MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by exodust | 2026-02-04 08:19:40+00:00
Agreed. My recent side projects involve lots of thinking over days and weeks.

With AI we can set high bars and do complex original stuff. Obviously boilerplate and common patterns are slop slap without much thinking. That's why you branch into new creative territory. The challenge then becomes visualising the mental map of modular pieces all working nicely together at the right time to achieve your original intent.
by KempyKolibri | 2026-02-04 08:21:35+00:00
Yeah, IMO there’s a continuum between lean meats that I’d classify as relatively middle-of-the-road healthwise (like chicken), and processed red meat (pretty adverse health outcomes even from small amounts), and the fact that there’s a “butter and bacon are health foods” movement seems insane to me.

Unfortunately trends towards plant-based food seem to have taken a step backwards in recent years and I suspect the current moral panic around UPFs hasn’t helped. But the evidence on UPFs as harmful is pretty tenuous at the moment, while the evidence on meat and adverse health effects is considerably more comprehensive.
by raygoh | 2026-02-04 08:21:48+00:00
Hi HN

I built CookPal to solve a small but annoying problem for myself: I kept saving recipes from websites, TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram, but never actually used them because they were messy, ad-heavy, and hard to follow while cooking.

CookPal lets you import recipes from:

Any recipe website (URL parsing)

TikTok / Instagram / YouTube links

Photos of recipes or screenshots

Manual text input

It turns them into clean, distraction-free recipe cards with features like Cook Mode, ingredient scaling by servings, and a simple shopping list.

This is an iOS app built with React Native (Expo) + a lightweight backend for parsing. It’s still early, and I’d love any feedback on UX, parsing accuracy, or missing features you’d personally want.

App Store link:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cookpal-recipe-organizer/id675...

Happy to answer any questions about the tech or product decisions.
by arcologies1985 | 2026-02-04 08:22:30+00:00
Various patents expired and now you can get excellent typing keyboards from China for $30-50. Basically everyone I know who types for a living has one.

Gamers have moved on to analog keyboards which are controversial because some of their features straddle the line into cheats. e.g. with an analog keyboards you can negate all inertia in Counter-Strike or do speed tricks in Trackmania not otherwise easily accessible to keyboard players.
by another_twist | 2026-02-04 08:23:34+00:00
Silent naive compliance. AI will try to follow the prompt almost to a fault and because AI doesnt talk back, its upto the operator / engineer to ensure that requirements are well scoped. Product meetings often have a form of hand-waviness to details. The little assumptions which are out of place are what slow down a project the most. The issue is that with AI it is easy to quickly go far down the wrong road. I think thats the reason for the slow down that people experience.

Ironically, the very agents designed to replace engineers are now making engineers more important. These requirement collection skills can and should be folded into the existing craft of software engineering.
by bambax | 2026-02-04 08:23:50+00:00
That's not my experience at all. I manufactured simple objects in China some years ago (2017-2020) at scale (around 50k units) and everything went extremely well.

The objects were order of magnitude simpler than in the post (no electronics and no plastic, only metal) so maybe that doesn't compare, but I never had any bad surprise from any supplier, including packaging (which can be quite complex and involve several providers), etc.

Everyone will gladly send you samples (for free!) and prototypes of what you imagine (usually at cost) and if you're explicit about what you want and validate each step before the next, everything goes well.

Eventually I moved on to other things for mostly bureaucratic reasons; selling objects in Europe is an administrative nightmare that's simply not worth the hassle.

But the manufacturing part was not just smooth -- it was the best part of the experience.

(And I never left my town and never even talked to anyone over the phone: the primary means of communication was email.)

Edit: why would anyone downvote this, and so fast? If anyone thinks I'm being insincere, I have proof! ;-)
by spockz | 2026-02-04 08:24:08+00:00
I still think MS Access was awesome. In the small companies I worked it was used successfully by moderately tech savvy directors and support employees to manage ERP, license generation, invoices, etc.

The most heard gripe was the concurrent access to the database file but I think that was solved by backing the forms by accessing anything over odbc.

It looked terrible but also was highly functional.
by linker3000 | 2026-02-04 08:24:11+00:00
I learned how to do lacing during an electronics engineering apprenticeship in the 1980s.

After the fact, when I moved more in to systems and networking, I found that flat, nylon, waxed lacing cord, with a small nut tied to the end, was lightweight and perfect for throwing through ducting and ceiling spaces very long distances, so you could backhaul cables through the void. It was a real time saver.
by 4gotunameagain | 2026-02-04 08:24:29+00:00
I am amazed that someone dared to list a lamp for $1200, that it sold that many units, and then proceeded to ship sub 1 dollar shitty screwdrivers with it.

Had I ordered a $1200 lamp and received a $0.1 screwdriver with it, I would be livid.

I guess it goes to show in what kind of an inflationary environment we live in.
by mnewme | 2026-02-04 08:24:51+00:00
This is the wrong take.

Yes they could have an uncensored model, but then they would need proper moderation and delete this kind of content instantly or ban users that produce it. Or don’t allow it in the first place.

It doesn’t matter how CSAM is produced, the only thing that matters is that is on the platform.

I am flabbergasted people even defend this
by dns_snek | 2026-02-04 08:24:51+00:00
> reading code is a much more difficult

Not inherently, no. Reading it and getting a cursory understanding is easy, truly understanding what it does well, what it does poorly, what the unintended side effects might be, that's the difficult part.

In real life I've witnessed quite a few intelligent and experienced people who truly believe that they're thinking "really hard" and putting out work that's just as good as their previous, pre-AI work, and they're just not. In my experience it roughly correlates to how much time they think they're saving, those who think they're saving the most time are in fact cutting corners and putting out the sloppiest quality work.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-04 08:25:34+00:00
> In future I think there will be more things like 'Time' (though presumably not MS Access based!)

That's my assertion - those things like 'Time' can be developed by an AI primarily because there is no requirement of an existence of a community from which to hire.

It's an example of a small ERP system - no consultants, no changes, no community, etc.

Large systems (Sage, SAP, Syspro, etc) are purchased based on the existing pool of contractors that can be hired.

Right now, if you had a competing SAP/Syspro system freshly developed, that had all the integrations that a customer needs, how on earth will they deploy it if they cannot hire people to deploy it?
by greentea23 | 2026-02-04 08:26:11+00:00
Yes. Nostr and ActivityPub are so easy too, I don't see much advantage to ATProto and so many disadvantages. It's as decentralized as a meme coin, just waiting for the rug pull.

To me something git-like with a peer review UI (a la pull requests) seems far more natural for distributed academic publications than a social media protocol though.
by raunaqvaisoha | 2026-02-04 08:26:59+00:00
I like the idea of saving recipes online. What I wish existed was something which would let me take a photo of a dish I’m eating and tell me how to replicate it at home. There’s been so many times I’ve eaten something at a restaurant or someone’s house and want to make it at home, but it’s inconvenient to ask for the recipe.
by mrheosuper | 2026-02-04 08:27:13+00:00
In my country, Guns and Bullets are heavily controlled(Even airsoft is banned here). You can not get explosive unless you prove you have legit use for it(usually for mining). And of course DIY gun or bullet is no-no and you will be jailed.

Even in police force or army, they literally count every single bullet, and for every fired bullet, it must be explained in detail.

Maybe that's why we have low gun-related crime here.
by jraby3 | 2026-02-04 08:27:17+00:00
A few additional items to rebut the lack of info in this Article:

- SpaceX just requested a license to launch up to a million satellites.

- the satellites already have some incredible anti collision software, which I believe Elon has now open sourced.

- the cost to launch 1 kg to space has dropped by a factor of 10 in the past few years and is currently less than $1000. It's perfectly reasonable to estimate that over the next 10 years the cost could drop by another factor of 10, if not more, particularly if the heavy rockets are reusable.

1. https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/31/spacex-seeks-federal-appro...

2. https://starlink.com/updates/stargaze

3. https://www.netizen.page/2025/05/cost-per-kilogram-to-low-ea...

Edit: added item 3
by hillac | 2026-02-04 08:27:35+00:00
Even high cri lights have a huge blue spike that doesn't match the sun. I don't know what chip OP uses, but you need a full spectrum light if you actually want very sun-like light. This page has some details:

https://optimizeyourbiology.com/best-natural-full-spectrum-l...

No idea if there's any evidence or not of the blue spike actually mattering for human biology.
by throwaway_61235 | 2026-02-04 08:28:06+00:00
I agree. I also find it interesting that many developers don't mind using Docker to run Redis / Postgresql and other services on Mac that are very simple to install and run directly. That's fine, but then they don't get to complain about Electron.

There are valid use cases for Docker on those types of software, but most users just use Docker for convenience or because "everyone else" uses them. Maybe influenced by Linux users where Docker has lower overhead. It's convenient for sure, but it also has a cost on Mac/Windows
by AndrewThrowaway | 2026-02-04 08:28:13+00:00
If you look at dog breeds the difference between longest living (~15 years) and shortest (~10 years) is ~5years or 50% of the lifetime.

However we still struggle to appoint the very same to humans. In popular sciences and general understanding we still give so much attention to food and exercise and lifestyle and etc.

As if somehow changing the diet and exercise plan of Chihuahua you could make it into Doberman.

Of course, you play with the cards you get. Diet and exercise help. However you should still be aware about the game you play.
Show HN: Ngx-locatorjs – open Angular components from the browser
by eastring | 2026-02-04 08:28:46+00:00
Hi HN,

I built ngx-locatorjs, an Angular-focused open‑in‑editor tool inspired by LocatorJS. It lets you Alt+Click in the browser to open templates/components in your editor during development.

I’m still a junior developer, so this library is very much a learning project. Bugs and suggestions are more than welcome.

Repo: https://github.com/Ea-st-ring/ngx-locator
npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/ngx-locatorjs
by anonymous908213 | 2026-02-04 08:29:29+00:00
> If I find out that a city councilman is accepting bribes or using public money for personal expenses, why should I protest "government as a whole" and not that one city councilman doing the bad thing? What is protesting government as a whole going to do about raising awareness of one person's corruption?

The government as a whole is responsible for dealing with the corruption of its subordinates. Here in Japan, we recently had a major corruption scandal that resulted in the resignation of PM Kishida in 2024. Kishida was not himself guilty, but nonetheless was made to take responsibility for overseeing the party which allowed this to happen. This is how it should be. For good governance to exist, the public must hold the government itself accountable such that the government is incentivized to root out corruption for its own survival.

> What way exists that is trivial for a journalist, but not trivial for anyone else?

Asking connections. They can make calls or send e-mails to people who would know, who will give them the information because they can trust the journalist, having an established professional career in journalism, will not use that information to attack the person at that address. It is much harder to trust a completely random person from the public with that information.

> It can pressure them to resign, or generate enough press and attention that they are removed from their position (voted out by the people for example), or just pressure them to do a better job so as not to outrage the people they're supposed to serve.

All of this can be accomplished without doing it at someone's home, and I don't believe doing it at their home increases the likelihood of it happening.
by nusl | 2026-02-04 08:29:37+00:00
My understanding is that it only surfaces the real keys when the request is actually sent under the hood, and doesn't make it available to the code itself, so that LLMs aren't able to query the key values. They have placeholder values for what seems to be obfuscation purposes, so that the LLM receives a fake value if it tries, which would help with stuff like prompt injection since that value is useless.
by 123malware321 | 2026-02-04 08:29:55+00:00
if you think someone with 1B is the same as someone with every month a minus number on their account then you are deluded.

A good measure of prosperity is quality of life, which sadly in our wonderful civilization one needs to buy with money.

And a little note. Billionaires do not eat the same food, do not take the same healthcare, and do not buy similar consumer goods for the most part. Maybe they will get the iPhone, but if you think a poor person can afford an iPhone maybe you also don't really understand what it is to be poor.

Poor people fighting hungerpains working their shit jobs. Poor people suffer from mental ailments induced by the stresses of being poor.

There is no parallel.
by RobinL | 2026-02-04 08:30:02+00:00
Agreed! The first piece of software I built was a simple inventory and sales management system, around 2000. I was 16 and it was just about my first experience programming.

It was for school, and I recently found the write up and was surprised how well the system worked.

Ever since I've marvelled at how easy it was to build something highly functional that could incorporate complex business logic, and wished there was a more modern equivalent.
by alexfernandez | 2026-02-04 08:31:33+00:00
Fair points. I am aware that it is a UAV, and that there are some harsh regulations around the world (e.g. drones are completely banned in Morocco). I am also willing to accept my vast ignorance. I don't know exactly what regulations apply to an autonomous airship: balloon, UAV, recreational amateur aircraft? Actual laws for the handful of countries involved in the actual trajectory (Nicaragua, Thailand, Egypt perhaps) are not easy to find online. So I changed the first paragraph to:

"Finally, what are the legal implications of flying an airship drone over foreign air spaces? This very complex area clearly requires in-depth study and careful consideration, and it lies completely out of my depth. The primary objective is just to avoid being shot down since I'm not planning to visit any foreign countries in person, so allow me to just touch over the main issues."
by rsynnott | 2026-02-04 08:31:35+00:00
> he did jumpstart the EV industry.

This is widely believed (especially in the US, where, other than the Leaf, most early electric cars never launched), but honestly pretty dubious. The first real electric cars, with significant production:

2010 - Mitsubishi i-MiEV, Nissan Leaf

2011 - Smart electric, Volvo C30 electric, Ford Focus electric, BYD e6.

2012 - Renault Zoe (Renault launched a couple of other vehicles on the same platform ~2010, but they never saw significant production), Tesla Model S (Tesla had a prior car, the Roadster, but it never saw significant production).

2013 - VW eUP, eGolf (VW occasionally put out an electric Golf historically, going back to 1992, but again those were never produced in large quantities).

The big change ~2010 was around the economics of lithium ion batteries; they finally got cheap enough that everyone started pulling their concept designs and small-scale demonstration models into full production.
by PeterStuer | 2026-02-04 08:31:38+00:00
I do agree up to a point as I still need to double take when I see MiB, but that said, I also do agree keeping SI unit prefixes standardized has great advantages.

So the "sane" options would be either not using SI for digital, or, what was chosen, change the colloquial prefixes in the digital world. The former would have been easier in the short term.
Show HN: Cloud Health Office – Open-source multi-cloud EDI+FHIR platform
by aurelianware | 2026-02-04 08:32:18+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm launching Cloud Health Office v3.0.0 — an open-source platform for healthcare payer EDI integration.

## The Problem

Healthcare payers (insurance companies) spend 6-8 weeks integrating each new payer for EDI transactions (claims, eligibility, prior auth). The process is:
- Entirely manual
- Vendor lock-in heavy
- Compliance-intensive (HIPAA, CMS regulations)
- Expensive ($50k-$100k per integration)

With the CMS-0057-F deadline (Jan 1, 2027), most payers need to support FHIR APIs but have no clear path.

## What I Built

A production-ready platform that:
- Handles X12 EDI (270/271/276/277/278/837/835/275) ↔ FHIR R4 transformation
- Deploys to any cloud (Azure/AWS/GCP via Kubernetes)
- Zero-code payer onboarding (5 minutes vs weeks)
- CMS-0057-F compliant out of the box
- 424 automated tests

Tech stack: TypeScript/Node.js, Kubernetes, Argo Workflows, Kafka, HashiCorp Vault

## Why Open Source

Healthcare interoperability should be a solved problem. The industry is fragmented with proprietary solutions. I wanted to create a reference implementation that:
- Shows how to do FHIR properly
- Avoids vendor lock-in
- Reduces barrier to entry for health tech startups
- Helps payers meet regulatory deadlines

## Current Status

- v3.0.0 just shipped (multi-cloud support)
- 424 tests passing
- Production deployments in test environments
- Apache 2.0 license

Repo: https://github.com/aurelianware/cloudhealthoffice

Would love feedback from the HN community, especially around:
- Multi-cloud deployment patterns
- FHIR implementation edge cases
- Healthcare compliance automation

Happy to answer questions!
by jrvarela56 | 2026-02-04 08:32:57+00:00
Just wrapped up my own module for this. Remixed my worktree workflow with a lima wrapper. I wanted to go head first to giving Claude Code full autonomy but realized capability and prevention need to go hand in hand

Next step for me is creating a secrets proxy like credit card numbers are tokenized to remove risk of exfiltrating credentials.

Edit: It’s nice that Deno Sandbox already does this. Will check it out.
If you read long ChatGPT answers, HighlightGPT is a nice way to ask in side
by jiqirenai | 2026-02-04 08:33:40+00:00
When reading long answers in ChatGPT, I often want to ask “what does this sentence mean?” or “can you explain this part deeper”, without breaking my reading flow.

I built / have been using HighlightGPT for this:

highlight any text inside ChatGPT

ask a follow-up question on that specific part

the answer shows up in a side panel, like an annotation, instead of pushing the whole thread down

It feels closer to how people leave comments or notes when reading docs or papers.

Curious if others here have similar workflows when reading long LLM outputs.

If you’re curious:
https://highlight.jiqiren.ai
by RugnirViking | 2026-02-04 08:34:46+00:00
this is so handwavy about so many disciplines of human effort?

robotics? (if you can assume AGI with a perfect world model and perfect motor skills you're insanely further than we are now, like hundreds of years in the future)

military planning? (the british isles haven't been invaded since roman times, hint its not for lack of soldiers)

logistics? (power? fuel? ammunition? boats? planes? parachutes?)

law? (where are you launching your invasion from? how are you testing the killbots without being noticed? who is letting you?)

it seems like the only way you believe this is if you've given completely up on trying to understand anything and just truly to your core think that AI = magic
by roadbuster | 2026-02-04 08:35:06+00:00
> All it really shows is that the “poor” are getting milked for everything they earn and own

How are you concluding that? The only way I can see that could be true is if the bottom 50% has shifted their meagre savings to spending in an effort to stay afloat.

I find this to be dubious because the bottom 50% was never saving much at all in the first place. For context, the median income across planet earth is $850 USD _per year._ There's not a lot of room at the bottom for savings.
by Arun2009 | 2026-02-04 08:35:10+00:00
This is as disingenuous as saying that both the rich and the poor consume the same amounts of calories, nutrients, oxygen and water, and hence they are not that different.

The key issue is that money often translates to such things as power and leisure. Prosperity is not consumption - it is the command over power, resources and time.

The poor have to sell their time in order to afford the basic necessities of life; the rich don't have to. So the rich have a lot more free time than the poor and the resources to use it well. The rich simply are freer than the poor, who are not unlike prisoners with no claim over their time.

The rich also get to influence policies to a far greater extent than the poor. In a way, wealth is just stored influence. This in turn helps them perpetuate their privilege. For instance, they can fund narratives that normalize inequality and lobby for lower taxes.

The lives of the rich are also far more secure than the lives of the poor. Many poor people are one major life crisis away from penury. This significantly affects the quality of their lives. Access to more wealth would mitigate this.

One could also flip your argument as follows: wealth is a scarce resource. If the rich already have everything they need to live a happy life at low amounts of wealth, then letting them horde more wealth than necessary is unjustified. Instead, that should be distributed to those in need. This would make no difference to the well-being of the wealthy, but it would help others who need resources more.
by tiagod | 2026-02-04 08:35:40+00:00
"To be clear, we’re not just talking about length, although at 47 inches long it’s certainly substantial. But extremely long zip ties already exist for things like wrapping large bundles of cable. This one is also cartoonishly thick, and features a similarly upscaled locking mechanism that allows it to hold up to 2,000 pounds, according to the company."
by kuschku | 2026-02-04 08:36:01+00:00
> a thermos is specifically good at insulating because not only does it have a vacuum gap, it's also got two layers of metal (inner and outer) to absorb and reflect thermal radiation.

Not necessarily. There are many modern thermos "cups" that are just a regular cup, except with two layers of glass and a vacuum. Even the top is open all the time. (e.g. https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/passerad-double-wall-glass-8054... )

It's still good enough to keep your coffee hot for an entire day.