MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by isx726552 | 2026-01-14 23:42:46+00:00
The worst is Reddit these days.

I pretty much never even went there for technical topics at all, just funny memes and such, but one day recently I started seeing crazy AI hype stories getting posted, and sadly I made a huge mistake and I clicked on one once, and now it’s all I get.

Endless posts from subs like r/agi, r/singularity, as well as the various product specific subs (for Claude, OpenAI, etc). These aren’t even links to external articles, these are supposedly personal accounts of someone being blown away by what the latest release of this or that model or tool can do. Every single one of these posts boils down to some irritating “game over for software engineers” hype fest, sometimes with skeptical comments calling out the clearly AI-generated text and overblown claims, sometimes not. Usually comments pointing out flaws in whatever’s being hyped are just dismissed with a hand wave about how the flaw may have been true at one time, but the latest and greatest version has no such flaws and is truly miraculous, even if it’s just a minor update for that week. It’s always the same pattern.

There’s clearly a lot of astroturfing going on.
Show HN: FlixLines – opens 10 GB logs in ~10 seconds in browser (demo)
by kamxgal | 2026-01-14 23:43:09+00:00
Hi HN,

Last year I started pushing the limits of my JavaScript text editor engine – wondering where the performance ceiling really is. Turns out it can go head-to-head with Monaco (VS Code) and CodeMirror in many scenarios.

To show what it can do, I built FlixLines: a web-based log viewer that opens huge files directly in the browser – often faster than klogg (which is a native desktop app).

Real numbers from my 2021 laptop:
- 10 GB log opens in ~10 seconds
- 20 GB in ~17 seconds
- Memory usage under 100 MB
- Smooth 165 FPS scrolling on my 4K screen, regex search, bookmarks, highlight rules

Everything happens 100% locally – no uploads, no installation, no server-side processing.

Try the free demo (2 GB limit per file, limited bookmarks & highlight rules):
https://flixlines.com/demo-app

Here is a short video showing opening a 10 GB file in ~10 seconds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZWFltvotKI

More details, benchmarks and features:
https://flixlines.com

Pro version (unlimited everything) coming very soon – attractive early-bird pricing planned.

Curious to hear your thoughts: what are your biggest pains when dealing with large log files?

Thanks!
Kamil
by Quarrelsome | 2026-01-14 23:43:15+00:00
> The school system is a sewer of bias with 90%+ of teachers leaning left.

Good thing people give a shit about teachers and pay them properly so everyone is eager to become a teacher in order to address that bias. Instead of idk, leaving it entirely as it is and just whining in a partisan fashion about how education has some sort of bias. I mean education has a lot of women who are teachers and the GOP don't appeal to a lot of women because they want to ban abortion and shit like that. So idk that'd probably explain it simply enough. In terms of priorities what if the massive funding went into teaching instead of recruiting for ICE? Shows to me what's important to people.

Tbh, I don't think minors need to be angry about misinformation about migrants (which is what I got in like 5m last time I created a fresh twitter account), they can wait until they're old enough to vote. They'll still fall for that shit all the same, so there's no need to be upset about it. Might as well ground our kids for their first 16/18 years before unleashing the Nick Fuentes community on them.
by ruszki | 2026-01-14 23:44:02+00:00
I want to see an example of this. Any real example. So far what I’ve seen, I wouldn’t give my name to any of those barely usable code, and most of the time they were even slower, especially when they pretended that they reviewed their code. And even with reviews they happily accepted bad code. This was true even with my friends, not just random examples on the internet.

I still need to understand every single line of the code to be responsible for it, and that takes the majority of time anyway, and quite often I need to rewrite most of it, because average code is not particularly good, because most code wasn’t produced by senior professionals, but random people making a random python script with only Hello World under their belt. So at the end doesn’t really matter whether I copy paste from a source, or an LLM does the same.

I understand that many coder are happy with the “John made his first script in his life” level of code, but I’m paid well because I can do better, way better. Especially because I need to be responsible for my code, because the companies to whom I work are forced to be responsible.

But of course, when there is no responsibility, I don’t care either. For those home projects where there is exactly zero risks. Even big names seem to use these only to those kind of projects. When they don’t really care.
by runjake | 2026-01-14 23:44:38+00:00
I use a different method:

- I come home from work, unbelievably tired.

- I see dishes in the sink. I scold, I mean, remind the kids to rinse the dishes and put them in the dishwasher. This works somewhat, they now do it about 50% of the time. I'll keep on them.

- I then rinse off any dishes in the sink and put them in the dishwasher. I don't keep score on whose turn it is. If my wife didn't do them already, she probably didn't have the time.

- It gives me time to mentally pause and slow down from the work day.

- If something needs done and it'll take 5 minutes or less, I just do it.
by mothballed | 2026-01-14 23:45:10+00:00
I wonder what the emigrating demographics look like. I have looked more into emigration lately as my demographic is 'replaced' and productive workers are increasingly used as fodder for parasitic attacks in favor of the ever growing benefits towards the non-productive class. The USA is increasingly becoming a place where it is best to be either be either a rich capital holder or to own nothing and get ~everything provided as long as you pop out enough kids or meet the right benefits criteria.

If you're in the middle getting squeezed you can earn more in places like Singapore or Dubai and at lower taxation rates, and the immigration scheme might be fairly simple. If you're going to live under the whims of an insane ruler you might as well get the upsides of such monarchy like you do in places like Dubai. 'Free' speech and easy access to guns are basically the only remaining gambit USA has to offer me that ~nowhere else does.
by Analemma_ | 2026-01-14 23:45:36+00:00
It's very frustrating whenever this topic comes up that people see no middle ground between "the website as it is right now" and "some bloated JavaScript monstrosity". There is lots of room for improvement that would not turn it into "a bloated JavaScript monstrosity". How about bigger touch targets? Half the time when I go to vote on a comment on mobile I vote in the wrong direction and have to undo it. Same goes for using the search feature: I constantly fat-finger the drop-down search options on mobile.

Even though I usually prefer mobile websites to apps, most of the time for HN I browse using Octal instead of the website because the website is such a pain. And it wouldn't take very much to make it better, which makes it so annoying that people have knee-jerk anger to the prospect every time the subject comes up.
by vbelenky | 2026-01-14 23:45:46+00:00
>This lamp would kill those friendly microbes.

Not really. Those microbes live deep in your pores where the UV wouldn't reach. Even if the UV totally scoured the surface of your skin, it would only be a temporary disruption, which we're generally ok with. After all lots of things disrupt the skin microbiome--showering, hand sanitizer (which DOES penetrate into the pores).

But I think UV skin microbiome disruption is likely to be pretty mild compared to things like eg hand sanitizer. Generally anything that lives on a surface (compared to liquid, and especially air) requires a much higher UV dose to inactivate, because even seemingly-smooth surfaces actually have lots of microscopic nooks and crannies for pathogens to hide in. And skin isn't smooth at all--it's got tons of visible wrinkles and surface complications and complicated geometry. Bacteria are also less sensitive to far-UV than viruses. So lamps that are dose calibrated to kill airborne viruses aren't going to have much of an effect on bacteria that live on a complex surface.

There's actually some data on this although sadly it never ended up published--my lab collected microbiome data for this 66 week hairless mouse skin exposure study https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9691791/ and found basically no difference in microbiome between the exposed and unexposed mice. It didn't end up in the paper because nobody in the lab had enough bioinformatics expertise to do a nice publishable analysis and just had to take the bioinformatics centers' word on it that there weren't significant differences. Weak/hearsay-ish evidence but not nothing!

In-duct UV is a thing but it's really not ideal for preventing person-to-person disease transmission, for a number of reasons.
by eli | 2026-01-14 23:46:09+00:00
I’m not sure highlighting studies that seem to agree with his thesis is a particularly strong defense against the charge that the totality of the evidence is mixed and inconclusive. He’s a good writer though.

Why did one study in Spain find an association with the rollout of high speed internet, but a much larger international study specifically looking at Facebook usage did not? Seems like that one should even more directly measure what’s alleged to be occurring.
by autoexec | 2026-01-14 23:46:20+00:00
You won't survive long without using the monetary system, but you could go your whole life without supporting many of the companies who you see as harmful. Now that money is speech and corporations are increasingly running the oligarchy there are very few levers people have left to try to influence their government. I don't think boycotting massive corporations will be any more successful than trying to get our representatives to care more about our wishes than the bribes they get from those same companies, but at least it feels like doing something.
by jason_oster | 2026-01-14 23:46:27+00:00
> You could make up some obscure DSL whole cloth, that has therefore never been in the training data, feed it the docs and it will happily use it to create output in said DSL.

I have two stories, which I will attempt to tie together coherently in response.

I'm making a compiler right now. ChatGPT 4 was helpful in the early phases. Even back then, its capabilities with reading and modifying the grammar and writing boilerplate for a parser was a real surprise. Today 5.2-Codex is iterating on the implementation and specification as I extend the language and fill in gaps in the compiler.

Don't get me wrong, it isn't a "10x" productivity gain. Not even close. And the model makes decisions that I would not. I spent the last few days completely rewriting the module system that it spit out in an hour. Yeah, it worked, but it's not what I wanted. The downsides are circumstantial.

25 years ago, I was involved in a group whose shared hobby was "ROM hacking". In other words, unofficial modification of classic NES and SNES games. There was a running joke in our group that went something like this: Someone would join IRC and ask for an outlandish feature in some level editor that seemed hopelessly impossible at the time. Like generating a new level with new graphics.

We would extrapolate the request to adding a button labeled "Do My Hack For Me". Good times! Now this feature request seems within reach. It may forever be a pipe dream, who knows. But it went from "unequivocally impossible" to "ya know, with the right foundation and guidance, that might just be crazy enough to work!" Almost entirely all within the last 10 years.

I think the novelty or creativity criticism of AI is missing the point. Using these tools in novel or creative ways is where I would put my money in the coming decade. It is mind boggling that today's models can even appear to make sense of my completely made up language and compiler. But the job postings for adding those "Do My Hack For Me" buttons are the ones to watch for.
by hbarka | 2026-01-14 23:47:10+00:00
It's just a darn shame that we're reduced to a simple measure of a single dimension, whether a right or left point on a single axis. You'll find many EV owners are multidimensional, a little bit up and down and all around an x-y plane, or even x-y-z cube. Conservative and liberal progressive alike in Europe are sick of Musk and it shows on the Tesla sales tanking.

https://electrek.co/2026/01/06/tesla-full-2025-data-europe-t...
by alephnerd | 2026-01-14 23:47:27+00:00
It's a great case study into how not to market to aspirational consumers.

Consumers are inherently aspirational, and making your entire marketing pitch that the Tata Nano is the "cheapest car in India" implied only poor people would purchase a Nano.

Even if a product is targeted at a lower income market, you still want to build some form of brand prestige otherwise no self respecting consumer will want to associate with the product.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2026-01-14 23:47:36+00:00
> No public API. No SDK. It just speaks POSIX now.

Well. No. In order:

It clearly does have a public API, expressed in what I would call an SDK (hn4.h).

And the readme opens with

> The Post-POSIX Filesystem.

and doesn't appear to implement any POSIX that I can see.
by tzs | 2026-01-14 23:47:45+00:00
There are actual implementations that do not compromise privacy and anonymity. For example the EU is currently doing large scale field tests in several countries of such a system.

It involves your government issuing you a signed digital copy of your ID documents which gets cryptographically bound to the security hardware in your smart phone (support for other hardware security devices is planned for later).

To verify your age to a site your phone and the site use a protocol based on zero-knowledge proofs to demonstrate to the site that your phone has a bound ID document signed by your government that says your age is above the site's threshold, without disclosing anything else from your ID document to the site.

This demonstration requires the use of a key that was generated in the security hardware when the ID was bound, which shows that the site is talking to your phone and that the security hardware is unlocked, which is sufficient evidence that you have authorized this verification to satisfy the law.

Note that your government is not involved beyond the initial installation of the bound ID document on the phone. They get no information on what sites you later age verify for or when you do any age verifications.
by Animats | 2026-01-14 23:47:45+00:00
> "This attack is not dependent on the injection source - other injection sources include, but are not limited to: web data from Claude for Chrome, connected MCP servers, etc."

Oh, no, another "when in doubt, execute the file as a program" class of bugs. Windows XP was famous for that. And gradually Microsoft stopped auto-running anything that came along that could possibly be auto-run.

These prompt-driven systems need to be much clearer on what they're allowed to trust as a directive.
by irishcoffee | 2026-01-14 23:48:22+00:00
I wouldn't want to haul 3 yards of dirt/mulch in a van, or yard refuse. I wouldn't want to try and move a full-sized fridge in a van, or a queen bed box spring, neither will fit.

I can't fit an ATV in a van, and I really don't want to put a dead deer in the back of a van after I hunt one.

I wouldn't trust a van to haul 75 8x8x16 concrete bricks (over 2000 lbs/1100kg) because the suspension wasn't designed to do that, nor was the transmission, and the van will quickly deteriorate.

How about moving a couch? Fits in the truck, not in a van.

I did all of those things in the past 12 months.

All that being said, vans are great, especially with kids. They absolutely do not replace trucks... if you use the truck and don't mind getting it dirty. Shiny trucks with 5.5ft beds are fucking stupid. My kids all laugh at "trucks with a baby bed" these days.

Or, downthread, people just assume everyone with a truck is insecure, projecting wealth, and generally ignorant. Which ironically, is a very ignorant take.
by thrance | 2026-01-14 23:48:26+00:00
FFS stop talking about Obama. Why are you acting like Trump didn't make the situation 10x worse? We already told you we didn't like Obama's ICE. That is completely irrelevant to the conversation.

I think you made your point, anytime ICE shoots at civilians or steals stuff from citizens, it's OK because Obama or ACLU or whatever Fox News told you to think. Got it.

You are yet more living proof that republicans are completely unable of going against Trump on anything. You guys will keep deflecting, changing the subject and using other fallacies to avoid it. (These three dudes you mentioned were de facto excommunicated from the GOP, Pence was even threatened by the Jan 6 thugs that wanted to hang him for not stealing the election).

If your next comment does not contain an acknowledgement of the most basic fact that "ICE stealing from citizens is bad", (something they did not do under Obama btw), this conversation is over.
by dylan604 | 2026-01-14 23:49:26+00:00
> I’ll take a moment to lament the demise of the light duty pickup that provided a bit of extra utility while still fitting in a normal parking space.

I miss the hell out of my '82 Chevrolet S10 with extended cab and two-tone paint job. The extended cab isn't going to be used for hauling the soccer team, but I could put it was plenty of space for "inside only" cargo. Damn thing threw a rod and cracked the case, and I never could convince my parents to keep it and put a new engine in it. I'd like to think I'd still own it today if they had.
by MoltenMan | 2026-01-14 23:49:33+00:00
Whenever this comes up people point out, 'Come on, let parents decide for their kids!' -- I sympathize with this argument, but let me explain why I don't believe that actually fixes the real problem. For reference, I'm gen-Z, COVID hit while I was in highschool, and I have seen and to this day see Tiktok / Reels / Shorts used every day by my friends (and to some extent me).

I may not be having kids for a while yet, but if I had teenagers today I would absolutely move somewhere where it is not legal for kids to have social media accounts. The underlying problem is that this isn't an individual problem, it's a social one! If a teenager's friends all have social media, he is going to be left out! It is going to severely hurt his life. Even if he never watches short-form video (the main component of social media I think is detrimental), his friends will! When I was in highschool sometimes my friends and I would get together and we would be bored, have no clue what to do. Instead of messing around doing random things, a couple of them would just open up Instagram reels and bam, afternoon wasted. If the half the group isn't trying to do something, you aren't going to do anything. Contrast this with before I was a teenager and before phones, I vividly remember me and my friends just exploring and doing random things. It's just a different experience and I think social media needs to be banned for everyone for it to be effective.
by foldr | 2026-01-14 23:50:22+00:00
Hospital admissions for knife injuries are also down, so it's not that (see e.g. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn04...)

Also, hospitals have got better at treating knife injuries in lots of places, not just London. This would not explain why London has a low homicide rate per capita compared to lots of other cities.
by _carbyau_ | 2026-01-14 23:50:40+00:00
This is kind of what I meant by good and bad actions don't cancel out.

I think people are perfectly allowed to appreciate the art while knowing he was not nice as a person. People are multifaceted, both as actors and in judgement of others.

So where to draw the line is the question.

And the answer is: this isn't linear. Context matters and is different for spaces and people.

------ Spaces

Not having Picasso art in your house is clearly fine. It's your space, your personal choice what you put there.

Demanding his art be removed from all art galleries around the world is not fine. Art galleries are mostly public spaces whose role is specifically to view artistic results largely from an artistic point of view. They are allowed to acknowledge his personal life and usually do - but that is not how you judge art.

And so we have two perfectly fine and yet contradicting choices towards housing the art of Picasso.

------ People

A victim of similar abuse as Picasso dished out may not want to see his art in the gallery due to association - this is fine.

A person who simply doesn't care for that style of art may be indifferent or also not want to see it - also fine.

A person who thinks Picasso fundamentally moved the art world forward may definitely want to see this art - also fine.

And so differing people's attitudes towards Picasso are also easily understandable and fine.
by dwd | 2026-01-14 23:51:51+00:00
It is very hard to gain weight when paired with some daily cardio and/or weights, even when you are eating to build up more muscle mass.

Eating healthy snacks through the day: handfuls of oily nuts (peanuts, cashews, macadamias), full fat smoothies and a lot of protein doesn't shift the scales.

We still end up buying some packed and transported food: Frozen blueberries from Chile, Spanish olive oil, dried herbs like tumeric, paprika etc but most meat/fruit/vegetables is sourced locally.
by vbelenky | 2026-01-14 23:51:58+00:00
The filter is a hafnium oxide interference filter! There are some absorption-based filters being studied in academic settings (as they'd be potentially cheaper to manufacture) but none are used commercially as far as I know

Honestly there aren't that many commercially available unfiltered KrCl lamps out there. I'm only aware of one and it's stupid expensive. Every other lamp you can actually buy is filtered, although some filters are a bit worse than others (though still pretty safe). Any lamp module that uses the Ushio Care222 emitter is certainly very well filtered because Ushio integrates the filter into the module.
by lijok | 2026-01-14 23:52:24+00:00
Here’s a good exercise;

Search through github for commits authored by .edu, .ac.uk etc emails and spend a few days understanding what they’ve been building the past few years. Once you’ve picked your jaw off the floor, take another 10 minutes to appreciate that this is just the public code by some researchers, and is crumbs compared to what is being built right now behind closed doors.

Tenured professors are abdicating their teaching positions to work on startups. Commercial labs are pouring billions into tech that was unreachable just a few years ago. Academic labs are downscaling their interns 20x. Historically hermit companies are opening their doors to build partnerships in industry.

The scale of what is happening is difficult to comprehend.
by thomassmith65 | 2026-01-14 23:52:57+00:00
My impression is that the pickup truck as status symbol began with a Back to the Future product placement. You may recall that the character Marty lusts after a 1985 Toyota SR5 Xtra Cab.

I saw the movie in the theater and, at the time, found it strange that anyone would have a work vehicle as a dream car.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-14 23:53:05+00:00
Well I created this post but I wasn't given any reason as to why :/
I hope that this or the other post can get un-flagged by dang

@dang can you please look at such to see if there is a particular reason they got flagged, because I don't think these break hackernews guidelines and a lot of people on both threads simultaneously are asking the same questions

mistakes happen but please fix them if possible (and thanks if you do so) and if you do keep it flagged, please tell us the reason why and we'd be more than happy if we find the reason reasonable ofc.

have a nice day dang and looking forward to your response