MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by antonvs | 2026-01-12 09:42:00+00:00
> …can return the results in natural language.

That’s one of the most important features, though. For example, LLMs can analyze a code base and tell you how it works in natural language. That demonstrates functional understanding and intelligence - in addition to exceeding the abilities of the majority of humans in this area.

You’d need a very no-true-Scotsmanned definition of intelligence to be able exclude LLMs. That’s not to say that they’re equivalent to human intelligence in all respects, but intelligence is not an all-or-nothing property. (If it were, most humans probably wouldn’t qualify.)
by goose0004 | 2026-01-12 09:42:13+00:00
Looks like my tokenization review method was incorrect - honestly a little embarrassing on my part. I think it would have been a lot longer before I discovered it, so thanks for the comment!

I did just go through and ran equivalent code samples in the GlyphLang repo (vs the sample code I posted that I'm assuming you ran) through tiktoken and found slightly lower percentages, but still not insignificant: on average 35% fewer than Python and 56% fewer than Java. I've updated the README with the corrected figures and methodology if you want to check: https://github.com/GlyphLang/GlyphLang/blob/main/README.md#a...
by nerdsniper | 2026-01-12 09:42:33+00:00
I'm fairly sure there was a bug where I won a hand that I should not have. game code was 'lNW4RF'

PLAYER
shows A♠ 6♣ (Pair)

GPT (5.2)
shows Q♠ Q♥ (Pair)

I had paired with a 6 and no aces on the board.
by penetrarthur | 2026-01-12 09:43:20+00:00
I started working on a simple Telegram bot with llm backend and .md knowledgebase that would help me organize, track and research my long-term hobby projects.

The problem that I am repeatedly facing is that I am trying to build a home server and I keep asking chatgpt questions, but it is hard to keep all the little details in one place. The way I see it is that I can just text my assistant bot and ask it something like "hey, can you research which NAS setup would be the best for me given x and y". It will offer some setup and I would say "can you add it to the plan" and "can you plan the next steps for me?". The bot will also update the knowledgebase and version control it.

You might also want to use it for something like planning a trip to Paris, where at some point you might say "hey, given my schedule, can you squeeze a tour to top5 croissant places in the center of Paris".

The whole thing sound really vague and sounds like something solved long ago, but I cannot find solutions that will be guaranteed to stick to a very precise plan that I can review at any given moment. If you happened to know existing solutions, please let me know. I really don't want to build this thing.
by vladvasiliu | 2026-01-12 09:43:23+00:00
Isn't GP's point inadvertently exposing stuff? Just mention docker networking on HN and you'll get threadfuls of comments on how it helpfully messes with your networking without telling you. Maybe redis does the same?

I mitigate this by having a dedicated machine on the border that only does routing and firewalling, with no random services installed. So anything that helpfully opens ports on internal vms won't automatically be reachable from the outside.
by kamikazechaser | 2026-01-12 09:43:45+00:00
I used XFCE (MxLinux) for 5 years until recently when I moved to KDE Plasma (Fedora) because of Wayland support. Imo, KDE is better and more resource efficient. I also got a free 10 fps boost on DotA 2 on the same hardware and settings. Zed and a lot of other apps are better supported on Wayland.
by Ntrails | 2026-01-12 09:43:57+00:00
> we have a global survailence company that is used to spy on citizens and destroy democracies worldwide that is literally called Palantir. Like, no one working there is seeing it?

The Palantir are not evil creations in the book iirc. They were used by the great kings to see whatever they wished.

Heck, even in the book Aragorn uses the Palantir to make a critical decision turning the tide of battle.
by torginus | 2026-01-12 09:44:10+00:00
This confirms my personal experience with switching to Go from C# - despite the e framework and language being MUCH simpler, the code usually ends up the same length.

C# often has a 'nice' and 'performant' way of doing things (for example, strings are nice, but they allocate and are UTF16, but ReadOnlySpan<byte> is faster for UTF8, and can reuse buffers), the performant syntax often ends up being very verbose, with the nice syntax being barely shorter than Go's. Go also does the right thing by default, and its strings are basically array slices into UTF8 byte arrays.
by hermanyin | 2026-01-12 09:45:20+00:00
FlowSpeech is an advanced, AI-powered Text To Speech tool designed to convert text into lifelike audio. FlowSpeech deeply understands the context, emotion, and pacing of your script. This ensures that your audio sounds genuinely human, making it the perfect solution for creators who need professional audio.

FlowSpeech distinguishes itself with superior flexibility and control. FlowSpeech supports Single Speaker, Multi Speaker, and Instant Speech modes. We empower you to easily add emotion, specific tones, accents, and precise pauses directly in the editor using simple tags. Furthermore, our AI significantly improves efficiency by automatically inserting emotion tags and splitting scripts for multi-speaker tts projects, streamlining your workflow.
by megamix | 2026-01-12 09:46:23+00:00
The most important question is who will get paid the most? I don't think the future of software engineering will be attractive if all you do is more work for same or even less pay. A second danger is too much reliance on AI tools will centralise knowledge and THAT is the scariest thing. Software systems will need to perform for a long time, having juniors on board and people who understand software architecture will be massively important. Or will all software crash when this generation retires?
by jaggederest | 2026-01-12 09:46:48+00:00
Claude is middling, codex is great with it - I think codex has significantly better math reasoning and it's all very mathy compared to e.g. typescript. Everything in the repo is LLM generated at the moment - I expect in the near future to have to start manually doing some things, but I'm not sure where the sticking point will be.

It's already good enough that I'm thinking self-hosting will be relatively quick, which is a huge deal at least in my opinion. Having proper self-hosting locque-in-locque and tools in locque in the first ~6 months would be superlative.
Ask HN: When do you need a ledger runtime instead of a database?
by daulet_b | 2026-01-12 09:47:02+00:00
I'm working on a deterministic double-entry ledger runtime
for backend systems where financial correctness matters.

In practice, many teams start with a regular database and
application-level accounting logic. At some point, retries,
race conditions, and reconciliation issues appear.

I'm curious how engineers here decide:
— when is a plain database no longer enough?
— what signals that accounting logic should move into a dedicated ledger runtime?
— have you experienced incidents where deterministic replay or auditability
would have helped?

Looking for engineering perspectives, not product discussion.
by bluescrn | 2026-01-12 09:47:09+00:00
> Tahoe is a macOS mis-step on par with Windows 8 or Windows Vista

Not even close.

It's taken a few steps in the wrong direction, but nothing compaered to the user-hostility of Win8 (attempting to move users from 'real Windows' into locked-down dumbed-down touch-centric mobile-like app store hell), let alone Win11 (creating an e-waste mountain, then pushing AI slop into everything)
by tu_shark | 2026-01-12 09:47:34+00:00
Rankly 's Query Fanout Extension is now live on Chrome Web Store!

What's new
- Captures product carousels shown by ChatGPT
- Shows the actual data behind each product provider(p0/01/p2) (mostly Google Shopping)
- Understand how products are ranked and reordered

What you can do with it:
- See the raw payload, not just the UI
- Track carousel positions for any query
- Spot patterns like provider, cluster IDs, merchant tags
- Export or copy JSON for analysis

Things we still don’t know:
- How ChatGPT reorders products - is it a mix of reviews/ratings and source position?
- What p1 / p3 actually mean
- How consistent this is across markets/categories

If you work in ecommerce SEO, this helps you test queries across your product catalog. Check whether your products appear for real user queries (from Google Search Console). If they do, see where they rank, which competitors show up, and which product providers are used.

This matters even more as transactions will start directly inside LLMs through Agentic Commerce.

Blog - https://www.tryrankly.com/blogs/chatgpt-shopping-connector
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-01-12 09:47:51+00:00
This isn't actually the question though, and have you done any research yourself or are you Just Asking Questions [1]?

tl;dr we have extensive historical records of past weather progression through e.g. ice cores and the recent weather and climate changes are unheard of outside of cataclysmic events like meteor strikes or volcano eruptions, with a very close correlation with emissions. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature_record_of_the_last....

As for whether we can do anything about it, personally I don't think so, we passed the point of no return... probably decades ago, even if emissions suddenly stopped then, the wheels were set in motion, for example through the melting of permafrost causing ???? amounts of sequestered plant matter to start decomposing and releasing methane and the like.
by lb1lf | 2026-01-12 09:48:30+00:00
This ship will be my home for the next month - my employer has delivered the system used for launch and recovery of the ROV submersible which will be used for monitoring the drilling progress.

Just like being at war - long periods of absolutely nothing happening (enabling me to finally dig into the work backlog from the office!) interrupted by frantic moments when everything seemingly happens at once!
by tete | 2026-01-12 09:48:43+00:00
> AtCoder Heuristic optimization contest

Optimization space that has been automated before LLMs. Big surprise, machines are still better at this.

This feels a bit like comparing programming teams to automated fuzzing.

In fact not too rarely developing algorithms involved some kind of automated algorithm testing where the algorithm is permuted in an automatic manner.

It's also a bit like how OCR and a couple of other fields (protein folding) are better to be done in an automated manner.

The fact that now this is done by an LLM, another machine isn't exactly surprising. Nobody claims that computers aren't good at these kinds of tasks.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2026-01-12 09:49:34+00:00
I think the problems with alternate theories such as Ancient Aliens is that they seize upon some examples of evidence (which are typically not great evidence anyway) and build a whole story on top of that. However, they then don't consider the ramifications of that - if ancient aliens did exist, then we should expect to find other sorts of evidence and thus make predictions about them. Of course, without predictions, theories are non-falsifiable and thus worse than useless.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-12 09:50:17+00:00
well my use case is the fact of connecting two servers behind nat. If I were to be able to gain ssh lets say, then I could've simply port forwarded in the first place.

Wow the asciinema is really good and very professional, thanks for creating it, I found it very helpful (in the sense that if I ever were to repeat my experiment, now I got your asciinema server) and I hope more people use it

> It could be streamlined with something like Magic Wormhole, though. I'll add that to the backlog and see if there's interest

To be really honest, its not that big of a deal considering one can do that on their own but I just had this idea for my own convenience when I was using QTM

I really like QTM a lot! Thanks for building it once again, I would try to integrate it more often and give you more feedback when possible from now.
Show HN: I tried to understand large-scale video pipelines, so I built one
by v0id_user | 2026-01-12 09:50:24+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a small event-driven video transcoding pipeline to explore how large-scale media systems behave.

The live site lets you upload a video and use the pipeline in action. The architecture, tradeoffs, and reasoning are documented in a blog post, and the code is open source.

Blog: https://v0id-user.mataroa.blog/blog/i-tried-to-understand-ho...

Repo: https://github.com/v0id-user/tcoder

Happy to discuss the design decisions, limitations, and what I’d do differently :)
by falloutx | 2026-01-12 09:51:31+00:00
The people who don't lose their jobs will also not be in a great spot, there wont be a guarantee that they will never lose their jobs, they will continue to live on the wobbly and uncertain foundation, will get fired for first no they say to the management. If software engineering falls, all the related industries will fall too, thus creating a domino effect, that none of the execs can imagine right now.
by cess11 | 2026-01-12 09:51:56+00:00
I'd sneak in 'Toggle C/F' somewhere and hook it to the same function you use on the numbers.

Fahrenheit goes negative at a measly -18C. Where I live -20 to -30C is not uncommon. Whether it's 17.5 or 18C typically does not matter, continual changes in wind and other factors will for pretty much all practical purposes quench that difference.
by tomashubelbauer | 2026-01-12 09:52:23+00:00
I have a love-hate relationship with Home Assistant. I love its mission and I love it in spirit, but whenever I need to add or change something in it, I don't love the process. Without disparaging the work already done on improving it in recent years, I still find the UI and UX to be lacking. Claude Code has been shifting my perception much closer to the love end of the axis, because it allows me to side-step the boring parts of managing my Home Assistant instance and it is able to carry out the changes I want very reliably.

I still struggle with letting go of writing code and becoming only a full-time reviewer when it comes to AI agents doing programming, but I don't struggle in the slightest with assuming the position of a reviewer of the changes CC does to my HA instance, delegating all the work to it. The progress I made on making my house smart and setting up my dashboards has skyrocketed compared to before I started using CC to manage HA via its REST and WS APIs.
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2026-01-12 09:53:11+00:00
I don't think so.

Remember the first time you wanted to buy a stock.

You used a product or a service that you liked immensely, realized it had a stock and wanted to be involved.

1 billion people are using AI, not dramatically changing their lives of course but for sure they go 'wow incredible' I want to be part of this
by lioeters | 2026-01-12 09:54:32+00:00
> Robert Charroux's "The Morning of the Magicians"

Charroux didn't write that one, he was likely influenced by it.

> an earlier French work, The Morning of the Magicians by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier (1960), which is likely to have been a direct inspiration for both Charroux and Von Däniken
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-01-12 09:55:46+00:00
As others have said, it's already happening, and it'll only get worse. But since it's not western countries it's not highlighted much.

But when the AMOC stops and western Europe's winters get longer there will be huge changes too. If I recall correctly, the AMOC stopping is a trigger for an ice age, that is, ice sheets / the north pole going down way south. This would make anything above France uninhabitable, if not wiped off the map entirely.

But it'd be a steady process of increasingly cold winters, so likely in our lifetime it'd mainly mean we change how we build houses and buildings. But long term, people would move.
by mschild | 2026-01-12 09:55:53+00:00
"I can't configure a VPN" and "I don't want to configure a VPN" are 2 entirely different things. Mind you I have no idea how complex tailscale setup is in comparison.

I'm in the middle of setting up my own homeserver. Still deciding on what/if I want to expose to the internet and not just local network and while setting everything up and tinkering is part of the fun for me. I get some people just want results that they can rely on. Tailscale, while not a perfect option, is still an option and if they're fine with the risk profile I can understand sacrificing some security for it.
Show HN: ShrijiLang – an AI-powered programming language with its own runtime
by shreeradhika29 | 2026-01-12 09:56:04+00:00
Hi Hacker News,

I built ShrijiLang, a new programming language written in C with its own tokenizer, parser, AST, interpreter, and runtime, along with an AI routing system.

It is not a wrapper over Python or an LLM tool — it is a real language that executes .sri scripts through its own runtime engine.

The language includes:
- A full lexer and parser
- An AST-based interpreter
- A state and event system
- AI modules (Sakhi, Niyu, Mira, Shiri, Kavya) routed at runtime
- Script-level control over AI behaviour

Example:
./shrijilang test.sri

The project is open source here:
https://github.com/shreeradhika623-sudo/ShrijiLang.git

I built this solo over many months.
Feedback, critique, and ideas are very welcome.

— Mister_Mr
by jillesvangurp | 2026-01-12 09:56:20+00:00
We're at the stage where almost any UI change no matter how small on Macs is heavily criticized. It seems a lot of people are getting very upset over a lot of micro detail. There's no way to please all of them. I've upgraded to Tahoe. Honestly, I barely notice any difference. It looks alright. There's very little for me to get upset over here. I'm pretty sure I'm in a bucket that describes the overwhelmingly large majority of users here: indifferent about the changes, overall not too upset, barely notice it.

As for Linux. I also have a Linux laptop with Gnome for light gaming (Manjaro). It's alright. But a bit of a mess from a ux point of view. Linux always was messy on that front. But it works reasonably well.

The point with the distributions that you mention is that they each do things slightly differently, and I would argue in ways that are mostly very superficial. Nobody seems to be able to agree on anything in the Linux world so all you get is a lot of opinionated takes on how stuff should behave and which side of the screen things should live. This package manager over that one.

I've been using Linux on and off for a few decades, so I mostly ignore all the window dressing and attempts to create the ultimate package manager UI, file managers and what not and just use the command line. These things come and go.

It seems many distros are mostly just exercises in creating some theme for Gnome or whatever and imitating whatever the creator liked (Windows 95, Beos, Early versions of OSX, CDE, etc.). There's a few decades of nostalgia to pick from here.
by hilbert42 | 2026-01-12 09:56:39+00:00
I too thought it was my palate and perhaps it's partially so, but it's also more than that. We're now in an era of 'engineered sweetness' to maximize sales.

Since around the 1970s food manufacturers have been increasing the sweetness of products to keep up with the population's shifting/increasing "bliss point". The "bliss point" is defined as the optimal sweetness of a product and it's been increasing over time from the constant bombardment from ultra refined food products. It seems we've adapted to the ready availability of readily available sweet stuff and we need more to satisfy.

Decades ago, very sweet products weren't encountered to the same extent as today so the bliss point remained essentially static but in recent years as the average bliss point has increased manufacturers have increased the sweetness of products to compensate. There are many references to this, here's but one:

https://www.foodtimes.eu/consumers-and-health/bliss-effect-u...

Re Coke when I was a kid, its sweetness depended to some extent on how it was obtained. Soda fountains before modern post mixing varied the radio of Coke syrup to soda which changed the perceived sweetness, also I believe in some countries the syrup came sans sugar (or largely so) to save on transport costs and was bottled (sugar ratios mixed) locally. This arrangement allowed local bottling to set the optimal bliss point for that market.

I remember kids whose parents owned a soda fountain could get the syrup and we'd mix it with soda to suit.

Incidentally, I'm in Australia and here the bottled Coke tastes different to what I've tased in the US. More to the point, I've friends in New York and several of them have complained to me that they consider their local product not up to scratch and they prefer Coke that's bottled in Mexico whenever they can get it.

I cannot recall whether the Mexican Coke was sweeter or not, or if there was some other difference. Reason: whenever I ate with them they drank Coke whilst I stuck to beer.
by unhba | 2026-01-12 09:56:54+00:00
There is a real aspect of confession in articles like this one - I mean in the religious sense. They come across to me as attempts to justify decisions or actions in the face of overwhelming internal contradictions where the intended audience is just the author’s own conscience. I don’t at all buy the explicit argument that “if we don’t act now - not just by adopting AI, but BY VOTING!! - then all is lost”. We already know about voting; how is the URGENT mass adoption - even with decentralisation - by software developers of llms going to drive social change or alleviate political crisis? Especially given this is a technology about which the author is so obviously profoundly conflicted? Why the hand-wringing and vacillation? Does it really matter in the long run if sceptics take their time in evaluating these tools and even end up rejecting them? Why really do we need to be convinced or turned away from the anti ai hype?

There is additionally some kind of implicit historical recourse to the Industrial Revolution and the revolutionary politics it is associated to, where software developers, cast as the cottage industry weavers etc. are seen as walking blindly into their mass replacement by machines, with the implication that those machines will be able to be managed by de-skilled labour whose role will be simply to ensure their smooth and safe running. I think it is important to try and see things in this way but also there is a lot lacking from the analogy.
by bubblethink | 2026-01-12 09:56:57+00:00
Yes, external displays can break in weird ways. I remember that a common annoyance used to be that windows and applications don't go back to where you left them before suspending. There are likely other paper cuts as well in areas of variable refresh rates, colour management, etc. I think the biggest issue with external displays, screen tearing, is solved now due to wayland. As for hw and distros, stick to intel or amd igpus, especially in laptops. Both gnome and kde are pretty good these days. Ubuntu and Fedora are both quite good. Distros aren't that different anymore these days. The differences boil down to release cadence mostly.
by thw_9a83c | 2026-01-12 09:57:14+00:00
> My current process for offloading photos off the iPhone

I'm not sure about Linux, but my workflow on Windows and MacOS is to frequently back up my iPhone locally (which you should do anyway because few incorrect PINs can security lock your phone [1]) and use utility like backup extractor (e.g. [2] but there are many others) to extract all photos from the backup. This effectively removes the need to use iCloud.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/105090?device-type=iphone

[2]: https://github.com/joz-k/ios_backup_extractor