MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by terminalshort | 2026-01-25 18:26:03+00:00
Your own answer circles right back to the problem I'm talking about:

> and it had better be reliable - imagine if it omits the wrong alarms!

This is entirely based on the premise that an error due to omitting the wrong alarm is worse than an error based on including too many alarms. That right there is lawyerthink. Also, these priorities don't conflict as you say, they just take different sides of a tradeoff. Managers and finance people are balancing a tradeoff of delivery speed, cost, and quality to maximize business value. And the bureaucrats and lawyers are choosing more expensive and less reliable systems because they better manage the emotions of panicky anxious people looking for a scapegoat in a crisis. This has a cost.

Besides having bad luck in timing to be president when the stock market crashed, and therefore scapegoated for it, Herbert Hoover was well regarded in everything he did before and after his term, including many non engineering related things. So I think he is a particularly poor example of this. Public blame for things like that tends to be exactly as rational as thinking a hangover has nothing to do with last night.
by 3rodents | 2026-01-25 18:26:10+00:00
Worlds collide. Jack is a hack. Literally. He does not review books in any meaningful capacity, he takes other people’s reviews and restates them. He doesn’t read most of the books. He is, unfortunately, the perfect example of a social media something. Entirely performative, zero substance. The article hand waves it away as online abuse (“Edwards is subject to copious online abuse”) but doesn’t interrogate it. Maybe, if he is so often accused of plagiarism and not reading books… there is something to it? You only need to actually watch his videos (and not these fawning articles) to realize the complete absence of any literary critique. There are thousands of thoughtful literary critics on TikTok and YouTube, it is sad to see Jack stealing their work and credit. He has great agents though.
Show HN: YouBankLab – Personal financial cloud with a private AI layer
by Tomas_YBL | 2026-01-25 18:26:21+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m working on YouBankLab, a beta experiment around a simple idea:

What if people didn’t keep their money in a bank, but in a personal financial cloud they fully own?

YouBankLab is a non-custodial financial environment where:

users hold their own funds and identity

payments are peer-to-peer

the system has no custody over money

What’s new (and what I’m testing) is a local, privacy-first AI layer that:

observes transaction patterns

detects behavioral changes or anomalies

provides context and insights

never moves money or makes decisions

AI here is not a bot or advisor — it’s more like a private financial “observer” that helps you understand what’s happening inside your own financial cloud.

This is an early beta and very much a learning project.
I’m mostly interested in feedback on:

whether this framing makes sense

where it feels unclear or unrealistic

and if this solves a real problem for anyone here

Live beta: https://youbanklab.base44.app

Website: https://www.youbanklab.com

Happy to answer questions.

— Tomas
by merqurio | 2026-01-25 18:26:43+00:00
Hi HN, the author here

I wrote this post after giving a talk on AI to a non-technical audience. I found that the analogy of baking a cake without a recipe was a powerful way to build intuition for how ML models are trained and, more importantly, the common ways they can fail.

I hope this is a useful mental model, whether you're an expert trying to explain your work or a newcomer to the field.

I'm here to answer any questions.

I'm also curious: what are your favorite analogies for explaining complex technical topics?
by bananaflag | 2026-01-25 18:27:56+00:00
I remember being confused as a kid by "Yes/No/Cancel" when the computer asked "Do you want to save the changes...?" because I couldn't figure out whether "Cancel" meant "Yes" or "No" and why on earth would one have a third option. I then realized it meant to "cancel" my intention to close the file. I had been confused because I thought it meant to "cancel" the computer's intention to ask me.

Also, I was that obnoxious kid who, after asking someone a yes/no question, used to add "Yes/No/Cancel" (probably to highlight my perceived absurdity of that button).
by PKop | 2026-01-25 18:28:22+00:00
> it's clear that this is a big fun experiment.

No it's not clear, because at every turn we're told we're supposed to take it seriously, that there's something there there and that's it's a very real hint at some very real future not whimsical nonsense made for a laugh. You can see this in Steve's writing, calling out the non-believers. Then when you call the bluff, well "it's just a prank bro chill out."

> It pushes and crosses boundaries

What does this mean? This is fluff talk nonsense.

Something that's burning through thousands of dollars, producing what exactly?, is deserving of our respect why?
by wyldfire | 2026-01-25 18:28:55+00:00
The agent who opened fire [1] clearly put other agents' lives in danger. To say nothing of shooting a just-disarmed man in the back while he was being handily subdued by several agents.

It always seemed laughable to me when people on the internet would talk about another US Civil War. I think it's still unlikely but it's definitely not laughable anymore. The President is not looking for undocumented migrants, because if he were he would look in the states where they live in vast numbers, not Minnesota where a political opponent governs.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1qm2vi0/heres_your_pro...
by com2kid | 2026-01-25 18:29:51+00:00
Seattle has its equivalent in Harborview. It is where you go to watch loved ones die, where you stand by the bed as life support is unplugged, where you sit and wait as doctors attempt heroic life saving measures.

Often enough the doctors do succeed, and there is plenty of good news there. But a hospital that is capable of treating the worst of the worst gets a reputation for sorrow.
by miki123211 | 2026-01-25 18:29:57+00:00
This is one of the things that E-Delivery (something which Europe is now implementing[1,2,3]) is going to fix.

It's sort of like email, but based on the XML stack (SOAP / WSDL / XML Crypto / XML Sig), with proper citizen authentication and cryptographically-signed proof of sending and delivery.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/sites/spaces/DI...
[2] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...
[3] https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/sites/spaces/DI...
by thomasmg | 2026-01-25 18:30:48+00:00
Right, it would be wasteful if it's done for each entry separately. But that is not needed. (I should probably write an article about this and a better implementation).

The "succinct counting (blocked) Bloom filters" have two components: the regular Bloom filter for querying, and the count storage. The count storage is not "strictly" needed for querying: you will never get a false _negative_ is increments / decrements in the count storage are deferred. So updating the count storage can be done asynchronously. Both increments and decrements, if you want. So these can be buffered, eg 100 increments / decrements at a time. Sure, the false-positive rate is slightly higher than needed if the decrements are deferred, but with a large filter this effect is small.

So that means, you can buffer increments / decrements in the count storage. You still want to do the "or" operations in the the Bloom filter part synchronously, so that you don't get false negatives. And then, it is no longer just 30-40 cycles, but 3000-4000 cycles, or 30'000-40'000 cycles, or so. I understand this would not be trivial to implement, but also not very complex. I never really had a real-world use case so far, so I didn't work on a full implementation yet.
by dullcrisp | 2026-01-25 18:30:52+00:00
“For the sake of time, is it okay if we move on to the next update? We can go into further details offline.”

Also if that doesn’t work, “Hey Bro I notice you like to give a lot of detail in standup. That’s great, but we want to keep it a short meeting so we try to focus on just the highlights and surfacing any key blockers. I don’t want to interrupt you, so if you like I can help you distill what you’ve worked on before the meeting starts.”
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-25 18:31:40+00:00
A million years ago when I was in highschool, teachers would make us show them that we cleared our TI-83 calculators.

So there were of course various programs to simulate the experience of clearing the calculator. Plenty of ways through the police stop with our illicit digital goods, even then.

Generally just don't come here anymore, but with the US fascists now checking phones at borders, the idea of having low detectability digital "smuggling compartments" (digitally speaking) in our devices is becoming all too real. Some loopback filesystem that your phone can mount that has the rest of the phone, various systemd-sysext layers for bitchat.

With the UK joining the idiot races to maybe ban VPNs, we have another not so far off reason for needing protection versus the totalitarian. Sorry but if you believe tailscaling home is a crime you're the enemy of society, your rules are a joke, and declaration of Independence of cyberspace strongly is in detail about what a mockery of yourself you are making.
by mlyle | 2026-01-25 18:31:51+00:00
These little ARM Cortex M4F that we're comparing to are designed for embedded, possibly hard-real-time operations. And dominant factors in experience on playback through earbuds are response time and jitter.

If the AGC could get a capsule to the moon doing hard real-time tasks (and spilling low priority tasks as necessary), a single STM32F405 with a Cortex M4F could do it better.

Actually, my team is going to fly a STM32F030 for minimal power management tasks-- but still hard real-time-- on a small satellite. Cortex-M0. It fits in 25 milliwatts vs 55W. We're clocked slow, but still exceed the throughput by ~200-300x. Funnily enough, the amount of RAM is about the same :D It's 70 cents in quantity.

> NASA used a lot of supercomputers here on earth pior to mission start.

Fine, let's compare to the CDC 6600, the fastest computer of the late 60's. M4F @ 300MHz is a couple hundred single precision megaflops; CDC6600 was like 3 not-quite-double-precision megaflops. The hacky "double single precision" techniques have comparable precision-- figure that is probably about 10x slower on average, so each M4F could do about 20 CDC-6600 equivalent megaflops or is roughly 5-10x faster. The amount of RAM is about the same on this earbud.

Control flow, integer math, etc, being much faster than that.

Just a few more pennies gets you a microcontroller with a double precision FPU, like a Cortex-M7F, which at 300MHz is good for maybe 60 double precision megaflops-- compared to the 6600, 20x faster and more precision.
Show HN: QuantDinger–An open-source, local AI quantitative trading platform
by quantdinger | 2026-01-25 18:32:04+00:00
Hi HN,

QuantDinger is an open-source, local-first AI-powered quantitative trading platform that I’ve been building for about six months. It’s designed to cover the full quant workflow — from research and strategy development to backtesting and live execution — while keeping everything running locally.

Most existing quant tools are cloud-based, which means strategies, indicators, and API keys often need to be uploaded to third-party servers. QuantDinger takes a different approach: it is local-first by default, so strategy logic and credentials stay on your own machine.

The platform currently supports multiple markets, including US equities, A-shares, Hong Kong stocks, crypto, forex, and futures.

Key features:
- Local-first architecture with Docker-based deployment
- AI-assisted strategy and indicator generation
- Python-native strategy development
- Visual indicators and K-line (candlestick) execution
- Backtesting and live trading support
- Multi-user support for self-hosted setups

QuantDinger is fully open source under the Apache 2.0 license and can be used commercially.

Demo:
https://ai.quantdinger.com

GitHub:
https://github.com/brokermr810/QuantDinger

I’d really appreciate feedback from people who’ve built or used trading systems, especially around architecture, backtesting design, and practical usability.
by LexiMax | 2026-01-25 18:32:11+00:00
What is preventing Microsoft from pulling an Oracle and suing Valve, CodeWeavers, or individual Wine maintainers for re-implementing Win32?

This question has been nagging at me for a while. Regardless of how much validity there is to the lawsuit, I imagine that going to trial would be supremely risky, because if you happen across anybody working on Wine that saw something they weren't supposed to, you could sink the whole project.

I cannot imagine Microsoft sitting by and quietly letting their Windows monopoly vanish between their fingers. Selling Windows may not be their primary focus these days, but why give up an advantage like that?
by quantdinger | 2026-01-25 18:32:46+00:00
A bit more context on why I focused on a local-first design:

In my own trading and research, I found it hard to trust hosted quant platforms with proprietary strategies and exchange API keys. QuantDinger was built so that execution logic, credentials, and most data processing never leave the local environment.

The AI components are used mainly for research assistance (e.g. generating strategy ideas or indicators), not for opaque “black-box” execution. All strategies remain inspectable Python code.

Happy to answer technical questions about how the backtesting engine works, how markets are abstracted, or how the AI agents are integrated.
by tinyhouse | 2026-01-25 18:33:11+00:00
I don't have a horse in this race, but I do have a question. If you don't deport illegal immigrants, why not just open the border to everyone to come in? (let's ignore criminal records, etc for this exercise). What's the point of not letting people in but then if they manage to come in illegally, assume it's all good and they can stay?
by tw04 | 2026-01-25 18:33:34+00:00
I can say that my parents have never once complained about a scam on their phone caused by sideloading.

In fact I don’t know anyone among any of my friends or family that have ever had that issue.

Every last one of my non-technical friends and family have been hit by spyware on their windows devices.

To say I’m extremely skeptical that this has anything to do with protecting users is an understatement.

In fact I’m willing to go out on a limb and say it’s a nearly non-existent issue outside of people being targeted by nation states.

Would love to see some numbers backing up the claim that sideloading is resulting in mass exploiting of Android devices because I can’t find them.
by LexiMax | 2026-01-25 18:33:37+00:00
Krita is doing just fine. It has the subjectively "better" name, but also the improved UX.

We're missing the last part of this quadrant with a Krita-like app that has great UX but a bad name, but the preponderance of the evidence thus far tells me that it is more likely than not that the name didn't matter, or at the very least that the UX definitely did matter while the name might not have.
by bitmasher9 | 2026-01-25 18:33:50+00:00
Storage space is at a premium. The PS5 has about 650gb of usable space. At ~100gb/game which is not uncommon you can store 6 games on the console without needing to free up hard drive space.

Filesize matters, especially to people with limited bandwidth and data caps. The increasing cost of SSDs only makes this situation more hardware constrained.
by jalev | 2026-01-25 18:33:53+00:00
I went and looked at the Tiktoks. As far as I can see from the few videos I've watched it's not so much "criticism" as "plot overview, small background details, and what I liked about it".

It's kind of weird it's being framed as a tiktok sensation when there's nothing to really differenciate him from other booktokers? Other than perhaps more subscribers than usual.

Also, per the article:

> Edwards champions BookTok and also defends it...

Kind of interesting to note given his video saying he doesn't like booktok books[1]. I suppose he knows not to piss in the pond he drinks from.

[1] https://youtu.be/AuEipfQbHrU
by prmoustache | 2026-01-25 18:33:55+00:00
We live in a global world and this is super common nowadays. In my own family 2 out of 3 sibling are married with someone who was born in a different continent, one in Asia, the other in Latin America.

And we both met them here in Europe.

People are so welcoming in latin america that when you marry someone, you literally marry the whole extended family. After just a handful of years is not like my partner's aunts and cousins are strangers to me. I can contact them anytime for advice on a topic related to their work/career field and they will do so about mine.

Add to that some cousins and friends who moved overseas and I have many regular contacts that live more than 10000km away from me.
by godelski | 2026-01-25 18:34:01+00:00
When did legality make something right?

The whole social battle is a constant attempt to align our laws and values as a society. It's why we create new laws. It's why we overturn old laws. You can't just abdicate your morals and let the law decide for you. That's not a system of democracy, that's a system of tyranny.

The privacy focused crowd often mentions "turnkey tyranny" as a major motivation. A tyrant who comes to power and changes the laws. A tyrant who comes to power and uses the existing tooling beyond what that tooling was ever intended for.

The law isn't what makes something right or wrong. I can't tell you what is, you'll have to use your brain and heart to figure that one out.
by zahlman | 2026-01-25 18:34:08+00:00
> An ad hominem argument is an argument constructed around characteristics of a person outside the bounds of what is being discussed.

"Ad hominem attack" is commonly used to just mean saying something insulting or uncharitable.

> Inferring someone's opinion

You accused that dekhn would treat people unfairly, based on no apparent evidence:

> We both know you wouldn't grant the same grace and charity to the intentions of the protestors.

This is an accusation that the other person is knowingly biased. And it is not, in fact, an inference of "opinion".

> Say I'm wrong and cite why.

There are reasons to object to a comment on the Internet other than being "wrong". Which is what's happening here.

> Don't call me "disgraceful". Why? Because THAT is an ad hominem attack.

You were not called "disgraceful". Your commentary was called disgraceful.

> In fact the clear offense being taken makes it pretty clear to me that my point landed closer than maybe you're prepared to admit.

The person taking offense, the person your comment referred to, and I (the person you originally replied to ITT) are three separate people.

> You cleverly skipped the point where I even admitted I might be wrong!

The only thing in your comment that could be interpreted as such as "I don't know if this is your intent or not"; but that does not refer to the commentary being called out here as an ad hominem attack.
by steveklabnik | 2026-01-25 18:34:23+00:00
A lot of American Christians aren't hyper committed to the specific theology of whichever flavor of Christianity they belong to, and will often sort of mix and match their own personal beliefs with what is orthodoxy.

That said, I'm ex-Catholic, so I don't feel super qualified to make a statement on the specific popularity of predestination among American evangelicals at the moment.

That said, in a less theological and more metaphorical sense, it does seem that many of them do believe in some sort of "good people" and "bad people", where the "bad people" are not particularly redeemable. It feels a little unfalsifiable though.
by thejarren | 2026-01-25 18:34:37+00:00
I grew up in Pennsylvania and have visited Centralia a few times over the years. When I was younger, I remember being able to see smoke rise from the ground, but in recent years, I haven’t seen anything almost as if the fire has subsided a bit.

Pennsylvania is filled with old coal mining towns, and most of them are in a state of decay. Towns like Pottsville, Pennsylvania have buildings crumbling down on their main streets.

If anything, I think Centralia is representative of where these other towns could be in 50 to 100 years, assuming people move to larger communities. Barring the fire under the ground, of course.
by alwa | 2026-01-25 18:34:38+00:00
Some, probably; not all (and certainly not the current president, who in his more senile moments muses about how his works have probably earned him hell [0]).

But the same observation applies to lots of other attitudes, too—like “might makes right” and “nature is red in tooth and claw” or whatever the dark princelings evince these days. I feel like “logic matters” mainly pertains to a liberal-enlightenment political context that might be in the past now…

https://time.com/7311354/donald-trump-heaven-hell-afterlife-...
by koiueo | 2026-01-25 18:35:09+00:00
> not everyone is affected equally

I agree. However if we talk about Kyiv, I'd like to remind you that electricity is available 2-4 hours per day, in some regions there has been no water nor heating for the last week.
Everyone I know are extremely stressed, and if anyone visits their gym, it's not to enjoy life, but to not slip into total despair.
by fancyfredbot | 2026-01-25 18:36:01+00:00
The situation you are describing definitely happens, people have their mates they like working with and a single relationship can make a whole career.

Normally though, such relationships do not involve the sales person charging significantly above market rates. The client usually has very strong incentives to reduce costs. While a single salesperson might build a career on a chummy relationship this isn't a sustainable approach for an entire firm to take because it is too unusual. The majority of the revenue is coming from client/sales relationships where the client is at least somewhat price sensitive and sufficiently savvy to get more than one quote.
by rvz | 2026-01-25 18:36:06+00:00
If you are thinking about not reading the syntax of AI generated code, i.e vibe coding on production software, just show this simple case study. [0]

For transparency in future incidents, I now expect that post-mortems like this one [0] would go along the lines of: "An AI code generator was used, it passed all the tests, we checked everything and we still got this error."

There is still one fundamental lesson in [0]: English as a 'programming language' cannot be formally verified and probabilistic AI generators can still be the cause of perfect-looking code being the cause of an incident.

This time the engineers will have no understanding of the AI generated code itself.

[0] https://sketch.dev/blog/our-first-outage-from-llm-written-co...
by palata | 2026-01-25 18:36:15+00:00
Wow I don't get all the downvotes I'm getting for that.

You answered to:

>> I don't see any iOS advantage with the apps anymore.

With a list of apps, some of which only listed because they got Android support a few months later. And some of which I have never heard of (SmartSDR?).

I get why those apps matter to you, but it feels a bit arbitrary. While the quote refers to something that was more general (which suggests that "at a point, iOS had a lot more quality apps"). I am just saying that the answer "no but I checked the app I like on iOS and a handful of them don't exist on Android" was kind of one anecdotal data point in the discussion.

And my point about Android having a bigger market share was that my intuition is that probably popular apps end up on Android eventually, or alternatives exist.

I honestly really don't care if people prefer iOS, Android, GrapheneOS, or a Linux for mobile distro.