MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kypro | 2026-01-23 19:12:44+00:00
I agree with you, but also think this is only true because we as an industry have been so completely corrupted by money at this point.

In the 90s and 00s people overwhelmingly built stuff in tech because they cared about what they were building. The money wasn't bad, but no one started coding for the money. And that mindset was so obvious when you looked at the products and cultures of companies like Google and Microsoft.

Today however people largely come into this industry and stay in it for the money. And increasingly tech products are reflecting the attitudes of those people.
by the_af | 2026-01-23 19:12:49+00:00
I'm honestly not following your argument here. I'm also not convinced by comparisons between AI and things that aren't AI or even automated.

> Will you be even more discouraged if I share that "table flipping" and "sleight of hand" have ruined many tabletop games?

What does this have to do with AI or online games? You cannot do either of those in online games. You also cannot shove the other person aside, punch them in the face, etc. Let's focus strictly on automated cheating in online gaming, otherwise they conversation will shift to absurd tangents.

(As an aside, a quick perusal of r/boardgames or BGG will answer your question: yes, antisocial and cheating behavior HAVE ruined tabletop gaming for some people. But that's neither here nor there because that's not what we're discussing here.)

> Are you pressed to find a competitive match in your game-of-choice currently? I can recommend online mahjong!

What are you even trying to say here?

I'm not complaining, nor do I play games online (not because of AI; I just don't find online gaming appealing. The last multiplayer game I enjoyed was Left 4 Dead, with close friends, not cheating strangers). I just find the topic interesting, and I wonder how current AI trends can affect online games, that's all. I'm very skeptical of claims that they don't have a large impact, but I'm open to arguments to the contrary.

I think some of this boils down to whether one believes AI is just like past phenomenons, or whether it's significantly different. It's probably too early to tell.
by sandinmyjoints | 2026-01-23 19:12:51+00:00
Lots of comments about Gas Town (which I get, it's hard not to talk about it!), but I thought this was a pretty good article -- nice job of summing up various questions and suggesting ways to think about them. I like this bit in particular:

> A more conservative, easier to consider, debate is: how close should the code be in agentic software development tools? How easy should it be to access? How often do we expect developers to edit it by hand?

> Framing this debate as an either/or – either you look at code or don’t, either you edit code by hand or you exclusively direct agents, either you’re the anti-AI-purist or the agentic-maxxer – is unhelpful.

> The right distance isn’t about what kind of person you are or what you believe about AI capabilities in the current moment. How far away you step from the syntax shifts based on what you’re building, who you’re building with, and what happens when things go wrong.
by foxyv | 2026-01-23 19:12:56+00:00
Essentially, the atmosphere contracted due to the solar minimum and they want to make sure inoperative satellites decay within months rather than years. Ballistic decay is a safety mechanism in case their satellites break down. Also they will use less fuel for avoiding the crowded 550km band.

> "As solar mininum approaches, atmospheric density decreases, which means the ballistic decay time at any given altitude increases — lowering will mean a >80% reduction in ballistic decay time in solar minimum, or 4+ years reduced to a few months," Nicolls wrote in his X post. "Correspondingly, the number of debris objects and planned satellite constellations is significantly lower below 500 km, reducing the aggregate likelihood of collision."
by fakedang | 2026-01-23 19:13:24+00:00
You just don't ratify it, simple. The US does not ratify treaties all the time, especially now.

Coming under the French nuclear umbrella explicitly means that if a country is under extreme threat of nuclear attack, France will 100% retaliate. Unlike the current scenario where even if the country is an EU ally, France can still choose to refuse.

Later down the line, France could even choose to delegate nuclear hosting to those countries, like the US does with Turkey and the like. Obviously those nations don't get access to the codes.

At the end of the day, everything works on the basis of trust, and while the US has broken its covenant, the EU countries have not, especially not with each other.
by wat10000 | 2026-01-23 19:13:25+00:00
Having your purchase taken away is not punishment. It's done because it's not actually yours, it still belongs to the person it was stolen from. It's a negative for the person who made the purchase, but that's just an unfortunate side effect. Unknowingly buying stolen property is not legally wrong. The typical law punishing receiving stolen property requires the receiver to know that it is stolen. Otherwise you're innocent of any wrongdoing, you just got ripped off.

If unknowingly using a stolen gift card just meant you lost your money, nobody would be complaining about Apple's behavior here. The issue is that they didn't just lose their money, they also got their account locked, which locks up a lot of stuff completely unrelated to gift cards.
by b00ty4breakfast | 2026-01-23 19:13:56+00:00
It's not hard if the people in charge had any scruples at all. These machines never could have done anything if some human being, somewhere in the chain, hadn't decided that "yeah, I think we will do {nefarious_thing} with our new technology". Or should we start throwing up our hands when someone gets stabbed to death like "well, I guess knives don't have human values".

Human beings are doing this.
by nostrebored | 2026-01-23 19:14:08+00:00
We're working on this problem at large enterprises, handling complex calls (20+ minutes). I think the only reason we have any success is because the majority of the engineering team has been a customer support rep before.

Every company we talk to has been told "if you just connect openai to a knowledgebase, you can solve 80% of calls." Which is ridiculous.

The amount of work that goes in to getting any sort of automation live is huge. We often burn a billion tokens before ever taking a call for a customer. And as far as we can tell, there are no real frameworks that are tackling the problem in a reasonable way, so everything needs to be built in house.

Then, people treat customer support like everything is an open-and-shut interaction, and ignore the remaining company that operates around the support calls and actually fulfills expectations. Seeing other CX AI launches makes me wonder if the companies are even talking to contact center leaders.
by MattSteelblade | 2026-01-23 19:14:12+00:00
Based on the comments in the thread, I sense I will be in the minority, but for most consumers this is a reasonable default. Broadly speaking, the threat model most users are concerned with doesn't account for their government. The previous default is no encryption at rest, which doesn't protect from the most common threats, like theft or tampering. With BitLocker on, a new risk for users is created: loss of access to their data because they don't have their recovery key. You are never forced to keep your recovery keys in Microsoft's servers and it's not a default for corporate users.
by mmh0000 | 2026-01-23 19:14:18+00:00
There's a famous quote:

Those who cannot remember nmap are condemned to remake it poorly

Rootless nmap scan of a /24 in under 10 seconds:

nmap -T5 -sn -PR --script broadcast-dns-service-discovery,broadcast-upnp-info 10.0.0.0/24
…SNIP…
Nmap done: 256 IP addresses (30 hosts up) scanned in 9.99 seconds

https://nmap.org/book/toc.html
by arrowleaf | 2026-01-23 19:14:26+00:00
My feeling has been that 'serious' software engineers aren't particularly suited to use these tools. Most don't have an interest in managing people or are attracted to the deterministic nature of computing. There's a whole psychology you have to learn when managing people, and a lot of those skills transfer to wrangling AI agents from my experience.

You can't be too prescriptive or verbose when interacting with them, you have to interact with them a bit to start understanding how they think and go from there to determine what information or context to provide. Same for understanding their programming styles, they will typically do what they're told but sometimes they go on a tangent.

You need to know how to communicate your expectations. Especially around testing and interaction with existing systems, performance standards, technology, the list goes on.
by freedomben | 2026-01-23 19:14:30+00:00
Neat! That's really cool. I'll definitely reach out once I'm ready to move forward on it. Got a few high-priority things sucking up all my free time at the moment :-(

Yeah all my radio plays are from OTRR now. I bought a number of different "collections" from different sources but none of them come even close to the quality and care that the OTRR people have.

Also, always a pleasure to meet someone else who loves old-time radio :-D

What are some of your favorites? Probably my favorite is Abbott & Costello, followed by Have Gun - Will Travel and Gunsmoke. I like the Lone Ranger too but am only a few hours into it so far.

p.s. I am indeed a dude named Ben!
by uriegas | 2026-01-23 19:14:33+00:00
Transportation influences urban development. That is why most houses have a garage. There is no such thing as private transport (streets are public). Transportation has been heavily centralized since the New Deal. The bicycle was okay for most people living in cities in the 30s, now it is not because the government has favored the car infrastructure over the last decades. I think we need to start with not letting government develop their big infrastructure projects which are not resilient. Advocating for the use of bicycles might make sense in some places yet bicycle infrastructure is required.
by MrDarcy | 2026-01-23 19:14:34+00:00
While my reply was snarky I am prepared to take a reasonable bet with a reasonable test case. And pay out.

Why I think I’d win the bet is I’m proficient with tcpdump and wireshark and I’m reasonably confident that running to a frontier model and dealing with any hallucinations is more efficient and faster than recalling the incantantions and parsing the output myself.
by mvidal01 | 2026-01-23 19:14:55+00:00
It depends on the crop.
Corn (Maize): Harvested using combine harvesters that pick, husk, and shell the grain. Sweet Corn might be the exception.
Soybeans: Harvested using combines to cut and thresh the plants.
Wheat, Barley, and Oats: Harvested using combines to cut, thresh, and clean the grain.
Cotton: Harvested mechanically using cotton pickers or strippers.
Rice: Mechanically harvested with combines when the stalks are dry.
Potatoes and Root Vegetables: Lifted from the ground using mechanical harvesters that separate soil from the produce.
Lettuce, Spinach, and Celery: Mostly hand-harvested by crews, though automation is increasing.
Berries (Strawberries, Blueberries): Primarily hand-picked for fresh market quality, though some are machine-harvested for processing.
Tree Fruits (Apples, Cherries): Mostly hand-picked to prevent bruising, though some processing cherries use tree shakers.
Wine Grapes: Frequently harvested by hand to ensure quality, especially for high-end wines.
Peppers and Tomatoes: Processed tomatoes are machine-harvested, while fresh peppers are largely hand-picked.
Show HN: AniSeason – a weekly anime airing calendar in your local timezone
by faircitoo | 2026-01-23 19:14:59+00:00
This season felt really packed and I kept missing episodes, so I built a small web app that shows what anime is airing this week in my timezone.

It pulls seasonal data from MyAnimeList and maps it into a weekly grid so you can see at a glance what drops each day.

It’s just a small personal tool I made for myself, but sharing in case it’s useful to others too.
by quickthrowman | 2026-01-23 19:15:22+00:00
Unfortunately, they have a monopoly on architectural, CAD, and BIM software with AutoCAD and Revit. You’re completely locked in with no choice, everyone uses it so you must also use it.

Trimble isn’t far behind in the ‘shitty and expensive construction software’ market, but they aren’t as ingrained as Autodesk.

I’m not familiar with Autodesk in other industries but I assume it’s just as bad as their AEC software offerings.
by hinkley | 2026-01-23 19:15:37+00:00
No I definitely saw that. My first job was right into a “fad” that actually took but there were many after that didn’t, and a mentor had told me about the hype cycle practically before the term had been invented, because he’d already scene it.

The alternative though is you say “it depends” so much it’s kind of exhausting. And the religious shun you because you “lack passion”. But if anything I have too much.
by TheCraiggers | 2026-01-23 19:16:10+00:00
What an insightful comment. I've always considered art as something that can't be recreated, as it involves the state of mind the creator was at the time of creating it. I would worry no more about recreating a sound on this synth as I would recreating the exact pitch of an acoustic guitar I made last year.

Your take is obviously a valid one though. I just find it infinitely interesting how there can be so many valid viewpoints about something like this.
by krferriter | 2026-01-23 19:16:19+00:00
I've been saying for a couple years now that we need a healthy revitalization of shame in society. Sure in the past (and present) shaming people has been done for bad reasons but shame itself serves an important social function and I feel like there has been a collapse in its effectiveness, which has been very bad for society. People should be made to feel ashamed for certain things they do. It should impact them deeply and it should linger with them and be reinforced by others around them until they successfully make behavior changes. For example I see people lie pretty shamelessly and they suffer no lasting consequences for it. They should be stained with shame until they alter their behavior. People should not let them move past it and move on to the next lie.
by caminante | 2026-01-23 19:16:37+00:00
What are you talking about?

> I'm sure there's some cryptographic way to avoid Microsoft having direct access to the keys here.

FTA (3rd paragraph): don't default upload the keys to MSFT.

>If you design it so you don't have access to the data, what can they do?

You don't have access to your own data? If not, they can compel you to reveal testimony on who/what is the next step to accessing the data, and they chase that.
by ithkuil | 2026-01-23 19:16:39+00:00
And yet for whatever reason, jabber actually works for me. I have tried a few apps, some of them I even paid for and I thought voice recognition is not good for me (I'm a L2 speaker).

Whatever the default model was choose for jabber, it just hits my sweet spot: it recognizes my speech faster than typing (I type relatively quickly and speak relatively slowly, so any lag in the recognition can quickly tip the scale).

I honestly don't know what a real production software of this kind would do better (besides the promise that somebody will actually take care of issuing updates for the next time apple breaks backward compat)
by itsafarqueue | 2026-01-23 19:16:42+00:00
Slop.

I have zero doubt Claude is going to do what AI does and plough forward. Emails will get sent, recommendations made, stuff done.

And it will be slop. Worse than what it does with code, the outcomes of which are highly correlated with the expertise of the user past a certain point.

Seth wins his point. AI can, via humans giving it permission to do things, affect the world. So can my chaos monkey random script.

Fred should have qualified: _usefully_ affect the world. Deliver a margin of Utility.

We’re miles off that high bar.

Disclosure: all in on AI
by fakedang | 2026-01-23 19:16:59+00:00
1 billion internet users, some of whom may have an inkling of how to speak in English.

My father's former property groundskeeper, a daily wage labourer, could speak poor English but he could string a few words together and understand the basic gist of a Hollywood movie, even without much of an English education. Imagine 100s of millions of those people and there's your answer.
by starkparker | 2026-01-23 19:17:02+00:00
If this is a joke, it's a bad one. If it's not, it's even dumber.

The point could be made by having it design and print implements for an indoor container grow and then run lights and water over a microcontroller. Like Anthropic's vending machine this would also be an already addressed, if not solved, space for both home manufacturing and ag/garden automation.

It'd still be novel to see an LLM figure it out from scratch step by step, and a hell of a lot more interesting than whatever the fuck this is. Googling farmland in Iowa or Texas and then writing instructions for people to do the actual work isn't novel or interesting; of course an LLM can write and fill out forms. But the end result still primarily relies on people to execute those forms and affect the world, invalidating the point. Growing corn would be interesting, project managing corn isn't.
by seattle_spring | 2026-01-23 19:17:39+00:00
> as the sale price($5.1B) is greater than funds raised($1.2B) everyone made some money

Absolutely not true. It means someone made money, but it very much does not mean that "everyone" made some money.

In deals like this, common stock often is valued at $0, and employees are instead given a 4-year grant of RSUs in the new company. In other words, their time at Brex was worthless, and they have to last 4 years to get anything. The schedule is often back loaded (eg $0 in the first 2 years, 50% at year 3 and 4). Since most folks won't make it to 3 years, the company knows they won't be paying out almost any of these grants.
by nostrebored | 2026-01-23 19:17:57+00:00
Tickets are a very different domain though. Tickets are the easiest use case for AI (as you have the least constraints on real-time interaction), but reference cases in tickets have ridiculously low true-resolution (customer did not contact you about the same issue again).

The default we've seen is naive implementations are a wash. Bad AI agents cause more complex support cases to be created, and also make complex support cases the ones that reach reps (by virtue of only solving easy ones). This takes a while to truly play out, because tenured rep attrition magnifies the problem.
by thangalin | 2026-01-23 19:18:19+00:00
> that's about it.

Avid cyclist here.

* Extreme Weather: Severe heat, heavy snow, or torrential rain can make biking unsafe or impractical without specialized gear and high physical endurance.

* Accessibility & Mobility Issues: Individuals with certain physical disabilities or chronic health conditions may find traditional cycling impossible. (This also affects an aging population.)

* Time Constraints: For those with "trip-chaining" needs (e.g., daycare drop-off → work → grocery store → gym), the extra time required for cycling can be prohibitive.

* Infrastructure: Older adults are more sensitive to "heavy traffic" and "lack of safe places." Seniors don't stop cycling because they can't do it, but because they don't feel safe in traffic. (Good argument for upgrading roadways.)

* Care-giving: When parents become dependent on their children, often the children need to shuttle their parents around. A parent with dementia who escaped into the neighbourhood can be rapidly collected and ushered home in a car, not so much a bike.

* Theft & Vandalism: I've never had a car stolen. Two locked bikes, on the other hand...
by NietzscheanNull | 2026-01-23 19:18:28+00:00
Please don't make baseless accusations. If you had actually read the article, you would know that the scientific study described reports a "U-shaped curve" of negative health outcomes as a function of number of children, specifically highlighting the "finding that people who didn’t have children also aged faster and had shorter lifespans."

I suspect that your default assumption may be revealing an internal conflict that, in my experience, many parents seem to navigate at one point or another. Disregarding that and taking the statement at face value, I'm glad that having children is "the best thing in the world" for you and I hope that continues to be true. That said, I'd emphasize that your opinion is unlikely to be shared by everyone on the planet, and the implicit dismissal of other viewpoints as "nonsense" (including the evidence of the peer-reviewed journal paper described in TFA that would probably _bolster_ your assertion) is probably not the best strategy to convince the undecided.
by saratogacx | 2026-01-23 19:18:37+00:00
For this logic I like to point out that every AI service has text that says, essentially "AI can be wrong, double check your answers". If you had the same disclaimer on your food "This food's quality is not assured" would you feel comfortable buying it or would you take pause until you've built up trust with the seller and manufacturer.

There's so much CYA because there is an A that needs C'ing
by dsjoerg | 2026-01-23 19:19:05+00:00
"Can AI grow corn?"

Let's step back.

"there's a gap between digital and physical that AI can't cross"

Can intelligence of ANY kind, artificial or natural, grow corn? Do physical things?

Your brain is trapped in its skull. How does it do anything physical?

With nerves, of course. Connected to muscle. It's sending and receiving signals, that's all its doing! The brain isn't actually doing anything!

The history of humanity's last 300k years tells you that intelligence makes a difference, even though it isn't doing anything but receiving and sending signals.
by tetris11 | 2026-01-23 19:19:18+00:00
I constantly get the impression that it's a yaoi manga dressed up as a shonen, and so from that perspective I can understand why women may not be the focus.

Naruto and Sasuke spend much of the entire series pining after each other, and when they do finally - uhm - "resolve their differences", the show tacks on two female counterparts to marry them off to like an afterthought.

I don't blame Kishimoto for this, I blame the shonen crowd more for shaping their expectations on what is clearly a yaoi story
Show HN: UnboundChat – Privacy-First OpenRouter Client for Android and Windows
by Valvoa | 2026-01-23 19:19:27+00:00
I built this app after struggling to find a good privacy-focused AI chat client for mobile several months ago.

I was using OpenWebUI but wanted a local-first solution that didn't require connecting to a remote server. While the Gemini app worked well, I wasn't comfortable sending all my queries to Google on top of everything else I already share with them.

Core Privacy Features:

- All data stored locally on your device with end-to-end encryption
- Optional app lock/biometric authentication
- One-tap data deletion + configurable retention policies
- Encrypted on-device backup and sync
- Support for providers offering zero data retention

The rest of the features focus on quality-of-life improvements for daily use.

The app is actively being developed, and I'd love to hear your feedback or feature requests.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-23 19:19:33+00:00
> And I also don't think it's fair to say there's no point just because there's a person prompting and interpreting the LLM. That happens all the time with real people, too.

Yes, what I'm trying to get at, it's much more vital we nail down the "person prompting and interpreting the LLM" part instead of focusing so much on the "autonomous robots doing everything".