MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gmueckl | 2026-01-15 06:59:36+00:00
It's still one or more PCBs, a battery, the LCD, the microphones, the microcontroller and the small components on the board. The capacity of the chip is besides the point. Each one of those components has a very deep production chain and cost a lot of resources to produce. ICs are created through chemical processes that use a bunch of substances that are themselves not manufactured, for example. The bottom line is, those electronics are wasteful.
by reena_signalhq | 2026-01-15 06:59:36+00:00
This is unfortunate but not surprising. Google acquired Tenor in 2018 and has been slowly integrating it into their ecosystem.

For anyone looking for alternatives:
- Giphy API (still free tier available )
- GIFDB (smaller but decent library)
- Self-host with your own GIF collection

The real pain is migrating existing integrations. Anyone know if Google is offering a migration path or just killing it outright?
by StanislavPetrov | 2026-01-15 06:59:52+00:00
>Or maybe don't make everyone responsible for the public roadway/sidewalk in front of their house and instead have the people that are responsible for all other things public roadway/sidewalk be responsible?

Here in New York the problem is opposite. Every home and business owner is responsible for quickly clearing any walkways/sidewalks/driveways they own and are in front of their homes or businesses. New York is very litigious. As a consequence, unless someone is unable, way off the beaten path or doesn't care about getting sued for huge money, most everyone, especially businesses, made sure that their sidewalks and pathways are completely clear of snow and ice to avoid a ruinous lawsuit. On the flip side, properties owned by the county, city, town or other public entities are far more likely to be unmaintained and covered in snow and ice. In general I'm against living in an overly litigious society, but when it comes to snow and ice clearance it certainly has an impact here. This is all in spite of extremely high tax rates (property, income, sales and otherwise).
by nailer | 2026-01-15 07:00:48+00:00
Whoa. Via Grok:

Solved Zodiac Killer ciphers:

• Z408 (July 1969): Solved in days by Donald & Bettye Harden.

Message (with misspellings): “I like killing people because it is so much fun it is more fun than killing wild game in the forrest because man is the most dangeroue anamal of all to kill something gives me the most thrilling experence it is even better than getting your rocks off with a girl the best part of it is thae when I die I will be reborn in paradice and all the I have killed will become my slaves I will not give you my name because you will try to sloi down or atop my collectiog of slaves for my afterlife ebeorietemethhpiti”

• Z340 (November 1969): Solved in 2020 (after 51 years) by David Oranchak, Jarl Van Eycke, and Sam Blake; FBI confirmed.

Message (with misspellings): “I hope you are having lots of fun in trying to catch me that wasn’t me on the TV show which bringo up a point about me I am not afraid of the gas chamber becaase it will send me to paradlce all the sooher because e now have enough slaves to worv for me where every one else has nothing when they reach paradice so they are afraid of death I am not afraid because i vnow that my new life is life will be an easy one in paradice death”
by qwe----3 | 2026-01-15 07:00:57+00:00
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by bddbbd | 2026-01-15 07:01:12+00:00
> Many people have been exposed to a lot of far UVC and nothing bad has happened to them.
>
> Looking right at it might not be good for your eyes.
>
> I feel confident for myself that far UVC is safe.

This is dangerous misinformation. Like any toxic, it's the Dosis that kills

There are very powerful far UVC products available which will give you sunburn on your skin in a couple of seconds

Somebody blasting UVC in a room of people is crypto monkey level of stupid
by energy123 | 2026-01-15 07:01:38+00:00
> Is there any benefit to pruning?

1- Better quality output due to pruning noise, while reducing the chances of missing key context.

2- Saving time/effort by not using my brain to decide which files to include.

3- ChatGPT 5.2 Pro only allows 60k tokens, so I have no choice sometimes.

It comes with costs as you identified. It's a trade-off that I am willing to pay.
by rich_sasha | 2026-01-15 07:02:06+00:00
I spent half a day writing tests against MS SQL where tests would create a separate schema, do their business, then the schema dropped via "DROP SCHEMA ... CASCADE". In the end, thanks to Meat Intelligence on the web I found out there is no CASCADE for MS SQL. But only because blogs and documentation etc were written by people who kinda mostly checked what they wrote.
by singhjasdeep | 2026-01-15 07:03:53+00:00
https://jasdeep-singh.com/
I work in tech, writing java code for an eInvoicing product, and Punjabi language cinema, writing scripts, dialogues.
But this is my personal website, where I share some of my translations and essays. I am interested in natural languages, cartography, art and cinema.
Last year I did a little bit of carpentry, got interested in fountain pens, I am eying to get my first pen plotter, maybe some pen plotted maps in the year to come.

PS. I am learning Persian. Hoping situation in beautiful Iran normalizes and people get their representative democracy free of IRGC and CIA-Mossad jackboots.
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-15 07:03:56+00:00
Hmm yeah but that's a pretty long time.

Also what we see here in EU is that some sites (e.g. porn sites who already have to use age verification) demand it periodically, probably so you don't create one and give the credentials to a minor or something.

In fact it's becoming pretty insane here, even my bank and phone provider want me to come in and show my ID every few years. As if I suddenly became another person?? I kinda snapped at them last time because of these retarded processes and I felt bad then because I know it's not the employee's fault but it's just so ridiculous. I'm getting so sick of this pervasive tracking and monitoring in society with everything we do.
by globular-toast | 2026-01-15 07:03:57+00:00
Not sure what you mean by "smallest". With GitLab you create docker images. That means you can easily run them locally and share them. In the example you gave the GitHub actions one looks like more lines of YAML but only works because they made an "action". If they had provided a Docker image then GitLab would be just as easy (and trivial to test locally).
by duskdozer | 2026-01-15 07:04:24+00:00
I have a disconnect here too, which makes it feel like I'm missing something. I'm hit so often with very onerous captcha-like demands or just blocked entirely when trying to make a single page or login request. I understand restrictions for rate limiting and things, but at this rate it feels like it's only a matter of time before the whole web is behind voluntary ID-scan requests for "security" even if laws never come to pass.
by bonesss | 2026-01-15 07:04:38+00:00
So the chain of events here is: copy existing tutorials and public/available code, train the model to spit it out-ish when asked, a mature-ish specification is used, and now they jitter and jumble towards a facsimile of a junior copy paste outsourcing nightmare they can’t maintain (creating exciting liabilities for all parties involved).

I can’t shake the feeling that simply being a shameless about copy-paste (ie copyright infringement), would let existing tools do much the same faster and more efficiently. Download Chromium, search-replace ‘Google’ with ‘ME!’, run Make… if I put that in a small app someone would explain that’s actually solvable as a bash one-liner.

There’s a lot of utility in better search and natural language interactions. The siren call of feedback loops plays with our sense of time and might be clouding or sense of progress and utility.
by rly0nheart | 2026-01-15 07:05:13+00:00
Thank you so much for sharing your story and for forwarding my post to recruiters. That means more than you know.
Your path resonates with me, especially the part about molding positions into programming adjacent roles. I've been trying to get "in the door" for months now, but the ATS filters seem to catch me before anyone human sees my work.
The depression struggle is too real!! I've dealt with similar challenges while doing contract work. Some days the rejection emails pile up, and it's hard to keep going.
I really appreciate you taking the time to help. The "non traditional lead" framing is interesting, though I've honestly never thought about positioning myself that way :). At this point, I'd just be grateful to get in the door anywhere.

Hoping something comes from those recruiter connections. Thank you again for believing in me enough to vouch for me to them.
by Aditya_kachhawa | 2026-01-15 07:06:35+00:00
Google killing APIs has become so predictable there's literally a website tracking it (killedbygoogle.com).

What's wild is they give you 3 months to rip out and replace something that might be a core feature. That's not a migration timeline, that's an emergency.
This is why vendor lock-in concerns aren't just paranoia anymore.
by ropable | 2026-01-15 07:06:45+00:00
> But OK let's assume social media is always bad for kids and also that someone invents a perfect age gate... kids are just going to find places to hang out online that are less moderated and less regulated and less safe.

Straw man argument, much? Might as well argue "We can't make any changes, ever, just in case something else happens!

We'll address the next issue when/if it happens, same as always.
by croes | 2026-01-15 07:07:03+00:00
>Further, I'm sure most people heard the mention of an unnamed enterprise paying Anthropic $5000/month per developer on inference

Companies have wasted more money on dumber things so spending isn't a good measure.

And what about the countless other AI companies? Anthropic has one of the top models for coding so that's like saying there ins't a problem pre dot com bubble because Amazon is doing fine.

The real effects of AI is measured in rising profit of the customers of those AI companies otherwise you're looking at the shovel sellers
by toyg | 2026-01-15 07:07:08+00:00
> is the tax on alcohol at pubs higher than at a store?

No, but the tax on food - which is where a lot of money lies, for most pubs in this day and age - is. Also, business rates end up being significantly higher per unit of alcohol sold. This means stores can keep alcohol prices very low (even under cost, as a promotional item).

Add to that that alcohol consumption rates are decreasing overall, sugar tax affecting non-alcoholic drinks, energy prices skyrocketing, etc.
by globular-toast | 2026-01-15 07:08:08+00:00
Posted this 6 months ago but got no traction here: https://blog.gpkb.org/posts/ai-agent-sandbox/

Recently got it working for OpenCode and updated my post.

Someone pointed out to me that having the .git directory mounted read/write in the sandbox could be a problem. So I'm considering only mounting src/ and project metadata (including git) being read only.

You really need to use the `--new-session` parameter, by the way. It's unfortunate that this isn't the default with bwrap.
by turbonaut | 2026-01-15 07:09:33+00:00
The Lamb and Flag has faced previous financial challenges.

It in fact closed temporarily in the pandemic due to UK law preventing their then owner / operator, St John’s College, a charity, subsidising a loss making business, despite having the wherewithal to do so.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-55763746.amp
by palmotea | 2026-01-15 07:12:11+00:00
> I'm wondering what you call "their extremists".

The deep blue ones who demand everyone check all their boxes.

> Seen from Europe all Republican candidates are extremists, and Democrats are centrists at best.

That seems like a warmed-over 90s perspective that's long past its sell-by. Aren't there "far right" parties in power or nearly in power in much of Europe, and at least one European country that's totally dominated by one?
Show HN: ViralIQ – Get structured feedback on videos before publishing
by mathewmon | 2026-01-15 07:12:58+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m a solo founder and content creator. I built ViralIQ after repeatedly posting videos and not really understanding why some performed well and others didn’t.

Most feedback I got was vague (“looks good”), and analytics only helped after publishing, when it was too late to change anything. I wanted clearer signals earlier.

ViralIQ lets creators upload a video and get structured feedback before publishing, covering things like pacing, clarity, engagement, and parts that may lose attention.

There’s a free plan so it’s easy to try. It’s still early, and I’m mainly interested in whether this problem resonates and what people would expect from a tool like this.

Happy to answer questions or hear critiques.
by y42 | 2026-01-15 07:13:48+00:00
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate this kind of efforts and I don't want to be the party p*per here.

However: I don't see the innovative idea behind this yet-another-private-blog-directory. As you correctly mentioned: There's a list for that. And just putting this list into a browsable website seems like not the step that drives serendepity or value at all.

Now people will add all their blogs, mainly to increase their reach. Fair enough. But what's the benefit for the reader?
Show HN: Mounty – Because I was too lazy to edit fstab
by bobsterlobster | 2026-01-15 07:13:57+00:00
Mounty is a GTK4 app for managing SMB network shares on Linux.
Add shares, test connections, mount/unmount, and enable automount (writes to fstab for you).

Built with Python + GTK4/libadwaita. Available on AUR for Arch users.
If there are any bugs, sue me. (Please don't actually do that, it's MIT licensed)
by rtpg | 2026-01-15 07:14:30+00:00
While Rust doesn't have C coverage, it has (by my last check) better coverage than something like CPython currently does.

The big thing though is Rust is honest about their tiers of support, whereas for many projects "supported platform" for minor platforms often mean "it still compiles (at least we think it does, when the maintainer tries it and it fails they will fix it)"

Not to be too glib though, there are obviously tools out there that have as much or more rigor than Rust and cover more platforms. Just... "supported platforms" means different things in different contexts.
by fwttnnn | 2026-01-15 07:14:37+00:00
Thanks! glad you liked it :D

The app uses the official Spotify Web API (https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api), all the user need to do is log in and everything should be set up automatically.

Right now the visualization is just a static snapshot, so there's no comparison between quarters yet. Although, this is surely a really really cool idea which I might look into adding in the future if this gets some traction.
by internetter | 2026-01-15 07:15:29+00:00
Archive.today has a different approach to the baseline archive technology (executing javascript at archival time and saving the DOM instead of saving and replaying server responses verbatim). Additionally, Archive.today employs a number of site specific mitigations which aren't visible to the end user. In some cases, for instance, they use accounts, but then retroactively modify the DOM to mask this mitigation. [0] While the exact strategy they use for Twitter isn't known to me, they are doing something by their own admission. [1]

[0] https://blog.archive.today/post/708008224368001024/why-isnt-... compounded with personal observation.

[1] https://blog.archive.today/post/708565142782246912/pretty-pl...
by bnprks | 2026-01-15 07:15:37+00:00
With genomics, your data is probably write ~once, almost entirely numeric, and is most likely used for single-client offline analysis. This differs a lot from what most SQL databases are optimizing for.

My best experience has been ignoring SQL and using (sparse) matrix formats for the genomic data itself, possibly combined with some small metadata tables that can fit easily in existing solutions (often even in memory). Sparse matrix formats like CSC/CSR can store numeric data at ~12 bytes per non-zero entry, so a single one of your servers should handle 10B data points in RAM and another 10x that comfortably on a local SSD. Maybe no need to pay the cost of going distributed?

Self plug: if you're in the single cell space, I wrote a paper on my project BPCells which has some storage format benchmarks up to a 60k column, 44M row RNA-seq matrix.
by AmbroseBierce | 2026-01-15 07:16:04+00:00
it's not the mental issues they had, its the drugs they were taking for it right? Please. Look at what Australia did after their 1996 shooting, the main reason they have so few of them, but I know you won't, as millions of Americans you will forever do all sort of mental gymnastics to justify keeping easy access to semi-automatic guns.

> From the information obtained, it appears that most school shooters were not previously treated with psychotropic medications - and even when they were, no direct or causal association was found https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31513302/
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-15 07:16:21+00:00
I agree with pretty much everything you said.

> Algorithmic feeds in general I think are bad but particularly for young people.

Just young people? Have you noticed the trend of political discourse more or less globally? Social media certainly assisted in bringing much government abuse and corruption to light over the past couple decades but I feel it has also had severe negative impacts on civil discourse surrounding contentious topics. Not that things were great to begin with of course.

> I think phones will soon be good enough

No! Absolutely not! Please do not provide authoritarian tech companies with legitimate excuses to lock down the computing devices that we supposedly own! Society has already gone in an extremely dangerous direction there and badly needs to course correct.
by mdavid626 | 2026-01-15 07:16:54+00:00
That’s actually pretty cool.

But “price and range/charging speed” still applies.

I can’t afford an expensive EV with fast charging, but I can afford a cheap ICE. I get it that in US people buy 100k cars as there is no tomorrow. But not everywhere it’s like that.

For 10k one can get a decent ICE. Can you get fast charging used EV for 10k?
by Nukit | 2026-01-15 07:17:00+00:00
Well, one reason KrCl lamp life became an issue is that they are not replaceable in any commercially available filtered Far-UVC fixture. Currently, at the end of the KrCl excimer lamp life- typically 3000-5000 hours, you throw the entire Far-UVC device away- filters, ballast, control electronics- the whole thing in the trash. There is some talk of possible refurbishment, but at high cost with no companies really in place offering it.

There's really no excuse for this but planned obsolescence. Replaceable light bulbs are 140-year-old legacy tech and trivial to engineer.

Needless to say, this was a major stumbling block for institutional buyers- having to buy and reinstall ~$5000 worth of Far-UVC for a small room every year or two. At which point virtually every Far-UVC company started claiming everything from 5,000 hours to 20,000 hours operating life- with absolutely no data to support this. Some cite in-house testing, but no real evidence is offered.

Given that fraudulent claims in the Far-UVC industry are common, there's every reason not to trust marketing claims that aren't backed by third-party tests. If you don't have a test that proves it, don't say it. (We urge our customers to trust no one, not even us. "Trust" has no place with potentially dangerous UV devices- everything must be third-party lab tested).

A KrCl excimer lamp that could exceed the current, widely documented 3,000-5,000hr (30% degradation or L70) operating life would be huge news and we'd love to see it. But there would be patents, papers, independent lab tests, some paper trail other than manufacturer claims to support this.

Right now, it's all "trust me bro" marketing with perhaps bit of hedging about possibly using reduced power or limited operating time to increase lamp life. By the time buyers have reached 5,000 hours, the products are well out of warranty, and they are left without recourse. If someone says anything about their Far-UVC lasting more than 5,000 hours, the correct response is "Citation?".

In the absence of any credible data showing that anyone is getting an L70 over 5,000 hours of use in the real world at 100% power and uptime, we've chosen to focus on low-cost, non-IP-encumbered, replaceable bulbs, and all of our future products will use them. Any other manufacturer is welcome to use them as well, with the hope that this will get Far-UVC ownership down to the "rice cooker or oscillating fan" price range needed for those in the most desperate need. Because until everyone is protected, no one is. We're all just a cough and a plane ride from each other.
by pleurotus | 2026-01-15 07:17:29+00:00
Yeah they mention it in the article, most network connections are restricted. But not connections to anthropic. To spell out the obvious—because Claude needs to talk to its own servers. But here they show you can get it to talk to its own servers, but put some documents in another user's account, using the different API key. All in a way that you, as an end user, wouldn't really see while it's happening.
by vanviegen | 2026-01-15 07:17:58+00:00
> Furthermore, all of the major LLM APIs reward you for re-sending the same context with only appended data in the form of lower token costs (caching).

There's a little more flexibility than that. You can strip of some trailing context before appending some new context. This allows you to keep the 'long-term context' minimal, while still making good use of the cache.
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-15 07:18:28+00:00
People aren't forced to have kids though.. If they don't really want them or can't accomodate them in their lives just don't have any. I've never had any because I don't want to give up my freedom and relaxation either.

And one income hasn't been enough for much longer than 5 years. Especially in housing.

I see a lot of people around me that seem to pretty much hate having kids and they probably did it just because of social/family pressure or something. They always treat them like a nuisance and fob them off with a tablet. Really, just don't have them then. The world is already so overpopulated which is one of the causes of tension (migration, fighting over resources, climate/pollution).
by csa | 2026-01-15 07:18:50+00:00
This comment is starting to turn gray for me, which means that it’s being downvoted.

I don’t know much about this topic, but all of the factual content mentioned above seems to be true.

Can anyone who disagrees with ‘rayiner here explain why they downvoted? Is it just an unpleasant observation? Is it a disagreement with his conclusion in the last few sentences? Is it just a downvote against the commenter (iirc, he tends to make conservative talking points)? Something else?

I genuinely want to know, as this seems like it would be an important set of talking points around immigration as a whole that any policy maker would want to consider.
by jankovicsandras | 2026-01-15 07:18:58+00:00
You can do hybrid search in Postgres.

Shameless plug: https://github.com/jankovicsandras/plpgsql_bm25 BM25 search implemented in PL/pgSQL ( Unlicense / Public domain )

The repo includes also plpgsql_bm25rrf.sql : PL/pgSQL function for hybrid search ( plpgsql_bm25 + pgvector ) with Reciprocal Rank Fusion; and Jupyter notebook examples.