MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dwoldrich | 2026-01-31 14:24:11+00:00
> 4g?

I just can't ever remember what's supposed to come after the plus, I thought maybe lmnop, but the l is already taken.

It's not the worst I can imagine, it's just the major societal/financial movements they funded bigly that have traumatized and enthralled hundreds of millions that they cast off like dirty old rags - and we don't even get a chance to discuss it.

Before you nitpick me on particulars, I'm talking about the big, sometimes years-long (like global warming), crises that suddenly cease to be crises.

One week it's no-jab-no-job-get-your-boosters and stay on lockdown, next week: stop talking about it, Putin is invading Ukraine! And two years later, return to office! Right on the quarterly schedule, no less! Poof, existential threat disappears, it's magic.

Today they suddenly need mega power generation so bad, they need their AGI so baaaad! Forget all that other stuff. Green agenda? It never was a threat, move along to the new crisis.

What are people spun up about in my town now? Immigration police. It's not going to work this time, I think. This one is so clumsy and just a repeat of BLM/defund the police. (And what the hell was "thank your first responders" faff about just prior, then?)

All the people will finally see this one is manufactured and fake and ghey. But alas, no. The purple haired moms and their truant little kids and the unicorn costumed antifa and the self-absorbed, boomer hippy grandmas were on the street corner yesterday morning, protesting immigration police and demanding honks. A hundred people, some clearly paid, organized for this! Le sigh.

People never stop getting spun up now. They never ask why all the threats are always positioned as existential now. It's not because "they are", clearly they are not, as past ones have proven not to be. But, they don't have any memory for the latest crazes of even the near past because they are constantly making themselves afraid.

> banking is not regulated

Because the snakes we have have done such a great job, and who did the carving? "Devil you know", is that your point? It's not a great point if you think about it.

I'm not looking forward to working hard scrabbling for food, no. I'd much rather code JavaScript in peace. Yes, I have read history.

I know we _could_ all be fabulously wealthy with today's tech if we didn't have this debt-based, permanent war system to drag along. If your history lessons extend back before the 1900's at all, you'll know maybe there's something to look forward to.
by basch | 2026-01-31 14:24:20+00:00
To replace a legacy ticketing monolith like ServiceNow with a text-based LLM pipeline, you should transition to a "GitOps for Service Management" model: replace form-based entries with a central, version-controlled Markdown or JSONL repository where every ticket is a discrete text file containing structured metadata (tags, timestamps, status) and unstructured conversation logs. These files are monitored by a CI/CD pipeline that triggers a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) indexing process, allowing a fine-tuned LLM to serve as the primary interface for querying historical solutions, generating automated responses, or updating ticket states via natural language commits. By treating the service desk as a living document store rather than a relational database, you eliminate UI friction and enable the LLM to act as the "logic layer" that categorizes, routes, and resolves issues directly from the raw text stream.
by rm30 | 2026-01-31 14:24:22+00:00
The irony is that EU education is still broader and more grounded in fundamentals, compared to US one that has become increasingly skills-oriented.

I also prefer to design solutions that are portable and platform independent, cloud providers simplify and hide something to you, it has a cost (not just money) that you cannot quantify on long term and that's clear for who has experience in both worlds.
by rvnx | 2026-01-31 14:24:39+00:00
It's not that guaranteed.

The reality is that if you have any interest, company or employees in the US you can be coerced to do anything the US government wants.

Either legally through courts, or through business influence, or through harassment (e.g. hardcore checks from the IRS).

Sorry, Stripe rejects you now because you are high-risk (you have to explain why you refuse to help in criminal cases, though there is a court requesting you).

You don't like to comply to US requests and protect terrorists ?

https://support.stripe.com/questions/how-to-resolve-blocks-o...

Still don't comply ?

You are added to sanctions list, end of the game.

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0185

Even Microsoft acknowledges that these cross-border requests cannot be avoided.

https://www.convotis.com/es/en/news/microsoft-access-eu-data

The same way that EU can force fetching data from the US entity.

Now on the EU side:

GDPR fine of 4% of your worldwide income. Well, too bad, your US entity refused, we will have to punish your EU entity very strongly.

If small provider, oh right you refuse ? Well, we will notify your bank that you do not respect the court orders, etc.

The law is one of the way of enforcement, but there are multiple stages of pressure.

Still refuse ? Well, let's come to you at 6am then.

https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2020/07/10/57...
by convolvatron | 2026-01-31 14:25:00+00:00
exactly. in HPC we all understood that it was a tradeoff between money and time, and that the curve was exponential. if you wanted to race ahead of todays capabilities, you could, but you couldn't go very far without burning alot of cash.

because of the investment story about being first and building a moat, we have companies torching 100s of billions of dollars to see who can climb that exponential the furthest.

we have so much work to do, in infrastructure, and distributed computation models, and programmability, quantization, and information theory...just relax a little. you dont have to compete with OpenAI. OpenAI is just a giant waste of money. take your incremental gains and invest in research and I assure you we can get there without directing our entire economic output into buying the latest highest margin parts from Nvidia only to use them at 30%, if you're being generous.
by AtlasBarfed | 2026-01-31 14:25:21+00:00
States need to sponsor open source to the tune of tens of billions.

Ss the reg points out it's now national security in a deglobalization world.

I got mocked on this site for suggesting it.

But both the EU and the non aligned superpowers need open source hardware and software stacks.

It's all there already. The people did 90% of the work. Llms are here to close feature gaps, identify security issues, port code. They are great at cloning and iterative improvement.

You don't need some radical new idea. And stand up to American companies

And oh jeez, you might get a functioning tech sector of companies. That would be horrible wouldn't it EU.

Proprietary software and hardware/firmware is a weapon these days. This is a US issue as well.

Open source is the key for the entire economic stack of fabrication of computing devices in a weaponized low trust deglobalized multipolar world.

It enabled cooperation, export, multinational companies to make money worldwide
by retrocog | 2026-01-31 14:25:33+00:00
The word comes from southern Africa. But the truth it carries is older and wider than any single language. It appears in the Rumi's poetry and the Sikh Gurus' lives. In the Kabbalists' repair work and the Taoists' effortless action. In Buddhist restraint and Thomistic participation. In the Sufi's submission and the Animist's listening. Different traditions. Different centuries. Different metaphors for the same shape: the self cannot cohere alone. The "we" is not optional. Coherence is relational all the way down. Ubuntu is not new wisdom. We are always rediscovering it because we keep forgetting it. And each time we remember, it feels like discovery—when really, we've just stopped pretending we don't already know.
by yobbo | 2026-01-31 14:27:03+00:00
> because EU throws regulatory obstacles at every step.

No, the gatekeeping is done by local banks and governments to protect their oligopolies/cartels.

There are many instant-pay apps across Europe and they are intentionally not interoperable outside of local markets. Each local banking oligopoly is trying to fence off competition. The main fear is from smaller neo-banks.
by ranger_danger | 2026-01-31 14:27:28+00:00
I know I will get downvoted for this and people will just say "you're doing it wrong" or "the library wasn't designed for that" but I still think it would be really helpful for some people if the source of the data to swap out could be retrieved from parsing the response data as JSON and grabbing a certain named key.

Yes one can add a callback function to parse the data as JSON, do error handling etc. and then swap the text/HTML, but having that built in to a hx-foo attribute would be a lot easier.
by guilhas | 2026-01-31 14:27:29+00:00
AI code, junior dev or distracted person, either way there is no defense for AMD. As a billion dollar company you would at least have a simple QA before pushing slop into open source projects

FFmpeg maintainers have to keep pointing out incorrect parts. And conclude the entire is redundant

The PR interaction are clearly AI filler, at least on the second one

At this point open source projects should charge big companies to review their PRs
by jimaek | 2026-01-31 14:28:21+00:00
Atlas is great but it is focused more on academic research and professional use.

Globalping offers real-time result streaming and a simpler user experience with focus on integrations https://globalping.io/integrations

For example you can use the CLI as if you were running a traceroute locally, without even having to register.

And if you need more credits you can simply donate via GitHub Sponsors starting from $1

They are similar with an overlapping audience yet have different goals
by fdb | 2026-01-31 14:29:18+00:00
It's on Lovable so you can just fork it and take a look (the prompt is in supabase/functions/transform-render/index.ts):

Transform this idealized architectural rendering into the most brutally realistic, depressing photograph possible. This is the WORST CASE scenario - what the building will actually look like in reality:

- Set on a dreary, grey, overcast late November day with flat, lifeless lighting
- The sky is a uniform dirty grey, threatening rain
- All trees are completely bare - just skeletal branches against the grey sky
- The landscaping is dead, muddy, or non-existent. No lush gardens, just patchy brown grass and bare dirt
- Remove ALL people, the scene should feel empty and abandoned
- Any water features should look stagnant and grey
- Add realistic weathering, dirt streaks, and construction residue on the building
- The building materials should look how they actually appear, not the idealized clean version
- Include visible utility boxes, drainage grates, and other mundane infrastructure usually hidden in renders
- The overall mood should be bleak but realistic - this is what buyers will actually see on a random Tuesday in late autumn
- Maintain the exact building, angle, and composition, just strip away all the marketing polish

The goal is honest truth, not beauty. Show what the architect's client will actually see when they visit the site.
by MadDemon | 2026-01-31 14:29:38+00:00
Greece took on more debt than they could serve. Do you expect the tax payers from other countries to just pay for that without significant changes to how Greece operates? If you can't pay your debts and you can't print your own currency, you lose some sovereignty. But I feel like Greece would have been worse off if they still had the drachma and tried to print their way out of the crisis.
by Nextgrid | 2026-01-31 14:29:45+00:00
> I could go on with the list of services currently used by the people that pay to push buttons

I too can build an engineering playground where every ingress byte traverses as many AWS services as I can find. But if you're building a business application, how many of these do you actually need?

Once you have the basic primitives you can fill in the gaps yourself if needed. But in the list you provided, Pub/Sub, CDN and GLB is already covered actually.

I'm sure in due time other services will be covered if there's enough demand, but to claim there is no EU alternative while the basics (app server + DB + S3, aka the most difficult to scale/operate yourself) are covered is a bit misleading I think.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-01-31 14:30:19+00:00
> The only way somebody living in the UK can access Imgur is through a residential proxy.

And very little of value was lost.

> This really just sounds like a rehash of the argument against encryption. "Bad people use it, so it should go away" - never mind that there are completely legitimate uses for it.

Except that almost everything that uses encryption has some legitimate use. There are pretty much no legitimate uses for residential proxies, and their use in flooding the Internet with crap greatly outweighs that.

If I plumbed a 30cm sewage line straight into your living room would you be happy with it? Okay, well, tell you what, let's make it totally legit - I'll drop a tasty ripe strawberry into the stream of effluent every so often, how about that?
by egemtrak | 2026-01-31 14:30:32+00:00
Hi HN,

I've been diving deep into the "Agentic OS" space lately—projects that treat AI agents as first-class citizens rather than just simple applications. It feels like we're moving from "AI as a feature" to "AI as the kernel," but I noticed there wasn't a central place to track all these emerging frameworks and runtimes.

I put together this "Awesome" list to keep track of what's out there. It’s still early days, and I’m sure I’ve missed some great projects. Would love to hear your thoughts on the category and any suggestions for what else to include. PRs are welcome!
Show HN: Build reliably with Google GenAI tech thanks to this skills repo
by cnemri | 2026-01-31 14:31:39+00:00
I just open-sourced the Google GenAI Skills repo.

Using Agent Skills standard (SKILL md), you can now give your favorite CLI agents (Gemini CLI, Antigravity, Claude Code, Cursor) instant mastery over:

Google ADK
DeepMind Veo
Gemini Nano Banana
GenAI Python SDK
and more to come...

Agents use "progressive disclosure" to load only the context they need, keeping your prompts fast and cheap.

Try installed Google ADK skill for example:
npx skills add cnemri/google-genai-skills --skill google-adk-python
Check out the repo and drop a . Feel free to contribute:

https://github.com/cnemri/google-genai-skills
by ExoticPearTree | 2026-01-31 14:32:16+00:00
I mentioned MS because OOXML is now an open standard, albeit a 6000 pages one, but still open. And a similar sized competitor - Google, is still trying to deliver the same functionality.

The point I'm trying to make is that going from zero to hero, even with basically "infinite" money like Google has is very very very hard.
by nis0s | 2026-01-31 14:36:28+00:00
The problem is this: how do you make sure the outcomes you want are accurate, precise, consistent and reliable? Or if the results are indeed aligned with the outcomes you want.

If I cannot guarantee outcomes (people usually get demoted or fired when they don’t exactly do what the boss says), then I need something in the loop which I can hold accountable to ensure I get the outcomes I want.

If an agent keeps giving me bad information or code, how do I demote or fire that agent if I am subjected to vendor lock-in? Everyone is using the same models and APIs across the board.

We need people for quality assurance even beyond AI developing cognitive flexibility on par with humans. I can hold a person, or group of people, accountable for their mistakes. I cannot hold AI agents or APIs accountable for shit.

Let’s also not forget that some mistakes have very little fault tolerance, and software we write has never been able meet that demand. See all the recent plane crashes, for example.

If human capabilities are the bottleneck, then those capabilities need to augmented.
by somethingsome | 2026-01-31 14:36:35+00:00
What do you mean by 'any evidence that works better Than alternatives'?

It can deliver radiations to the brain that will peak at the exact position of the cancer, and reduce irradiation in sane tissues.
The 'better' is 'less irradiation to sane tissues' that in turn reduces the risk for new cancers.

Note: I'm not expert on the matter, but I had technical visits to IBA and know several PhDs that work there
by dgellow | 2026-01-31 14:37:06+00:00
Is it really seen as “the real risk” if it is something the current elected president very explicitly said for decades he wants to do? He does want USD to go down in value. He said it, repeatedly, openly. He made very clear why he went after Powell (that he himself reappointed).
It’s more, exactly what we should expect than a risk no?
by vanschelven | 2026-01-31 14:37:43+00:00
Europe managed the first ~60 years of computing without the cloud just fine, and (as per greybeard HN-style comment) one can in fact wonder how much of the past 15 years of innovation has actually brought us for "your average org".

Also: there may be _a_ chance that the situation will improve, but as the Dutch say "Trust Arrives on Foot, but Leaves on Horseback" and your even given your "even if" the trust thrown away in the past year will take literal decades to repair.
by sgt | 2026-01-31 14:37:56+00:00
How do you actually go about training specialized speech models? Let's say you have a language dialect you want to specialize on, or a pidgin English from West Africa, or a regular language but with highly specialized terminologies being used.

Just curious - would you need insane HW infrastructure to begin with, or hosted/managed. And what tooling is preferred by the industry for the "training"?
by ralusek | 2026-01-31 14:38:34+00:00
I mean at the very least if their clients can read it then they can at least read it through their clients, right? And if their clients can read it’ll be because of some private key stored on the client device that they must be able to access, so they could always get that. And this is just assuming that they’ve been transparent about how it’s built, they could just have backdoors on their end.
by andsoitis | 2026-01-31 14:39:06+00:00
Scott Galloway lists a bunch of companies he says should be boycotted: Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

And: Meta, Uber, Netflix, OpenAI, X.

Also: AT&T, Comcast, Charter, Dell, FedEx, Marriott, Spotify, UPS.

I am willing to bet both my testicles that he is not practicing what he's preaching and is most likely just seeking attention, grifting, building brand. Oh, and to get your details for his mailing list. Don't be fooled.
by thunfischtoast | 2026-01-31 14:39:23+00:00
I once had a working program, running on a 4 GB RAM virtual server with MongoDB. Everything was fast and testing and deploying a new version took me some minutes usually. Existing users were happy as far as I could tell.

But then some corporate IT guy mandated everything had to be using managed AWS services in some three tier dev-test-production setup, despite having no prior experience with that on either side.
Cost went up at least 25-fold, the development sucked, new deployments took 30? minutes minimum (because now everything has to run through some build-system I did not control and I had to manually copy keys around every time).
I left the company, but I think the product exists to this day with less than 1000 customers. Nothing my 4 GB VS could handle...
by pron | 2026-01-31 14:39:50+00:00
Another way of putting it is that predictions based on an assumption of "exponential growth" of anything (which is presumed to slow down at some point) are almost always wrong. It's saying, sure, we may be at 1 right now, but in a year we'll be at 100, and that's the future we should prepare for! But if you believe that, then if you're off by only a little about the stopping point, we could just as likely have to prepare for a future where we're at 10 or 1000 for a while. Once you talk about exponential growth, by definition a small error in the timing of when that growth slows down translates to an error of what that would look like by an order of magnitude. In other words, you can believe in exponential growth and you can believe you have a good prediction of the future, but you can't believe in both at the same time.
by mmaunder | 2026-01-31 14:39:51+00:00
What is different about this time is how much a crash is expected, which is reflected in the run up in the gold price, for one. It’s also reflected in the public discourse about the high probability of a crash - as with this post and many others over the past couple years. 2008 was sudden and unexpected by most. The dot com crash was sudden and unexpected by most. If we crashed today it would have been expected by most and many would make money off the crash.

I’m not sure what the effects of a highly anticipated crash are, but I’d love to discuss what they might be.

It’s priced into gold, which I think reflects negative dollar sentiment. It’s not priced into the VIX, which is implied volatility across the S&P. Suggesting a crash in equities is not priced in.
by stevenhuang | 2026-01-31 14:40:04+00:00
Tubular is great. Though they sometimes take a while to fix playback issues, like the one where videos only played for 10 seconds. That caused a bunch of forks to come out and I used those for a period of time.

Lately I discovered Firefox with background play and sponsor block extensions still work. If this stops working hopefully tubular will be a good backup.
by stared | 2026-01-31 14:40:39+00:00
One of perks of PhD of quantum physics is that quaternions get mundane, vide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_matrices. SU(2) is everywhere (normalized quaternions). These are are more common than regular rotations of 3D space, O(3).

Because SU(2) we get a lot of interesting phenomena, including that there are two types of particles, bosons and fermions. We get some interesting phenomena that only rotating by 720deg (two full rotations) bring back to the initial state. And I am not talking only about USB-A, but about spinors (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinor) - there are some party tricks around that (vide https://www.reddit.com/r/physicsmemes/comments/181oldw/a_ger...).
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-31 14:40:43+00:00
Diogenes' also!

(but I must admit I see a bit of a jump in the reasoning at:

— ὅτι τοῖς μὲν οἰκείοις καὶ γνωρίμοις ἥμερος, τοῖς δὲ ἀλλοτρίοις τοὐναντίον.

— πάνυ μὲν οὖν.

— καὶ μὴν ἥ γε τοῦ φιλοσόφου φύσις οὐκ ἄλλοσε τρέψεται. ἀλλὰ ὡς πρὸς τοὺς μὲν οἰκείους γνωρίμους τ᾽ ἄρα ἡμῖν, τοῖς δὲ ἀγνῶτας ἀλλοτρίους, τῷ ἀγνοεῖν τε καὶ γιγνώσκειν διοριεῖται. )

Do you have any Buxton'ish theories for ameliorating the mid-trust levels of your home country? I must also admit my original project was to come here to figure out what needed changing the Old Country, but kind of lost enthusiasm for that project after deciding early childhood education in the culture seemed to be key...
by jesuslop | 2026-01-31 14:41:10+00:00
Baez wrote some ideas in [1], one I'm liking connects Lorentz group in dimensions 3,4,6 and 10 with the modular group SL(2,Z) that is at a crossroads of several hardcore math themes. For Lie algebras:

sl(2, R) ≅ so(2,1)

sl(2, C) ≅ so(3,1)

sl(2, H) ≅ so(5,1)

sl(2, O) ≅ so(9,1)

Dirac equation is the C case, the other cases have their uses.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0105155
by ExoticPearTree | 2026-01-31 14:41:41+00:00
In my book a cloud provider is a provider where you can spin up VMs at scale, offers multiple geographic regions across the world, offers managed complementary services such as S3, CDN, GLB, IAM, Managed Databases, backup & restore, FaaS, container registry, managed K8s or another container orchestration platform, PoPs around the world.

Hetzner has an S3 compatible offering, a VPS offering and that's it. Their core business is renting physical servers. And I see lately they offer a load balancing service.