MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Render static blog/document site in seconds with Methanol
by ClassicOldSong | 2026-01-15 16:46:22+00:00
With the default theme and everything enabled, it renders 1000 pages of markdown in under 20 seconds. With a simpler blog theme and code highlighting disabled, it renders the same amount in 5 seconds.

Tested on Mac mini M4 base model.
by hmokiguess | 2026-01-15 16:46:32+00:00
I'm not sure I get it, are you saying that wage alone should determine visa eligibility? I'm gonna guess that location is the primary reason here. Do you have any data, for example, on foreign workers that stay versus bail on rural/remote jobs in the long run? My rough guess is that there's more than just looking at the money. Maybe these doctors are picking these jobs as a gateway to later switch to a preferred location and aren't staying, so they are being more picky? (My comment is anecdotal and I have no basis just a hunch)
by bpanahij | 2026-01-15 16:46:38+00:00
Maybe infiniband is a bit more than we can handle. That technology is incredible! You are right though, we have been willing to build things we needed that didn’t exist yet, or were not fast enough or natural enough. Sparrow-1, Raven-1, and Phoenix-4 are all examples that, and we have more on the way.
Show HN: What's in Your Food?
by dh2013 | 2026-01-15 16:46:40+00:00
Hello HN,

I'm the creator of Auraly, a web app that helps people understand ingredient labels for food and personal care products by scanning them with their phone.

The idea came from a personal place. A few years ago my father was diagnosed with terminal cancer, which pushed me to learn more about nutrition, environmental exposures, and how everyday choices can affect long-term health. One thing I found frustrating was how hard ingredient labels are for most people to actually understand. They’re often long, filled with unfamiliar chemical names, vary across countries, and become even less useful when they’re written in a language you don’t speak.

Most existing tools rely on static databases or focus on a single category. I wanted to build something that works on real-world labels in any language, adapts to what the user personally cares about such as allergens or ingredient sensitivities, and avoids fear-based or overly simplistic scoring.

Auraly:

- Scans ingredient labels using OCR and AI

- Works with labels in any language

- Supports multiple interface languages (English, Spanish, Chinese currently)

- Lets users customize what they want flagged

- Is optimized for mobile and built as a lightweight web app

This is still very early and I’m mainly looking for feedback. I’d love thoughts on the technical approach, the UX, the risk framework, or whether this is even a useful idea.

We currently run on a freemium model, with 7 days of free unlimited access but I'm happy to extend free access for members of the HN community once your trial is up. Just let me know in the comments or send me a message via the app.

Happy to answer any questions, and thanks for taking a look.
by tux3 | 2026-01-15 16:46:54+00:00
Right. Try clicking those sources, half the time there is zero relation to the sentence. LLMs just output what they want to say, and then sprinkle in what the web search found on random sentences.

And not just bottom of the barrel LLMs. Ask Claude about Intel PIN tools, it will merrily tell you that it "Has thread-safe APIs but performance issues were noted with multi-threaded tools like ThreadSanitizer" and then cite the Disney Pins blog and the DropoutStore "2025 Pin of the Month Bundle" as an inline source.

Enamel pins. That's the level of trust you should have when LLMs pretend to be citing a source.
by lokar | 2026-01-15 16:47:07+00:00
There are two different things at play, and it's important to be clear about them:

- Legal protest. Standing out of the way, yelling, singing, signs, etc. 100% protected, only subject to reasonable crowd control (by the local LEA), eg to move people off the roadway.

- Civil disobedience. Intentional non-violent violations of the law. Intended to slow/disrupt government activity. You are breaking the law to make a point, and should be willing to accept the consequences. The violations are almost always minor, with at most a week or two in jail and a fine. Law enforcement has a legal obligation to apply proportionally in the enforcement, if they are non-violent then little or no force is acceptable in detaining or citing the protestors.
by rootusrootus | 2026-01-15 16:47:45+00:00
The dreamers amongst us have noted that Ford has a patent (at least an application for one, I don't recall if it was granted) for putting an EREV generator under the bed near the back of the truck. Since it can be a smaller engine and does not require an attachment to the drivetrain, maybe this is feasible.

If they did that, it would remove one of my reasons for not being too interested in the Lightning EREV -- the anticipated loss of the frunk. It still introduces a bunch of mechanical bits and associated maintenance requirements, that is unavoidable, along with a substantial increase in cost.

I bought my Lightning with the intent of keeping it 7-8 years, and it meets my needs very well, so this is mostly just navel gazing for me. The EREV version would have more range that I would rarely benefit from, and be substantially less powerful, which is also a negative from my perspective, in addition to costing a bunch more. My current truck is by far my favorite so far. I hope when I'm finally ready to try something new, there are better options. It's a high bar.
by whynotmaybe | 2026-01-15 16:48:01+00:00
It is tedious because you must edit with facts, not ideology.

But we now live in a world where people agree that ideology should be able to change facts.

> or the impact of certain wars

Exactly, like China wanting to completely censor anything regarding the Tiananmen Square protests.

> for example questioning homosexuality

I don't know what you have to question about this.

>If you are seeking for a global view you better ask different LLMs for arguments and counter-arguments on a subject.

All the LLM I've tested have a strong tendency to increase your echo chamber and not try to change your opinion on something.

>This is why you need to use different sources.

Only if deep down, you're ready to change your POV on something, otherwise you're just wasting time and ragebaiting yourself.
Although I admit, it can still be entertaining to read some news to discover how they're able to twist reality.
by jqpabc123 | 2026-01-15 16:48:03+00:00
The US is lagging by every reasonable measure.

What has changed is primarily 2 things:

1) People in positions of authority are now openly anti-progress in an effort to pacify entrenched interests.

2) These same people are also openly anti-immigrant. In the past, a lot of science in the USA has been imported from other countries by way of immigration.

Less science equals less/inferior technology which equals smaller economy and weaker USA.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-15 16:48:34+00:00
> Why would I want to riot over immigration enforcement enforcing immigration laws?

So you are not seeing the same news the outside world are seeing? Is there censorship happening? Because what we're seeing, isn't "enforcing immigration laws", it's brutal murder of civilians, together with actually being worse at getting people out of the country. Obama did a better job at kicking out illegals, yet without these public broad-daylight murders. How does that compute to be "enforcing immigration laws"?
by apercu | 2026-01-15 16:48:36+00:00
"Apple is smart. If the AI capex cycle flattens in late '27 as models hit diminishing returns, does Apple regain pricing power simply by being the only customer that can guarantee wafer commits five years out?"

That's the take I would pursue if I were Apple.

A quiet threat of "We buy wafers on consumer demand curves. You’re selling them on venture capital and hype"
by ronjouch | 2026-01-15 16:48:48+00:00
Both are fabulous community efforts, and I agree with the sister comment by HN user klaussilveira. Now, they are very different things:

- The Black Parade is a single experience: one campaign with a beginning and end, on the oldschool Thief I foundations. Nothing more, nothing less.

- The Dark Project as of today is more of a “platform”: a modern base engine for creators and players who want a shinier Thief, and who acknowledge that with today’s graphical standards comes extra effort to create a satisfying map/campaign (need bigger assets, less “blunt” architecture, etc). To add to the “platform-ness”: as of today, out-of the box TDP has only a couple built-in missions and no meaty story arc. There are many excellent 3rd-party Fan Missions (maps in Thief lingo, go visit https://www.thiefguild.com/fanmissions/ ) for TDP, but it’s not “a game” the way Black Parade is clearly a game. This is not a judgement call and I had an excellent time with many TDP maps, and community members do discuss expanding the campaign & story... but for now it’s more of a technical foundation to download maps and tinker with, than “a game” :) . You can do some spelunking on the TDP forums if you want more details, the maintainers make no mystery of this.
by breakpointalpha | 2026-01-15 16:48:57+00:00
American life is so much more distributed than European life.

Population density and the gigantic geographic distance make these kinds of events feel "remote" even if they are happening in our same state.

It's a 17 hour drive from Atlanta, Georgia to Minneapolis for example.

On top of that, a lot of Americans are just barely surviving financially, so they are in full bunker mode just making rent.

It's a scary time to rebel.
by kayo_20211030 | 2026-01-15 16:49:05+00:00
It might be a fair-enough interpretation. For major issues, what's ambiguously said (or unsaid) by Congress can be specifically said (or unsaid) by the Courts.

Point #2 is related, as it also connected to a requirement to interpret "intent", which is a
tricky thing even at the best of times.

As for point #3, I can't comment. I don't quite understand Roberts' logic about official vs. discretionary, but I feel it has something to do with original framers' intent also.
by throwaway853578 | 2026-01-15 16:49:13+00:00
Because I have a kid to take care of. A job I need to keep, and a way of life I'd like to maintain. Because it's not happening where I live (yet).

I care about people but I don't give a fuck about my country. It's just a place to live. If it gets too bad I'll move my family elsewhere.

Also, this whole checks and balances thing we learned about in school will surely kick in sometime soon...
by amiga386 | 2026-01-15 16:49:27+00:00
Clearly there's no love lost between the two co-founders, but if either of them had been missing, Wikipedia wouldn't be what it is today.

Larry may have left the project, but sticks his oar in frequently, see for example the Nine Theses he posted to Wikipedia last year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Larry_Sanger/Nine_Theses

Neither Larry nor Jimbo "are" Wikipedia. Wikipedia's editors are Wikipedia, and if they collectively agree with any of Larry's policy ideas, they'll adopt them in time.

I used to glibly agree with what you said, because back in the early 2000s it was primarily the right-wing nutters being fed a diet of Fox News bullshit that were deranged from reality... "reality has a liberal bias", right? Remember the crackpot Conservapedia? But these days I find plenty of equal opportunity derangement from terrible news sources chasing clicks, promoting FOMO, anxiety and keeping their readers/viewers addicted. No political flavour of bullshit belongs on Wikipedia.
by rich_sasha | 2026-01-15 16:49:38+00:00
I think US rapidly crossed from being a useful ally, through being an unreliable one to a genuine hindrance for NATO, from Europe's PoV. Not sure about Canada, and I feel for them.

I'm confident Europe can get its act together against Russia. It has more people, far more GDP etc. But it's stuck an an awful trance of defeatism.

US meanwhile seems to be setting fire to so much of the world that they may soon be calling on allies to help them out. Ironic that the only NATO collective defense response was Europe joining the US in Afghanistan.

Somehow Europeans care more about Greenland than Ukraine, so maybe this is the final straw.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-01-15 16:50:35+00:00
Corporate editors, boiler room political operations, and random conspiracy cranks are given a bothsideism platform to edit and narrate facts in their favor.

https://en.ejo.ch/public-relations/manipulation-wikipedia

https://imemc.org/article/59294/

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-01-14/lon...

https://avim.org.tr/en/Analiz/THE-DARKNESS-BEYOND-WIKIPEDIA-...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/congress-opens-inves...

https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13990

https://www.isdglobal.org/isd-publications/identifying-sock-...

https://www.city-journal.org/article/policing-wikipedia

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/oct/30...

https://www.techdirt.com/2007/08/14/diebold-disney-many-othe...
by agubelu | 2026-01-15 16:50:40+00:00
I'd say a couple of reasons:

- The American political system has been very successful in telling its people that the only acceptable way to show discontent and enact change is by voting on elections.

- Lots of people are okay with it because it can only happen to the "bad guys", and why would it ever happen to them since they're the "good guys"... right?
by Amezarak | 2026-01-15 16:50:44+00:00
As a matter of fact, arrest is the proper remedy for obstruction, which is at least a misdemeanor and sometimes a felony, and it may include those first two things, or even the third if they violently resist. And despite widely spread misinformation online, ICE has the legal authority to arrest anyone, even citizens, if they see them doing this.

There’s really no other way law enforcement could work, I don’t know what people are imagining. You don’t get to surround or block LEO from conducting business and just say “neener neener” and there’s nothing they can do. If you escalate to physical violence then you’re simply gambling with your life and there’s no other way it could be in the world we life in, except in maybe a very low crime society.

It’s one thing if you accept all this and do it anyway, but people keep acting shocked by what happens. “why did you have real bullets?”.
by codebyaditya | 2026-01-15 16:51:24+00:00
Fair point. To be clear we aren't saying wage should be the only rule, just that it's weird to see such a huge disconnect. Usually money talks.

Your "gateway" hunch is likely spot on. Most rural docs start on J-1 waivers (mandatory 3 years). If they actually stayed after that, we'd see way more H-1B conversions filed by those rural hospitals to keep them. Since the volume is so low, it suggests once the 3 years are up, they bail for the city. The wage premium just isn't enough to anchor them.
by jasomill | 2026-01-15 16:51:25+00:00
You can get a 5-year-old laptop with a perfectly working screen for free if you're on good terms with the owner of a company who has a stack of them sitting in a storage closet waiting for disposal. :)

Which is basically just cutting out the middlemen in a transaction that might cost $100 on eBay.

Used corporate laptops are particularly cost-effective if you're interested in running Windows, as unlike Intel NUCs and most SBC products, they typically include hardware-locked Windows 10 Pro licenses which can be upgraded to Windows 11 Pro for free.
by btown | 2026-01-15 16:51:30+00:00
Per that very article, Sherman will be for support chips for power and peripherals, on legacy 45nm+ nodes.

Apple's investing heavily in the TSMC fab in Arizona, due to open in 2027, to have 3nm capabilities for its flagship chips, but it's unlikely that would ever cover a majority of that chipmaking.

https://www.aztechcouncil.org/tucson-chipmaker-tsmc-arizona-...

https://wccftech.com/tsmc-plans-to-bring-3nm-production-to-t...
by FiveOhThree | 2026-01-15 16:51:39+00:00
That's the thing though, expecting users to have a discussion over even minor changes is extremely off-putting for most potential editors.

I've also noticed that a few of these editors seem to be deliberately abrasive towards new users, perhaps with the hope that they'll break a rule by posting insults in frustration. The moment that happens those editors quickly run to the site administration and try to get said user banned. Wikipedia's policies are increasingly treated as a weapon to beat down dissent rather than a guide on how to contribute positively.
by zozbot234 | 2026-01-15 16:51:55+00:00
Not quite, the official in-development project wrt. this area is Abstract Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia which plans to develop a human-editable structural interlanguage for encyclopedic content that can then be automatically "rendered" to existing natural languages, as opposed to just starting from an existing "best or most complete" natural-language text.

This avoids the unreliability of existing "neural/ML" approaches, replacing them with something that might see contributions from bots as part of developing the support for specific content or languages (similar to what happens with Wikidata today) but can always be comprehensively understood by humans if need be.
by randerson | 2026-01-15 16:52:22+00:00
Even 1 teaspoon of salt can be twice as salty as the recipe's writer intended. e.g. Morton's has denser flakes which are 1.8x as salty by volume compared to Diamond Crystal.

For baking where its almost an exact science, it baffles me why recipes still use cups and spoons. I specifically search for recipes where the measurements are in grams. SeriousEats is often where I end up.
by mhitza | 2026-01-15 16:52:34+00:00
If you want a Linux for the average Joe, then you have immutable distros, (such as Fedora Kinoite) which are going to better suited also for old people, and those that don't need to fiddle with their experience.

> ubuntu install is probably fine

Ubuntu and Gnome should be avoided even as suggestions. Ubuntu has become less reliable than Fedora in my experience. And Gnome does Gnome things that are incompatible of the average users requirement from a desktop encironment.
by andrewvc | 2026-01-15 16:52:37+00:00
Can you describe at what point someone would “have blood on their hands” in your view?

The problem in my mind is that these systems are exclusively in service of dishonesty. ICE is clearly being used to further political ends. If it were actually trying to stem immigration it wouldn’t concentrate its officers in a state with one of the lowest rates of illegal immigrants.

Are you saying you agree with that cause or that you bear no responsibility?
by screye | 2026-01-15 16:52:41+00:00
This is out of date by about 15 years.

Top engineering grads are excellent and are being paid high wages. Work culture is cut-throat, but talent is comparable to the US.

India's target universities (IITs, IIITs & NITs) produce ~40k new software-engineers every year. Historically, average graduates of these universities end up in FANG jobs after their masters. If not immediately, then within a few years.

We're not talking about the 1 million sub-par engineering grads produced by India every year, most of whom will end up at infosys, TCS or sadly, BPOs. Big-tech only cares about the top 50k.

This the primary group that American new-grads are competing with. Around 20k new Indians get an H1b every-year as part of an OPT (Masters) to H1b transition. For every 1 of them in the US, there is at least 1 back home of the same caliber.
by Juliate | 2026-01-15 16:52:43+00:00
How do these people manage to get people to pay them?...

Just a few years ago, no one would have contemplated putting in production or connecting their systems, whatever the level of criticality, to systems that have so little deterministic behaviour.

In most companies I've worked for, even barebones startups, connecting your IDE to such a remote service, or even uploading requirements, would have been ground for suspension or at least thorough discussion.

The enshitification of all this industry and its mode of operation is truly baffling. Shall the bubble burst at last!
by NickC25 | 2026-01-15 16:53:01+00:00
A guy I grew up with that works at Palantir.

Here's his thinking:

1. He's white and lives in a blue state. Doesn't affect him. Oh, and money.
2. The attention on Palantir and their customers makes his stock and options go up. He's happy, because money.
3. His GOP-worshipping parents get to brag to their GOP-worshipping friends that their son is helping God's Gift to Humanity - Donald Trump. And making bank while doing it.
4. He believes that Palantir is doing good work, and that's the end of it. He believes himself to be a genuinely good guy, so if he's doing something, it must be good.
by ak217 | 2026-01-15 16:53:06+00:00
Look, I don't care, I know there are strong opinions about how these discussions sway people one way or another. I'm as much of an EV technology fan as anyone, but I'm speaking from personal experience with this exact situation: if I didn't have a 240V charger in my garage, my EV experience would be garbage and I'd give up on it in frustration. I own one of the most common EVs, I have DC fast chargers in my area, I don't drive my EV that much during the week, but when I need to drive a bunch of short trips on the weekend, this exact scenario arises. I don't care what your theoretical model of an average EV driver looks like, I'm telling you that it doesn't match my reality and I am certain the reality of many others.

What's bizarre is that this should be incredibly non-contentious when it comes to EV adoption. By code, everyone in the US already has two phases at their panel and running a wire and outlet in their garage (or a weatherized cable to the outside) costs $100-150 in materials and a similar amount in labor. This is literally negligible in the broader scheme of the automotive economy. My humble suggestion to you is: save your breath, we're on the same side, raise your voice instead when it comes to demanding a sane EV industrial policy, regulatory policy, urban planning policy, removing subsidies for oil and gas industries, and the like.
by MrDunham | 2026-01-15 16:53:06+00:00
I love Anthropic's models but their realtime voice is absolutely terrible. Every time I use it there is at least once that I curse at it for interrupting me.

My main use case for OpenAI/ChatGPT at this point is realtime voice chats.

OpenAI has done a pretty great job w/ realtime (their realtime API is pretty fantastic out of the box... not perfect, but pretty fantastic and dead simple setup). I can have what feels like a legitimate conversation with AI and it's downright magical feeling.

That said, the output is created by OpenAI models so it's... not my favorite.

I sometimes use ChatGPT realtime to think through/work through a problem/idea, have it create a detailed summary, then upload that summary to Claude to let 4.5 Opus rewrite/audit and come up with a better final output.