MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by crazylogger | 2026-01-30 16:19:53+00:00
You are describing tradition (deterministic?) automation before AI. With AI systems as general as today's SOTA LLMs, they'll happily take on the job regardless of the task falling into class I or class II.

Ask a robot arm "how should we improve our car design this year", it'll certainly get stuck. Ask an AI, it'll give you a real opinion that's at least on par with a human's opinion. If a company builds enough tooling to complete the "AI comes up with idea -> AI designs prototype -> AI robot physically builds the car -> AI robot test drives the car -> AI evaluates all prototypes and confirms next year's design" feedback loop, then theoretically this definitely can work.

This is why AI is seen as such a big deal - it's fundamentally different from all previous technologies. To an AI, there is no line that would distinguish class I from II.
by bikenaga | 2026-01-30 16:19:56+00:00
Original article: "Machine learning based screening of potential paper mill publications in cancer research: methodological and cross sectional study" - https://www.bmj.com/content/392/bmj-2025-087581

"Results. The model achieved an accuracy of 0.91. When applied to the cancer research literature, it flagged 261 245 of 2 647 471 papers (9.87%, 95% confidence interval 9.83 to 9.90) and revealed a large increase in flagged papers from 1999 to 2024, both across the entire corpus and in the top 10% of journals by impact factor. More than 170 000 papers affiliated with Chinese institutions were flagged, accounting for 36% of Chinese cancer research articles. Most publishers had published substantial numbers of flagged papers. Flagged papers were overrepresented in fundamental research and in gastric, bone, and liver cancer."
by funnyfoobar | 2026-01-30 16:20:27+00:00
What you are saying may have made sense at the start of 2025 where people were still using github copilot tab auto completes(atleast I did) and was just toying with things like cursor, but unsure.

Things have changed drastically now, engineers with these tools(like claude code) have become unstoppable.

Atleast for me, I have been able to contribute to the codebases i was unfamiliar with, even with different tech stacks. No, I am not talking about generating ai slop, but I have been enabled to write principal engineer level code unlike before.

So i don't agree with the above statement, it's actually generating real value and I have become valuable because of the tools available to me.
by delta_p_delta_x | 2026-01-30 16:20:37+00:00
Ah yes, great book; thanks for pointing it out. Added to the list.

As for similarity, I think the sections you've highlighted are broadly similar, but I can't detect any phrase-for-phrase copy-pasting that is typical of LLM or thesaurus find-replace. I feel that the topic layout and the motivations for any tutorial or course covering the same subject matter will eventually converge to the same broad ideas.

The website's sequence of steps is also a bit different compared to your book's. And most telling, the code, diagrams, and maths in the website are all different (such assets are usually an instant giveaway of plagiarism). You've got pseudocode; the website uses the C++ standard library to a great extent.

If it were me, I might rest a little easier :)
by collingreen | 2026-01-30 16:20:43+00:00
Another way to think about it:

Would you let the intern be in charge of this?

Probably not but it's also easy to see ways the intern could help -- finding and raising opportunities, reviewing codebases or roadmaps, reviewing all the recent prompts made by each department, creating monitoring tools for next time after the humans identify a pattern.

I don't have a dog in this fight and I kind of land in the middle. I very much am not letting these LLMs be the one with final responsibility over anything important but I see lots of ways to create "proactive"-like help beyond me writing and watching a prompt just-in-time.
by JohnFen | 2026-01-30 16:21:04+00:00
I'm genuinely confused about all this. Can someone help me out?

I've been buying and playing games from GOG on Linux for a very long time with no need for GOG Galaxy -- which is a thing I know nothing about. Since this announcement, I've been trying to figure out why I'd need it.

It seems like it's just a convenience application and social connection point (leaderboards, etc.). In which case, it's not something of interest to me. However, I've also seen references to Galaxy that imply that it's necessary to play games -- which is obviously untrue in general, but perhaps there are some games that require it?

Anyway, I'm tremendously confused by all this.
by WorldMaker | 2026-01-30 16:21:07+00:00
This comment and some of the other nearby ones have me confused if many people have actually tried GOG Galaxy?

This is one of the areas where GOG Galaxy has tried to stand out. It supports integrations with other launchers in Python: https://github.com/gogcom/galaxy-integrations-python-api

It's intended for the other direction of other launchers (or third party integrations with other launchers) feeding data to GOG Galaxy, but it's still one of the more interesting attempts in the wild of a launcher trying to be a little bit more than just a walled garden.

I don't know if in an Official Linux port of Galaxy if they'll try to find more ways to integrate beyond what they've already done with their Python API and how much they would be willing work with other launchers, especially Heroic, but of the big game stores, GOG seems one of the few that actually wants to try. Maybe they will. It would be nice to see. It's interesting seeing so many comments assume the worst of them, as someone who has played around with that Python API a little bit. (I was toying with a third-party Itch.io integration. Didn't get very far, but it was neat what seemed possible.)
Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?
by item007 | 2026-01-30 16:22:05+00:00
Hi HN — I’m exploring an idea and would love your feedback.

I’m a builder and user of Obsidian, validating a concept called Concerns. Today it’s only a landing page + short survey (no product yet) to test whether this pain is real.

The core idea (2–3 bullets):

- Many of us capture tons of useful info (notes/links/docs), but it rarely becomes shipped work.

- Instead of better “organization” (tags/folders), I’m exploring an “action engine” that:

1.detects what you’re actively targetting/working on (“active projects”)

2.surfaces relevant saved material at the right moment

3.proposes a concrete next action (ideally pushed into your existing task tool)

My own “second brain” became a graveyard of good intentions: the organizing tax was higher than the value I got back. I’m trying to validate whether the real bottleneck is execution, not capture.

Before writing code, I’m trying to pin down two things:

- Project context signals (repo/PRs? issues? tasks? calendar? a “project doc”?)

- How to close the loop: ingest knowledge → rank against active projects → emit a small set of next-actions into an existing todo tool → learn from outcomes (done/ignored/edited) and optionally write back the minimal state. The open question: what’s the cleanest feedback signal without creating noise or privacy risk? (explicit ratings vs completion events vs doc-based write-back)

What I’m asking from you:

1.Where does your “second brain” break down the most?

capture / organization / retrieval / execution
(If you can, share a concrete recent example.)

2.What best represents “active project context” for you today?

task project (Todoist/Things/Reminders)

issues/boards (GitHub/Linear/Jira)

a doc/wiki page (Notion/Docs)

calendar

"in my head"

Which one would you actually allow a tool to read?

3.What’s your hard “no” for an AI that suggests actions from your notes/links? (pick 1–2)

privacy/data retention

noisy suggestions / interruption

hallucinations / wrong suggestions

workflow change / migration cost

pricing

others
by zeroxfe | 2026-01-30 16:22:15+00:00
"Economy" doesn't necessarily mean "monetization" -- there are lots of parallel and competing economies that exist, and that we actively engage in (reputation, energy, time, goodwill, etc.)

Money turns out to be the most fungible of these, since it can be (more or less) traded for the others.

Right now, there are a bunch of economies being bootstrapped, and the bots will eventually figure out that they need some kind of fungibility. And it's quite possible that they'll find cryptocurrencies as the path of least resistance.
by audunw | 2026-01-30 16:22:25+00:00
I really don’t think the impact on car culture is that big. There are a LOT of other reasons not to drive a car in the cities. Our company just built a new office building. No additional parking was built (we are renting some spaces in an existing garage nearby but it’s a bit of a walk to the office). I don’t think it’s easy to get new parking built in Oslo. What we did get was a huge bike garage with bike showers. Even though I have an EV and access to parking, I bike to work in summer. Some of my colleagues also bike in winter.

Yeah the subsidies are high, but so are the implicit subsidies for ICE cars. There was a new tunnel construction in Norway where they found they could save millions on reduced ventilation since the impact from EVs had already reduced pollution that much.

I totally think we should reduce reliance on cars more. But Norway is already doing a LOT in that department. The public transportation of Oslo is already ridiculously good for a city that size. (How many US cities of that size has a metro?) We should consider the switch to EVs as a hard requirement to get rid of pollution and increase the energy efficient and long term costs with operating cars in the country. Now that the switch is complete (for new vehicles) we can shift the focus to making biking and public transportation even better. But we will always need cars. An electrician can’t take the bus to get to a job, and most pure office workers I know in the Oslo city do not drive to work already.
by Night_Thastus | 2026-01-30 16:22:57+00:00
Galaxy is purely convenience. If you want to see all your games from all storefronts (Epic, Steam, GOG, etc) in one place, Galaxy lets you do that. (Along with the social stuff)

You can still play GOG games without any launcher, which is how it's intended to work.

Some people really like having a launcher to keep track of everything, so this isn't a nothing burger. It's one more convenience to help convince people to move over.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-30 16:23:32+00:00
I’m a light LLM user myself and I still write most of the important code by myself.

Even I can see there has been a clear advancement in performance in the past six months. There will probably be another incremental step 6 months from now.

I use LLMs in a project that helps give suggestions for a previously manually data entry job. Six months ago the LLM suggestions were hit or miss. Using a recent model it’s over 90% accurate. Everything is still manually reviewed by humans but having a recent model handle the grunt work has been game changing.

If people are drinking a firehose of LinkedIn style influencer hype posts I could see why it’s tiresome. I ignore those and I think everyone else should do. There is real progress being made though.
by horsawlarway | 2026-01-30 16:23:58+00:00
I'm not sure how I feel about this.

I think "reputation" is absolutely critical to functional societies, and this feels a lot like putting a mask on and hiding critical information.

If Facebook got rejected because people hate Facebook, even when the economics are good... that's valuable to society as a feedback mechanism to force Facebook to be, well - not so hated.

Letting them put a legal mask on and continue business as usual just feels a bit like loading gunpowder into the keg - You make a conditions ripe for a much larger and forceful explosion because they ignored all the feedback.

---

Basically - the companies are fighting their reputations for good reason. People HATE them. In my opinion, somewhat reasonably. Why are we letting them off the hook instead of forcing them to the sidelines to open up space for less hated alternatives?

If I know "Mike" skimps on paying good contractors, or abuses his employees, or does shitty work... me choosing not to engage with Mike's business, even though the price is good, is a perfectly reasonable choice. Likely even a GOOD choice.
by epolanski | 2026-01-30 16:24:11+00:00
Docs of dependencies aren't that much of a game changer. Multiple frameworks and libraries have been releasing llm.txt compressed versions of their docs from ages, and it doesn't make that much of a difference (I mean, it does, but not crucial as LLMs can find the docs on their own even online if needed).

What's actually useful is to put the source code of your dependencies in the project.

I have a `_vendor` dir at the root, and inside it I put multiple git subtrees for the major dependencies and download the source code for the tag you're using.

That way the LLM has access to the source code and the tests, which is way more valuable than docs because the LLM can figure out how stuff works exactly by digging into it.
by bluGill | 2026-01-30 16:24:19+00:00
I miss the old Rayovac batteries. They had a 10 year no leak guaranty, and it was real. I did get some to leak - I found a box of gear that I know hadn't been opened in 13 years, and even then it was a small leak that wouldn't be hard to clean up.

But Energizer bought the company and changed the formula.
by jeffbee | 2026-01-30 16:24:56+00:00
> the community would like to weigh in on whether they want a data center

This is the enabler of pure NIMBYism and we have to stop thinking this way. If a place wants this kind of land use and not that kind, then they need to write that down in a statute so everyone knows the rules. Making it all discretionary based on vibes is why Americans can't build anything.
by CuriouslyC | 2026-01-30 16:25:37+00:00
This is a big part of why vibe coded projects fall over. AI creates big balls of mud because it's myopic as hell. Linters help but they're still pretty limited. I've had good success using https://github.com/sibyllinesoft/valknut to automate the majority of my refactoring work. I still do a style/naming pass on things, but it handles most issues that can be analytically measured.
by KptMarchewa | 2026-01-30 16:25:44+00:00
> The irony of all this is software engineers automated their own workflows and made themselves replaceable.

Do you really think we should be like ancient egyptian scribes and gatekeep the knowledge and skills purely for our sake?

I don't think there has been other field that is this open with trade secrets.
I know a dentist who openly claims they should be paid for training dental interns (idk what the US terminology is) despite them being productive, simply because they will earn a lot of money in the future. I did not want and do not want software engineering to become that.
by its-summertime | 2026-01-30 16:26:06+00:00
Of the patreon alternatives (dependent on content), Substack, X, Youtube, BuyMeACoffee, all have fan-side apps. kofi, Fourthwall, Squarespace, all the NSFW-centric alternatives, do not.

Of the mini-apps in China, I don't know, I was never exposed to the existence of their non-mini-app counterparts.
by conductr | 2026-01-30 16:26:07+00:00
No not directly but he can control it. So he can invest in a shell company that invests in other shell companies that buys shares of operating companies.

It’s not like he needs these funds to buy groceries or pay the mortgage. He’s essentially hoarding assets like all billionaires are.

This is a simplistic example for illustration, the actual financial engineering would certainly create much more complexity in order to obscure things for auditors and the like. But the point is that he/his fiduciary is the one controlling it all.
by vimota | 2026-01-30 16:26:28+00:00
Sharing our version of this built on just-bash, AgentFS, and Pyodide: https://github.com/coplane/localsandbox

One nice thing about using AgentFS as the VFS is that it's backed by sqlite so it's very portable - making it easy to fork and resume agent workflows across machines / time.

I really like Amla Sandbox addition of injecting tool calls into the sandbox, which lets the agent generated code interact with the harness provided tools. Very interesting!
by Eric_WVGG | 2026-01-30 16:26:42+00:00
Miguel de Icaza of Mono fame has a whole video on how C# was a "multi billion dollar mistake," and is working on a Swift Godot package.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzt36EGKEZo
https://github.com/migueldeicaza/SwiftGodot

(I've had some fun dabbling with Swift Godot but all of the documentation seems to be a bit out of date)
Show HN: A minimalist Japanese name generator with meaning cards
by medivhX | 2026-01-30 16:26:52+00:00
A frontend-only tool that generates beautiful, shareable cards showing your name in kanji, hiragana, and romaji — along with the meaning of each part. Inspired by MUJI minimalism and Japanese calligraphy. No backend, no tracking, 100% client-side.
by daft_pink | 2026-01-30 16:27:03+00:00
I think the government is laser focused on reducing regulations, reducing energy costs, reducing interest rates, a weaker dollar that makes exports better, minimizing taxes. Technological innovation is increasing overall productivity. There are definite headwinds like upward pressure on labor by reducing the worker population, stagnating population growth, undertainty, tarriffs, a weaker dollar increasing inflation.

There’s the looming threat of geopolitical world war that has been overhanging the world since the combination of the pandemic isolating different countries and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

It’s really a mixed bag, but it’s not clear to me that we are headed into a total economic crash as the government is definitely focused on doing a lot of good things for the economy, but also is creating lots of different headwinds.
by tracker1 | 2026-01-30 16:27:16+00:00
Even in windows, happen to be working in a locked down environment without benefit of WSL/Docker even (pushing for it actively)... Even then the git tooling that installs includes bash (and other msys build nix tools), I've also got a bit in my ~/bin directory for shared usage as well, where available for windows.

So the same stuff still works even there. Even if still using C#, I'd rather not be working on Windows at this point, it's just so entrenched in a lot of work/business/govt environments in the Phoenix area.

Aside: haven't really used Bun at all, been exceedingly happy with Deno from pretty early on. The only thing I sorely miss is an MS-SQL adapter that works with it. Again, not my favorite by a long shot at this point.
by rda2 | 2026-01-30 16:27:32+00:00
It’s cute, and I’m trusting enough to believe them when it says 100% home made, but square images with a strong yellow tint will forever be associated with ChatGPT 4o image generation in my mind.
Unfortunately, this might become something like the em-dash—where artists start tweaking their work to look less like the AI’s that are copying them.
by medivhX | 2026-01-30 16:27:33+00:00
Hi HN!

I built this as a weekend project to explore Japanese naming culture and minimalist UI design.

- *What it does*: Generates a printable/shareable card (1200×800px) with your name in kanji, hiragana, romaji, and meanings for both given & family names.
- *Tech stack*: React + TypeScript, html2canvas for export, all logic runs in-browser (no server, no analytics).
- *Design inspiration*: MUJI, Little Forest movie posters, and traditional calligraphy.
- *Why?*: I wanted a tool that feels calm, respectful, and culturally thoughtful — not just a gimmick.

Live demo: https://namaegen.com

Would love your feedback — especially on UX, performance, or cultural accuracy!
by robotresearcher | 2026-01-30 16:28:03+00:00
In fact no computer approach attempts to compute all possible path scenarios since we know that’s not tractable.

And current practical approaches are mostly end to end (or nearly) ML systems that do not compute a lot of alternative paths, and they work in approximately constant time independent of the scenario.

You strongly imply that computers can’t drive, but you could have written that in a Waymo.
by stevenjgarner | 2026-01-30 16:28:12+00:00
Even in the USA, the census is not as accurate as it thinks (without even getting into the homeless situation). South Dakota is the capital of the "Nomad" phenomenon because of its favorable residency and tax laws for full-time travelers (RVers and truckers) - such that residency is legal from a PO Box.

The US Census is "de jure" (based on where you live and sleep most of the time), not where your mail goes, so the SD nomad population can go uncounted. The Census Bureau generally does not mail forms to PO Boxes. They use a Master Address File (MAF) based on physical residential structures. If you are an RV'er and you were at a campsite in Arizona on Census Day (April 1st), you were technically supposed to be counted there, not in South Dakota. Many truckers are "transient" and difficult for the Bureau's "Non-Response Follow-Up" (the people who knock on doors) to catch.

Many are not counted. This creates a fascinating paradox: South Dakota has a high number of legal residents (on paper/licenses) but a lower enumerated population (on the Census). South Dakota might have enough "licensed residents" to clog their DMV and insurance systems, but because those people weren't "counted" in the physical state during the Census, the state doesn't get the federal highway or healthcare dollars to support the infrastructure they use when they do pass through.

It’s a bizarre irony: In PNG, the government "invents" people (overcounting) to get more aid; in South Dakota, the system "loses" people (undercounting) because the administrative tools (physical addresses) don't match the modern lifestyle.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-30 16:28:14+00:00
Maybe what you are saying is true. But even then, personally, I find it disturbing that the Trump administration recently raided a Washington Post journalist and now they are arresting journalists. When I look at these events alongside Trump always attacking news outlets and how aggressively abusive the press secretaries are in their interaction with reporters, I see a big pattern of undermining the press.

To me this arrest looks like lawfare. It looks like the administration abusing its power to violate the first amendment.
by vunderba | 2026-01-30 16:28:15+00:00
Nice job. Reminds me of the sheet music mode of Synthesia.

https://www.synthesiagame.com/support/guide/displaySheetMusi...

A couple of pieces of feedback:

- You’ll probably want to use VexFlow (or whichever notation system you’re using) to make sure that markings (pedal, mf, etc.) aren’t overlapping each other on the screen.

- I’d definitely suggest checking the range of the user’s MIDI controller and using that to recommend a playable repertoire. This is what I do in my Ear Training game "Lend Me Your Ears" (61-key MIDI controllers are very popular.)