MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 650 | 2026-01-23 03:12:31+00:00
I used to love Apple because they were so far ahead of the game in terms of UX and hardware. They have dropped the ball so much recently with all these UX mishaps from Apple Glass to most of the bugs in the post that affect me. I am more than willing to switch to Android or some other device regardless of price, but haven't found one that is close to equivalent yet. I worry it'll be a few years before something comes close to the battery life + screen quality + camera quality + decent software/security of iOS.
by pcchristie | 2026-01-23 03:12:50+00:00
I don't disagree with your broad comment but it's not hard to fix by slightly dispersing the control/responsibility.

1. Electricity moves for 5/10 min clearing intervals with defined caps at either end (currently in Western Australia it's simply 2 intervals, peak & off-peak).
2. Expose the pricing/market data via API
3. Develop existing home automation frameworks/tools/device IOTs/routers to access that.
4. End user grants permission/configures it on their smart phone when they set their dishwasher and washing machine on set up ("would you like to enable this smart-go button by connecting to Wi-Fi? It could save you $150 per year").

No control ceded to third parties to turn on equipment whenever they want, just allows the end user to cue jobs for when the PowerCo anticipates lowest prices.

PowerCo not any more of a honeypot for attack, at least not more than they are now with control over critical generation/tx/dx infra.
by ggm | 2026-01-23 03:13:35+00:00
This has been a long time in concept. Republican opposition to contraception, women's reproductive health issues, AIDS and like were Reagan era concerns and this coincided with uncovering decades long systematic waste and corrupt behaviour across UN agencies.

I do not like this outcome but surely nobody is surprised? The specific act took a year to enact. They had to announce the intent to withdraw back in 24/25.

This is politics. The impact on worldwide health will take a while to emerge but the impact on soft power will be clear if and when other WHO members pick up the slack.
by davrosthedalek | 2026-01-23 03:13:43+00:00
Yes, because at that time, a modem didn't actually talk to a modem over a switched analog line. Instead, line cards digitized the analog phone signal, the digital stream was then routed through the telecom network, and the converted back to analog. So the analog path was actually two short segments. The line cards digitized at 8kHz (enough for 4kHz analog bandwidth), using a logarithmic mapping (u-law? a-law?), and they managed to get 7 bits reliably through the two conversions.

ISDN essentially moved that line card into the consumer's phone. So ISDN "modems" talked directly digital, and got to 64kbit/s.
by dangus | 2026-01-23 03:13:48+00:00
I find this concern a little odd because most people tend to do very little in their life to make a difference in ways that count way more than a couple kilograms
of PLA filament.

Let’s take 1kg of filament, which is enough for multiple print projects depending on the size of the items.

That is approximately the same weight of petrochemical material as 1/3 of a gallon of gas (making a bit of an assumption that the amount of processing per weight of both materials is roughly the same).

Every time you drive 10 miles in a car that gets 30mpg it’s like you are burning an entire roll of filament.

So the average American is using probably 1-4 rolls of filament just to get to work and back. The last time I bought a roll of filament was multiple months ago.

I’m not singling you out, I am really just pointing out that humans are terrible at understanding the quantities of things and what things actually use a lot of material and create a lot of carbon emissions.

This is especially true since cost is so detached from material use, waste, and carbon emissions.

A gallon of gas is an order of magnitude cheaper than the equivalent weight of filament.

Burning a bunch of BTUs of natural gas to make my house 4 degrees warmer and gain a trivial amount of additional comfort wastes a whole bunch of energy but costs me so little that I don’t even know what my gas bill is.

It’s cheaper for me to replace most of my home appliances with brand new ones than hire a repair service.

I can fly to Florida for $50 and burn 15 gallons of jet fuel.

If I put more garbage out in my bin I’m not charged more. I can even put furniture and appliances out there and I am not charged more.

These are all examples of waste and environmental impact where I don’t really see or feel the magnitude of them because our systems don’t show them.

Anyway I know this is kind of a huge tangent of a discussion. But really, 3D printing is the least of your worries.
by FridayoLeary | 2026-01-23 03:14:40+00:00
They own WHO as COVID amply demonstrated. Now they can keep it, which is a big pity but don't pretend it was sunshine and roses beforehand.

In case you're one of they many people here who have an inexplicable reverence for China, i'll be clear that China gaining more influence in international affairs is imo Not A Good Thing.
by aprilthird2021 | 2026-01-23 03:14:42+00:00
Am I wrong or Trump was the one who initiated the first shutdowns. Trump was the one who said we'll have a vaccine quickly, etc.

What should he have done that he didn't do, in your opinion? Fwiw, it was the economic shock from COVID that caused this situation where he's come back to ruin our lives again. Any further disruption to the economy during COVID would have exacerbated that
by aidenn0 | 2026-01-23 03:15:07+00:00
I don't think that's the case; I have a son who has been a "Guesser" from a fairly young age, despite our family encouraging people to be "Askers" all of his siblings are "Askers" and can't understand why he won't ask for things that he wants.

For completeness sake, I should point out that most of our kids (including this one) are adopted so it's not impossible that there could be a genetic predisposition to being an asker or guesser.
by _aavaa_ | 2026-01-23 03:15:19+00:00
> tax for the bike lanes

That already exists. In large parts of North America there isn’t a tax proportional to vehicle age, and the tax on gasoline doesn’t cover road wear (to say nothing about the unproved externality of pollution). So municipal property taxes and the like are used to cover the costs of road repair.

> electric cars.

The same way we pay for electricity and natural gas, report your kms and then have the odometer inspected on a semi regular basis and when you get rid of the car.
by qart | 2026-01-23 03:15:36+00:00
You are resistant to all the actual information I have provided you. Your terrorists are killing more of your own citizens. But, I suppose Indian government should straightaway accept guilt for all such murders including that of Harjeet Singh Dhadda and an upstanding citizen Harpreet Singh Uppal. Mark Carney is cosying up to the same Indian government. I wonder which strategy of Carney will work on you: supply kool-aid or pretend there was never any problem. I'm betting on the latter.
by marssaxman | 2026-01-23 03:16:08+00:00
Is it really free money? Actual cash? I've always seen rewards programs advertised in terms of discounts on specific products or services: consumer electronics, cruise vacations, furniture, gift cards, and other things I rarely spend money on. I expect it to be an overstock clearinghouse, something like the old Columbia House record club, where you would page through a catalog of random stuff looking for anything you could convince yourself to settle for, just because you'd already paid for the subscription. It sounds like a hassle and I'd rather ignore it.
by thunky | 2026-01-23 03:16:32+00:00
> Its always worth learning something if you enjoy it

This argument is repeated often but what I think you're missing is that if you want to listen to music you put on the radio, you don't record an album.

Sure if I want to enjoy playing guitar I'll do that, but that's not what I'm paid to do and you're not paid write code. Nobody but me wants to hear me play guitar and nobody but you wants to look at your beautiful code.
by aprilthird2021 | 2026-01-23 03:16:35+00:00
> The problem with a lot of these UN bodies such as the WHO, UNESCO etc is that they do not have proper external scrutiny, and instead have become overarching institutions which pass down diktats from on high.

Any example of a diktat from on high which you think was highly negative? Afaik, these bodies typically just promote whatever is scientifically / economically / etc. the prevailing worldview
by lanthade | 2026-01-23 03:16:53+00:00
This list is frustrating to read because it reminds me of all the time I've spent dealing with these bugs. Not all of them thankfully but more than half steal my time at least once on a weekly basis. They're all bad but I think the auto correct actively fighting me and the ios cursor thing are perhaps the most annoying of the bunch for me. Trying to communicate well on a mobile platform is bad enough but when it's actively sabotaging you it's just so much worse.
by gpm | 2026-01-23 03:18:21+00:00
I feel like there's numerous database companies that rewrote an existing database faster/with slightly better features and turned it into a successful product. Just about all of the successful ones really. It's a market where "build a faster horse" has been a successful strategy.

Certainly some of the newer succesful database companies are written in more modern languages (for example go with cockroachdb, go originally and now rust with influxdb) but it's wrong to call these (or really any language) faster than C/C++ just more productive languages to develop reliable software in...
by 0hw0t | 2026-01-23 03:18:53+00:00
Oh I got it just fine. I was knocking their point artisanal software will make a comeback.

Am an EE and have argued against all the developer gibberish and self aggrandizement for years. It's just electromagnetic geometry of the machine to me.

Most software out there is all the gibberish devs need to do their job. Burns a lot of resources clinging to it. Completely useless to using a computer how most users will.

Vectors as a uniform layer of abstraction, rather than arbitrary namespaces a programmer finds cheeky, will obsolete a bunch of gibberish.
by maxnew | 2026-01-23 03:19:19+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm the maker of MCPxel (https://mcpxel.com).

The Problem:
As an active user of Claude/MCP, I found the ecosystem fragmented. Searching GitHub for "agent skills" returns thousands of results, but many are broken, outdated, or just simple wrappers. Stars often don't correlate with reliability.

The Solution:
I built MCPxel to curate and rate these skills.

How it works:

LLM-as-a-Judge: We use an automated pipeline to evaluate skills on 5 dimensions (Clarity, Utility, Quality, Maintainability, Novelty).
S-Tier Filtering: We assign grades (S/A/B/C). S-Tier skills are verified to work out of the box.
Role-Based Search: Instead of keyword guessing, you can find tools tailored for specific workflows (e.g., "frontend dev").
Tech Stack:
Built with Next.js. We used TRAE (AI IDE) and DeepSeek-V3 heavily during development to accelerate the process.

Try it out:
Check out the LLM-judged ratings (S/A/B/C). I'd love to know if the scores match your experience with these tools!
Show HN: An ultra-light, multilingual unit converter that keeps growing
by thenodeshift | 2026-01-23 03:19:55+00:00
I’ve been building a unit conversion site focused on speed, simplicity, and scale.

It currently supports ~30 languages, light and dark themes, and has grown to ~20,000 conversion pages — all server-rendered and intentionally minimal.

The main goal was to avoid the usual bloat with minimal JS, and instant answers.

The site is fully programmatic and continues to grow as new units and languages are added.

I’d really appreciate feedback from the HN community — especially around UX, performance, or internationalization.
by kccqzy | 2026-01-23 03:19:58+00:00
Mail just sometimes refuses to issue a server-side search via IMAP. It insists that it wants to search its offline database of downloaded mails. When it cannot find anything, it will even tell you that “Mail downloads and organizes messages when iPhone is locked, charging, and connect to Wi-Fi.” And my response to that is, it has had eight hours to do exactly that every night.
by korhojoa | 2026-01-23 03:20:54+00:00
Confident talk, but that's not at all the reality that I'm seeing.

Public transport is almost completely electric powered where I live (ferries still haven't changed to electric, but it's coming.)

Trucking is electrified, as in, the operators have realzed that they're cheaper to run, so they are changing over when possible. (Sidenote: with some of the heaviest loads worldwide)

Very many agricultural buildings in active use either have, or are installing solar. Their energy usage is so high, that any offset to it is "free" money. Many have installed batteries also, so if there is an interruption in power delivery, there isn't an immediate need to start up a generator.

Electric tractors are also something I've heard them want. Less maintenance means less time spent not being able to work.

Sure, fertilizer and animal husbandry have other emissions which aren't tackled by this, but why exclude improvement just because some other area isn't affected.
Show HN: Bookmarklet for removing AI posts from Hacker News
by dandrew5 | 2026-01-23 03:20:56+00:00
I made a simple, customizable bookmarklet for removing HN submissions based on their title contents. I have it configured to remove AI-related posts at the moment but anybody with a little regex knowledge can customize it to their needs. Hope it helps someone.

GitHub repository: https://github.com/dan-lovelace/hn-blocklist
by rmunn | 2026-01-23 03:21:38+00:00
Wow, I did not realize that SSH did that. Good to know, and it makes sense as a default, because the people who need it need to have it on by default. But I think I'm going to be turning that off, because it's a security measure that doesn't make sense for my particular environment:

1) I'm pretty much never typing secrets into an SSH tunnel; these days if there's a secret I need to transmit over SSH I'm going to be copying and pasting it, which will not reveal info from keyboard timing. (Or rsync'ing a file, which ditto).

2) I'm not in a high-security environment where nation-states have an interest in sniffing my keystrokes.

3) I often open SSH connections to servers in other continents. Those underwater cables have massive bandwidth, but they're also in constant use by thousands upon thousands of people. So anything I can do to reduce my bandwidth by 100x is probably worth doing.

Any reason you can think of why I should not be setting ObscureKeystrokeTiming=no in my ~/.ssh/config?
by storystarling | 2026-01-23 03:22:58+00:00
I suspect the main trade-off is structured data versus text parsing. While CLIs are composable, relying on stdout is brittle for anything complex. MCP enforces a schema (types), which acts as a contract between the model and your backend. If you're building reliable pipelines rather than just one-off scripts, that structure is pretty critical to avoid parsing errors downstream.
by hunterloftis | 2026-01-23 03:23:13+00:00
In the context of laptops, I would agree (MBP's hardware just outclasses everything else, even if I prefer Fedora over macOS).

However, for phones, this just doesn't shake out. The Pixel 10 Pro for instance, has:

* A battery that outlasts the iPhone 16 Pro by an hour

* A slightly better display (higher brightness for outdoor use, higher PPI, higher color accuracy, same refresh rate)

* A better camera for still photography, especially HDR and low-light (although admittedly worse for video)
by vivzkestrel | 2026-01-23 03:24:49+00:00
"Reel does exactly what I wanted Loom to do: I can record my camera, I can move it around, and I get to trim the video after it’s done"

- tell me you haven't heard of OBS studio without telling me you haven't heard of OBS studio. But on a serious note OP, you should really give OBS studio a shot, it is one of the best video recording tools out there, period!
by tehjoker | 2026-01-23 03:26:33+00:00
It's true that we are in an era of change, but the Republicans are like the "id" of U.S. elites. Both parties regularly destroy entire countries. The Democrats mostly followed the Republican line on COVID after about 6 months. They are lagging, but they follow along.

There are a number of places where there are superficial differences, and those differences are important to people of color, trans people, etc, but the Dems are always looking for reasons to make a right turn. They track the Republicans who actively move right and create a small space a relative distance from their position.
by akagusu | 2026-01-23 03:26:38+00:00
All this s#it was already expected, because this is what happened when companies get big enough without competition or any kind of regulation.

This already happened in other markets and lots of people have warned this would happened again but nobody cared.

Now it doesn't matter anymore because Apple is so big that no matter what kind of s#it they do, nothing will hurt their sales, because people are trapped, depend on their stuff and don't have any other options.
by AphantaZach | 2026-01-23 03:26:54+00:00
You make a great point. 'Determinism > Bandwidth' is definitely the stronger argument.

The main difference with ASMR is that it uses multiple spatial cues (reverb, tone) which survive compression well.

Entrainment is more fragile. For a cognitive tool, I wanted to engineer that risk out of the system entirely.
by Dagger2 | 2026-01-23 03:26:57+00:00
We haven't forgotten that, but we're also aware that non-IT people can't run NAT either. They can plug in a box that already has NAT configured though, and if they can manage that then they can also plug in a box that already has a firewall configured.

VMs work fine without NAT too -- DHCPv6-PD lets the VM software automatically request a routed prefix.
by throwworhtthrow | 2026-01-23 03:27:20+00:00
Can you talk a bit more about situations where WHO or UNESCO have overridden a country's health system? As a US citizen I see WHO as 1) offering guidance and 2) funding programs in poorer countries' health systems.

UNESCO, well, I'm looking at its website and Wikipedia article now, and I don't understand what it does. (Or maybe it would be easier to list what it doesn't do, since even its list of sponsored institutions is mind-numbingly long.)
by LargeWu | 2026-01-23 03:27:33+00:00
It's less what should he have done, than what shouldn't he have done. Specifically, he pushed conspiracy theories, demonized his health experts, and touted ineffective cures, and ultimately cast doubt on the safety of the vaccines. All to pander to his base. He had a remarkable chance to build trust in government via a truly extraordinary vaccine rollout, to a crowd which is historically distrustful. Instead he squandered that goodwill on petty fights and self aggrandizement.
by JohnLeitch | 2026-01-23 03:27:47+00:00
>Is that because wireshark can't do that just from packet captures?

Well, not quite. I think it's more that nobody has taken the time to implement it. That's not to say such an implementation would automatically decrypt the traffic from a capture with no extra leg work, of course. Wireshark dissectors have user configurable preferences, and presumably this would be where captured secrets could be set for use. This is how it handles TLS decryption [1], which works beautifully.

[1] https://wiki.wireshark.org/TLS#tls-decryption
by deathanatos | 2026-01-23 03:27:53+00:00
The emoji search box's search bar sometimes will just stop working, usually after a {input, erase input, new input} sequence. No idea why. Dismiss picker, try again.

Sometimes the picker just refuses to be summoned.

Bluetooth is a mess. File transfers will fail, who knows why? Certainly not macOS. Often I'll just punt to GoogleDrive-TP.

Really random screen wakes.

Left macOS alone for 5s? All your windows have decided to start playing a game of musical desktop, and need 10s to re-arrange themselves back into place, also while sometimes displaying their contents at 2x.

Slack has any number of these; e.g., emoji inside codeblocks are simply corrupted. A number of odd corner cases in URLs will corrupt, and each edit of the message will further corrupt it.

So much of the web is plagued by some framework that, upon any JS exception, will destroy the entire DOM (idk maybe defunct page > no page at all?) and leave you only with "ApplicationError: …".

At this point I'd add "is a motorcycle a car? Is a pedestrian signal a stop light?!" CAPTCHAKCAS to this list, but those are a "feature".
by childintime | 2026-01-23 03:28:06+00:00
It is the difference between optimization and unacceptable risks. Unacceptable risks make you act, they create a leitmotiv, and you don't seem to get that. So you talk about other motives, while ignoring the potentially main one.

Space no longer is a friendly place, it is the battle field of the future. SpaceX is a major military power in ascent, Musk is richer than many nations already, and he'll be in the supervillain category soon, and alone in actual physical power. He sits between the nations as a different entity in nature. It's happening in front of your eyes but you don't see it. That's why you are repeating yourself, as if we didn't see what you see. You speak about a technical motive we all see, as if only you see it. We all see that, it's trivial given the subject, and I mentioned it. Maybe we're not as stupid as you think we are, "teacher".
by TimorousBestie | 2026-01-23 03:28:07+00:00
> What should he have done that he didn't do, in your opinion?

I’ll just run down the record and stop at the first obvious error.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._federal_government_respon...

> One month after [March 16, 2020, when the administration first recommended social distancing], epidemiologists Britta Jewell and Nicholas Jewell estimated that, had social distancing policies been implemented just two weeks earlier, U.S. deaths due to COVID-19 might have been reduced by 90%.

So there’s a concrete thing he could have done differently.

> Any further disruption to the economy during COVID would have exacerbated that

More stringent restrictions done earlier may have shortened the duration of the economic impact, who knows, we can’t exactly observe those alternate timelines directly.

The administration had zero discipline on messaging and so nothing was done with any consistency. As you say, he was initially positive that a vaccine would arrive quickly; when it was available, he flipped and endorsed alternative treatments of all kinds, many of them harmful. Formerly a champion of Dr. Fauci, then later his worst detractor and chief prosecutor in the court of public opinion.
by sbuk | 2026-01-23 03:28:31+00:00
Don't be rude. I did read TFA, hence my comments. You didn't understand my comment, did you?

Whether it disabling SIP, enabling root (see the bit about Linux and Posix in my previous comment), enabling case sensitivity in APFS (done for backwards compatibility), or any of the other stuff, the OS shipped remains the same as the tested one, and pay attention because this is the bit you seem to be incapable of grasping, with the extra bits turned on! Some are dumb, some for backwards compatibility and some are genuinely useful.

A Kia Ceed is still the same Kia Seed if the showroom add their stickers, changed the tyres and put some registration plates on it.
by FridayoLeary | 2026-01-23 03:28:35+00:00
And it was the scientists and doctors of the WHO, who denied the existence of Covid until after every country in the world had shut down. I thought covid denial was a bad thing, but you're still getting downvoted... In response to your last question i've got no idea. I don't have any confidence the vaunted scientists got it right back then either. Just look at the disasters inflicted on countries and states that imposed heavy handed and IMO largely unnecessary covid measures.