MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by UltraSane | 2026-01-17 20:03:44+00:00
Assuming that 23.4 cents is Euros then that is about 27 cents USD which is VERY expensive by US standards. Only 4 states are more expensive that that.

Hawaii 41.55 $200/mo

California 30.70 $155/mo

Connecticut 30.63 $192/mo

Rhode Island 28.12 $163/mo

Cheapest residential states for electricity

State Average Electricity Cost (¢) Average Monthly Bill

Idaho 11.71 $110/mo

North Dakota 11.79 $114/mo

Nebraska 12.09 $119/mo

Louisiana 12.29 $150/mo

Utah 12.59 $96/mo
by wormius | 2026-01-17 20:04:06+00:00
The rise in illiteracy rates is really fucking disturbing and this attitude (the parent) is part of what's to blame.

Looking at the examples in the comment above, I really hope it's not that bad.

It's like the stupid "ROFL"/CLOWN by political fighters, and the (handclap) 500 times in a row, like. Or the ROFL by people who are trying to make their shit seem "funnier" than it every could be and only makes it more obnoxious.

There's a difference between "making a powerpoint at a conference and using emojis as bullet points" and throwing emojis every other word to be cute and getting papers published, or medical records with that.
by akhil08agrawal | 2026-01-17 20:04:47+00:00
This resonates with what I'm experiencing, but I think the article misses the real shift happening now.

The conversation shouldn't be "will AI replace developers". It should be "how do humans stay competitive as AI gets 10x better every 18 months?"

I watched Claude Code build a feature in 30 minutes that used to take weeks. That moment crystallised something: you don't compete WITH AI. You need YOUR personal AI.

Here's what I mean: Frontier teams at Anthropic/OpenAI have 20-person research teams monitoring everything 24/7. They're 2-4 weeks ahead today. By 2027? 16+ weeks ahead. This "frontier gap" is exponential.

The real problem isn't tools or abstraction. It's information overload at scale. When AI collapses execution time, the bottleneck shifts to judgment. And good judgment requires staying current across 50+ sources (Twitter, Reddit, arXiv, Discord, HN).

Generic ChatGPT is commodity. What matters is: does your AI know YOUR priorities? Does it learn YOUR judgment patterns? Does it filter information through YOUR lens?

The article is right that tools don't eliminate complexity. But personal AI doesn't eliminate complexity. It amplifies YOUR ability to handle complexity at frontier speed.

The question isn't about replacement. It's about levelling the playing field.
And frankly we all are figuring out on how will this shape out in the future. And if you have any solution that can help me level up, please hit me up.
by alephnerd | 2026-01-17 20:05:19+00:00
I'm also aware that money is thicker than blood which is thicker than water. If forced to choose between collaboration and confrontation, a large portion will end up choosing collaboration.

As a Frenchman, I'm sure you are well aware of how in Vichy France, industry collaborated with the authoritarian regime via Comités d'organisation.

Humans are selfish and normal people cannot win against oligarchs. What else can we do.
by xracy | 2026-01-17 20:05:36+00:00
>power at any cost.

I mean, but they're not feeding into the US's power. So they're like, buying into a depreciating asset. This actively signals the US is losing power to China given that it's _formerly top ally_ is making trading partnerships with one of it's nominal "enemies". Anyone who can think more than a month out, can see this will result in the US losing power in the long run.
by FrankRay78 | 2026-01-17 20:05:39+00:00
I’ve been creating agents to better navigate the early stages of SDLC. Here’s my findings of the last 12 months:

I Built A Team of AI Agents To Perform Business Analysis

https://bettersoftware.uk/2026/01/17/i-built-a-team-of-ai-ag...
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-17 20:06:13+00:00
>But it's not "making everybody miserable". The world is not just black and white and HN is too much of an intellectually honest forum to just throw around such blanket statements.

It's not making everybody miserable "yet". But the current rate of change suggest that is the goal, and that's where the alarm comes from. We had the term "embrace, extend, extinguish" used to describe their business last decade and they clearly want to extend that philosphy to the consumers over time too. Some parts of tech are already arguably at the "extinguish" stage as we speak.

>You can try to nitpick but the point stands.

I feel inclined to nitpick a nitpicker who rejects a statement "there making everyone miserable" with "yes, but not everything is miserable".
by notepad0x90 | 2026-01-17 20:06:30+00:00
I don't understand where the argument is. Being able to publish content that others can authenticate and then trust sounds like a huge win to me. I don't even see why it has to be restricted to code. It's just verifying who the signer is. More trusted systems and more progress happens when we trust the foundations we're building. I don't think that's a war on general purpose computing. I feel like there is this older way of thinking where insecurity is considered a right of some sort. Being able to do things insecurely should be your right, but being able to reach lots of people and force them to use insecure things sounds exactly like a war on general purpose computing.
by matthewaveryusa | 2026-01-17 20:06:34+00:00
FAFO* goes both ways. US is in an interesting spot. We have a 1 one-time reset button: Since we’re the reserve currency we can inflate out debt away at the cost of inflation. If and when we do that the world will pivot away, maybe, to another currency. At that point the great American tailwind will be over and we’ll have to be competitive at the global stage — interesting to see what that means, if anything.

As an analogy, imagine you’ve accumulated enough debt and bought yourself a house, a car, and invested in enough productive unseizable assets (very important), like a farm and whatnot, to sustain yourself. what’s the point in servicing your debt? If the only consequence is no one will lend you again, you already have everything so whatever, right?

I can poke a million flaws in this logic, but I _think_ that’s the megasupersmart move the current administration is gunning for. Hell do I know how it will pan out, but I have a hunch. FAFO I guess.

*fuck around, find out (◔_◔)
by mindslight | 2026-01-17 20:06:36+00:00
That goes to the exact point about the media. Trump trashed the economy during Covid with trillions in new dollars so that that all important Line would continue to go up rather than reflect the reality of a global pandemic. The Biden administration did a decent job getting the price inflation from that under control, but rather than giving credit where credit is due, the oligarchic media continued to agitate against the incumbent who wasn't all-in on corporate rule. Cue a whole bunch of low-information voters for the New York con artist on vague "hope" for improvement, when everyone using at least half their brain knew that the policies Trump was promising would be highly destructive to our economy.
by whispem | 2026-01-17 20:07:06+00:00
Good question!

All the code, architecture, logic, and design in minikv were written by me, 100% by hand.
I did use AI tools only for a small part of the documentation—specifically the README, LEARNING.md, and RAM_COMMUNITY.md files—to help structure the content and improve clarity.

But for all the source code (Rust), tests, and implementation, I wrote everything myself, reviewing and designing every part.

Let me know if you want details or want to look at a specific part of the code!
by socialcommenter | 2026-01-17 20:07:19+00:00
Can this be pasted into Win+R? That might give a novice user more confidence; pasting a short command that literally says "shutdown" into a small, easily identified text dialog box seems clear enough.

Small added benefit, presumably it's harder to accidentally run a multi-line multi-stage command because you had the wrong thing in your clipboard (I don't have my windows PC handy, but if you paste multiple lines into Win+R it doesn't execute anything, correct?)
by wormius | 2026-01-17 20:07:58+00:00
OK, looking at the actual link and not just bloviating my opinion this seems less offensive. These aren't Health Records in the sense of official documentation by doctors but communications with patient. I see some of it is initiated by patients, but it seems the majority is the provider using it in communication with patients/family... I can slightly understand that, but man I'd be annoyed if it was more than a smiley face once or twice. Maybe it's for patients who are children and parents can show to kids. I was thinking patients using it may be typing on a phone where this shit is much easier. But if it's from professionals, it's likely shitty AI autoresponses, i bet. IDK.
by LexiMax | 2026-01-17 20:08:11+00:00
Only tangentially related, but the title reminds me of hack you could do on old DOS machines to get access to a 160x100 16-color display mode on a CGA graphics adapter.

The display mode is actually a hacked up 80x25 text mode. So in that specific narrow case, you have a display mode where text characters very much function as pixels.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter

- https://github.com/drwonky/cgax16demo
by krackers | 2026-01-17 20:08:17+00:00
In japanese there is ヤッホ (Yahho~) which might be related to english "Yoo-hoo". Apparently this comes from dutch "joehoe". I've also seen etymology sources list "yoo-hoo" coming from sailing jargon "yo-ho", but these might all be related.

In the article this is not too far from "Γειά σου" (yah-soo) and the supposed root as a ferryman hail (halâ). So I guess the "yoohoo" branch of greetings might in fact be related, or otherwise it's an independent rederivation with two common and similar sounds ("yo"/"ho").

"Yello" might probably be a cute combination of yoohoo and hello. Or you could go all the way with Yahallo~.
by Battleshack | 2026-01-17 20:08:26+00:00
The short answer is that I try to maximize the strengths and minimize the struggles of ADHD.

Some practical examples:

- I have a job without any long-term projects (only long-term goals), so I never get bored from my tasks.

- I keep my evening schedules clear so I have room to be spontaneous in my hobbies after work. This is prabably made easier by being an introvert as I don't have the need to socialize often.

- I nurture an attitude toward my hobbies which is that the process in itself is always the goal. That it is okay to not finish a project as long as I keep learning new things.

- I depricate any stressfull commitment which is neither important or meaningfull long-term.

Also medication helps to overcome the menial hurdels.
by UltraSane | 2026-01-17 20:08:41+00:00
It is a real problem and is being addressed

Subsidised electricity price set at 5 euro cents per kWh until 2028

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/german-coalition-agr...

Germany cuts costs for electricity-intensive companies from 1 January 2026: the new industrial electricity price

https://www.gleisslutz.com/en/know-how/germany-cuts-costs-el...

Are high electricity prices a threat to Germany's industry?

https://www.dw.com/en/high-electricity-prices-a-threat-to-ge...

Deindustrialization in Germany: Energy Costs Driving Industries Abroad

https://ceinterim.com/deindustrialization-in-germany/
by whispem | 2026-01-17 20:08:47+00:00
Thanks a lot for the suggestion and the link!

I’m mainly building minikv to learn more about real-world distributed storage and consensus—and to see how far I can take it as a personal project.
Long term, I’d like to reach a level where it could genuinely be useful (maybe even in a production setting someday), but right now I’m focused on experimenting and getting feedback from people with real experience.

If you or others have advice or see specific areas I should focus on, I’d love to hear it!
by FpUser | 2026-01-17 20:08:53+00:00
As much as I am for freedom and hate that DMCI or whatever it is called the guy is delusional. Not because he propoese to repeal the act (I am all for it) but his ideas that one can have some profitable business doing circumvention and selling software / hardware that unlocks whatever one is trying to unlock. As soon as you try to sell one it will be hacked and released for free.
by yshrestha | 2026-01-17 20:10:35+00:00
Author here.

Finally, you can ask your leadership to give you time to pay back technical debt. And AI adoption is the reason why.

I have been seeing a pattern where leadership buys Copilot/Cursor licenses and expects immediate 10x gains, but the engineering team struggles to adopt them.

The thesis of this article is that AI acts as a throughput multiplier. If your codebase is clean (SOLID, DRY, explicit interfaces), AI accelerates you. If your codebase is spaghetti or relies on "tribal knowledge" (implicit context), AI just generates bugs faster than you can fix them.

I argue that "clean code" is no longer an aesthetic preference but a hard requirement for AI enablement, because AI agents effectively have no long-term memory of your project's history.

Curious if others are seeing this friction between "AI expectations" and "Legacy Code reality"?
by gitaarik | 2026-01-17 20:10:52+00:00
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk/elon-musk-grokipedia-...

"Unlike Wikipedia, Grokipedia centralizes its editing process. Users can submit suggested edits to Grokipedia, but instead of assigning a group of volunteer community editors to decide on the edits, xAI, Musk’s artificial intelligence company, controls whether or not a certain edit is approved and implemented on the website."

So you could as well call it "Muskipedia"
by unparagoned | 2026-01-17 20:11:14+00:00
> Unadultated unextracted kratom is far safer than tylenol or ibuprofen in small doses and is widely used by recovering addicts for harm reduction

This is like when they introduced heroin as the safe morphine and that heroin was used to ween people off morphine. Sounds stupid now but it’s the same logic here with Kratom.
by hippo22 | 2026-01-17 20:11:26+00:00
It's not as simple as it might seem at first glance. People often go into their basement and think "wow, it's cool down here. If only I could make my house this cool." But, as soon as you moved the air from your basement to your house, the air in your basement would be replaced by ambient air and would take time to be cooled by the Earth. And so you quickly realize you need a lot of thermal mass and an efficient way to move heat in order to keep up with removing the heat from your house.
by chao- | 2026-01-17 20:11:53+00:00
Even parts of the US that have AC standard have learned to leaned on it so hard that they've lost architectural features which, 50-100 years ago, kept a house cooler in Summer.

I once lived in a rental house in a "historical" neighborhood (on US timelines, not European) in a big city, and most of the houses had porches on two or three sides, depending on the cardinal orientation. These kept sunlight from falling directly on main body of the house, and strategically placed windows let you open two or three and get a breeze through the whole house.

We learned this visiting a neighbor who owned their home. The rental was not as well-maintained: some of the window frames had been painted shut over decades of touchups, but we never thought much of it. The day we jimmied them open and experienced a true cross-breeze through the living room was a HUGE "Aha!" moment.

Setting aside porches, even simple features like awnings above windows (esp. second-story windows) have fallen out of fashion, but they can reduce the demand on indoor AC significantly. They save money, but people think they look old-fashioned or something like that.
by scoofy | 2026-01-17 20:12:36+00:00
>> Big tech is making everyone's life miserable

> Sent from my iPhone.

But seriously, this is a political problem, not a technological problem. The harms of technology are like the harms of the food industry or the gambling industry. Those of us who care, know these things can be bad for society, and we regulate them. Our society doesn’t care, we literally just legalized sports gambling, and the leagues have embraced it, forgetting the clear history of what happened last time.

Hating technology is like hating metal because you don’t like gun deaths. The problem is that our electorate has stopped caring about society.
by hansvm | 2026-01-17 20:12:45+00:00
My point is that if you're capable of doing constrained generation and want to try once and the constrain on failure, since that has the same output distribution as doing constrained generation in the first place, you'd be better off just doing constrained generation always (max of 1 LLM call for the class of errors fixed by this).

There's only a different distribution with 2+ initial attempts before falling back to constrained, at least if I haven't screwed up any math.
by dystopiandevel | 2026-01-17 20:12:49+00:00
I can appreciate the reasons you have for wanting it. The only problem is when it affects my hiking experience. It annoys the crap out of me to hear it coming loudly from down the path when I just want to listen to nature.

Like the other commenter posted, you can use open earbuds, which I use as well for the same reasons.

As far as wild cats go, they are already pretty good at knowing you are there already without a speaker. Where I live there are many mountain lions and bobcats but I have never seen one close up, same in the California Sierra. In terms of bears, if they aren't black bears then yeah although it depends on where you are hiking. If it's in the backcountry, please pause it when I come by.
by Insanity | 2026-01-17 20:13:04+00:00
Good. People are sometimes dismissive or worried about China, with how they spy on people etc. But for most of the western world, the real danger is US and not China. Just think - Canadian, Europeans etc are more likely to go on business travel to the States than China. You can get your phone checked at the border and if you’re not too keen about the US dear leader, that won’t be good for your US admission.

Being negative about Xi might have similar results, but less likely in practice.
by stranger90 | 2026-01-17 20:13:14+00:00
I am a DevSecOps engineer and a parent, and over time I noticed how much email quietly consumes attention and creates digital clutter.

Not because email is broken, but because it mixes everything together and makes decisions harder than they should be. Things that need a reply, things you are waiting on, and things that are already done all look the same.

I wrote about why I started treating email as a decision problem instead of a filing problem, and how that led me to build a small tool focused on calm and clarity rather than features.

I am very early and mainly looking for honest feedback. If something feels off, confusing, or unnecessary, I would really like to hear it.
Show HN: PaperPod – an agent-native, pay-per-use sandbox
by shassingh09 | 2026-01-17 20:14:13+00:00
Hi HN, I’ve been working on PaperPod, an experiment in making compute native to AI agents.

PaperPod is a sandbox runtime where coding agents like Claude Code can autonomously execute code, write files, run background processes, expose ports (preview URLs) etc. and pay per ms of usage via the agent native x402 payment protocol. No API keys or complex setup needed.

This is early (alpha), but fully usable today with free compute included, no wallets needed, just use your email as X-User-Id in the request!

A sample prompt to get started:

To use PaperPod compute:
1. Get session: POST https://paperpod.dev/ws/session with header X-User-Id: your@email.com
2. Connect: wss://paperpod.dev/ws with header X-Session-Token: <token>
3. Discover: Send { "type": "help" } for all commands
4. Execute: Send { "type": "exec", "command": "python script.py", "stream": true }
by akhil08agrawal | 2026-01-17 20:14:51+00:00
I'm seeing it too, but there's a distinction I think matters: AI isn't replacing the thinking, it's shifting where the bottleneck is.
You mention systems are self-improving and code quality has increased dramatically. But the constraint isn't execution anymore. It's judgment at scale.
When AI collapses build time from weeks to hours, the new bottleneck becomes staying current with what's actually changing. You need to know what competitors shipped, what research dropped, what patterns are emerging across 50+ sources continuously.
Generic ChatGPT can't do that. It doesn't know what YOU care about. It starts from scratch every time.
The real question is how do you build personal AI that learns YOUR priorities and filters the noise? That's where the leverage is now.

Excited for the future :)
by constantcrying | 2026-01-17 20:14:54+00:00
>The problem is not "spending too much" on videos games. It's the reward structure designed to incentivise one to spend unbounded amounts - just like a casino.

I do not think you understand how these games work or how they incentivize spending. Lootboxes and gachas work very different to a Casino and equating their reward structure just makes no sense at all. Psychologically they work in very different ways.

I hate to be defending lootboxes and gachas, but the psychology behind those is very different to how a Casino works. Gambling addicts are at an especially high risk of suicide, because they expect some amount of returns on their gambling activity, if those returns fail to materialize the player can be in immense debt. This just can not happen with a gacha, where you know upfront that every euro you spend is a 100% loss. Again, this should not be a defense of lootboxes, but we have to be honest about these mechanics.

And the psychological mechanisms are also different, gachas and lootboxes appeal very much to a collector mindset, where people play until they get a certain rare digital good, but playing after that would be pointless. This is a different mechanism to gambling in a casino.

>And just like a casino, I don't know that making them fully illegal is the correct way to go.

I see no reason why either should be legal, to be honest. We exclude kids from casinos, because their ability to make informed decisions is limited, but the same is true for a gambling addict. Letting people just ruin their lives for whatever reason seems a pretty insane policy.
by linkage | 2026-01-17 20:15:29+00:00
> I wonder what the top Republican leaders honestly think about these foreseeable outcomes

It doesn't matter what they think. Trump's message resonates with the electorate much more effectively than theirs, partly because of his political brand and partly because he has a network of social media acolytes who broadcast his messaging to each segment and demographic. It's a positive feedback loop wherein anyone who dares to go off-message or criticize his decisions gets instantaneous blowback from the MAGA audience themselves, so they quickly recalibrate. At this point, Trump has built a metaphorical tower of skulls of political foes within the party (e.g. Marjorie Taylor Greene).