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Nestlé couldn't crack Japan's coffee market.Then they hired a child psychologist

https://twitter.com/BigBrainMkting/status/2019792335509541220
1•rmason•40s ago•0 comments

Notes for February 2-7

https://taoofmac.com/space/notes/2026/02/07/2000
2•rcarmo•2m ago•0 comments

Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/07/boomers_vs_zoomers_workplace/
1•Willingham•9m ago•0 comments

The Big Hunger by Walter J Miller, Jr. (1952)

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-big-hunger
1•shervinafshar•10m ago•0 comments

The Genus Amanita

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita.html
1•rolph•15m ago•0 comments

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

https://shattered.io/
2•mooreds•15m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Was my first management job bad, or is this what management is like?

1•Buttons840•16m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to Reduce Time Spent Crimping?

1•pinkmuffinere•18m ago•0 comments

KV Cache Transform Coding for Compact Storage in LLM Inference

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01815
1•walterbell•22m ago•0 comments

A quantitative, multimodal wearable bioelectronic device for stress assessment

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67747-9
1•PaulHoule•24m ago•0 comments

Why Big Tech Is Throwing Cash into India in Quest for AI Supremacy

https://www.wsj.com/world/india/why-big-tech-is-throwing-cash-into-india-in-quest-for-ai-supremac...
1•saikatsg•24m ago•0 comments

How to shoot yourself in the foot – 2026 edition

https://github.com/aweussom/HowToShootYourselfInTheFoot
1•aweussom•25m ago•0 comments

Eight More Months of Agents

https://crawshaw.io/blog/eight-more-months-of-agents
3•archb•27m ago•0 comments

From Human Thought to Machine Coordination

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202602/from-human-thought-to-machine-coo...
1•walterbell•27m ago•0 comments

The new X API pricing must be a joke

https://developer.x.com/
1•danver0•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RMA Dashboard fast SAST results for monorepos (SARIF and triage)

https://rma-dashboard.bukhari-kibuka7.workers.dev/
1•bumahkib7•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Source code graphRAG for Java/Kotlin development based on jQAssistant

https://github.com/2015xli/jqassistant-graph-rag
1•artigent•33m ago•0 comments

Python Only Has One Real Competitor

https://mccue.dev/pages/2-6-26-python-competitor
4•dragandj•35m ago•0 comments

Tmux to Zellij (and Back)

https://www.mauriciopoppe.com/notes/tmux-to-zellij/
1•maurizzzio•35m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How are you using specialized agents to accelerate your work?

1•otterley•37m ago•0 comments

Passing user_id through 6 services? OTel Baggage fixes this

https://signoz.io/blog/otel-baggage/
1•pranay01•38m ago•0 comments

DavMail Pop/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP Exchange Gateway

https://davmail.sourceforge.net/
1•todsacerdoti•38m ago•0 comments

Visual data modelling in the browser (open source)

https://github.com/sqlmodel/sqlmodel
1•Sean766•40m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tharos – CLI to find and autofix security bugs using local LLMs

https://github.com/chinonsochikelue/tharos
1•fluantix•41m ago•0 comments

Oddly Simple GUI Programs

https://simonsafar.com/2024/win32_lights/
1•MaximilianEmel•41m ago•0 comments

The New Playbook for Leaders [pdf]

https://www.ibli.com/IBLI%20OnePagers%20The%20Plays%20Summarized.pdf
1•mooreds•42m ago•1 comments

Interactive Unboxing of J Dilla's Donuts

https://donuts20.vercel.app
1•sngahane•43m ago•0 comments

OneCourt helps blind and low-vision fans to track Super Bowl live

https://www.dezeen.com/2026/02/06/onecourt-tactile-device-super-bowl-blind-low-vision-fans/
1•gaws•45m ago•0 comments

Rudolf Vrba

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Vrba
1•mooreds•45m ago•0 comments

Autism Incidence in Girls and Boys May Be Nearly Equal, Study Suggests

https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/autism/119747
1•paulpauper•46m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

What Really Caused the Sriracha Shortage? (2024)

https://fortune.com/2024/01/30/sriracha-shortage-huy-fong-foods-tabasco-underwood-ranches/
29•indigodaddy•5mo ago

Comments

drob518•5mo ago
Can’t we all just get along?
Loughla•5mo ago
For short periods of time, yes. Over longer time spans, absolutely not.

Source: all of human history.

mcphage•5mo ago
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/592/
r0ckarong•5mo ago
Paranoid old men accuse each other of trying to rip each other off after decades of successful partnership. Sad.
indigodaddy•5mo ago
From what I've been reading, Huy Fong Sriracha hasn't been the same since. My bottles last a very long time, so haven't had too many new bottles since 2017, but I can't say that my likely unrefined pallette has noticed a difference though..? Haven't tried the Underwood version yet either.
jmpman•5mo ago
Underwood’s version is different, as if they weren’t trying to make a duplicate, which is unfortunate. Had they made an exact duplicate, the market would have pivoted fast to Underwood. Sriracha hasn’t been the same since. I no longer buy it. Ruined his company and product over a few additional pennies he didn’t need.
joezydeco•5mo ago
Is the Tabasco replica any good?
konfusinomicon•5mo ago
its gotta a very different flavor but is still pretty good.
busymom0•5mo ago
I personally like the Lee Kum Kee brand's Sriracha and TNT brand's as well.
some-guy•5mo ago
I buy them often. I haven’t noticed a huge difference between the two and enough time has passed that I have forgotten what the original tastes like.
oarla•5mo ago
Handshake agreements will most likely fall apart in time due to changing needs and personalities. This is why contracts are absolutely needed, especially for the size of business Sriracha was involved in.

Except for the court ruling of 13 million in favor of Underwood Ranch, the article isn’t very clear in the amount by which the 2 companies disagreed so difficult to say if it was purely a clash of the 2 owner’s personalities or some other fundamental change in market that brought this sudden schism.

steezeburger•5mo ago
It seemed pretty clear to me that Tran started looking for cheaper peppers elsewhere first.
indigodaddy•5mo ago
It wasn't that clear to me. Do you mean by the fact that he started the Chilico company and tried to hire Underwood's manager? That did seem a little shady, but it just seemed like there aren't enough details out in the open to know for sure. Although I suppose the 13M judgement against Huy Fong supports the case.
bigstrat2003•5mo ago
That was certainly my impression from the article as well.
washadjeffmad•5mo ago
Footnote:

This article appears in the February/March 2024 issue of Fortune with the headline “Hot Mess.”

zackmorris•5mo ago
Back in the 90s when I was in college, my friend brought back Sambal Asli hot sauce packets from Indonesia after holiday breaks. I think he said it meant "real sauce" but I just looked it up and it might mean "original sauce".

The funny thing about it is that you build up a tolerance to how hot it is. So the first time you try it, a few drops feel like your face is burning off. By the end of the semester, we were pouring full packets on each slice of pizza.

I just looked and I can't find the (ketchup sized) packets online. So I don't have anything to recognize the brand from. If anyone knows, please share! They are at least as addictive as Sriracha IMHO, should there ever be another shortage.

dyauspitr•5mo ago
Sambal Asli is something like 2500 Scoville. That is an extremely mild level of spiciness. If you thought your face was burning off with that your spice tolerance is incredibly low.
nearting•5mo ago
Sure, but I think the point is that you can build up some level of spice tolerance over time. Doesn't really make sense to judge someone's spice tolerance based on before they built it up.
dyauspitr•5mo ago
It’s like someone saying 80F is very cold, it’s jarring.
eszed•5mo ago
Funnily enough, my brain went there, too - only to derive opposite lesson. When I was a teenager I spent a summer in central America, living in mostly un-air conditioned spaces. The first few weeks were hellish, but I became gradually used to it. Then I came home, and remember 80° F, with no humidity, feeling distinctly chilly!

I think the lesson there is that subjective / comparative judgments are, well, always and irremediably subjective. It's never possible to impose an alternative frame of reference and get to a "true" answer. That's frustrating for those of us who prefer to live in the objective realm - but it's maybe comforting to recognize that these matters are objectively subjective!

lazylizard•5mo ago
one of the funniest foods ever..a vietnamese dude making a fake thai chilli sauce with mexican chillies in usa...
indigodaddy•5mo ago
Sounds like you don't care for Sriracha? :)
imtringued•5mo ago
His point is that Sriracha doesn't come from Si Racha. It's Asian food originating from the US.
indigodaddy•5mo ago
I think it's a fantastic and inspiring immigrant and entrepreneurial success story, notwithstanding the recent struggles.
konfusinomicon•5mo ago
america in a squirt bottle