won't argue that it is a universal truth but it has played out the same for my kids and my friends groups kids.

They treat it like a drug and lose all emotional regulation. I don't believe all screen time is bad, but it is something you have to teach them to regulate and 3 year olds and younger are just bad at regulating emotion in general. Teaching them to do this is just part of parenting. One of the most important things we can teach our kids is that it is okay to be bored. In fact it is great to be bored sometimes.

On the other hand, being a parent is hard and keeping your sanity is important in order to be a good parent. So if it helps you be a better parent all other times, it could be worth it.

The issue is when screens are used to in place of parenting. Parents using it as a way to fuel their own screen addiction.

On the other hand, for me airplanes are a special case and all rules go out the window to help keep the kid calm.
by vel0city | 2026-01-12 16:18:19+00:00
I was so happy when we got a VCR+ enabled VCR. Stupid simple to program. Just punch in a few digit code in the TV guide magazine and it would schedule it automatically.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkXQqVMt6SE

The last couple of VCRs we owned even had automatic time setting. It read extra data in the vertical blanking interval from our local PBS station.
by lapcat | 2026-01-12 16:18:32+00:00
> To understand further investments you'd have to know R&D or at least Opex broken out for Apple Services (which AFAIK they do not share).

Total R&D for the entire corporation was $9 billion compared to $29 billion just in Services revenue. How much of that R&D do you think the crApp Store needs, compared to the hardware and the operating systems? https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/fy2025-q4/FY25_Q4_Consol...

> SaaS typically expects 80% gross margin, so Apple is not out of line here.

App Store is essentially an online retailer (or consignment store), not SaaS. Apple is selling software written by other developers.
by Centigonal | 2026-01-12 16:18:32+00:00
It seems like Anthropic is taking the Apple approach to these apps. Apple made it hard to mod their hardware, or run other OSs on the hardware, or run their OS on other hardware, or use other app stores on their phones. Basically, they want to make it so that you buy into the Apple stack with one or two all-or-nothing decisions, with very little room for mixing and matching.

Not a very hacker-friendly strategy, but Apple's market cap is pretty big. I think it comes down to whether Anthropic can make a product with enough of a lead over competitors to offset the restrictions.
by palmotea | 2026-01-12 16:18:35+00:00
> It's true that partisan politics provides only coarse choices. That's true of America's bipartisan system as well as multiparty parliamentary systems. But the parties are still dynamic coalitions that can change dramatically over time. Just look at the difference between the 1950s Democrats vs the 2000s Democrats, or the 2015 Republicans vs the 2020 Republicans.

You're missing my only point, which is how (say) a coarse 51% victory for a coalition gets frequently and deliberately misrepresented as "the American people" wanting that coalition's unpopular policies.

American politics isn't really about representing the American people, it's about minority ideological factions jockeying for power to subject the American people to their vision. Hence the rise of campaigning that's mostly attacking the opponent. A recent example is the Democrats vis-a-vis Trump: despite all their rhetoric, their behavior over the last decade belies an attitude that they think they use the repulsion he generates to avoid moderating themselves and still win.
Ask HN: I built a tool that is catching AI SEO of its own. Should I double down?
by udit_50 | 2026-01-12 16:18:36+00:00
I built this tool called SuperDocs which is an AI documentation generator that I posted about it.

Initially, the Reddit post went good (100K+) views.. but initially, even for 800 visitors, it got ~40-45 users.

So, I went away for a hackathon and today, I see, I have got like 1000+ visitors and 100+ signups. Upon checking Clarity insights, I found I am getting traffic from gemini and other AI apps.

Should I double down, add features or what? I don't know, its just a side project that I even don't now will I scale or not or will it even make any penny or not?

Please guide.
by mathieuh | 2026-01-12 16:18:36+00:00
Mobile digital mapping was already a useful thing though. Even though Apple Maps was initially a failure I still came back to it every so often to see how it was progressing and eventually it ended up pretty good.

Maybe I'm weird but mobile assistants have never been useful for me. I tried Siri a couple of times and it didn't work. I haven't tried it since because even if it worked perfectly I'm not sure I'd have any use for it.

I see it more like the Vision Pro. Doesn't matter how good the product ends up being, I just don't think it's something most people are going to have a use for.

As far as I'm concerned no one has proved the utility of these mobile assistants yet.
by ryandrake | 2026-01-12 16:18:47+00:00
Democrats continue to offer up horrible candidates, and their idiotic primary system confirms those horrible candidates every 4 years. A slice of cheese could have beaten Trump, but somehow the DNC managed to offer up the most boring, milquetoast, unlikable, uncharismatic, centrist candidates they could find and beat him once out of three times. They're just kicking own-goals over and over, and they're not learning which direction to run down the field.
by ncallaway | 2026-01-12 16:18:53+00:00
> their vision is still developing and staring at a screen is not good for eye development.

Is that true? The American Association of Pediatrics doesn't list that as a concern on their page "Health Effects Of Young Kids Being On Screens Too Long" (which is focused on children aged 2-11). Do you have a source I could review for that claim?

https://www.aap.org/en/patient-care/media-and-children/cente...

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(The AAP page about media recommendations for 0-2 also doesn't say anything about eye-development, but _does_ recommend entirely against screen-time for that age-group except for video conversations with people)

https://www.aap.org/en/patient-care/media-and-children/cente...
by jollyllama | 2026-01-12 16:19:00+00:00
This comment is more insightful than it may appear initially. It looks like the 5% drop is in comparison to the pre-Ozempic spending. To what extent is the cut on spending monetary i.e. "I am spending more on this drug and will cut back my other expenses." Sure, Ozempic will kill the cravings, and that is probably the main driver, but from a 5000 foot view, this is using money to buy drugs instead of foods. In a very abstract way, it's the same as buying amphetamines to lose weight, just with a different (arguably smaller) set of side effects.

Also, I can't find the comparison in the study to spending by non-Ozempic households. Is it possible that they decreased their spending during the time frame too, for other economic reasons? All this to say is that I think the story is more complex than the headline indicates.
by dguest | 2026-01-12 16:19:07+00:00
I find it sad if they never have the opportunity.

If they don't like to travel I put them in the same category as people who don't like fancy coffee, playing sports, wine, video games, or science. I like a lot of those things but not everyone needs to [although I really wish more people understood science]. All these things cost resources and so far resources aren't infinite.
by jjk166 | 2026-01-12 16:19:08+00:00
> The data I have seen says the average American eats 400-700 excess daily calories, and 3600 daily calories total. That means 10-20% excess per person. If everyone started eating the right amount overnight, grocery spend would drop 10-20%.

You're falsely assuming a 1:1 ratio between calories and cost. Unfortunately the big problem with ultra processed food is that calorie rich but nutrient deficient food is way cheaper than the less processed foods. Cutting out the cheapest items is going to reduce spending less.
by k2enemy | 2026-01-12 16:19:43+00:00
These are also easy to DIY with a raspberry pi, rfid card reader, some blank cards, and phoniebox [0] for the software. I don't have much electronics experience and had it up and running fairly easily for under $40.

[0] https://github.com/MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID
by jfengel | 2026-01-12 16:19:58+00:00
Setting aside the legality of this, is it even possible for credit card companies to work with rates capped like that?

I'm sure the credit card companies are plenty profitable right now and could probably afford some kind of cut. Just the transaction fees alone seem disproportionate to the costs.

But they do have to cover things like defaults, the opportunity cost of the money, fraud (they have to eat the costs of identity theft under the Truth in Lending Act), etc. Clearly they're turning a profit at 20%; can they still at 10%?

At the very least, I suspect some people will find that their credit cards are canceled.
by dogma1138 | 2026-01-12 16:20:00+00:00
Would be interesting to train a cutting edge model with a cut off date of say 1900 and then prompt it about QM and relativity with some added context.

If the model comes up with anything even remotely correct it would be quite a strong evidence that LLMs are a path to something bigger if not then I think it is time to go back to the drawing board.
by everdrive | 2026-01-12 16:20:03+00:00
>I think the future (whether we like it or not) is a single general computing device (thin client, true laptop replacement) that can fit in one’s pockets, communicate and cast to terminals, and help power a set of wearables like glasses.

It's hard for me to think of a worse future for computing.

"Citizen, you are not wearing your computer-glasses, I'll need to look up your citizen-score manually. Please come with me to detention."

"Yes, it's as the doctor says, myopia is unavoidable these days, now that computer-glasses are state mandated."

"Officer, here is every single person who traversed the crime scene +/- 30 hours of the crime."

"Social media addiction spirals out of control as users can no longer even remove notifications from their field of view."

"Malware causes car crashes pop-ups obscure drivers."

"After she broke up with me, her computer-glasses rendered me invisible to her field of view."

"My computer-glasses were hacked and the attackers live-streamed me having sex with my wife."

etc.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-01-12 16:20:07+00:00
Even if that’s true, the stock GNOME apps and third party GTK3/4 apps (which tend to follow GNOME design philosophy) work more smoothly under GNOME than those built with Qt or other frameworks, and so deviating makes for a materially worse experience.

And yes you can switch between multiple installed DEs and I have done so in the past, but that makes for a messy experience with many redundant apps that the user must clean up themselves. It’s a lot nicer to have just one installed.
by valexv | 2026-01-12 16:20:34+00:00
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by pjmlp | 2026-01-12 16:20:34+00:00
Not really modern, it is Object Pascal/Modula-2 repackaged in C like syntax.

The only thing relatively modern would be compile time execution, if we forget about how long some languages have had reader macros, or similar capabilities like D's compile time metaprogramming.

There are several examples around of doing arenas in said languages.

https://dlang.org/phobos/std_experimental_allocator.html

You can write your own approach with the low level primitives from Swift, or ping back into the trusty NSAutoreleasePool.

One example for C#, https://github.com/Enichan/Arenas
by mbirth | 2026-01-12 16:20:57+00:00
You can try it yourself - apparently it was just this[0] single prompt:

>> This is a USB Stick of my MRI. Find all reports, find all images, use imagemagick to convert them into something useful, and get everything into a structured directory in the ./output folder that's worth retaining. Then, make an index.html that's a full exploration tool for the results. Use /frontend-skills and /generate-image skills if necessary.

> /frontend-skills you can find in the plugin marketplace, generate-image is just a small skill that allows the model to use nanobanana-pro. It used it for some diagrams.

[0]: https://x.com/tobi/status/2010442346618323059