MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by iluxonchik | 2026-01-08 14:58:20+00:00
Since 1997 Bulgaria has operated under a currency board arrangement (CBA), which is an exchange rate regime where a country commits to keep its local currency to a fixed exchange rate against an anchor currency. For Bulgaria, that anchor currency is the Euro.

Given this, any discourse about how Bulgaria's entry into the Eurozone implies a dramatic change to its monetary sovereignty is likely unfounded. It didn't happen overnight - it's been an almost 30 year long process. Joining the Eurozone does, however, remove the pegging frictions for Bulgaria, and allows them to fully integrate into the monetary union.
by artdigital | 2026-01-08 14:58:21+00:00
I use Perplexity all the time for search. It's very good at exactly that - internet search. So when using it for search related things it really shines

Yeah sure ChatGPT can spam a bunch of search queries through their search tool but it doesn't really come close to having Perplexity's search graph and index. Their sonar model is also specifically built for search
by Gareth321 | 2026-01-08 14:58:31+00:00
> I wish / hope the medical community will address stories like this before people lose trust in them entirely.

Too late for me. I have a similar story. ChatGPT helped me diagnose an issue which I had been suffering with my whole life. I'm a new person now. GPs don't have the time to spend hours investigating symptoms for patients. ChatGPT can provide accurate diagnoses in seconds. These tools should be in wide use today by GPs. Since they refuse, patients will take matters into their own hands.

FYI, there are now studies showing ChatGPT outperforms doctors in diagnosis. (https://www.uvahealth.com/news/does-ai-improve-doctors-diagn...) I can believe it.
by stockresearcher | 2026-01-08 14:58:33+00:00
I worked in automotive software a long time ago.

You’d be essentially starting at zero, but that’s ok. If you break in, you’ll probably need to move to a less glamorous area and accept lower pay. And you’ll always be lower than people with engineering degrees in the corporate prestige hierarchy. If you’re ok with that, go for it!

Check out ROS. No, it’s not what they use, but it’s free and available and absolutely gives you a good idea of the kinds of workflows you will see. When I worked in the industry, all physical hardware was plugged into massive simulation setups and run over and over and over again. Multiple hardware revisions, multiple software revisions. All before they would try putting it into an actual prototype vehicle. ROS lets you do all that - simulations plus interfacing with actual robotic equipment.

Good luck
by 123pie123 | 2026-01-08 14:58:41+00:00
thanks for clarifying,

my excessive procrastinating definitely overlaps with this (as I call it in project) meaningless bollocks. Endless meetings going around and around, discussing loads but coming up with nothing much

Mostly I put it down to education/ understanding - eg people need around 5-10 repetitions to understand stuff.

To combat this, I modify my documents and diagrams to show how simple things are, make sure all acronyms are explained properly (over and over again) and make 'solutions' into a "story" eg beginning, middle and end explaining how/ why / decisions.

Meaningless bollocks still exist, I let other people run around like headless chickens - I think people like it as well
by micromacrofoot | 2026-01-08 14:58:47+00:00
This is a straw man.

The new guidelines prioritize meat and dairy above all else, which comes with well known health issues, especially at the rate Americans consume them.

There's already plenty of evidence (victory lap press releases from the respective industries) that indicate that this was accomplished due to lobbying... so we haven't moved at all: the old recommendations were imperfect and fueled by specific industry preference, and the new ones do the same.

> we can't improve health drastically and more effectively by making simple and clear recommendations to move away form processed food.

pretty much every nutritionist has been urging a reduction in processed foods for years now, the solution isn't to replace processed foods with meat and dairy... that's just a different problem
by lccerina | 2026-01-08 14:58:53+00:00
Not like having a portable number, but I was able to do it kinda okay with DuckDuckGo @duck mail forwarding, at least for newsletters and other semi-spammy emails.

It is used to remove trackers from emails, but then I was able to just change the forwarding from gmail to another provider and that was it.

As a limitation, it doesn't allow to respond to emails from the same @duck email.
Show HN: qckfx – Stop manually checking if your AI agent broke your iOS app
by chw9e | 2026-01-08 14:59:03+00:00
AI coding agents can build iOS UI, but they can't verify it. They can update a screen, but the UI might drift or break, and nobody catches it until a human checks.

qckfx gives your agent a baseline. Record a simulator session once. Every tap, scroll, and network response gets captured. On replay, each screen is compared against the original.

With our MCP, your agent triggers the tests and gets back visual diffs of exactly what changed. Updating the baselines is one click.

Under the hood:

- Full network replay (HTTP & WebSocket)

- Initial disk & keychain state captured during recording and restored on every run

- Precise scroll positioning (built from scratch; XCUITest only exposes this on macOS and iPad)

- No AI in the loop at runtime, fast execution

No SDK or code changes needed. Nothing to commit to git. Just download the app and go.

Everything runs locally. Your data stays on your machine.

https://qckfx.com
by glenstein | 2026-01-08 14:59:03+00:00
>But the anecdotes are piled up into giant mountains at this point

This is disorganized thinking. Anecdotes about what? Does my uncle having an argument with his doctor over needing more painkillers, combine with an anecdote about my sister disagreeing with a midwife over how big her baby would be, combined with my friend outliving their stage 4 cancer prognosis all add up to "therefore I'm going to disregard nutrition recommendations"? Even if they were all right and the doctors were all wrong, they still wouldn't aggregate in a particular direction the way that a study on processed foods does.

And frankly it overlooks psychological and sociological dynamics that drive this kind of anecdotal reporting, which I think are more about tribal group emotional support in response to information complexity.

In fact, reasoning from separate instances that are importantly factually different is a signature line of reasoning used by alien abduction conspiracy theorists. They treat the cultural phenomenon of "millions" of people reporting UFOs or abduction experiences over decades as "proof" of aliens writ large, when the truth is they are helplessly incompetent interpreters of social data.
Show HN: I built a "Conversion Killer Detector" to audit landing page copy
by afrazullal | 2026-01-08 14:59:06+00:00
Hey HN,
We all know the pain: The code is clean, the product is solid, but the landing page isn't converting.
I built Vect (vect.pro) to solve this. It’s an Autonomous Marketing OS, but the core feature is the Conversion Killer Detector.
Instead of just "generating text", it acts as a hostile auditor. It simulates a skeptical buyer's inner monologue to flag exactly where your copy is vague, passive, or confusing.
The Tech:
Frontend: React + TypeScript (Command Center UI).
Reasoning: Gemini 2.5 Flash for the audit logic.
Simulation: It runs your copy through 10 distinct "Skeptic" personas to find friction points.
It’s free to try the audit. I built this to help technical founders stop losing sales to bad copy.
Link: https://vect.pro/
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-08 14:59:12+00:00
Agreed. Provides no obvious benefit to either me or society at large. Normalizes collection of biometrics. Implementation details not easy to verify - they could be lying or could silently change things later.

The entire scheme has a very high abuse potential. Equipment and personnel set up at major ports and their presence normalized. Turnkey authoritarianism at its finest.
by dylan604 | 2026-01-08 14:59:28+00:00
What CRT standard is this meant to be emulating? It can't be NTSC, it's too clean. Red would never display that cleanly. Red was infamous for bleeding as the saturation increased. Never had much experience with True PAL in that I've only ever seen PAL at 60Hz so I'm not sure if had the same bleeding red issue.

It's these kinds of details that cab really set your yet another emulator apart
by leephillips | 2026-01-08 14:59:28+00:00
It’s just transient fashion, driven by people who don’t read books. In another few years the same type of people might be using “employ” or something instead of “utilize”, or returning to “use”.

If you want your English to be good, try to spend more time with books, and less time with anything written after about 1960. This (excellent, and free) advice applies to native speakers as well as those enjoying English as a second (or third, etc.) language.
by AndrewKemendo | 2026-01-08 14:59:39+00:00
I’m not a screen so stop projecting

My hope is that people wake up but I do not have any confidence that that is actually going to happen, as I stated

You use the word “mocking” but it’s inappropriate here - a better word to use would be “challenging” or “agitating.”

Ultimately if my life is surrounded by a bunch of robots who can do all the things that are necessary in order to move the epistemological foundations of reality forward that’s more than I could say for any collection of humans.

After over 40 years of experience as a human I can tell you definitively the humans are the number one problem in the world.
by ctime | 2026-01-08 14:59:43+00:00
Not anymore than an occupied rental house with a bad tenant.

Many vacant homes in the SF bay have been that way for years and have appreciated tremendously.

Mant would perfectly prefer buying poorly maintained boomer stock, holding for roughly forever (in ideal markets, like the distorted California/Prop13) and leveraging it like a brick of gold. Actually having someone live in it doesn’t outweigh the risk of managing pesky tenants esp. when the houses are appreciating 500k over 5 years.
by abstractanimal | 2026-01-08 15:00:19+00:00
My elderly dad is suffering from cognitive decline but likes to play computer games.

I realize he can't even open Steam without getting bombarded by ads from MSN in the start menu.

I'm angry at Microsoft for this. Instead of being good stewards of "computing", the environment they provide is poorly designed and exploitative.

Shame on the people at Microsoft responsible.
by 9rx | 2026-01-08 15:00:25+00:00
> But shouldn't the check just be that the candidate has used more than one different stack?

If you had another filtering mechanism, perhaps you could do that. But what other arbitrary, legally accepted, filter are you going to use instead? Can't realistically throw out all the resumes with female names, for example. What is acceptable is pretty narrow.

If you had all the time in the world you could interview every last one of them, but in the real world you have to pick a few to interview and live with your choice.
by onionisafruit | 2026-01-08 15:00:25+00:00
> If you wanted to verify the contents of a dependency, you would want to check go.sum

You're right, but also TFA says "There is truly no use case for ever parsing it outside of cmd/go". Since cmd/go verifies the contents of your dependencies, the point generally stands. If you don't trust cmd/go to verify a dependency, then you have a valid exception to the rule.
by m348e912 | 2026-01-08 15:01:07+00:00
Gemini 3 is great, I have moved from gpt and haven't looked back.
However, like many great models, I suspect they're expensive to run and eventually Google will nerf the model once it gains enough traction, either by distillation, quantizing, or smaller context windows in order to stop bleeding money.

Here is a report (whether true or not) of it happening:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GeminiAI/comments/1q6ecwy/gemini_30...
by ecb_penguin | 2026-01-08 15:01:09+00:00
> you're still going to have to job hop to get a respectable pay bump

This doesn't exist in a vacuum. I do tasks now for future interviews.

> Might as well work less and spend time polishing your resume/side projects to make yourself as employable as possible.

I don't know what jobs you're applying to, but unless your side project is successful, nobody cares. What they do care about is what you did at your last employer.

> This is 100% the fault of poor incentives on the part of employers.

The people who have your mindset are the people perpetually stuck at poor employers.
by Izkata | 2026-01-08 15:01:20+00:00
> This already "exists", go to a label, tick the top checkbox above all the rows, then "Select all 5,192 conversations in 'ThisLabel'", then "Delete".

Also works with any search.

> "Exists" in scare quotes because their own interface is absolutely atrocious for doing this, as on e.g. a label with ~50k messages (I was mass-deleting some large mailing lists recently) there's maybe a 5-10% change the operation will eventually finish, and not just leave it at ~45k or whatever.

I've found it to reliably work with even more than that, if you leave the tab open and just wait. It seems to do an initial UI update with those ~5k or so, then continue deleting in the background. Feels like it's done entirely in the frontend, where it deletes a batch, grabs the next, delete, grab next, delete, etc etc etc.
by Tadpole9181 | 2026-01-08 15:02:08+00:00
I just watched a video where, at night in an isolated road flanked by woods, a man stops his truck in front of a woman in her car alone. He then sprints from his car toward her driver side door.

That woman would be raped and murdered in the middle of nowhere if her car disallowed her from making an executive decision for her safety.

Your idea is bad.
by hollerith | 2026-01-08 15:02:16+00:00
Bazzite is part of Universal Blue. Source: https://universal-blue.org/#images.

The first paragraph of the home page of https://universal-blue.org/ ends with "We produce a diverse set of continuously delivered operating system images using bootc."

Another author explains: "Bazzite utilizes bootc to manage the base image for your system, pin specific versions, and perform rollbacks when needed. For systems with customized software via layered packages, rpm-ostree becomes essential for installing, upgrading, and managing those additions."

"Why do this? Each tool is chosen for its strengths: bootc offers robust control over base images, ensuring that your core system remains unchanged unless you explicitly update it, while rpm-ostree provides flexibility for managing additional software without compromising the integrity of the atomic base. This separation helps maintain stability and security. Bazzite uses bootc for managing system images and rpm-ostree for adding layered packages."

Source: https://knowledgebase.frame.work/en_us/how-to-manage-bazzite...

Of course, nothing I wrote contradicts your assertion that rpm-ostree "is freaking buggy, annoying", but it does cast doubt in my mind on your belief that bootc can by itself completely replace rpm-ostree.

Thanks for your reply.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-08 15:02:32+00:00
Ketogenic diets are high fat. I suggested that a diet where the bulk of your calories comes from protein (not lipids, carbohydrates, or simple sugars) was probably not great for your health.

Your body can certainly "manage" on a high protein low fat low carb diet but I don't understand it to be good for you.
by burkaman | 2026-01-08 15:02:38+00:00
Here's the US vaccine schedule pre-RFK: https://archive.cdc.gov/#/details?q=schedule&start=0&rows=10...

Here's a site where you can view vaccine schedules across Europe: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/

The only outlier is Hepatitis A, which is still recommended in some European countries. On the reverse side, the meningococcal vaccine is commonly scheduled in Europe but not in the US.
by h14h | 2026-01-08 15:02:52+00:00
The Tailwind Team's Refactoring UI book was a big eye opener for me. I had no idea how many subtle insights are required to create truly effective UX.

I think people vastly underestimate just how much work goes into determining the correct set of primitives create a design system like Tailwind, let alone a full blown component library like TailwindUI.
by ecb_penguin | 2026-01-08 15:02:58+00:00
> I suppose you've also never noticed those big orange or green "This vehicle is parked illegally" stickers that tow companies put on cars that, for whatever reason, they are unable to move. The building where I live uses them all the time.

Cars are not buildings. I don't know if this escaped your notice or not...

I noticed you only used an example that didn't fit your first claim. Why is that?

> There's a whole real world of things out there that have apparently escaped your notice.

You were talking about buildings, not cars. Why are you changing the topic?

Do you find it's easier to be snarky if you respond to things nobody said?

> You should check your indignity until you've seen more of it.

Are cars and buildings the same thing?
by wat10000 | 2026-01-08 15:03:56+00:00
Definitions aren't that important. What's important is figuring out what contributes to society and what ends up just looting our attention.

A good (but not perfect) guideline is that voluntary transactions are beneficial to both parties because otherwise they wouldn't participate, and transactions where one party doesn't actively agree to it are often bad because the other party has no incentive to make it otherwise.

That's why I focused on whether the viewer actually wants it. If I seek it out, then it's useful or at least entertaining. If I don't, then it's probably a net negative for me.
by justin66 | 2026-01-08 15:03:59+00:00
I read the above comment as "don't get out of the car when you're pulled over unless you're ordered to," and it's important advice. There was a time when one would get out of the car after being pulled over, walk up and meet the cop and find out what was up. That time is very, very firmly over in the United States.

> Police conduct over 30 million vehicle stops per year without incident.

Read the room.
by sneak | 2026-01-08 15:04:05+00:00
A reminder: cardiovascular disease is right up there close to tied with cancer for the #1 killer in non-accidental deaths.

Cholesterol only comes from animals. Non-animal protein sources are much safer and healthier for humans to consume. This website is not science, it's ideology.

But we already knew that's all we could expect from RFK and this administration.
by ossa-ma | 2026-01-08 15:04:32+00:00
Good post, outlines what a GOOD senior/staff engineer does well and identifying which of these LLMs are missing.

> But the model may need to actually do wetwork (e.g., talk to humans) to get all of the information it needs.

Even this line shows how limited LLMs are in that they have a single source of truth and guidance (the user), I've yet to see any examples of agents that are really collaborative and take multiple inputs from multiple users (not sources, users, we know LLMs can web search and file search). I think that may be the next step before an embodied independent agent.
by mrhappypappy | 2026-01-08 15:04:33+00:00
Insomnia is a common sleep disorder that affects millions of people worldwide. If you find yourself struggling to fall asleep, staying asleep, or waking up too early and being unable to return to slumber, you may be experiencing insomnia. This condition can manifest in various forms, including acute insomnia, which lasts for a short period, and chronic insomnia, which persists for a month or longer.
by dylan604 | 2026-01-08 15:05:07+00:00
You doubt they are less bulky? A screen the size of something you claim as large as "queen-sized mattress" would dwarf the largest of CRTs. It would also be drastically lighter. I'm guessing the weight of the thing would still be manageable by one person if not for the awkwardness of the size. Modern TVs are damn near weightless when compared to CRTs. Even your "queen-sized mattress" example could fit so many more into a shipping container than you could with CRTs. Even if the CRTs could fit more with respect to volume, their weight would quickly become a limiting factor.

"less bulky". I'm flabbergasted at the implication
by bitshiftfaced | 2026-01-08 15:05:09+00:00
How does this work with respect to using a remote? I know something like a Roku remote would work display-wise, but you usually program it to use the signal that the your brand of TV responds to. That way you can use the Roku/whatever remote to turn on the actual TV and control audio. Speaking of, how does audio work for this set up?
by tremon | 2026-01-08 15:05:46+00:00
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by iamsamwood | 2026-01-08 15:06:16+00:00
Those tools are excellent for simple data movement, but drag-and-drop becomes unwieldy as logic density increases. This often leads to script bloat, where developers embed code inside nodes, creating the worst of both worlds. We keep process logic as code so you can use standard dev tools—like Git, Cursor, and CI/CD—while maintaining a high-quality integration DX.

We also use a highly performant Go and LevelDB runtime for solid performance at high scale, and our focus on enterprise means we include all the compliance features and industry-specific integrations that aren't native to other platform.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-08 15:06:27+00:00
SOTA for frame interpretation today is probably RIFE (https://github.com/hzwer/ECCV2022-RIFE) as far as I know, which is fast as hell as well, and really good results still. But it's already 4 years old now, anyone know if there is anything better than RIFE for this sort of stuff today?
by MontgomeryPy | 2026-01-08 15:06:55+00:00
The comments on early Google circulating value resonate. As a web developer then it was great to add free Google services that enhanced my site/shared revenue (e.g site search, adsense, maps, analytics, etc). It's what I see really lacking in OpenAI's centralized approach. They've extracted all my old site data for their use but have offered no complementary value in return. Which is what this article speaks to in part.
by Bridged7756 | 2026-01-08 15:06:59+00:00
People who make that kind of remarks should be called out and shunned. The Rust community is tired of discrimination and being the butt of jokes. All the other inferior languages prey on its minority status, despite Rust being able to solve all their problems. I take offense to these remarks, I don't want my kids to grow up as Rustaceans in such a caustic society.
by hwguy45 | 2026-01-08 15:07:04+00:00
This is suicidal empathy. Mercy for the guilty is cruelty for the innocent.

I think it's cruel and inhumane to let millions unvetted into our neighborhoods, schools, and communities.

It means less jobs for American young people. It means loss of culture and shared spaces. It means your kids having a worse educational experience because their classmates don't speak the same language. It means terrorists and spies can sneak across the border.

It's weakness and we need to stop rationalizing it.

Would you want these people as your neighbor? Not speaking English? How about your whole town?

It's cruel. And nobody cares about Americans, only the foreigners who can't build a safe and prosperous country of their own.