MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wahnfrieden | 2026-01-26 15:49:19+00:00
Yegge himself wrote a blog post to his non crypto audience calling it an investment that he hopes makes its investors filthy rich. He pumped it, then he dumped it, and announced he’s walking away from it at that point after taking his profits and crashing its value.

I don’t know why you’re talking about existing hardcore BAGS addicts when the topic is Yegge promoting a crypto grift to his own general audience as an investment and then running the typical pump and dump scam on them.
by zubiaur | 2026-01-26 15:49:31+00:00
Ficciones is full of mockings of intellectualism. I Particularly like the critique on the critical philosophical work of Menard's Quixote. Where Menard, the subject of the story, carefully writes parts of a novel that is word-for-word a copy of Cervante's Quixote, but shaped by Menard's intellectual efforts, one is to draw the opposite appreciations than from the one written by Cervantes.

His stories are such a strange read. The plot, the characters, the mentions, all feel almost secondary to the feeling they evoke.
Show HN: Iconify-static – Use Iconify without the external CDN
by drbscl | 2026-01-26 15:49:35+00:00
Iconify is a great library for using icons in webapps, but the official library makes client-side retrievals from Iconify's CDN at runtime.

This was deal breaker while I worked on an offline-first side project, so I built this library which downloads icons and adds it to your app's assets when Vite performs building.
by dylan604 | 2026-01-26 15:49:40+00:00
The clanky sounds of cheap bamboo or the high pitched screeching of tiny metal chimes are not pleasant. I have two sets of tuned chimes in my garden that are 1" diameter. They both have 6 chimes that are tuned as a set, but they are also tuned when heard together. One set has longer chimes than the other, so when heard together the chords are much richer.

I know it sounds bougie as hell, but it's really quite a nice effect.
by mark_undoio | 2026-01-26 15:49:51+00:00
I've recently been thinking how AI agents could affect this.

If you're lucky enough to be able to code significant amounts with a modern agent (someone's paying, your task is amenable to it, etc) then you may experience development shifting (further) from "type in the code" to "express the concepts". Maybe you still write some code - but not as much.

What does this look like for debugging / understanding? There's a potential outcome of "AI just solves all the bugs" but I think it's reasonable to imagine that AI will be a (preferably helpful!) partner to a human developer who needs to debug.

My best guess is:

* The entities you manage are "investigations" (mapping onto agents)
* You interact primarily through some kind of rich chat (includes sensibly formatted code, data, etc)
* The primary artefact(s) of this workflow are not code but something more like "clues" / "evidence".

Managing all the theories and snippets of evidence is already core to debugging the old fashioned way. I think having agents in the loop gives us an opportunity to make that explicit part of the process (and then be able to assign agents to follow up gaps in the evidence, or investigate them yourself or get someone else to...).
by damnitbuilds | 2026-01-26 15:50:19+00:00
NASA is sending a DEI-chosen crew as part of a grossly over-priced pork project on a pointless trip round the moon in a capsule not fit for the job launched by a rocket based on recycled 50-year old reusable tech that won't be reused that costs two orders of magnitude more to launch than modern actually reusable systems.

God speed to them all.
by emchammer | 2026-01-26 15:50:21+00:00
The M silicon is real, but Nokia, a company that specialized in rubber products, was doing low-power ARM 30 years ago, and the stage was set by His Jobsness with Mach binaries and Rosetta. Tim Cook was excitedly waving his hands in the last event video about some kind of evaporative cooling mechanism in the latest low-end iPhone. He has completely missed the plot.
by gonzo41 | 2026-01-26 15:50:27+00:00
I was thinking about this very thing today. Personally, I see the Windows OS as a core competency of Microsoft. If the OS is bad, then the company is being run badly. In the same as when you go to a fine restaurant and the kitchen have the polished pots and pans you can see, generally things are going to be great. Its the attention to detail, If those small details are right, then the whole meal will be good. And currently the whole meal is crap with windows.
by frm88 | 2026-01-26 15:51:16+00:00
There are multiple documentations where people have problems with their water level due to data centres [0]. It's also no longer news that data centres are planned/run in arid/desert areas [1]. Scepticism to Google's intentions before the damage is done should be allowed.

[0] https://youtu.be/RfzwLtWkVjg?si=OTjSgW6kBDR3-0So

[1] https://youtu.be/Mn5ttoXxAe8?si=EvN2jnIkA9yRAvJb
by BadBadJellyBean | 2026-01-26 15:51:40+00:00
Official demos:

https://huggingface.co/spaces/Qwen/Qwen3-TTS

https://modelscope.cn/studios/Qwen/Qwen3-TTS

You can even do it on your PC. I did it via ComfyUI and this Plugin:

https://github.com/flybirdxx/ComfyUI-Qwen-TTS
by pjc50 | 2026-01-26 15:51:45+00:00
> Misusing a forklift might injure the driver and a few others; but it is unlikely to bring down an entire electric grid

That's the job of the backhoe.

(this is a joke about how diggers have caused quite a lot of local internet outages by hitting cables, sometimes supposedly "redundant" cables that were routed in the same conduit. Hitting power infrastructure is rare but does happen)
by object_Object | 2026-01-26 15:51:54+00:00
https://www.eufy.com/uk/products/t87b1011?variant=4875830860...

I've been using one of these with Find My for over a year. I've not done anything with the Eufy app, just the Find My app itself. It lacks the precision find, but you can play a sound through the Find My app / get directions / share the item / flag the item as lost / do left behind and it works well.
by no_wizard | 2026-01-26 15:52:08+00:00
The frustration I have with this is that the money is there, today but our culture in the US does not understand the value of proper taxation to fund infrastructure and social services in the US.

We waste billions of tax dollars on frivolous pursuits, misaligned incentives and defense contractors rather than investing in communities and infrastructure, and that’s just at the federal level. Plenty of states and localities follow these same patterns then turn around and say they have no money for proper maintenance of civic infrastructure while being bilked by private companies
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2026-01-26 15:52:45+00:00
The argument here is basically, let’s say a particular widget requires 3 human steps to make. If we replace the most expensive step with a cheaper automated alternative, the overall cost of the widget will fall and so demand for the widget will rise. And so even though the human effort to create one widget will reduce, the increase in demand will mean the reduced work per widget * new widget demand is often >= old work per widget * old widget demand.

The problem with this argument is that AI, or at least the vision of AI companies and governments are spending trillions of dollars on, purports to replace the human itself. Put another way it intends to automate all the 3 steps (as well as any ancillary services in marketing the widget, legal services in protecting the company, etc). So any increase in demand does not lead to any additional labor since the labor per unit is 0.

This video’s argument simply collapses the debate back to whether AI can largely replace human intelligence or not.
by replwoacause | 2026-01-26 15:52:58+00:00
lol pass. Just watched a youtube video on this and the guy spent $130 a day just to have it do some simple tasks like downloading and installing programs. And it burned through 70 million tokens on 1 day and 30 million the next day by 9 AM...lol. this thing is goofy. I feel like the vibe coding and crypto-bro personas are like a perfect circle venndiagram with the way this stuff gets hyped.
by troyvit | 2026-01-26 15:53:19+00:00
Even though naively I treat my own domain as my online identity I see what you mean since they can be taken away by actions outside of our control.

What would work better though? Like are we talking a more hardened identification system tied to personal data that can't change? If that's the case are there negative privacy effects of that, especially with whatever system controls that data?
by ehsankia | 2026-01-26 15:53:54+00:00
Yep, Tile I believe is the only third party service that exists. All other trackers either plug into "Apple Find My" or "Android Find My Device" network. There's finally starting to be a few devices that can do both, but they're rare, so make sure you get the right one when buying. But they take 10s to setup and it's very smooth.
by Schmerika | 2026-01-26 15:54:25+00:00
Politics is not and was never barred from HN, if that was your point. And, rising fascism would/does directly and massively affect every tech worker in the US.

But we're talking about HN censoring topics, in general - not just politics. I'll give you an example with a tech story I commented on just 3 hours ago [0].

Sourced from the BBC, with a correct headline, not a dupe, generating discussion, upvoted, relevant, important, and in every possible way squarely within HN's remit: But it mentioned Musk in a bad light.

Not only was it flagged, but it was some new kind of uber-flagged. It no longer shows up in new. It doesn't show up in the OP's submissions list. It doesn't show up in my favorites list. You can't comment on it. The link and even the title were completely removed.

That's sheer insanity. Absolutely extraordinary and wholly, completely unjustifiable.

And if you or I were to make a post about this wild level of censorship of a legitimate and important tech story, it would be rapidly removed also. Most likely, you'd be banned if you kept trying (for something completely different, no doubt).

So can we please not pretend that stories about Musk and fascism are being removed for being 'political'. The YC people have picked their dog in this fight, and are very much trying to tip the scales in their favour by censoring the users of this platform.

0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46764789
by pixl97 | 2026-01-26 15:54:30+00:00
Just about anyone being able to make money from writing also seems like a somewhat modern aberration.

Pre-printing press typically only the very wealthy had access to paper and ink, the process of copying a book was a huge undertaking.

Printing press opened things up, but paper was still rather expensive for quite some time. It wasn't until the 1900s that the book-splosion really took off.

With the take off of cheap paper products we switched from what you could write, to what could you get published and mass printed as the main gatekeeper. This paradigm stood for around 100 years.

With the rapid growth of both the internet and digital technology as a whole, anyone could write and 'publish online'. For a time this was lucrative as content was king and brought eyeballs. The internet was still slow enough for most that other forms of high bandwidth content were still luxury goods.

By 2010 the internet and smartphones were to the place that non-text media was where all the money was going. With the rise of the influencer a company could give a moderate amount of advertising dollars to an individual and get an oversized return on it. At the same time social media was gating off large amounts of text and people from the internet at large. Add to this the copying of text content in order to steal advertising dollars and clicks (think stack overflow copies and the like). Google and the other large social media companies with the advertising platforms greatly reduced the payout for text content and things moved to multi-media/video for the advertising dollar. The latest rage is shorts to keep ones ADHD addled mind locked to the screen for hours without moving.

With LLMs crapping out text who knows what our future of earning money with words looks like. Also, it's likely that AI driving virtual world will grab the attention of the masses, much like a personalized video game with the ability to be as addictive as our most dangerous drugs.
by digiown | 2026-01-26 15:54:42+00:00
I say the following as a firefox+ubo user:

There are many useful things that can only be implemented for Chromium: things like the filesystem API mentioned in this post, the USB devices API used to implement various microcontroller flashing tools, etc. Users can have multiple browsers installed, and I often use Chromium as essentially a sandboxed program runtime.
by ottah | 2026-01-26 15:54:51+00:00
I dunno, I don't think in practice SRE or DevOPs are even really different from the people we used to call sys admins (former sysadmin myself). I think the future of mediocre companies is SRE chasing after LLM fires, but I think a competitive business would have a much better strategy for building systems. Humans are still by far the most efficient and generalized reasoners, and putting the energy intensive, brittle ai model in charge of most implementation is setting yourself up to fail.
by ffsm8 | 2026-01-26 15:54:54+00:00
YouTube has almost no original knowledge.

Most of the "educational" and documentation style content there is usually "just" gathered together from other sources, occasionally with links back to the original sources in the descriptions.

I'm not trying to be dismissive of the platform, it's just inherently catered towards summarizing results for entertainment, not for clarity or correctness.
by bagacrap | 2026-01-26 15:54:58+00:00
It's always seemed to me to be targeted at people too young/poor to buy a house. What does rocket mortgage want with random people's financial statements? Of course when you actually do take out a mortgage you find that you're forced to give up an absolutely shocking amount of personal info (usually via very insecure feeling channels). So if you are offering mortgages you don't have to do all that extra work/advertise so much on tv to get data.

Genuine question because as mentioned I don't use the product (nor do I care enough to rabbit hole).
by MikeFez | 2026-01-26 15:55:03+00:00
IIRC, this indicates that it's linked to someone else's account, and has not been shared with you. The "beep when moved" feature is to alert people they're being tracked.

For example, I let my mother in law use luggage of mine with an airtag still in it and every time she moved it after the first day or so, it would play a noise.
by xal | 2026-01-26 15:55:12+00:00
hi orange page, author here. QMD is an implementation of the best practices that I picked up in meetings with teams that work in search and retrieval. I tried to make it not overkill and keep things local. Currently working on finetuning better models for query extension and reranking (finetune branch). Feel free to jump in help. Self written and AI PRs welcome.
by no_wizard | 2026-01-26 15:55:32+00:00
>Countering debasement of shared reality and NOT using AI generated videos as sources should be a HUGE priority for Google.

This itself seems pretty damning of these AI systems from a narrative point of view, if we take it at face value.

You can't trust AI to generate things that are sufficiently grounded in facts that you can't even use it as a reference point. Why should end users believe the narrative that these things are as capable as they're being told they are, by extension?
by andai | 2026-01-26 15:56:10+00:00
I had GPT-4 design and build a GPT-4 powered Python programmer in 2023. It was capable of self-modification and built itself out after the bootstrapping phase (where I copy pasted chunks or code based on GPT-4's instructions).

It wasn't fully autonomous (the reliability was a bit low -- e.g. had to get the code out of code fences programmatically), and it wasn't fully original (I stole most of it from Auto-GPT, except that I was operating on the AST directly due to the token limitations).

My key insight here was that I allowed GPT to design the apis that itself was going to use. This makes perfect sense to me based on how LLMs work. You tell it to reach for a function that doesn't exist, and then you ask it to make it exist based on how it reached for it. Then the design matches its expectations perfectly.

GPT-4 now considers self modifying AI code to be extremely dangerous and doesn't like talking about it. Claude's safety filters began shutting down similar conversations a few months ago, suggesting the user switch to a dumber model.

It seems the last generation or two of models passed some threshold regarding self replication (which is a distinct but highly related concept), and the labs got spooked. I haven't heard anything about this in public though.
by FeloniousHam | 2026-01-26 15:56:10+00:00
I can speak to this directly: I've customized a few extensions I use with VSCode, (nearly) completely having the AI generate/iterate over my feature request until it works. I don't have the time to learn the details (or different languages) of the various projects, but I get huge benefit from the improvements.

- PRO Deployer

- MS Typescript

- Typescript-Go

- a bespoke internal extension to automate a lot of housekeeping when developing against tickets (git checks, branch creation, stash when switching, automatically connecting and updating ticket system)
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-26 15:56:12+00:00
Yeah it's a fair point that the spec as written doesn't preculde handling domains in a more sensible manner. But in practice it's a headache. Spin up a VPS, create A@X, send out some messages, nuke the VPS, spin up a new VPS and create a new A@X, send out some more messages, and check how well remote instances handle the situation. Maybe things have improved since the last time I encountered that? I doubt it though.

> Account migration on the fediverse is a thing

Has something changed within the past year or so? Because if you're referring to the mechanism where a notification is sent out that A@X has moved to B@Y I hardly consider that to qualify. Proper account migration would mean moving the account itself, not automated assistance coordinating the person behind an account switching from one to the other.
by echelon | 2026-01-26 15:56:23+00:00
> What are you talking about? Illustrators and artists are not being replaced by AI or required to use AI to "keep up" in the vast majority of environments.

I don't know what jobs have been impacted yet, but there will likely be pressure for all content creators and knowledge workers to use the tools to get more work done.

We'll probably start seeing this in software development this year. The tools finally feel ready for prime time.

> This comment reads like people don't like AI because they think it's slow or something, which is not the case.

I am familiar with the most common arguments in opposition - stealing training data, hallucinations, not understanding logic (this is why "engineers in the loop" matters), big corps owning the tech (I really agree with this one), power usage, etc.

It feels as though the downvotes are from people that "dislike AI" for any of the aforementioned reasons. In the face of the possibility of losing jobs to engineers that leverage AI to get more quality work done, however, I don't know why HN engineers downvote anecdotes about real world usage. This is vital to know and understand. I would think one would want more evidence to consider about the state of things.

This is a quickly developing story. Your jobs are or will be on the line.

It doesn't matter what your personal misgivings are if your job will soon require the use of AI. You can hate it all you want, but if people are getting 10x more work done than you, you really don't have a choice.

This will be the same in every career sector with AI models that can be deployed to automate work -- marketing, editing, film, animation, VFX, software, music production, 3D modeling, game design, etc.

I don't think the jobs are going away, but I do think they're going to change. Fast.

No sense in sour grapes.
by Herring | 2026-01-26 15:56:35+00:00
Yeah Americans don't want to face that their culture is the problem. Trump is still slightly more popular than he was at this point during his first term

https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-sil...

They'd have to change the fundamental nature of business. Most US companies are run like tiny little fascist dictatorships. The relationship between capital (owners/management) and labor is usually adversarial with "at-will" employment. In Norway for example, businesses operate within a 3-way Agreement (Trepartssamarbeidet): a formal cooperation between the government, employers' associations, and trade unions.

Americans would have to change capitalism too. The most reliable way to prevent the rise of the far right is to implement robust safety nets and low inequality, to reduce status anxiety and grievance.

But even in this thread they don't want to do that.
by daveloyall | 2026-01-26 15:56:35+00:00
The authors, bless their hearts, suggest that running halogen lamps at lower-than-rated voltages might be a good idea.

> If this is done with a halogen bulb, which is a type of incandescent tungsten bulb, the filament lasts for a longer period as evaporated tungsten is redeposited on the filament rather than blackening the bulb glass. Hence, using a halogen bulb at lower voltage is a realistic alternative in terms of health and energy consumption.

Unfortunately, as I understand it, the redepositing action only occurs at high temperatures.. It's a chemistry thing. I have been led to believe that running halogens at low voltages will cause the bulb glass to blacken sooner. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halogen_lamp#Effect_of_voltage...
by aaronrobinson | 2026-01-26 15:57:10+00:00
I read that people just allow Claude Code free rein but after using it for a few months and seeing what it does I wonder how much of that is in front of users. CC is incredible as much as it is frustrating and a lot of what it churns out is utter rubbish.

I also keep seeing that writing more detailed specs is the answer and retorts from those saying we’re back to waterfall.

That isn’t true. I think more of the iteration has moved to the spec. Writing the code is so quick now so can make spec changes you wouldn’t dare before.

You also need gates like tests and you need very regular commits.

I’m gradually moving towards more detailed specs in the form of use cases and scenarios along with solid tests and a constantly tuned agent file + guidelines.

Through this I’m slowly moving back to letting Claude lose on implementation knowing I can do scan of the git diffs versus dealing with a thousand ask before edits and slowing things down.

When this works you start to see the magic.
by myself248 | 2026-01-26 15:57:13+00:00
And simultaneously gimped the theft-alert use case. I embedded one into my labelmaker, which is a notoriously high-theft item on jobsites. I can still track it in case I leave it behind, which is great.

But if someone steals it, they get an alert that there's an airtag traveling with them, and they can go through their loot to figure out which item it is, and ditch it, or destroy it. In the first case I get my labelmaker back, but I never bust the thief.
by usrbinbash | 2026-01-26 15:57:20+00:00
> My answer to this is to often get the LLMs to do multiple rounds of code review

So I am supposed to trust the machine, that I know I cannot trust to write the initial code correctly, to somehow do the review correctly? Possibly multiple times? Without making NEW mistakes in the review process?

Sorry no sorry, but that sounds like trying to clean a dirty floor by rubbing more dirt over it.