MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Fnoord | 2026-01-08 15:07:09+00:00
I remember the path my license had: it was a free upgrade to Windows 10, from Windows 7 (right before they removed said free upgrade; I tend to be slow with adapter Windows versions). The original Windows 7 license was a pirated one, but that didn't matter (we know why: before GDPR, Microsoft could spy on Windows 10 users, and the pirated Windows 7 was already a lost sale).

Apparently the free upgrade was OEM, bound to the hardware. I did not know. Either way, I'm from Europe (EU), and here a software license cannot be exhausted via second hand market, so it stands to reason I can buy one second hand. That this isn't what Microsoft support is told to discuss, suuure (even when I explicitly asked for it, they insisted I had to buy it via them).
Show HN: A Daily Bible Game
by egglemonsoup | 2026-01-08 15:07:37+00:00
I created a daily game where you get a random Bible verse and try to identify the book (e.g. "Psalms", "Genesis", "Luke") in as few guesses as possible.

I have absolutely no clue how I got the idea, other than the fact that I grew up in the Orthodox Church and all my other coding projects have been faith-related (a terrible mobile app (1) and slightly broken Byzantine chant website (2) ). I'm a relatively new developer and I've been hungry for a project to build that people will actually use and share around, so I hoped this would fit the bill.

Sure enough, friends and family have been making it part of their daily routine. When priests AND my nonreligious college friends started sending me their results every day, I knew I had something. It was really exciting.

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When the idea popped into my head, I started working on it right away. I created the project at 1AM and had a MVP/SLC version done a few hours later. That was a few weeks ago.

I am using SvelteKit, no external APIs, and SQLite for the database. It's hosted on an Ubuntu machine in my living room. Coding agents like Roo/Kilo Code assisted heavily in the development, but after I had already decided on the overall architecture and how I wanted things to work together.

The game is free, has no signup, and I’m not running any ads. I’m looking for any and all feedback, and especially suggestions for how I can make the game more interesting, fun, and/or educational.

Thank you HN!
by conductr | 2026-01-08 15:07:37+00:00
That’s probably a factor in some way but my intuition is it’s the lifestyle itself that’s the dominant risk.

The control point is comparing to less famous musicians. I’d assume many of which have similar personality traits and desire for fame. But when it doesn’t materialize, their personality traits arent causing them to die early.

The lifestyle of constantly partying, drugs, sex, little consequences, money, excess, etc. Versus the less famous musician who has to function like an adult, stresses over their mortgage, etc. Is sure to have a variance with respect to mortality.
by ericd | 2026-01-08 15:07:43+00:00
First, a grain of salt, I'm certainly not an expert, I've just read a bit about the subject.

You know how people like cold pressed extra virgin olive oil? Or avocado oil? Those are "high quality". Industrially refined/deodorized/hexane-extracted soybean, corn, non-high-oleic sunflower/safflower oil, canola tend to be considered to be on the opposite end of the spectrum.

Deodorizing causes the oil to oxidize, as does deep frying, and that makes a variety of nasty byproducts that seem likely to cause systemic inflammation. And from here on HN the other day, "Inflammation now predicts heart disease better than cholesterol" https://www.empirical.health/blog/inflammation-and-heart-hea...

People in this thread are scoffing at RFK saying that beef tallow fries are "healthy", and while I wouldn't go that far, there seems to be good evidence that it's much healthier to deep fry in beef tallow than the soybean oil most switched to in the 90s. Beef tallow is high in saturated fat, which tends to be relatively stable under heat, and very low in polyunsaturated fats, which tend to be the fats that oxidize the worst. Soybean oil, on the other hand, is extremely high in polyunsaturated fat (60% vs 2-4% for beef tallow). And the big problem with commercial deep frying is that the oil is frequently just topped off rather than replaced, so those oxidization byproducts build up over time. More stable fat is really important there.

I also don't know how relevant this is, but soybean frying oil tends to have silicone-based anti-foaming agents mixed in (polydimethylsiloxane is the one I've seen most commonly) - you can find this in the big jugs at Costco if you want to check it out. Silicone generally doesn't seem great to be swallowing - I think it's pretty inert, but it seems likely to me to have mechanical properties that your body's not quite used to dealing with effectively. This is just me being biased about eating something that's pretty obviously not food, though, I haven't seen much on the subject.

Hydrogenated oils are now well known to be bad (trans fats). So Crisco/creamed vegetable shortening, very low quality.

So yeah, there are higher and lower quality oils, especially once they've been degraded via high heat over a long period and oxygen exposure in commercial or industrial frying processes.
by astura | 2026-01-08 15:07:48+00:00
I think most Americans would consider those foods very "exotic."

I was an adult before I ever ate chickpeas (in any form), really any beans outside of Taco Bell refried beans, eggplant (in any form), tzatziki, any sort of flatbread, lentils, avocado, zucchini, cauliflower. Etc.
by afavour | 2026-01-08 15:08:18+00:00
HDMI standards allow plugged in devices to control the power state of the TV. e.g. my Apple TV will turn the TV on when I press a button on the aTV remote and will turn the TV off when I turn the Apple TV off.

Audio is a separate challenge, I'm not sure what you'd do there. Do computer monitors have eARC outputs? None of the ones I have do. Again if you had an Apple TV you could pair it with a HomePod (or pair of them) to avoid the issue but that's a niche solution.
by dillydogg | 2026-01-08 15:08:24+00:00
I totally agree on all three accounts: unprocessed foods are great, organic wheats are good, and the concerning focus on abundance of red meat. I think we are going through a fad of "we need to gobble down as much protein as we can". I agree it's reasonable we need more, and especially older adults at risk of falling. I am concerned that there are so many junior residents that I work with that are throwing back protein shakes because they are "optimizing their macros". So many of these protein powders have added sugar and are contaminated with heavy metals! I will commend the guidelines for supporting lentils, beans and other pulses.
by zqy123007 | 2026-01-08 15:09:00+00:00
okay guys, I developed AI mammo screening product, let me clear things up.
you read it wrong, and I don't blame you. I doubt whoever wrote this actually have a good understanding of the numbers.

the setup:
1. 400s confirmed patients
2. AI reads Mammography ONLY and missed 1/3
3. on those AI missed patients, radiologists do a second read on MRI, which is the gold standard for differential.
evidence: the referenced paper at the bottom <Added value of diffusion-weighted imaging in detecting breast cancer missed by artificial intelligence-based mammography.>

So, the whole point it (or its reference paper) is trying to make is: Mammography sucks, MRI is much better, which is a KNOWN FACT.

Now, let me give you some more background missing from the paper:
1. Why does Mammography suck? well, go google/gpt some images, its essentially X-ray for the breast, which compress 3D volumes into 2D average poole plane, which is infomation lossy. SO, AI or not, the sensitivity is limited by the modality.
2. How bad/good is Mammography AI? I would say 80~85% sensitivity agaist very thorough+experienced radiologist without making unbearable amount of FP, that probably translates to 2/3 sensitivity against real cancer cohert, so the referenced number is about right.
3. Mammography sucks, what's the point? its cheap AND fast, you can probably do walk-in and get interpretation back in hours. Whereas MRI you probably need to schedule 2 weeks ahead if not MORE. For a yearly screening, it works for the majority of polulation.

and final pro tip,
1. breast tumor is more pravelent than you think (maybe 1 in 2 by age 70+)
2. most guides recommend women with 45+ do yearly checkup
3. if you have dense breast (basically small and firm), add ultrasound screening to make sure.
4. breast feeding does good for both the mother and child, do that.

peace & love
by lo_zamoyski | 2026-01-08 15:09:02+00:00
What I imagine here is following a middle path between being too eager to help their kids to the point of doing everything for them, and being unhelpful and absent. Finding that middle path requires prudence and proper engagement, because you have to know when to let the bicycle go and when to hold on.

Helicopter parents tend to fall into the former category, because they stifle their child's maturation and competence by depriving them of the challenges that build confidence and agency. It encourages dependence and self-centeredness. It's criminal and produces a class of people that will pay the salaries of therapists for decades.

The opposite extreme is parental absenteeism which is like a football match without a referee. Someone always influences children - their habits, their worldview, their attitudes - and if a parent isn't doing that, then someone else is, and perhaps not someone who should. Absenteeism is thus a dereliction of parental duty, as parents serve as examples from whom children learn, even more by how they behave and live than by what they say. We are social animals, and a healthy family life produces healthy people.

And by following this middle path well, you also teach your children to be able to be appropriately helpful to others themselves and in this manner, able to discern when help is appropriate and when it is not. Practical reason is central to the ethical life.
by sneak | 2026-01-08 15:09:27+00:00
No, they use "high fructose corn syrup", which is, just like table sugar, a mix of fructose and glucose (sucrose is 50% fructose and 50% glucose). The increase in the fructose fraction in HFCS over table sugar is single-digit percentage.

It's not "fructose" vs "sucrose", it's a difference between something that's 50% fructose and 50% glucose (table sugar) and something that is 42% fructose and 53% glucose (corn syrup).
by sgharlow | 2026-01-08 15:10:02+00:00
Hi HN! I built this after watching AI assistants confidently ship mocked data, break working contracts, and create the illusion of progress for hours.

The core insight: AI sessions fail not from bad models, but from missing structure. The DRS (Deployability Rating Score) gives you a single number (0-100) that answers "can I actually ship this?"

Key components:

* Contract freezing (no silent interface changes)

* Mock expiration (30-minute max)

* Scope limits (5 files, 200 LOC)

* Time-based convergence gatesIt's MIT licensed.

Curious what patterns you've seen in your AI coding sessions.
by ksec | 2026-01-08 15:12:59+00:00
This is largely a good move. There are plenty of whales, once those 5% disappeared, price should slowly come down. ( The Hong Kong Housing market is the one worth studying ) Next would be increase supply, and may be if needed, additional tax for individuals owning more than one home or when they buy 2nd home. Largely making housing as an asset not attractive for certain group of investment.

Housing continues to be the biggest problem in modern world and yet it is a problem not resolved.
by khalic | 2026-01-08 15:13:15+00:00
To expand my metaphor, you can force an addict to go cold turkey, but it’s not the best method. Concentrate on people around you. Been happily social network free for 2 years now, have convinced 2-3 people, given my small friends circle, it’s already a miracle.

But at some point, blocking is the answer. I tend to agree we’re already there
by kettss | 2026-01-08 15:13:16+00:00
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Show HN: We built procurement automation for small teams stuck in spreadsheets
by Gormanu | 2026-01-08 15:13:46+00:00
Hey HN,

A few years ago, we built a custom procurement system for a Japanese - German manufacturing company. They had hundreds of suppliers, frequent backorders, and a procurement process held together by Excel, email, and manual follow-ups. Receiving goods at the warehouse was painfully slow: staff manually matched incoming items to packing lists, checked quantities by hand, and entered everything into spreadsheets. Orders were missed, documents got lost, and a lot of time was spent just chasing status updates instead of managing suppliers.

What surprised us was that this wasn't an "enterprise-only" problem. Many smaller companies don't run ERP systems, but they deal with the same chaos: spreadsheet procurement, manual warehouse intake, supplier miscommunication - just with fewer resources to fix it.

So we built Quickinim: a lightweight, cloud-based tool that helps SMBs teams manage purchase orders, supplier communication, and documents in one place. No ERP, no long onboarding, just a system that gives visibility and reduces manual work. We even added something we think is underrated: a QR-based goods receipt system that lets warehouse staff scan incoming shipments, instantly match items to orders, and cut receiving time in half.

It's early, and we're actively learning from real users.

I'd really appreciate feedback from this community:

1. What's the most painful part of managing suppliers or purchase orders today?

2. And what have you tried that didn't work?
by ferguess_k | 2026-01-08 15:13:51+00:00
Quake is the evergreen of classic FPS modding. I wish Half-Life held this long. Half-Life used to have a bigger community back in the early 2000s but nowadays it mostly went away. Even HL1 and HL2 combined cannot match Quake. There is some beauty about Quake that people keep coming back to it. I do prefer HL as a better (or, more preferable) FPS, though.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-01-08 15:14:10+00:00
The simplest answer is to buy a quality TV and not hook it up to WiFi, and use another smart platform. HDMI CEC works pretty well to discard the garbage TV "smarts" and replace it with something Android-based, Apple TV, or something else HTPC/free open like Jellyfin or Emby.

I have a Sony Bravia with an Android stick and Samsung QLED with an Apple TV. Less ads-ish and spying, but not totally out of the walled gardens. Already have a Plex lifetime and shoved stuff on a RAID10 NAS, so I'm okay with it as-is. I like that remote UPnP-basted casting works, at least with my login. Maybe Jellyfin or Emby have slight advantages in some areas, but it's the devil you know™.
by jmyeet | 2026-01-08 15:14:27+00:00
The lesson here is that people have an unrealistic view of how complex it is to write correct and safe multithreaded code on multi-core, multi-thread, assymmetric core, out-of-order processors. This is no shade to kernel developers. Rather, I direct this at people who seem to you can just create a thread pool in C++ and solve all your concurrency problems.

One criticism of Rust (and, no, I'm not saying "rewrite it in Rust", to be clear) is that the borrow checker can be hard to use whereas many C++ engineers (in particular, for some reason) seem to argue that it's easier to write in C++. I have two things to say about that:

1. It's not easier in C++. Nothing is. C++ simply allows you to make mistakes without telling you. GEtting things correct in C++ is just as difficult as any other language if not more so due to the language complexity; and

2. The Rust borrow checker isn't hard or difficult to use. What you're doing is hard and difficult to do correctly.

This is I favor cooperative multitasking and using battle-tested concurrency abstractions whenever possible. For example the cooperative async-await of Hack and the model of a single thread responding to a request then discarding everything in PHP/Hack is virtually ideal (IMHO) for serving Web traffic.

I remember reading about Google's work on various C++ tooling including valgrind and that they exposed concurrency bugs in their own code that had lain dormant for up to a decade. That's Google with thousands of engineers and some very talented engineers at that.
by lysace | 2026-01-08 15:14:30+00:00
My outsider understanding: Google AI (a Google team) was merged with DeepMind to create Google DeepMind (a subsidiary of Alphabet, like Google).

Demis Hassabis is the CEO of Google DeepMind and Jeff Dean is now the Chief Scientist of Google.

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

https://research.google/people/jeff/

I joined Google in mid-1999, and I'm currently Google's Chief Scientist, focusing on AI advances for Google DeepMind and Google Research. My areas of focus include machine learning and AI and applications of AI to problems that help billions of people in societally beneficial ways. I have a broad variety of interests, including machine learning, large-scale distributed systems, computer systems performance, compression techniques, information retrieval, application of machine learning to search and other related problems, microprocessor architecture, compiler optimizations, and the development of new products that organize information in new and interesting ways.
by lionkor | 2026-01-08 15:14:31+00:00
Not only are you wrong (LLMs are horrible at reproducing anything that isn't fairly ABUNDANT in the training data), but it's also quite sad.

AI can write a whole book on anything. You can take anything, even make up a phenomenon, and have an AI write a whole factual-sounding book on it.

How that isn't clearly an indicator to you that it produces loads and loads of BS, I'm really not sure.
by alt227 | 2026-01-08 15:14:40+00:00
Googling and reading yourself allows you to assess and compare sources, and apply critical thinking and reasoning specific to yourself and your own condition. Using AI takes all this control away from you and trusts a machine to do the reasoning and assessing, which may be based on huge amounts of data which differ from yourself.

Googling allows you to choose the sources you trust, AI forces you to trust it as a source.
by hyllos | 2026-01-08 15:14:42+00:00
Misleading role description!
- They only search for an onsite/hybrid role as they have an office starting this month (but their comment lists remote, too) and “want” to work there.
- Disappointing: CEO Jan Wiegelmann finds it for some reason important to answer from a generic jobs address hiding his name, similarly attributing the office policy to the team. — Lack of ownership of management. But might fit to the automotive industry’s culture.
by hallole | 2026-01-08 15:15:03+00:00
Meat and dairy contain the bulk of the saturated fat in the average diet. It's pretty absurd to imagine a diet in which the largest food group is just meat and dairy, but due to the ordering, that almost seems to be implied.

The saturated fat → LDL-C → heart disease relationship has a lot of evidence and history behind it. A very interesting research project if you needed one. I call this advisory a "downgrade" because heart attack and stroke (among other conditions) are both: 1) downstream of saturated fat consumption, and 2) the most prevalent causes of death among people in the developed world.
by vonnik | 2026-01-08 15:15:03+00:00
Becoming Led Zeppelin is a great documentary which chronicles the band’s rise. It has some great quotes from Plant about the milieu that fathers around a famous band, supplying drugs and sex. The substances lead to abuse, addiction and sometimes overdoses. LZ’s drummer Bonham choked in his own vomit during sleep after taking 40 shots. Page became addicted to several substances. Many famous singers if they survive are recovering from some form of addiction. Bowie, for example. There’s a culture they enter with fame and travel that is hard to escape.
by HelloMcFly | 2026-01-08 15:15:13+00:00
I like Claude. I want to use it. But I just never feel comfortable with the usage limits at the ($20/month level at least) and it often feels like those limits are a moving, sometimes obfuscated target. Apparently something irritating happened with those limits over the holidays that convinced a colleague of mine to switch off Claude to Gemini, but I didn't dig for details.
by gessha | 2026-01-08 15:15:25+00:00
> Most smart TVs have advertisements and spyware that yields additional profits.

Something I just realized is TV companies can very accurately put a price point on a specific buyer - household size, TV watch time, content being watched, TV lifetime usage, etc and calculate how much the buyer is worth in their eyes.

profit_tv = sale_cost + lifespan_tv*ad_revenue_per_household - production_cost

> Windows laptops sold directly by Microsoft have less advertising and spyware

Really? It’s a little hard to believe. I’d think the easier thing to do is to put the same adware everywhere instead of segmenting out the MSStore-sold devices. Do you have a citation for this?
by 542354234235 | 2026-01-08 15:15:36+00:00
I hear about people winning the lottery all the time. There were two $100m+ winners just this week. The anecdotes just keep piling up! That doesn't mean the lottery is a valid investment tool. People just do not understand how statistically insignificant anecdotes are in a sufficiently large dataset. Just for the US population, a 1 in a million chance of something happening to a person should happen enough to be reported on a new person every weekday of the year.
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-08 15:15:37+00:00
flamewars (here as in persia) have the "former yugoslavia" dynamic, which is the opposite of his aims (unless in "black" form?). IIRC there's a bit in there where the radio/wire service equivalent is discussed as a strong temptation, which serious practitioners must take care to avoid.

(an example of high vs mid: in an anecdote from the 談談 part of the V 打打, the principal [high] mentions his capitalist counterparts directly, with bare names, but his translator [mid] felt the need to "correct" his names by throwing in all the usual epithets "running dog", "oppressor", etc., etc. into the english translation. This habit of "improvement" was not lost upon her counterparts, who later relayed it as an example of what not to do)

off to do atoms stuff; more tomorrow...
by turtletontine | 2026-01-08 15:15:50+00:00
> …lurked for years and even decades. Heartbleed comes to mind.

I don’t know much about Heartbleed, but Wikipedia says:

> Heartbleed is a security bug… It was introduced into the software in 2012 and publicly disclosed in April 2014.

Two years doesn’t sound like “years or even decades” to me? But again, I don’t know much about Heartbleed so I may be missing something. It does say it was also patched in 2014, not just discovered then.