MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krapp | 2026-01-08 14:11:09+00:00
>I really don't want the hear talking about how we should use the 2nd amendment from people that can't even quit twitter.

But we also hear that from our fellow Americans all the time.

Every time there's a school shooting or spree killing, we're lectured about that being a price we should be willing to pay for our right to keep and bear arms. Every time gun control comes up, we're told that America's well armed militias are the only thing keeping our government from sliding into tyranny, and that all of our rights are vouchsafed by the second amendment. Americans love to quote Thomas Jefferson on watering the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants. They were willing to revolt over covid restrictions. They were willing to riot and coup over imaginary communists stealing the election. They were willing to turn Portland into a war zone over George Floyd. It's telling that the response to Trump, while not nothing, has been positively timid in comparison.

Don't complain about Europeans turning a mirror onto Americans' hollow rhetoric. Plenty of other countries have been able to deal with corruption and tyranny without a Constitutional right to keep and bear arms and a billion dollar gun industry flooding the country with weapons. It's good that you actually went out and did the work, which is more than most Americans, but you know protests alone don't mean a thing.

Also the vast majority of Twitter users are American, and Americans aren't exactly quitting it either.
by murdy | 2026-01-08 14:11:49+00:00
I also get weirdly agitated by this. In my mind Geminy 3 is case of clear benchmaxing and over all massive flop.

I am currently testing different IDEs including Antigravity, and I avoid that model at all cost. I will rather pay to use different model, than use Geminy 3.

It sucks at coding compared to OpenAI and Anthropic models and it is not clearly better as chat-bot (I like the context window). The images are best part of it as it is very steerable and fast.

But WTF? This was supposed to be the OpenAI killer model? Please.
by onionisafruit | 2026-01-08 14:11:53+00:00
I dabbled in Kubernetes at work a few years ago. I was shocked at the state of their go.mod files. Especially because I had heard Kubernetes used as an example of great Go software. Right off the bat I needed to copy a dozen or so `replace` statements into my go.mod. I was sure I just didn’t understand something and spent an hour or so looking for the “right way” only to discover other open source controllers that had the same replaces in their go.mods.

Maybe that was a transitory stage and it’s straightened out now. I certainly hope so.
by resoluteteeth | 2026-01-08 14:12:24+00:00
> This doesn't happen with any other animal

That's really not true at all. For example, rabbits love sweet stuff like fruit and will readily kill themselves by eating too much, which causes their delicate hindgut fermenter digestive system to shut down.

Like humans, they simply aren't adapted to conditions where they have unlimited sugary food like fruit, so they will eat too much when given the opportunity.
by lelanthran | 2026-01-08 14:12:51+00:00
> Great story. It is interesting how being stranded in some place with a computer and some skills always results in the most fantastic projects.

TLDR: IME, solitude is required for clear thinking.

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Long ago, I used to drive 600km (one-way) twice a month . Kept it up for 4 years or so. As I drive with the radio off, I had much time alone with my thoughts.

Now, I wonder if always reading is having a negative effect: we're constantly bombarded with content all the time, and even though I never doomscroll (no tiktok account, no FB account, no instagram, etc), I think sometimes that enforced solitude might do wonders for my problem-solving.

I wonder how people who are on all those social networks ever find time to just ruminate.
by cogman10 | 2026-01-08 14:13:03+00:00
I will say this, I don't see how these aids can hurt someone's ability to write code.

In that, I think there is a difference between those tools and AI. AI can write code fast, but can definitely also hurt your ability maintain a codebase if you aren't keeping it in check.

I don't think there's any level where synatax highlighting could make a codebase worse.
by worksonmine | 2026-01-08 14:13:08+00:00
I use a custom grayscale theme in Neovim with 3 light and 3 dark colors. Comments are darkest, language syntax like keywords and brackets are normal, and assigned values bright. This helps me focus on what's important and ignore the boilerplate around. Everything is still readable but I can parse the code by just taking a glance at the relevant stuff.
by mgerdts | 2026-01-08 14:13:18+00:00
Per the definition of volatile write cache in the standard I quoted, pretty much any drive TLC drive in the hyperscalar, datacenter, or enterprise product lineup will have great write performance. They have a DRAM cache that is battery-backed, and as such is not a volatile write cache.

A specific somewhat dated example: Samsung 980 Pro (consumer client), PM9A1 (OEM client), and PM9A3 (datacenter) are very similar drives that have the same PCI ID and are all available as M.2. PM9A3 drives have power loss protection and the others don’t. It has very consistent write latency (on the order of 20 - 50 μs when not exceptionally busy) and very consistent throughput (up to 1.5 GB/s) regardless of how full it is. The same cannot be said of the client drives without PLP but with tricks like TurboWrite (aka pseudo-SLC). When more than 30% of the NAND is erased, the client drives can take writes at 5 GB/s but that rate falls off a cliff and gets wobbly when the pseudo-SLC cache fills.
by falcor84 | 2026-01-08 14:13:24+00:00
> Ubisoft claimed the decision to close Halifax was made “well before” this decision and said it “fully respects” employees’ right to unionize.

Funny. It immediately made me think of the "Separate but Equal" doctrine - as if they're saying "it's absolutely cool if you want to unionize, but don't do it here".
by mschuster91 | 2026-01-08 14:13:32+00:00
> Food would probably be cheaper, if that was traded as freely as TVs. But since there seem to be good reasons to regulate prices that farmers allow to work, not every domain of production outsources environmental costs to non-citizens or nature in general.

Resiliency is also often priced out - and food is actually the perfect example for that.

Remember the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine? A lot of countries in Africa were pretty darn screwed - domestic industry had gone down the drain following mismanagement (e.g. Simbabwe) and/or Western donations (can't compete with free), so once Western donations dropped down after we reduced overproduction, they went for Ukraine who at the time was famous for its highly productive arable land that could supply wheat at probably the cheapest prices in the world.

But once the Russians invaded and farms had to close up shop (fields were contaminated, transportation infeasible, machinery destroyed, workers killed by acts of war or joining the army), the situation became very dire.
by saalweachter | 2026-01-08 14:13:35+00:00
That's not a difference between ANSI and ISO paper sizes.

ANSI A (US letter) is a half sheet of ANSI B (ledger/tabloid) is a half sheet of C is a half sheet of D is a half sheet of E. When producing the paper, there is no waste of material or time, its the same process just starting with a slightly differently sized starting sheet (hypothetically; I am assuming that paper production has advanced beyond shaking screens of the largest handleable size by hand).

The difference is that ANSI A, C and E have aspect ratios of 17/22 (0.77) and ANSI B & D have aspect ratios of 11/17 (0.65), while all ISO sizes have aspect ratios of 1/sqrt(2) (0.71).

The waste comes in when scaling between adjacent sizes.

Going from A4 to A3, you can enlarge a document to 141% of the original size, and the margins will match.

Going from US letter to tabloid (ANSI A to B), the width of the paper is 129% larger and the height is 154% larger, so you can only enlarge your document to 129% the original size, and you have larger vertical margins, which is waste.

(But if you double it, from A to C, the problem goes away, because the aspect ratio is the same; so you can produce posters of multiple sizes, just not on every ANSI paper size at once.)
by everdrive | 2026-01-08 14:13:38+00:00
Agreed, and my TV is much older as well. I was just guessing about average consumers, but maybe you're correct. Maybe people don't cycle out TVs so quickly. I suppose the length of ownership has a strong bearing on cost. Part of the concern here as well is that Roku would be incentivized to err on the side of caution. ie, if not enough people keep their TVs for 10 years, they might need to practically plan for customers to keep their TVs for only 5 years.
by haolez | 2026-01-08 14:13:54+00:00
Who wants to be a co-founder with me on a company that's focused on just making dumb appliances? We can start with TVs - just remove all the smart stuff, make it compatible with apps for whoever wants them without an additional Apple TV-like device, and that's it. Start building trust with consumers and find out a way of guaranteeing that this trust would never be betrayed. It's just a boring company forever.

Economy of scale would be against us, but maybe there is a way to surpass it. Fun thought exercise :)
by woodruffw | 2026-01-08 14:14:14+00:00
> why is the distributed artifact not cryptographically authenticated?

With what key? That’s the layer that “attestations” add on top, but with Trusted Publishing there’s no user/package—associated signature.

> Maybe I'm misunderstanding but I thought the whole point of the exercise was to avoid token compromise. Framed another way that means the goal is authentication of the CI/CD pipeline itself, right? Wouldn't signing a fingerprint be the default solution for that?

Yes, the goal is to authenticate the CI/CD pipeline (what we’d call a “machine identity”). And there is a signature involved, but it only verifies the identity of the pipeline, not the package being uploaded by that pipeline. That’s why we layer attestations on top.

(The reasons for this are unfortunately nuanced but ultimately boil down to it being hard to directly sign arbitrary inputs with just OIDC in a meaningful way. I have some slides from talks I gave in the past that might help clarify Trusted Publishing, the relationship with signatures/attestations, etc.[1][2])

> I suppose "authenticated publishing" could also work for the same reason.

I think this would imply that normal API token publishing is somehow not authenticated, which would be really confusing as well. It’s really not easy to come up with a name that doesn’t have some amount of overlap with existing concepts, unfortunately.

[1]: https://yossarian.net/res/pub/packagingcon-2023.pdf

[2]: https://yossarian.net/res/pub/scored-2023.pdf
by ethbr1 | 2026-01-08 14:14:49+00:00
Patients should always advocate for their own care.

This includes researching their own condition, looking into alternate diagnoses/treatments, discussing them with a physician, and potentially getting a second opinion.

Especially the second opinion. There are good and bad physicians everywhere.

But advocating also does not mean ignoring a physician's response. If they say it's unlikely to be X because of Y, consider what they're saying!

Physicians are working from a deep well of experience in treating the most frequent problems, and some will be more or less curious about alternate hypotheses.

When it comes down to it, House-style medical mysteries are mysteries because they're uncommon. For every "doc missed Lyme disease" story there are many more "it's just flu."
by gambiting | 2026-01-08 14:14:57+00:00
Hah, it's funny because I actually cancelled my Gemini subscription to switch full time to ChatGPT about 6 months ago, and now I've done the reverse - Gemini just feels better at the tasks that I'm doing day to day. I think we're just going to see that kind of back and forth for a while while these systems evolve.
by Ancapistani | 2026-01-08 14:15:23+00:00
Yeah - we barely watch TV in our house (relative to my experience growing up, at least), and we have two: a 50" in our bedroom and a 60" in the living room. They're 12 and 8 years old, respectively.

I'm just now starting to feel like I should consider a new one for the living room, but it's far from the top of my list.
Show HN: Everdone CodeReview – AI code reviews as a trackable workflow
by vinitmaniar | 2026-01-08 14:15:38+00:00
Hi HN,

We just launched CodeReview, the second service under Everdone, our work-as-a-service platform for engineering teams.

Our first service, CodeDoc, focused on helping teams understand large codebases by generating and keeping documentation updated.

With CodeReview, we’re tackling a different problem: code reviews that don’t stop at comments.

What CodeReview does
- Reviews GitHub PRs or branches using AI
- Flags issues across bugs, security, and performance
- Assigns severity (high / medium / low)
- Provides suggested fixes with explanations and example code

The key difference is that reviews become a shared, trackable workflow:
- Issues live in a dashboard (not just PR comments)
- Teams can assign owners and track status
- Fixes can be re-reviewed
- AI verifies whether issues are actually resolved

Think of it as lightweight issue tracking, but scoped purely to code review.

Some details
- No setup, no agents, no pipelines
- Unlimited team members
- Public and private repos supported
- Code is never used for model training
- Usage-based pricing: first 200 files free, then $0.05 per file per review (early access)

We’ve also published live demos on popular open-source repos, so you can see real output without signing up.

This is still early, and we’re actively looking for feedback—especially around:
- Signal vs noise in detected issues
- PR-only vs broader branch reviews
- How people want re-verification to behave

Link: https://everdone.ai

Happy to answer questions.
by mschuster91 | 2026-01-08 14:15:56+00:00
Their point most likely is that there's a lot of nasty chemicals and toxic emissions associated with any kind of large scale manufacturing, particularly when semiconductors are involved - the Silicon Valley is by far the US' largest agglomeration of Superfund sites for a reason.

Other countries, particularly China, are known for much laxer standards and even more timid enforcement of these - of course, the generations after ours will have to live with the contamination, but for now, they can produce for far, far lower costs than Western countries with environment and labor protection laws and decent enforcement.

And another thing... advertisers. Good luck finding a non-smart TV these days, you gotta pay a significant premium for what's known as "digital signage" (assuming that you can even get models actually usable). Normal consumer TVs and monitors? They're sold at a loss or near-loss price because the real profit is from the continuous (!) stream of ads over the life time of the device, plus analytics over the content that the users consume.
by nostrademons | 2026-01-08 14:16:07+00:00
We are idiots who will bear the consequences of our own idiocy. The big issue with all transactions done under significant information asymmetry is moral hazard. The person performing the service has far less incentive to ensure a good outcome past the conclusion of the transaction than the person who lives with the outcome.

Applies doubly now that many health care interactions are transactional and you won't even see the same doctor again.

On a systemic level, the likely outcome is just that people who manage their health better will survive, while people who don't will die. Evolution in action. Managing your health means paying attention when something is wrong and seeking out the right specialist to fix it, while also discarding specialists who won't help you fix it.
by cube00 | 2026-01-08 14:16:08+00:00
Given how bad the spam filtering has gotten, the way they give spam notifications from Google Calendar a free pass, the current mess that is "Priority Inbox", I have my doubts they can be trusted to correctly filter my new "AI Inbox" to catch what really matters.

This lets high-stakes items — like a bill due tomorrow or a dentist reminder — rise to the top.

I really hope it hadn't just been trained on US content because their so called decades old capability to have flight reservations appear in Google Calendar and Wallet sourced from GMail has never worked for me.
by thaack | 2026-01-08 14:16:11+00:00
I think it's also understated that competition in the consumer TV market is very strong. South Korean, Chinese and Japanese manufacturers are all fighting each other and it's a market where the average consumer wants the lowest price/size. No one player controls over 30% of the market. [1] Competition is good.

[1]https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=...
by micromacrofoot | 2026-01-08 14:16:11+00:00
There are a number of lies and omissions here, as there have been from just about every administration due to agribusiness lobbying.

You're playing the tribalism game by setting up this strawman, you too are being played.

I'd personally be just as critical towards anyone who claimed they were fighting a "war on protein" that plainly doesn't exist. Americans consume more meat per capita than nearly any other country.
by 8organicbits | 2026-01-08 14:17:16+00:00
This is a good opportunity to assess what parts of your own online activity could be impacted by an attacker in the middle (assisted by a BGP leak or otherwise) and, if you're a service provider, how you can protect your customers.

At first pass you probably use HTTPS/TLS for the web, and you know that you shouldn't click through invalid certificate warnings. So the web, tentatively, looks pretty safe.

Email jumps out as vulnerable to eavesdropping, as we largely use opportunistic encryption when transferring messages between mail servers and an on-network-path attacker can use STARTTLS stripping or similar techniques. Most mail servers happily send using cleartext or without validating the TLS certificate. Check that you and your counter-parties are using DNSSEC+DANE, or MTA-STS to ensure that authenticated encryption is always used. Adoption is still quite low, but it's a great time to get started. Watch out for transactional email, like password reset messages, which virtually never validate encryption in transit (https://alexsci.com/blog/is-email-confidential-in-transit-ye... ; instead use multi-factor encryption).

TLS certificates themselves are at risk, unfortunately. An attacker who controls the network in-and-out of your DNS servers can issue domain-verified certificates for your domain; even removing protections like CAA records. DNSSEC is the classic solution here, although using a geographically distributed DNS provider should also work (see multi-perspective validation). Certificate transparency log monitoring should detect any attacker-issued certificates (a review of certificates issued for .ve domains would be interesting).

Ideally, we should build an internet where we don't need to trust the network layer. A BGP route leak would be a performance/availability concern only. We're not there yet, but now is a great time to take the next step in that direction.
by vidarh | 2026-01-08 14:18:07+00:00
> Nobody is sleeping. I'm using LLMs daily to help me in simple coding tasks.

That is sleeping.

> But really where is the hurry? At this point not a few weeks go by without the next best thing since sliced bread to come out. Why would I bother "learning" (and there's really nothing to learn here) some tool/workflow that is already outdated by the time it comes out?

You're jumping to conclusions that haven't been justified by any of the development in this space. The learning compounds.

> Do you honestly think a developer not using AI won't be able to adapt to a LLM workflow in, say, 2028 or 2029? It has to be 2026 or... What exactly?

They will, but they'll be competing against people with 2-3 more years of experience in understanding how to leverage these tools.
by lelanthran | 2026-01-08 14:18:15+00:00
> Their moat in the consumer world is the branding and the fact open ai has 'memory' which you can't migrate to another provider.

Branding isn't a moat when, as far as the mass market is concerned, you are 2 years old.

Branding is a moat when you're IBM, Microsoft (and more recently) Google, Meta, etc.
by phkahler | 2026-01-08 14:18:19+00:00
>> You're telling a just-so story, and you can tell because there isn't a simple schematic 1-2-3 story you can make from this about how these people exert control over home prices.

We don't need to explain how they do it. We KNOW private equity is expecting to make profit from their investment in residential real estate. That profit ultimately comes from people in houses, making them less affordable.
by mech998877 | 2026-01-08 14:19:02+00:00
The tata nano is an example of a low-featured car that sold in India for the equivalent of $2500 in 2008 dollars. You can make a car for pretty cheap if you strip down a lot of the hardware. I think one of the reasons new cars are designed/priced the way they are in the US is that the more frugal buyers always end up buying a used car anyway, so the manufacturers don't target the low end of the market.

I agree with your broader point though.
by falcor84 | 2026-01-08 14:19:05+00:00
On a related note, I hate most UIs, and would really like to go back to the original idea of a User Agents. I'm far from an expert on Human-Machine interfaces, so take this with salt, but my vision is of software exposing only a very high-level user interface, being essentially just a collection of recommended widgets and flows on top of their API, and then me as a user having a User Agent AI create a custom UI for me on top of it based on my own preferences.
by nostrademons | 2026-01-08 14:19:19+00:00
Even if they are good at problem solving, a series of 10-minute appointments spaced out in 2-3 month intervals while they deal with a case load of hundreds of other patients will not let them do it. That's the environment that most GPs work under in the modern U.S. health care system.

Pay for concierge medicine and a private physician and you get great health care. That's not what ordinary health insurance pays for.
by mhb | 2026-01-08 14:19:36+00:00
So on one side, we have a theory which suggests increasing supply to reduce prices. And on the other, we have playing whack-a-mole with the bogeymen du jour who are manipulating a vast market. One solution makes economic sense and the other appeals to populists who favor state control.

And you're claiming that the reaction to opposing state control and socialism is socialism? Not compelling.
by jacobthesnakob | 2026-01-08 14:19:45+00:00
This is a very Reddit comment. You can move to Oklahoma and get a brand new construction house for under $300k. But you won’t, because you want to live within an hour or so of the same dozen major US cities everyone else wants to live in close proximity to.

The houses as a structure aren’t going up in value (any more than the price of construction materials and labor has). It’s the land that’s appreciating faster than inflation in most cases you’re complaining about.
by Karliss | 2026-01-08 14:20:03+00:00
Has it actually reached properly functional state?

The showcase video didn't look very convincing and neither website nor the discord channel contained a lot more information. Although I didn't dig through discord history too carefully.

It's one thing to hook up 200 hall effect sensors to a MCU, and read few of them or send data over HID at 8000Hz. It's different thing to read all 200 at 8000Hz and figure out the position with reasonable resolution and accuracy.

Can it also detect the exact moment pen touches tablet or additional button clicks? Or does it require taping keyboard with other hand? Which is probably fine for OSU, but less so for drawing.