MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by colesantiago | 2026-01-16 16:35:01+00:00
The problem with this article is that after all the low hanging fruit white collar jobs (writing, programming, artists, finance, etc) are done by AI, this is next in the value chain.

WIRED has just told VCs and private equity investors alike what the new value is for budding and existing AI startups they funded to scoop the value creation ROI for their funds.

So this will end up having the opposite effect over time. It will go like this:

AI as an assistant (25% of work done by AI) + experienced electrician / plumber (75% of work done by human)

AI doing half the work (50% of work done by AI) + experienced electrician / plumber (50% of work done by human)

AI does most of the work (75% of work done by AI) + experienced electrician / plumber (25% of work done by human)

AI does almost all the work (95% of work done by AI) + experienced/junior electrician / plumber (5% of work done by human)

AI does 100% of all the work.

During this process, the VCs and investors already made a killing on the public and private markets. Returns parts or all of the fund, raises a new fund and onto the next "safe job"

Rinse and repeat.
by mindslight | 2026-01-16 16:35:21+00:00
Yes, sure. But this appears to be one of Trump's goals as well. Every single policy is designed to irredeemably wreck our country - riffing off of longstanding frustrations by Republicans and ostensibly aimed at fixing them so they cheer in support, but implemented so terribly wrong that it's hard to keep assuming mere incompetence rather than an active hybrid warfare attack.
Ask HN: Is token-based pricing making AI harder to use in production?
by Barathkanna | 2026-01-16 16:35:34+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve noticed a recurring theme in many threads here: AI is powerful, but once you move past demos, token-based pricing becomes expensive and hard to reason about.

We ran into this problem ourselves while building AI-powered systems. Predicting costs, budgeting usage, and experimenting safely all got harder as workloads grew. So we built a small AI inference platform focused on lower and more predictable costs, optimizing for affordability rather than chasing the latest model.

This is still early, and I’m mainly posting to learn from others here. For people running AI in production, what’s been the hardest part to manage so far? Cost, predictability, performance, or something else?

I’d really appreciate any insights or experiences.
by cornholio | 2026-01-16 16:35:35+00:00
It's an archetypal social coordination problem that can't be solved at a local level. If relaxed zoning pushes all new buildings into my neighborhood, because all other vote against it, then I'm going to end up with 20 stories of balconies hanging above my property but see no benefits, not even indirect ones like lower rents leading to lower inflation and prices etc. Some developer will simply capture that rent - both in the rent extraction sense and the real estate rent meanings.

A smart central planner can act for the shared benefit, they are sensitive to the votes of renters in some other high density area that also can't solve the problem locally etc.
by mootoday | 2026-01-16 16:35:40+00:00
After reading the article, I built a tool like that with sprites.dev. There's a websocket to communicate stdout and stderr to the client.

Web app submits the prompt, a sandbox starts on sprites.dev and any Claude output in the sandbox gets piped to the web app for display.

Not sure I can open source it as it's something I built for a client, but ask if you have any questions.
by Arch485 | 2026-01-16 16:36:11+00:00
The "7+" clients thing is actually "more than 7 but I keep getting new clients and don't want to update my resume every time", but I get how that comes across.

For the max professional exp: does freelancing not count? I was making bank in high school, so I figured if I'm doing contract work for employers and making money, then it's professional, no? (naturally freelance isn't going so well now, otherwise I wouldn't be looking for a job)

Otherwise that all makes sense, thanks for the feedback! :)
by scarecrowbob | 2026-01-16 16:36:36+00:00
This is why folks talk about organization around guns. If it's a homeowner with a firearm and some singular criminal (which I feel is so vanishingly rare as to practically only exist in NRA supporters fantasies) then exercising the castle doctrine seems reasonable.

If it's you versus the entire US state effectively standing on your doorstep with a battering ram, it feel like there are plenty of obvious cases ranging from "the average black experience" to "Ruby Ridge and Waco" which demonstrate that after the government has murdered you it's hard to remedy that fact in court.

I think ICE is relying on that, which given historical precedent seems rational (even if it's not ethical).

However, you would probably be right if you pointed out that they are rapidly starting to operate in unprecedented territory.

It's possible that once they start trying to harass organized protestors and activists instead of individuals they might find themselves in much different situations, unable to find a handy person like William O'Neal (who helped murder Fred Hampton) to set things up for them.
by georgehopkin | 2026-01-16 16:36:50+00:00
A major attempt to explain near-death experiences as simple brain chemistry has been dismantled by top experts, who argue the theory ignores the “perplexing” reality of what happens when we die.

The ambitious international effort to create a scientific framework for near-death experiences (NDEs) failed to solve the mystery, according to a new analysis from the University of Virginia (UVA).

In a paper published in Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research and Practice, UVA researchers argue that the new model – known as NEPTUNE – cannot account for the life-changing, multi-sensory phenomena reported by those who have brushed with death.
by jasonwatkinspdx | 2026-01-16 16:36:50+00:00
Years and years ago I shared a cubicle with a woman named Tracy. A couple times a month Tracy would get lunch at the Mongolian BBQ place down the road (all you can eat stir fry that has nothing to do with Mongolian food for anyone unfamiliar).

Anyhow, Tracy would put a gallon sized ziplock bag into her purse, and at the restaurant shovel half a dozen plates worth of food into it. Then she'd work the afternoon eating out of her purse like it's a bowl, just sitting there on the desk.
by bflesch | 2026-01-16 16:37:03+00:00
US cyber capabilities have an edge because they can analyze all of our data stored with US tech companies and they have interception points on all major internet cables.

Their human intelligence is much better prepared to "convince" someone to act against their own interest if they can look at your last ten years of communication, family pictures, and web browsing history before they even meet you.

Imagine working in a foreign country where death penalty is applied to certain crimes, like blasphemy or homosexuality. They just need to find one person in the target organization who has a secret twitter account that talked badly about god and then they hit them up and tell them to plug in a certain USB stick to a certain system. Cyber operation succeeded because they have a shell.
by dylan604 | 2026-01-16 16:37:17+00:00
Are all options available to the group policy? Since this is not directly modifying your app and merely creating a group policy for the browser to use, there might be some things not able to be set there. I have not experience with these group policies. Just thinking of why something might be missing as you stated. It could also be considered out of scope for the dev making this project.
by LunaSea | 2026-01-16 16:37:18+00:00
> Or also, AI music will lessen the good feeling some people get when they believe that musicians can make money producing music.

If that is your way of saying that AI will remove the possibility for humans to create music full time due to there being no money anymore in music then sure.

> I don't disagree that these things exist, but I do believe that these are mostly propped up by dynamics that will soon no longer exist.

Which are?
by lentil_soup | 2026-01-16 16:37:42+00:00
Let's not take Maduro at his word, he's great at playing the victim to hide their corruption. Venezuela has been in an energy crisis since 2009 with rationing still happening everywhere in the country except in Caracas [1] big part of it from the Odebrecht corruption scandal [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_crisis_in_Venezuela

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odebrecht_case#Venezuela
by MSFT_Edging | 2026-01-16 16:38:37+00:00
In the 2019 book "Sandworm", which discusses cyber warfare against infrastructure like this, but between Russia and Ukraine, the author begs the question in an interview with a US military/intelligence official,

"why doesn't the US go after these hackers and designate targeting civilian infrastructure as a crime?"

To which the response was essentially "The US would like to reserve those types of cyber attacks for their own uses"

These quotes are very loose, I read it last year, but essentially, the US didn't make a stink about older grid attacks in order to save face when the US does it.

Additionally, much of VZ's difficulty was due to the massive sanctions against the nation. Sanctions are effectively attacks on a nation's citizens to pressure the government. Disabling power infrastructure is absolutely in-line with the motives of sanctions and embargos.
by horsawlarway | 2026-01-16 16:39:19+00:00
I'll espouse the flip side of this:

I've worked with a handful of excellent QA. In my opinion - the best QA is basically a product manager lite. They understand the user, and they act from the perspective of the user when evaluating new features. Not the "plan" for the feature. The actual implementation provided by development.

This means they clarify edge cases, call out spots that are confusing or tedious for a user, and understand & test how features interact. They help take a first draft of a feature to a much higher level of polish than most devs/pms actually think through, and avoid all sorts of long term problems with shipping features that don't play nicely.

I think it's a huge mistake to ask QA to do automation tests - Planning for them? Sure. Implementation? No. That's a dev's job, you should assign someone with that skillset (and pay them accordingly).

QA is there to drive quality up for your users, the value comes from the opinions they make after using what the devs provide (often repeatedly, like a user) - not from automating that process.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2026-01-16 16:39:21+00:00
James Hoffman's pourover and immersion dripper recipes are less muss and fuss, I would say, while still producing coffee that's far better than average.

While on the topic of James Hoffman and coffee, a <$100 device I'd nominate is the insulated heated mugs. I believe he tested the Ember Mug but there are competing models. For those who tend to drink their coffee while working, it's quite a decadent feeling to take a sip without ever having the unanticipated shock of your coffee having gone cold and having to trundle over to the microwave to warm it up (in my case sometimes more than once).
by like_any_other | 2026-01-16 16:39:26+00:00
> He’s quoted as arguing “we shouldn’t even have an election,” on account of how much the Trump Administration has accomplished.

Well I wanted to make up my own mind, but Time thinks it's appropriate to quote one fragment of a sentence, cutting off the start and end to leave only the middle (starts with a lowercase letter, ends with a comma). I don't want to appear greedy and ask for something as extravagant as multi-sentence context, so I guess I'll just think what Time wants me to think.
by jcranmer | 2026-01-16 16:39:27+00:00
It's a persistent misunderstanding that release-consume is about Alpha. It's not; in fact, Alpha is one of the few architectures where release-consume doesn't help.

In a TSO architecture like x86 or SPARC, every "regular" memory load/store is effectively a release/acquire by default. Using release/consume or relaxed provides no extra speedup on these architectures. In weak memory models, you need to add in acquire barriers to get release/acquire architectures. But also, most weak memory models have a basic rule that a data-dependent load has an implicit ordering dependency on the values that computed it (most notably, loading *p has an implicit dependency on p).

The goal of release/consume is to be able to avoid having an acquire fence if you have only those dependencies--to promote a hardware data dependency semantic rule to a language-level semantic rule. For Alpha's ultra-weak model, you still need the acquire fence in this mode, it doesn't help Alpha one whit. Unfortunately, for various reasons, no one has been able to work out a language-level semantics for consume that compilers are willing to implement (preserving data dependencies through optimizations is a lot more difficult than it appears), so all compilers have remapped consume to acquire, making it useless.
by cpburns2009 | 2026-01-16 16:40:03+00:00
No farm is needed. It's not that hard. I spent about: $25 on a chicken dish (chicken from Costco + ingredients), $15 for baked mac & cheese (ingredients from Meijer), $20 on ciders, $40 on 2 bottles of Cherry Republic wine. The other family members: $20 on raw vegetables and cheese platter; $20 on fruit; $10 potato dish; $10 vegetable dish; $15 on dessert; $15 on salad. Oh and $2 on juice boxes for the little kids (~4 from a juice box 40 pack from Costco). I'm estimating what the others spent, but that's what it would cost me to make the same dishes. That totals to $192.
by 05 | 2026-01-16 16:40:04+00:00
> use a $200 camera and photograph your keyring from a couple blocks away

Rayleigh criterion: to resolve an angle of 4E-6 rad (key bitting step is 0.015inch =~0.4mm , two blocks is 2 * 200ft =~100m), you'd need a ~140mm aperture lens. Can you really buy one (with a camera no less) for $200?
by ASalazarMX | 2026-01-16 16:40:10+00:00
Jesus Christ, you can see he was going to be an unusual artist by the way he focused on that gaping demon butthole.

Edit: the butthole is in the original engraving his painting is based on, so not his own vision, fortunately I guess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Temptation_of_St_Anthony_(...
by JohnMakin | 2026-01-16 16:40:10+00:00
PM's are generally the most irritating people to deal with in any organization. This is coming from someone who has been one - effective ones are very obviously effective, but the vast majority are glorified note takers and ticket pushers with very little ability to get anything done, whether due to lack of talent or lack of empowerment in the organization or both. I find arguing with them pointless.
by skibbityboop | 2026-01-16 16:41:01+00:00
Yes, this really is an example of someone who "made it" and made a large amount of money that has allowed them to turn around and choose a simpler life. "Oh, I just moved myself and my family off to a little Greek island estate I bought and farming it (along with my existing money) is what provides for us..."

Money may not buy happiness buy money buys you all the freedom you could possibly need to do anything that fits your whimsy.
by voxic11 | 2026-01-16 16:41:27+00:00
If GP is an asset with real value then acquiring it is taxable as income, no different from if you acquire bitcoin via mining. I really don't think video game players want to record every GP they acquire and file taxes for it at the end of the year. So a legal fiction of it being non-valuable is still probably preferable by them even if it excludes them from some legal recourse in the case of theft.
by oenton | 2026-01-16 16:41:28+00:00
> Entering private domiciles without a proper warrant? "Democracy, as the founding fathers intended"

Or my personal favorite, "a mandate."

Interestingly I don't recall any other US President in recent memory (last 30 years) referring to their policies, or more accurately the fact that they won an election, as "a mandate given by the American people."

But you only need to go back a few more decades to find similar phrases used by a certain country's infamous authoritarian regime. Are the frogs boiling yet? It's starting to get really uncomfortable really fast.
by gettingoverit | 2026-01-16 16:41:52+00:00
It's not "just the browser". It doesn't disable all the "features". In fact, it disables single-digit number of "features" in each of the browsers, i.e. mostly useless.

Properly deshittifying browser takes effort, such as Ungoogled Chromium or Pale Moon. That effort is underfunded, and projects like this are honeypots to distract from serious attempts at doing it.

I don't believe someone can understand the problem, and make _this_ in good faith.
by scarecrowbob | 2026-01-16 16:41:58+00:00
There's an excellent author named James C Scott who in (IIRC) "Two Cheers for Anarchism" explores the idea that people who are speaking to crowds understand that fundamentally they aren't "in charge" and must respond to what the crowd will accept. So he looks at how folks like MLK (in a positive manner) try different rhetorical directions while speaking with a crowd."

I believe that it's helpful for understand what Trump and his admin do isn't merely goofin off, but rather "testing" how folks respond.

You're correct Trump is a scoundrel (he's no friend of mine), but it's helpful to understand that this mode of wanting things both ways is a specific tool being used in specific ways.
by lkey | 2026-01-16 16:42:10+00:00
Technologists are not going to solve this with a startup, it requires organized political and social movements, then the legislation and re-allocation of public funds for the public's good.

Quoting from elsewhere in this thread: "I have made big inroads solving my old-age isolation with AI. Personally, I prefer Claude."

The people who most exacerbated this epidemic were forged here in this culture and were rewarded with trillions in investment to step between every social interaction, to monetize our connections, to maximize our 'engagement' and capitalize on the damage they caused. They will not stop until there are laws and enforcement mechanisms that address these perverse incentives.

Building American cities around the whims of car manufacturers is, to my mind, as bad as any social media. We've foreclosed casual connection in so many ways, and social media stepped into that gap and wrenched as hard as it could. Lower real wage growth also matters, free time and funds are required for a full social calendar.

It's multifaceted, but none of these issues can be solved without real political power that counters the whims of capital, venture or otherwise.
by philipkglass | 2026-01-16 16:42:10+00:00
"EDF estimates EPR2 programme cost at EUR72.8 billion"

France's EDF has said its preliminary cost estimate for the project to build six EPR2 reactors at Penly, Gravelines and Bugey totals EUR72.8 billion (USD85.3 billion).

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/edf-estimates-ep...

Each reactor outputs 1650 megawatts of electricity running at full power. Assuming they run at 92% capacity factor, that's $9.38 per real annualized watt.
by flanbiscuit | 2026-01-16 16:42:28+00:00
For anyone interested

This is the shell script it runs on Mac/Linux: https://github.com/corbindavenport/just-the-browser/blob/mai...

For FireFox it downloads this: https://github.com/corbindavenport/just-the-browser/blob/mai...

{
"policies": {
"DisableFirefoxStudies": true,
"DisableTelemetry": true,
"DontCheckDefaultBrowser": true,
"FirefoxHome": {
"SponsoredStories": false,
"SponsoredTopSites": false,
"Stories": false
},
"GenerativeAI": {
"Enabled": false
},
"SearchEngines": {
"Remove": [
"Perplexity"
]
}
}
}
by bediger4000 | 2026-01-16 16:42:39+00:00
I used to be a stress analyst at aerospace companies. Like every cog in that kind of big machine, I had almost no effect on the result. I did some very preliminary analysis on the candidate airframe that became the MD-11. My intuition is that Cato is wrong on this point. Spending less on air safety would make the currently-conspiratorial US public afraid of flying, particularly if 2 more 737-MAX type incidents happened. Air travel would drop off drastically, and all the travel that was worth it, would be done by automobile.

Mass transit airplanes are absolutely not buses or cars, or even trains. There's very, very few of them made. There are only 2 ways to get to safe quality machines. One is by statistical methods and constant incremental improvement, like Toyota, and to a lesser extent, other car companies do. This requires a lot of production, and a culture of feedback from in the field to the designers to the factory.

The second is to have high standards and inspect, verify and qualify everything. Since transport aircraft production is so low, there's really no possibility for feedback like Toyota or Honda uses. We're stuck with regulation, or we don't have an air travel system.

Did you read this far, or were you "not too keen" on finishing a longer post?
by metaPushkin | 2026-01-16 16:42:43+00:00
Modern Linux is bad, nothing works completely, and on top of that, fragmentation between X and Wayland makes it worse. I just want to use my favorite software on a convenient operating system that doesn't eat up a lot of resources. And yes, that’s Windows 7. Just give me back the ability to use Steam or SourceTree and stop forcing bloatware like Windows 10 or Windows 11 on me.
by pcunha | 2026-01-16 16:44:18+00:00
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by roywiggins | 2026-01-16 16:45:38+00:00
From a UI perspective, auto tab groups are just an extra button as far as I can tell, so it's not clear why it's getting the axe from this site, just from a pure "this is annoying" point of view.

The flow is 1) you drag a tab over another tab and it suggests a name for the tab group and 2) you click on a tab group and another button offers to suggest more of your tabs you can add to the group. That's less intrusive than Firefox Translations are by default.