MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bakies | 2026-01-05 15:12:10+00:00
They're popular in cities and suburbs where they are useless. I said they were useful out in farmlands. Half of what you said can fit in an SUV anyway. There is not place like that anywhere near where I live and trucks are still extremely common, most of my friends have one. They're all white collar. Most have bed covers or a trunk installed in the bed. I find it's really funny when people buy trucks and put a ton of effort into making the bed almost as useful as a trunk.
by qwertfisch | 2026-01-05 15:12:17+00:00
The problem is not even this. If you knew who has the rights, you could make an offer for selling digital licenses.

It’s often much more difficult getting to know who has what rights. There is the developer, there is one or more previous publishers (can be different per region in the world), there are investors and sponsoring publishers. And then there are sales, mergers and liquidations after bankruptcy. And no-one really knows (or wants others to know) what rights where are.
by pjc50 | 2026-01-05 15:12:38+00:00
This is related to "cadastral mapping" in real estate law systems. IP does not have such a map, or indeed any map at all. At best you might find a (no longer obligatory!) copyright notice on it saying who originally owned the rights to something. That doesn't work when the rights get sold.

There's no good way to even ask "who owns this?" for a piece of IP other than the highly inadequate and risky approach of just pirating it and waiting to see who sues you. But even then DMCA provides all sorts of problems with unauthorized groups claiming to be rightsholder representatives.
Show HN: Redact Anything: AI-powered PDF redaction that deletes the text
by hvpandya | 2026-01-05 15:12:44+00:00
I built a tool to redact sensitive information from PDFs: https://redactanything.com

The problem: Most "redaction" tools just draw black boxes over text. The text is still in the PDF and can be recovered with basic tools. Adobe's actual redaction works but it's manual and slow.

What this does:
- Upload a PDF (stays in your browser, never hits a server)
- AI detects PII: names, SSNs, emails, phone numbers, addresses, dates, etc.
- You review what it found and approve/reject
- Download a PDF where the text is permanently removed from the content stream

Technical details:
- Frontend: React + PDF.js for rendering + pdf-lib for manipulation
- NER model: Hugging Face Transformers (Xenova/bert-base-NER) running server-side
- OCR for scanned docs
- The actual redaction removes text operators from the PDF content stream, not just overlays

I built this because I needed to redact medical records and legal docs. Enterprise tools cost thousands, Adobe is $20/mo and manual, free tools are sketchy. Settled on $2.99/doc as a middle ground.

Limitations I'm aware of:
- AI detection isn't perfect (that's why there's a review step)
- Doesn't handle all PDF edge cases (encrypted, malformed, etc.)
- Names in non-Western formats need work

Would appreciate feedback on the detection accuracy and any edge cases you find.
by dagmx | 2026-01-05 15:13:39+00:00
Which of the platforms (other than Android) require you to do extra work to talk to the underlying system API with a C ABI?

iOS certainly doesn’t require any extra work, and even exposes several C api for frameworks as well (not even including ObjC).

And even in the case of Android, the system provides JNI facilities so it’s not foreign to the system.
Show HN: A simulator for engineers transitioning from IC to management
by pingananth | 2026-01-05 15:13:59+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m a former C++ dev turned Product Manager.

I’ve noticed many engineers struggle with the "politics" side of things when they become Leads. To help with this, I’m building a text-based simulator.

It is NOT an AI chatbot. It is a hand-crafted, branching narrative (logic tree) based on real experiences.

I just launched the first scenario: "The Backchannel VP."

The Setup: Your VP Engineering is bypassing you and giving tasks directly to your juniors, causing chaos.

Your Goal: Stop the backchanneling without getting fired.

It’s a short, specific puzzle. I’d love to know if you think the "Correct" path I designed matches your real-world experience, or if I’m off base.

Link: https://apmcommunication.com/scenario/backchannel-vp
by stableoperator | 2026-01-05 15:14:03+00:00
Location: LATAM / Americas timezones
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Résumé/CV: Available on request. Can share a short technical profile after initial contact.
Email: loovus <at> bora.com.co

Senior platform and infrastructure engineer with 15+ years building and operating production systems under real load. Background spans hands-on engineering and technical leadership in environments where uptime, throughput, and cost control matter.

Recent work includes scaling and stabilizing distributed systems, redesigning data and compute paths to remove bottlenecks, and leading teams through reliability-focused transformations. Comfortable operating close to the metal when needed, and equally comfortable defining technical direction and execution standards.

I work best with teams that value autonomy, clear ownership, and measurable outcomes. Open to senior IC or staff-level roles, and to technical leadership positions with or without heavy people management.

Happy to discuss details over email.
by davey48016 | 2026-01-05 15:14:18+00:00
Even if you're active, body fat is still a contest between food drive and will power, which vary widely between people based on genetics and upbringing. Realistically, people with very high food drive and easy access to junk food are going to struggle to maintain a healthy level of body fat even with an active lifestyle.

I know several people who lift weights three times a week, run for at least thirty minutes three times a week, and were still consistently 20-40 pounds overweight before Ozempic and similar drugs.
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-01-05 15:15:23+00:00
First: Much of your post is against site guidelines. You should perhaps re-read them.

Second: My opinion of Kaczynski is colored by having met one of his bombing victims, both before and after.

More generally, he is philosophizing about what is good for society. That is, he's making claims about what is moral. But his actions show that his moral compass is hopelessly skewed. So why am I going to take his judgment on moral questions? I'm not. As a philosopher on moral questions, his actions destroy his credibility.

His ideas may sound credible. If that's where they led him, though, no, I don't want to start down the road of his ideas.
by dcre | 2026-01-05 15:15:34+00:00
This is just not true. I have wasted many hours looking for answers to hard-to-phrase questions and learned very little from the process. If an LLM can get me the same result in 30 seconds, it's very hard for me to see that as a bad thing. It just means I can spend more time thinking about the thing I want to be thinking about. I think to some extent people are valorizing suffering itself.
by paulcole | 2026-01-05 15:15:35+00:00
Did you mean to reply to me?

The person I replied to said, "that interface designers or even the average computer user understands more than in 1992 is highly implausible on its face"

Think of computer users at the ages of 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, and 80 in 1992. For each group, estimate their computer knowledge when they sat down at a computer in 1992.

Now do the same exercise for the year 2026.

How is it highly implausible on its face that the average computer user in 2026 understands less than the average computer user in 1992?
by DarKraD | 2026-01-05 15:15:37+00:00
There definitely is something weird with Tahoe permission system. I was trying to learn Swift and after a couple keystrokes, the banner asking for the permission to access other's app data pops up without fail. Making it almost impossible to use Swift Playground. And it's been like that for a couple months now.

https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/808758

https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/811796
by 1dom | 2026-01-05 15:16:03+00:00
Jeff, you said in another thread that you don't get DDoS protection from the SSG side on Jeffgeerling, but from the cloudflare side. My whole point is that SSGs impact interactive site functionality because of how they work (basically like a cache) and you've just said here that you accept that caching often comes at the expense of functionality.

I feel like I'm going crazy here: you're both advocating for SSGs, but when pressed, it sounds like the only benefits you ever saw were to problems from many years ago, or problems which you already have alternate and more flexible solutions to.

Regardless, I'm going to hunt you down and badger you both with this thread in a few years to see where we all stand on this! Thanks again :)
by 7thaccount | 2026-01-05 15:16:26+00:00
There are still a few regions that are fully vertically integrated and fully regulated with no market prices. However, much of the US is under a regional ISO that sets hourly day ahead prices and 5-minute nodal spot prices. Under an ISO the utility still handles distribution and often transmission, but generation decisions (like when should I turn on my plant and what should my output be) are handled by the ISOs optimization auction based off various inputs from the generator such as costs and constraints.

In theory, this ISO setup has saved untold millions of dollars (probably billions), by operating the grid regionally in a much more efficient manner than in the days of old. It is hard to tell though as you can't do a direct comparison very easily. The economists certainly like the price signals though, but there are numerous issues.
by santoshalper | 2026-01-05 15:16:54+00:00
I read the author's attempt to explain why memorization is important, and found myself unconvinced. Of all the things we consider to be "intelligence", memorization of facts seems like one of the least valuable in the Internet-era. That said, I am open to hear some counter-arguments (pro-memorization).

Of course, if you simply enjoy the process of memorizing facts, then no explanation is needed - it is entertainment for you, and comes with a benefit, like enjoying exercising. Otherwise, it does not seem like a remotely optimally productive way to achieve mastery in any field I am aware of, other than being a student who will be tested on fact memorization.
by jcoby | 2026-01-05 15:17:27+00:00
> - AT&T was completely down for us but Verizon and its MVNOs were up

It really depended on where you were. In my area everything was down. Literally and figuratively. The only utility that worked was gas.

T-Mobile was the first to come back up but it took weeks. I could occasionally get one bar of LTE if I climbed to the top of the hill but even then I could only send or receive about 1 SMS every few minutes.

Once I was able to get out of the neighborhood I could drive 5 miles away and get cell service and spotty data on Verizon.

NPR's updates were our most reliable way to get information on what was happening.

> - Fill up your vehicle’s fuel or battery before any big storm, we spent a lot of time siphoning and otherwise consolidating fuel to get ourselves and neighbors out of town, particularly because we didn’t know how far we’d have to go to find a gas station with electricity

Having supplies on hand and being patient worked out for us. We waited until 40 was clear and were able to head to the Triad for supplies and gas. In the mean time the neighborhood got together and cut up downed trees and filled in the missing road so it was easier to get in and out of the neighborhood.
by b112 | 2026-01-05 15:17:35+00:00
"You're holding it wrong"

99% of an LLM's usefulness vanishes, if it behaves like an addled old man.

"What's that sonny? But you said you wanted that!"

"Wait, we did that last week? Sorry let me look at this again"

"What? What do you mean, we already did this part?!"
by senordevnyc | 2026-01-05 15:17:47+00:00
I don't belive you can make a logical and humanitarian case for shaming people for who they're attracted to, whether it's children, animals, etc. They didn't choose it, and from the outside it looks like a horrible fate that I wouldn't wish on anyone. Our society would be much better off with compassion for those people, and it would likely result in fewer actual victimizations than our current approach.

Conflating attraction with actually doing bad things is sloppy reasoning.
by mark_l_watson | 2026-01-05 15:17:56+00:00
This article struck a personal chord with me: I bought a new MacBook a week ago and installed minimal software on it, specifically I did not install VSCode and I don’t miss it.

I use Emacs exclusively on my new laptop. I have about 40 years experience with Emacs and except for a treemacs automations, I am using my regular setup.

VSCode is a great project but I just didn’t feel “happy” while I was using it. I feel happy using Emacs and I only use very minimal LLM integrations with Emacs, preferring to separately running gemini-cli occasionally, or using a variety of LLMs (especially strong local models) with one-shot prompting.
by landtuna | 2026-01-05 15:18:11+00:00
I actually don't understand what I'm missing. I'm using two old monitors, a 27" at 2560x1440 and a 23.5" at 1920x1080 (in addition to my high DPI Framework 13 screen). How else can I get at least 4480 across (after scaling to a font size I can read - I'm 49) and still cover that many inches? My DPI right now is about 100, so to double that, wouldn't I need 8960 across 44 inches? I don't really want to pay $1500 for resolution my eyes are probably too old to notice.
by hglawrence | 2026-01-05 15:18:11+00:00
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by oneeyedpigeon | 2026-01-05 15:18:18+00:00
Fair enough. With Tahoe's removal of Launchpad, I assume you're talking about Spotlight in the sense of what appears when you press the Launchpad icon (F4)? Anyway, I can confirm that I also get very weird laggy behaviour from it—sometimes a double-press is interpreted as two presses, sometimes as just one.
by sleepyguy | 2026-01-05 15:18:49+00:00
You are way more likely to get killed on the way to the airport.

As long as you pick an airline that has a good maintenance record, you have nothing to worry about. I don't know where you are flying from but most major carriers have good maintenance. I would not fly on charters or low cost carriers since they will do the minimum across their entire operation to reduce costs.

In the US, Delta, United, AA, South West all have decent/regular maintenance. In the EU, Lufthansa, KLM, BA, etc. I trust the low cost carriers in the EU more than the ones in the US, Ryan, Condor, Buzz, Whizz, etc are decent airlines for the price conscience traveler.
by apavlo | 2026-01-05 15:18:59+00:00
> none of the reviews of the last few years mention immutable and/or bi-temporal databases.

We hosted XTDB to give a tech talk five weeks ago:

https://db.cs.cmu.edu/events/futuredata-reconstructing-histo...

> Which looks more like a blind spot to me honestly.

What do you want me to say about them? Just that they exist?
by steveBK123 | 2026-01-05 15:19:35+00:00
Agreed, putting aside the low cost competition, failed Amazon acquisition, etc.. the core product just literally got worse.

I had over a ~10 year period purchased 3 roombas. Generally I purchased in the upper half of current product range at each purchase time.

The most reliable, problem-free, longest lasting Roomba was the first initially purchased one. Every new one with more sensors/cameras/features worked worse. Cleaned worse, got stuck more often, was less easily fixed when in a bad state, etc. They got so bad I just stopped using them all together about a year ago.

Every time I purchased a newer Dyson cordless by comparison, the product seemed better than the last generation.
by neogodless | 2026-01-05 15:19:43+00:00
Heh I had a similar freelance story.

I was told flat out by freelance clients I was (too) cheap. But one time I quoted a much larger project than I was used to, and the client (who was also a relative of someone close to me) insisted on a higher number.

It ended up roughly being the down payment on my first house.
by the__alchemist | 2026-01-05 15:20:37+00:00
Yep; do it at work (Security-related sensors for a DoD contractor) as well as my own small business. It doesn't have a foothold, and may not ever; we will see. I think a lot of the embedded rust content you see online is makers who are more interested in doing tricks with the ownership system and Async. So, I am an exception, but... I do recommend this workflow despite its lack of popularity!

I just like rust for the overall language and tooling. (For example, the workflow I described above); don't really care about the memory safety aspect to the degree it's often presented.

The biggest downside is I have to do a lot of leg work which wouldn't be required if done in C or C++. E.g. implementing hardware interfaces from datasheets and RMs. Sometimes there will be a Rust lib available, but in my experience they are rarely in a usable state.
by delis-thumbs-7e | 2026-01-05 15:21:09+00:00
There perhaps is something in here, although the column itself is rather glib. My reading life started first with comics, then I found Tolkien and at some point I found the cool intellectual writers of the past like Camus, Sartre, Bukowski, Salinger, Genet, Burroughs etc. I found my own world in the written text, a place where I could be alone removed from the expectations of the society and my peers. I think I could not find a community amongst other kids so I found it amongst characters in novels.

I assume kids like I used to be still wield their library card like a stiletto in their lone war against the world, but surely this is not and cannot be the pnly pathway to reading and to the world of literature. Perhaps one should search a model for luring kids to read somewhere else than in us drama kids.
by DrewADesign | 2026-01-05 15:21:10+00:00
Looking at a bunch of developers assume expertise in interface design while shitting all over design as a field used to be a rage bait situation for me, but it’s fruitless. I’ve been both, and I was a developer long before I was a designer. I don’t think you have to be an expert to criticize an interface, and you definitely don’t have to like it, and some number of designers undoubtedly agree. But I encourage you to consider that the osmosis-learned nibbles about design and that Edward Tufte book you enjoyed might not qualify you to judge the competence of the better part of an entire set of professions. Most developers don’t even know what actual problems designers are tasked to solve, let alone evaluate their efficacy. Developers are a lot better at knowing when they know something than realizing when they don’t. NOBODY is good at discussing what they’re used to with what’s objectively good or bad. The “I don’t care what anybody says — this is just objectively bad” attitude is something that arises with literally any interface change in any major product. Developers have a very different usage style than most people and when you get a bunch of people in one place agreeing with each other without any outside voices, that’s an echo chamber at best and a circle jerk at worst. To be clear, I’m not even discussing, let alone defending the design: I’m countering the cocky obnoxious designer hate that pops up in these threads.

PS— Edward Tufte has some interesting perspectives on data visualization but the reason he’s so popular with the engineering crowd is because he was an engineer and he makes cut-and-dried rules about things that are easy to understand without any design education, and explains them in a way that appeals to engineers. Reading that book is better than nothing, but it’s gives laypeople about as much understanding of design as a “[language] cookbook” gives laypeople an understanding of programming.
by jsheard | 2026-01-05 15:21:12+00:00
Typical DPIs are still all over the place depending on the demographic. Macs have been ~200dpi forever, while cheap PCs are still mostly ~100dpi, and decent PC setups tend to land somewhere in the middle with ~150dpi displays which are pretty dense but not up to Mac Retina standards. Gamers also strongly favor that middle-ground because the ultra-dense Mac-style panels tend to be limited to 60hz.

Zed started out as a Mac-only app, and that's reflected in the way their font rendering works.
by smada | 2026-01-05 15:21:19+00:00
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Help providers and patients make life-changing medical decisions with accurate, timely genomic test results. Our EMR
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THE CHALLENGE:

• Build next-generation EMR integration platform handling thousands of daily transactions

• Wrangle healthcare standards (HL7, FHIR, CDS) across 100+ organizations with varying implementations

• Create scalable workflows for test ordering, results delivery, and medical record exchange

• Transform legacy healthcare data into modern, structured formats

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Healthcare/Epic experience helpful but not required - we'll teach you the domain.

The Electronic Medical Record (EMR) space has interesting technical challenges: creating flexible systems that handle both strict standards and real-world healthcare data chaos, all while maintaining HIPAA compliance and sub-second response times.

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Ask HN: Anyone Hiring?
by usamaqaisrani | 2026-01-05 15:21:35+00:00
Hey, Im looking for a role right now and would love to know if anyone is hiring. Here is some background on me:
I've done bachelors in Software Engineering and worked as an iOS Developer for 4 years from 2021 to 2025. During these years I didn't really learn about stacks other than iOS. Right now I am doing MSc in Artificial Intelligence and trying to improve myself by programming everyday. Apart from the iOS apps that I worked on, I have implemented grep tool in python using NFAs, then i implemented minimal version of git in Go along with a minimal implementation of the bittorrent protocol. Im trying to improve as a software engineer and trying to learn other stacks as well. Here is a link to my github as well: https://github.com/usamaqaisrani
Feel free to contact me and thank you for taking the time to read this thread.