MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Elorate- social app to rate anything
by Leczek | 2026-01-13 15:06:20+00:00
I wanted to create a platform that can universally rate anything imaginable (movies, books, art, architecture, colors, clothing, fonts, programming languages so on and so forth).
The idea is simple- a platform thats not bound by category (such as imdb/Rt for movies)- on Elorate each hashtag is a category and every posted thing is rated globally and within one specific category. To make it more sticky I've added a feature to rate things in Swipe Rate mode (tinder style) or pick one of two shown things- a "Pick one" mode.

As its meant to be rating+social media platform a feature to compare users tastes is coming soon.

iOS https://apps.apple.com/es/app/elorate/id6749582531

Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.elorate
by JohnFen | 2026-01-13 15:06:24+00:00
The mainstream pop music scene is largely (but not entirely) devoid of authenticity, and you need authenticity to make protest music. Mostly what gets made is optimized for commercialization rather than actual communication.

To a degree, this has always been true. Even in the days when protest music got mainstream attention, most of the music wasn't of that sort. I do think it's much worse now, though.

However, there is a lot more protest music being made than you may think. You just have to look past the big names and -- even better -- go see small artists performing live.
by skipkey | 2026-01-13 15:06:35+00:00
I can give you an example of when I am glad I rebased. There have been many times I have been working on a feature that was going to take some time to finish. In that case my general workflow is to rebase against main every day or two. It lets me keep track of changes and handle conflicts early and makes the eventual merge much simpler. As for debugging I’ve never personally had to do this, but I imagine git bisect would probably work better with rebased, squashed commits.
by cthalupa | 2026-01-13 15:07:03+00:00
Adding rice might get you close to that for the amount of rice you eat, but 1 cup of beans will get you 16g of protein and 1 cup of rice will get you 4g of protein.

So a chunk of your protein intake would still be incomplete. It's not like the ratios are perfect so that a cup of each gets you 20g of PDCAAS 1.0 protein. Doing some quick napkin math looking at the AA makeup and protein digestibility of the two, it's like 14g equivalent of PDCAAS 1.0 protein.

~25% is a pretty significant gap if you're trying to hit optimal levels for things like muscle growth, etc.
by xwkd | 2026-01-13 15:07:24+00:00
This is an understandable perception, but it reveals your lack of context. By and large, children in the US are educated in the public school system. Only 6% of children in the US are homeschooled. Now, there has been a relatively recent push into home schooling as a reaction to the education problems that you mentioned, but it is not the cause. I'd encourage you to spend some time researching home schooling outcomes in the US, if you're interested. (Keep in mind that the sample is mainly representative of engaged and proactive parents.)
by fsfod | 2026-01-13 15:07:37+00:00
I think they just swapped out LuaJIT's modified built-it dlmalloc[1] with some standard allocator. Then just set some turning values of the allocator to make to more eager to return pages with no allocations left to the OS.
LuaJIT has always had pluggable allocator system you can set at state construction time[2], it did have a restriction you could only use the built-it allocator for 64 bit builds if you don't use the GC64 build option, but thats been default enabled for a while now.

[1]: https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/blob/v2.1/src/lj_alloc.c

[2]: https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/blob/707c12bf00dafdfd3899b1...
by lerno | 2026-01-13 15:07:42+00:00
C2 (http://c2lang.org) similarly compiles to C, but arguably more readable C code from what I can see. The benefits are (1) easy access to pretty much any platform with little extra work (2) significantly less long term work compared to integrating with LLVM or similar (3) if it's readable enough, it might be submitted as "C code" in working environments which mandate C.
by 9JollyOtter | 2026-01-13 15:07:42+00:00
I don't think Starmer really knows what he is doing one way or another. The Island of Strangers speech out flaked Farage to the right.

Dominic Cummings had a bunch of interview appearances online. His experience in office when he was working with Johnson (and many Ministers in general) is that they don't actually understand what they can and can't do in the job. I wouldn't be surprised if a similar situation is present under Starmer.
by toss1 | 2026-01-13 15:07:53+00:00
Right, Marcus Aurelius an Emperor of Rome, successful reformer of it's society, public works, and education, successful leader of it's military, and generally considered one of the leaders of Rome's Golden age, was merely an unsuccessful loser trying to cope.

The only one coping here is the author of the comment, who has evidently entirely mis-understood anything about Stoicism and needs to read more.

Yikes
by hluska | 2026-01-13 15:08:03+00:00
That’s really the purpose of beef tallow. It starts at suet, which both butcher shops I frequent consider a waste product, then you chop or grind the suet, render it down for around eight hours and use it for cooking. It adds flavour where there wasn’t flavour or where the existing flavours didn’t pair as well with other foods.

It works really well with certain foods. As an example, poutine is quite popular now. A classic poutine calls for a brown sauce, which is a gravy made with equal parts beef and chicken stock. If you cook the fries in beef tallow, you get the full depth of the brown sauce.

Or if someone you really like is coming over for a steak and some beers make steak frites. Blanch the fries first, let them dry completely, deep fry them, let them cool and then when the steaks are cooling, put some tallow in the cast iron, let it flash and then drop your fries in to fry them a final time.

This concludes this week’s episode of Cooking with Greg where I impart food knowledge that tried to kill me. Tune in next week when I talk about more of the reasons I had a heart attack in my late thirties. :)
by drchiu | 2026-01-13 15:08:09+00:00
A lot of folks building iOS apps these days (I wonder why). Heck, my kids decided to build some themselves the past couple of weeks.

When it came time to submitting to the app store, we needed app store screenshots. I didn't want to buy "yet another software".

So, I created this (Disclaimer: with the help of AI).

Enjoy.
Learning Discoverability
by learnwithmattc | 2026-01-13 15:08:42+00:00
The pain point I hear from plugin authors more than anything lately is "discoverability." It's not a new problem, but this new AI-driven landscape complicates it a bunch.

A while back I saw this LinkedIn post by Rand Fishkin. It revisits an old-school idea: brand mentions. Specifically, mentioning your brand right next to the same words everywhere on the web you can. And those words should be the pain point you solve. That tactic feels very relevant again because of how ChatGPT and other LLMs learn from public conversations.

People are trying to stop saying SEO and start saying things like AEO, LLMO…The term that makes the most sense to me is "Discovery Optimization"

Discovery doesn’t just happen in search results. It happens in forums, communities, product pages, and word of mouth. That’s how humans find things, and increasingly how AI does too.

So! I’m running a small experiment with my new free plugin: Synced Pattern Popups. I’m sharing the exact same clear value statement in as many credible, free places as I can. No rewriting per platform. Just clarity and consistency.

This is the line I’m using everywhere:
“Synced Pattern Popups helps you create popups using the WordPress editor you already know, not yet another builder.”

I hear this constantly from plugin authors: “I shipped my free plugin, but I’ve been stuck under 10 active installs for months. What now?”

I’ve got plenty of theories, but nothing beats hands-on experience. So I’m testing this in public and seeing what actually moves the needle in this AI-shaped environment we all inherited.

So the question is: Is this how you do it? Do you all think this will gain any traction for a tiny free plugin? Looking forward to your feedback.
by rickydroll | 2026-01-13 15:08:48+00:00
It takes approximately 5 to 10 years to bring a nuclear plant online. Clean energy is growing at an average of 40GW a year for the next 10 years. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=65964

By the time a nuclear plant comes online, Renewables have incrementally added 400 gigawatts. Granted, nukes generate 4 to 8 times more energy, but solar can significantly improve crop yields and soil health. They also make it easy to raise sheep and cattle. It's a good thing I like lamb (yum).
by pc86 | 2026-01-13 15:09:06+00:00
Fallacy of composition. It does not logically follow that given Palmitic acid is the most abundant SFA in the US diet (objectively true), and given the US diet directly leads to poor health outcomes (very likely but not proven at least not to the level of the prior claim), that Palmitic acid contributes to poor health outcomes. It's entirely possible Palmitic acid is great for you and if we had less we'd be doing even worse. The statements are simply not connected at all.
Show HN: We shipped an AI coworker as Claude Cowork launched
by sparkalpha | 2026-01-13 15:09:17+00:00
When Claude Cowork launched, we were already deep into building Lily.

We had planned to ship yesterday, but decided to take an extra day to polish a few rough edges.

Seeing Claude Cowork ship publicly was less about inspiration and more about validation — it confirmed that this idea resonated beyond our own team.
by ajross | 2026-01-13 15:09:21+00:00
> Not being flippant: who _isn't_ radicalizing these days?

To be deliberately flippant but making a much more serious point than it should be: migrant laborers in the USA.

For the most part they're just honest folk trying to make a buck while a bunch of cosplaying superheroes wander the streets trying to hunt them down.
by rramadass | 2026-01-13 15:10:06+00:00
Samkhya Philosophy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samkhya) gives a far more comprehensive model to analytically go beyond the three sources of suffering (viz. from own body/mind, from other beings/things, from acts of god).

You can then think of specific practices from Buddhism eg. Tibetan Lojong - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojong - and Stoicism as applications within that framework.

PS: Keith Seddon's Epictetus' Handbook and the Tablet of Cebes: Guides to Stoic Living is one of the best books in stoic literature. - https://www.routledge.com/Epictetus-Handbook--and-the-Tablet...
by ck2 | 2026-01-13 15:10:45+00:00
good luck figuring it out, the king constantly changes his mind

note the last three sentences, $80, $160, $200 MININMUM

> The duty was initially set at 30% of the value of the postal item, but on April 8, the duty was increased to 90% of the value of the postal item. On April 9, President Trump increased the de minimis duty to 120%.

> Then, on May 12, the president issued an executive order lowering the duty rate for de minimis mail shipments to 54% effective May 14, 2025, at 12:01 a.m. ET.

> The per postal item containing goods duty for low-value postal shipments is $100 as of May 2 (after being increased by executive orders dated April 8 and April 9) This fee increased to $200 on June 1, 2025.

> There are new duty rates for international postal shipments in the executive order that eliminates de minimis for all countries, as described here. The specific duty for postal shipments:

> $80 per item for countries with an effective IEEPA tariff rate of less than 16%.

> $160 per item for countries with an effective IEEPA tariff rate between 16% and 25%.

> $200 per item for countries with an effective IEEPA tariff rate above 25%.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-01-13 15:11:00+00:00
I think the problem many of us have is it feels like Mozilla invests more effort into everything other than its browser, we see the things they do outside of Mozilla, I mean it was so bad Thunderbird had to become its own foundation due to lack of funding!

I would love for there to be a world where Mozilla maintains Firefox and can make for product projects that provide higher value. I also have a pipe dream of one day someone like (and if they read this, and anyone who reads this will think I'm crazy) CloudFlare just buys Firefox itself from Mozilla so it can finally be funded correctly. CloudFlare has an interesting talent pool and I'm sure there's people who work with Rust / have worked with Rust who can help fund something like Firefox. Then I would like to see them create a true open foundation whose entire bottom line goes towards Firefox, not to anything else.

Free the fox from corporate shennanigans. By my own corporate shennanigans. And CF could be swapped out with any company bold enough to free the fox.
by 9JollyOtter | 2026-01-13 15:11:04+00:00
Most don't want any of the options presented to them. Almost all the parties don't really serve the electorate, so a large number of people are abstaining.

I appreciate this in an anecdotal but I've spoken to quite a few people I know in my family, that saw it as their civil duty to vote and they told all told me some variation of "there is nobody worth voting for", "I don't think it matters who I vote for".
by drjasonharrison | 2026-01-13 15:11:24+00:00
Key phrase "captures some of the sentiment of Stoicism". Her book could be cut down to about ten pages.

If Books Could Kill reviewed her book in April 2025:

"Peter and Michael discuss The Let Them Theory, a self-help guide to seeking bliss through unmitigated complacency."

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2RupLQH4eBnUX4mo1zAAFz?si=h...
by OptionOfT | 2026-01-13 15:11:26+00:00
In fact, for searching how a file got to the state it is I prefer that when PRs are merged, they are merged and not rebased. I want the commit shas to be the same.

Rebasing on main loses provenance.

If you want a clean history doing it in the PR, before merging it. That way the PR is the single unit of work.
by lr4444lr | 2026-01-13 15:11:38+00:00
As I get older, I read this entirely differently (as an appeal to empathy) than I did when I was younger (as an appeal to stolidity).

In other words, you should be pained for your neighbor when his slave breaks his cup. Maybe his grandmother left him that cup, and he's developed many fond memories around which he drank a soothing beverage in that heirloom. That empathy how we connect with people, build meaning, and make life richer.
by exceptione | 2026-01-13 15:11:45+00:00
> the product is produces is not worth what it costs to produce it.

Media are the fourth estate. As such they are indispensable in a democratic state based on the rule of law.

How to kill it:

1. abolish the fairness doctrine. Selling fakes and lies = big profit. => fox news e.a.

2. Let moneyed interests run the show. Control the narratives => poor people voting for the billionaire interests at their own detriment

> I'm just not sure there's a good solution to this.

I am not sure if it is still possible to mention public broadcasting because of dominant narratives ("public service bad, billionaire company good")¹, but left alone they will do a very good job usually.

1) As an exercise, who sponsors this narrative?
by lukebrandon | 2026-01-13 15:11:48+00:00
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by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-13 15:11:59+00:00
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/equipmentshare

EquipmentShare (YC W15) Is Like Airbnb for Construction Equipment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9170963 - March 2015 (10 comments)

EquipmentShare, the Airbnb of construction, raises $26M - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13473185 - January 2017 (0 comments)

EquipmentShare raises $5.5MM for peer-to-peer marketplace for heavy equipment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11769516 - May 2016 (0 comments)
by bluGill | 2026-01-13 15:12:22+00:00
Right. They used solid blocks in the 1990s, but it was vegetable oil not beef tallow. Of course to make vegetable oil a solid block they had to make it a trans-far which is worse than saturated fat (as we now know, but didn't then). In the late 1990s they switched to a liquid oil, though I don't know how what it was (I suspect it still had a lot of trans fats, but I don't have information on the composition). I quit just after that, but I think they switched the fat used again in the early 2000s to something that was pure vegetable oil.
by tonycca | 2026-01-13 15:12:36+00:00
As language models improve, many AI failures no longer look like hallucinations or obvious mistakes.

The more concerning failures I’ve been seeing are outputs that are fluent, contextually appropriate, and confident — but based on unstable or incorrect interpretation.

These aren’t syntax errors or fabrications. They’re meaning-level failures: ambiguity silently resolved, assumptions introduced, or context collapsed in ways that feel reasonable until they cause downstream issues.

I’ve been thinking about this as a form of “semantic risk” — the probability that an AI system produces a materially incorrect interpretation even when the output looks right.

I tried to write this up carefully here, focusing on why “hallucination” is the wrong mental model for many modern failures and why this matters for human accountability:

https://semanticrisk.io

I’m curious whether others are seeing similar patterns in production systems or workflows, and how you’re reasoning about them.
by oldjim798 | 2026-01-13 15:12:43+00:00
I'm not sure there is much worth in imitating a Roman Emperor. They were violent megalomaniacal psychopaths to a man. There is little, about Marcus as a human being, I would consider "successful". Just because he was a good Emperor doesn't mean he was a morally successful person.

To me, successful "mind hacks" help us become more success at being better people; not enabling a horrible empire.

Of course the final word on Marcus should go to Mary Beard, the best classist of her generation:

--->“I have never understood what people get out of him. It’s a bad book. It’s hard to argue about it — it’s so evidently garbage that it’s hard to sit down with somebody who doesn’t think it’s garbage and fight it out. He’s a terrible writer."
by snarf21 | 2026-01-13 15:12:48+00:00
You are 100% right. However, I personally think it is worse than that. Let's just say that local papers found some new feature (no idea what) that could fund local journalism. Do we think the money would be spent to create great journalism or would the money just be taken as profit by posting social media snippets as "news"? I fear that in this post truth world that we don't even have enough people that value the creation of journalism. Most just want to score internet points and get online ad revenue from talking nonsense on their daily podcast. And we've seen that sowing dissent is far far more profitable than creating journalism.

I work adjacent to an online publication business and freelancers are getting ~$750 for a 1500 word article. I don't know how you get actual journalism at that price. Increasingly we're just going to get people dropping concepts into GPT and editing whatever comes back for 30 minutes. I fear that the only way out would be a single one of the dozens of billionaires to step up and donate a self-sustaining grant towards long term journalism excellence. Unfortunately, the last 10 years have shown that they don't care about the world and just want to make their number go up at any cost necessary.
by chimprich | 2026-01-13 15:13:20+00:00
A lot of these attacks on the UK regarding free speech are coming from the American Right, an obsession which I can't quite understand the motive for.

Notably, stories on HN about the very severe repression on civil liberties in the US (get shot in the face for protesting about ICE...) get flagged for closure, but putting the boot into the UK for much more wishy-washy issues like this seem to be fair game.

I'm not saying there aren't genuine issues with civil liberties (for example, things like the Online Safety Act are ridiculous) but they are magnified out of all proportion by the US media / social media disinformation megaphone.

This particular article is an opinion piece from last April by "the world's oldest surviving anarchist publication" (apparently). I'm not sure why it deserves front page HN status.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_(British_newspaper)
by carlosjobim | 2026-01-13 15:13:27+00:00
Nordic public broadcasting is some of the lowest quality news media you can find. They're not a good example, unless the job of public service media is to only support one or two political parties at all cost (you know which ones).

Edit: Just an example. The funniest thing they've been doing regularly for decades now is when they go out on the streets with a camera to ask random strangers - the common man - about what they think about some recent development, like "What do you think about Trump?".

But the "random stranger" common man on the street is actually a politician from the journalist's own party who has dressed up and showed up on a pre-agreed place and time.
by dfajgljsldkjag | 2026-01-13 15:13:37+00:00
Did anyone read the article? This is obvious AI Slop. A million em dashes and tons of other chatgpt-isms are all over. This isn't journalism - it's nonsense.

This is a "reader" submitted article and not written by the staff at the paper. I'm surprised they didn't give it more due diligence though.
by bsoles | 2026-01-13 15:14:17+00:00
> You should feel the same about your wife or child as someone else's.

I don't see why it should be so.

It makes perfect sense to sympathize(?) and understand that somebody is grieving and is likely going through pain/emotions that I would have gone through if my wife/child has died. But that is not the same thing as me feeling those emotions.

Isn't this the distinction between empathy and sympathy?
Ask HN: Story about a CEO going off on a user who left feedback?
by VladVladikoff | 2026-01-13 15:14:21+00:00
There recently was a story on here about a CEO or some sort of exec that asked on Twitter for feedback, then when they received some strong negative feedback about the product the exec lashed out and called the user an idiot etc. I’m trying to find this post again, does anyone recall it? Was a few weeks ago or so.
by dcre | 2026-01-13 15:14:47+00:00
In about 12 years of using git (jj user now) I almost never rebased through the CLI, but I found shuffling branches around in a GUI pretty intuitive. I liked GitUp[0], which gave me undo way before jj existed.

The common view that a Git GUI is a crutch is very wrong, even pernicious. To me it is the CLI that is a disruptive mediation, whereas in a GUI you can see and manipulate the DAG directly.

Obligatory jj plug: before jj, I would have agreed with the top comment[1] that rebasing was mostly unnecessary, even though I was doing it in GitUp pretty frequently — I didn't think of it as rebasing because it was so natural. Now that I use jj I see that the cost-benefit analysis around git rebase is dominated by the fact that both rebasing and conflict resolution in git are a pain in the ass, which means the benefit has to be very high to compensate. In jj they cost much less, so the neatness benefit can be quite small and still be worth it. Add on the fact that Claude Code can handle it all for you and the cost is down to zero.

[0]: https://gitup.co/

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602056