MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by spaceman_2020 | 2026-01-15 20:03:19+00:00
I just used Claude Code to do something that would have taken my wife 3+ days

She has to go through about 100 resumes for a position at her college. Each resume is essentially a form the candidate filled out and lists their detailed academic scores from high school > PhD, their work experience, research and publications.

Based on the declared data, candidates are scored by the system

Now this is India and there's a decent amount of fraud, so an individual has to manually check the claimed experience/scores/publications against reality

A candidate might claim to have relevant experience, but the college might be unaccredited, or the claimed salary might be way too low for a relevant academic position. Or they might claim to have published in XYZ journal, but the journal itself might be a fraudulent pay-to-publish thing

Going through 100+ resumes, each 4 pages long is a nightmare of a task. And boring too.

--

So I asked Claude Code to figure out the problem. I gave it a PDF with the scoring guidelines, a sample resume, and asked it to figure out the problem

Without me telling it, it figured out a plan that involved checking a college's accredition and rating (the govt maintains a rating for all colleges), the claimed salary vs actual median salary for that position (too low is a red flag), and whether the claimed publication is in either the SCOPUS index or a govt approved publications index

(I emphasize govt approved because this is in a govt backed institution)

Then I gave it access to a folder with all the 100 resumes.

In less than 30 minutes, it evaluated all candidates and added the evaluation to a CSV file. I asked it to make it more readable, so it made a HTML page with data from all the candidates and red/green/yellow flags about their work-experience, publications, and employment

It made a prioritized list of the most promising candidates based on this data

My wife double checked because she still "doesn't trust AI", but all her verification almost 100% matched Claude's conclusions

This was a 3 day, grinding task done in 30 minutes. And all I did was type into a terminal for 20 minutes
by jbki | 2026-01-15 20:03:20+00:00
The wikipedia is more information dense, but that's not always what I want in a general purpose reference. Also hyperlinks are good if you want to read the article. But I don't want to have to click through hyperlinks, and thereby lose focus. Sometimes I just want to know just enough to complete the context in which some thing was mentioned. In the opening sentence there's a whole phrase "solid form of the element carbon" hyperlinked - to what is not immediately clear - but curiosity peaks the mind and I see that it's to an article on carbon allotropes. Later on it says it's "metastable" so I need to know what that means, but it just links to an article that's equally obstruse and so I have to go on an endless rabbit hole of hyperlinks. Britannica usually explains briefly in parentheses what some piece of jargon means.
by cheese4242 | 2026-01-15 20:03:27+00:00
The person you are referring to rammed an ICE agent with their vehicle and the agent suffered internal bleeding as a result.

Sorry but there is no scenario where you can strike law enforcement with your car after being repeatedly ordered to exit your vehicle where their wouldn't be a justifiable use of lethal force. Trying to frame it as "shoot U.S. civilians in the face for not listening" is extremely disingenuous.
by stefan_ | 2026-01-15 20:03:44+00:00
It's amazing, before we even had ChatGPT, GitLab was building so much endless slop halfbaked crap in their pursuit of ever more "enterprise checkboxes". Now they have slowed right down, no doubt collapsing under the escalating maintenance weight of all the nonsense that was created, like the canaries in the vibe coding mines telling us of impending doom.

Now you go to their blog, theres a banner at the top announcing "GitLab Agentic AI whatever is GA (GENERAL AVAILABILITY)" and you try to click it its literally a fucking 404 not found. That's the level of their stability and quality. Try it for yourself:

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/
by f1shy | 2026-01-15 20:04:33+00:00
Absolutely. I do not know the current status, so don’t kill me if now is much better, because is just an example from many. But take fourier series. I remember going into the article, and instead of starting with something lime “helps to decompose functions in sums of sin and cos”, started with “the forier transform is defined as (PUM the integral for with Euler formula) continues: is easy to show the integral converges according to xxx criterion, as long as the function is…” you get the idea. Had I not know what FT is, I would’ve not undestand anything

Articles in biology, from which I understand nothing, are a wall for me. I could never understand anything biology related. Also for example, in Spanish, don’t ask me why, any plant or animal is always under the latin scientific name, and you have to search the whole article to find the “common” name of the thing.
Ask HN: Share your STEM career advice
by worldlines | 2026-01-15 20:04:39+00:00
Hi everyone, I'm putting together a website which aggregates career advice for STEM folks: https://www.worldlines.org/

It's a static webpage with links to personal blog posts I found on the internet. I'm looking for more resources like this to grow the site. Right now, it focuses mainly on physics majors (since this is my background), but I'd like to feature advice for all STEM disciplines.

I'm particularly interested in the practical aspects of one's career story ("this was my personal situation, this is what I did, and this is what worked/didn't work") rather than generic advice ("leverage your network"). Usually, I find that the best content in this genre comes from personal blog posts written by real people.

If you know of anything like this, I would be glad if you shared it here!
by willbeddow | 2026-01-15 20:05:03+00:00
Juice is cool, but tradeoffs around which metadata store you choose end up being very important. It also writes files in it's own uninterpretable format to object storage, so if you lose the metadata store, you lose your data.

When we tried it at Krea we ended up moving on because we couldn't get sufficient performance to train on, and having to choose which datacenter to deploy our metadata store on essentially forced us to only use it one location at a time.
by toast0 | 2026-01-15 20:05:07+00:00
If you've got a mac with a pci-e slot, you can get a pci-e card off ebay and an appropriate stack of adapters to go from a modern wide cable to whatever you need? If you don't have a mac with a pci-e slot, borrow a desktop pc with a slot and go from there? If you borrow an old enough desktop with PCI you might be able to get an older scsi controller and skip a few chains in the cable adapter path.

Or using the bluescsi initiator mode to make a disk image seems not too badly priced either.
by bob1029 | 2026-01-15 20:05:39+00:00
> Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. plans to spend a record of up to $56 billion this year to feed the world’s insatiable appetite for chips, as it grapples with pressure to build more factories outside Taiwan, especially in the U.S. [0]

Apple has less cash available than TSMC plans to burn this year. TSMC is not spending 50 billion dollars just because it's fun to do so. This is how much it takes just to keep the wheels on the already existing bus. Starting from zero is a non-starter. It just cannot happen anymore. So, no one in their right mind would sell Apple their leading edge foundry at a discount either.

There was a time when companies like Apple could have done this. That time was 15+ years ago. It's way too late now.

[0]: https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/tsmc-ends-2025-with-a-...
by srean | 2026-01-15 20:05:46+00:00
Traumatic childhood almost always messes with how one attaches with people. A small exceptional fraction somehow manage to remain unaffected.

When attachment styles get warped, behaviors that were a self protective behavior in childhood, become self-defeating behaviors in adult life. The person is quite oblivious to all this because those behaviors and fragile modes of attachment feel perfectly normal -- it is like growing up in a different g (acceleration due to gravity).

It feels like - I am right, it's the others who are wrong, unfair, greedy, needy, flakey, stupid.

For me this book [0] was very helpful for understanding what's going on in and around me

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9547888-attached
by soulofmischief | 2026-01-15 20:05:52+00:00
Sorry, I should have said "analogy" and not "mental model", that was presumptuous. Maybe I also should have replied to the GP comment instead.

Anyway, since we're here, I personally think giving LLMs agency helps unlock this latent knowledge, as it provides the agent more mobility when walking the manifold. It has a better chance at avoiding or leaving local minima/maxima, among other things. So I don't know if agentic loops are entirely off-topic when discussing the latent power of LLMs.
by arjie | 2026-01-15 20:06:04+00:00
I don't think it's a straw man. If it is true that the delta matters and it is also true that at the time when this metric was showing the most positive results and trending upwards, online communities such as this talk about the existence of the loneliness epidemic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20468767 then one must ask oneself whether this is a property of the online communities in question.

At the time when the gallup poll showed an upward trend towards its peak this community was talking about the loneliness epidemic. When the gallup poll shows a downward trend toward its lowest, this community is talking about the loneliness epidemic. And it's the change in satisfaction that is the most significant. So there are two changes in opposite directions causing the same conclusion.

If this were happening to me, I would ask myself "Am I sure this is a general property and not just a property of me?". Do you find this not convincing to move your estimate of the likelihood of the loneliness epidemic actually existing? If you don't, it's all right. We can leave it here.
by ben_talent | 2026-01-15 20:06:08+00:00
Yeah it is still too technical.

First obvious stuff like getting the dmg notarized having easier install.

Then after it will be about optimizing onboarding. One of the core goals is to help Susan do 1 small task in under 5 min.

To do that we will need to:
- have some prepackaged configs for folks like starter template
- ship opencode within the app itself so users don't need to manually install it
- and get rid of the technical jargon that is cluttered in the app.
by eddieroger | 2026-01-15 20:06:11+00:00
No it doesn't. I live in a planned neighborhood in the suburbs. I can walk to a branch of my local library, a few restaurants, a bar, a bookstore, I even get my haircut in my neighborhood. And even if none of that existed, nothing has stopped me from being friends with my neighbors, or the parents of my kid's friends. The suburbs are a different model with tradeoffs, but they're also useful for periods and phases of life different from the ones served by urban settings.
by randall | 2026-01-15 20:06:15+00:00
I think that works out tremendously well for Nintendo, especially when you look at the Wii-U vs the Switch.

I shot a video at CNET in probably 2011 which was a single touchscreen display (i think it was the APX 2500 prototype iirc?) and it has the precise dimensions to the switch 1.

Nintendo was reluctantly a hardware company... they're a game company who can make hardware, but they know they're best when they own the stack.
by Lerc | 2026-01-15 20:06:32+00:00
Considering that one of the common critiques of Bitcoin is "Why should it have value when anyone can make one?" It seems quite a lot of people don't grasp that when people have a choice of interaction mechanism, there is value in going where the people already are.

I guess the counterpoint to that, for both Crypto and Pixel sites, is that the cost of making one is low enough that someone could do it not expecting it to do well and is just taking a punt on the non-zero chance it will do well.

For the rest of us, we are probably better off ignoring the many insignificant instances. They are, for the most part truly insignificant. You may stumble across one once in a while, but really you would have to go looking specifically for them to be annoyed by how many there are.
Show HN: Agentify Desktop: No-API Access to ChatGPT Pro Inside Codex
by agentifysh | 2026-01-15 20:06:33+00:00
I got tired of copy pasting code and context back and forth between my codex & chatgpt.com pro

My coding workflow happens locally in Codex. I wanted the reasoning power of the ChatGPT Pro model without the friction of context switching or paying double for API credits on massive context windows.

What it is:

Agentify Desktop is an Electron-based wrapper that exposes your active chatgpt.com session as an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server.

Core Features:

Web-to-CLI Bridge: You can prompt ChatGPT Web directly from your local Codex environment. It automates the browser interaction, handles file uploads, and returns the response to your terminal.

No API Keys: It uses your existing logged-in web session.

Bidirectional Orchestration (WIP): allows the reverse: you can drive your local Codex instance from the ChatGPT web chat. You can tell ChatGPT Web to "plan and execute it on my codex cli(s)," and it will trigger or you can do one way multiple codex cli instances).

How it works:

quickstart.sh installs, registers mcp to your codex by spinning up a local Electron browser that you log into. The MCP server connects to this browser instance. When you query it from Codex, it automates the input/output in the web view.

Safety/Limits:

This is designed for individual "power user" workflow (similar to other popular chatgpt.com automation tools), not bulk scraping . It includes rate limiting (token buckets) and concurrency limits to keep your account safe and avoid flagging spam filters. it doesn't solve CAPTCHAs for you.

It’s currently tested on Mac-only (I don't have a Windows machine to test on yet) and definitely a work in progress. looking for feedback, i will add other sites like grok.com, aistudio.com, and more as requested.

Repo is here: https://github.com/agentify-sh/desktop
by kmeisthax | 2026-01-15 20:06:36+00:00
Also, people forgot how to find places. If you're driving a car, places speed by too fast to see or remember (and it's dangerous to spend too much time looking at them). On Google, places are actively hidden from you for the sake of making the map look "cleaner". Every time I go downtown (on transit, not by car) I notice new shit that just doesn't exist on the map unless you specifically type in the name to get Google to admit that it exists.
by whatthesmack | 2026-01-15 20:06:49+00:00
> 1. You don't deport millions of undocumented people, you find a way integrate those who are willing to work (most of them) into your society.

How is that currently working out for all of Europe? Hint: not well at all.

> 2. Obama and Biden didn't get the same level of attention because they weren't being publicly antagonistic and racist, or using deliberately cruel tactics to accomplish their goals. Or breaking the law / violating the constitution to meet their ends.

You've made a lot of ambiguous accusations right here. Can you please give specific examples?
by astura | 2026-01-15 20:07:23+00:00
>In regards to this you commented, I highly recommend therapy if you can access it. It will help. This is an unnecessary burden to be carrying through adult life, and a professional might help unburden you of these feelings.

I'm not the GP, but I have the same experience to them. I have been in therapy and on psychotropic medication my entire adult life, that's 2.5 decades. I'd love to know when exactly the "unburdening of these feelings" happens.
by lastofthemojito | 2026-01-15 20:07:44+00:00
That's pretty delightful, to think of someone using a computer as such a pure tool like that (as opposed to a distraction machine as is so often the case).

I like to imagine the author finally hit the limit of the 20MB hard drive, then decided, "you know what, rather than put 2 spaces after periods, I'll replace them all with a single space like the kids do", saving 400KB, and making room for at least a couple more weeks of work while shopping for a new computer.
by cyberax | 2026-01-15 20:08:00+00:00
I don't want a used laptop. I have my NUC mounted inside a small enclosure on a bracket, with PoE for power. It's a single-purpose device, only used for HomeAssistant and nothing else. It also has to be located centrally in my house for better ZigBee/ZWave networking.

Unfortunately, it's close to dying. The heat from the CPU disintegrated the plastic of the SATA cable header on the motherboard. I fixed it for now with a bit of glue, but it's not going to hold indefinitely. And NUCs were pretty pricey.

RPi with a SATA/M.2 disk and a PoE hat is not that much cheaper than Intel, but it uses much less power. They also tend to not have cables that are kept under mechanical strain. I have a single-purpose RPi that's been running since 2014, and it's doing just fine.
by phoehne | 2026-01-15 20:08:10+00:00
Yes. It's not, and I agree. There's no bright line that says you're morally culpable or you are not morally culpable for what you do. But all of us should think about our roles in that light. If Palantir uses Git, does that mean new Git contributions are part of what is arguably an ethnic cleansing? I wouldn't be able to sleep at night and work on this project. (I do not work at Palantir).

But the point is also that maybe we should take one step back and think about the morality of the people we put in decision making roles. The technology is morally neutral, but the intention is not. And helping to realize that intention is not. And sometimes the things we build can be used in horrible ways unless we also think about safeguarding their use.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. It is my very real fear that a lot of information has been aggregated into Palantir and other applications and is usable with no restraint. And that even if you just run the build system, across hundreds of apps, you might be culpable as well.
by could-of | 2026-01-15 20:08:42+00:00
Indeed, neutral point of view is one of the most important principles of Wikipedia [1]. I only recall phrasing like that being used used in very clear-cut cases, like the word "pseudoscience" in the article on homeopathy. If you don't think something is neutral, the guideline "be bold" [2] encourages you to edit it. You don't have to wait for somebody else to.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_vie...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Be_bold
by kevin061 | 2026-01-15 20:08:58+00:00
I don't think this will ever be resolved.

It's a twofold problem, I believe. People are lonely because of fear of rejection and also actively avoid new people out of caution and high standards.

So two people who are otherwise lonely will make no effort to connect.

I think social networks have done a tremendous amount of damage to our collective psyche. Because on the web, you can single-click permanently block someone and never see them again. If you are admin of a group this person is in, you can also ban this person and prevent them from interacting with members of the group (in the group, that is, you cannot control private messages, but by banning someone from a community you are effectively isolating them), and I think we haven't considered how much power we are giving to random Reddit mods due to this.
by bflesch | 2026-01-15 20:09:02+00:00
Arguments in favor of US politics which are based on "mature markets" and "capital" have become extremely weak since they started dismantling Fed autonomy and used ChatGPT to roll the dice on random tariffs.

It doesn't help that the clever talking heads behind US "capital" such as Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and David Sacks have outed themselves as complete and utter morons.
by shimman | 2026-01-15 20:09:15+00:00
No, you're just decrying any government intervention as bad which is moronic. The only solace I can take is that a large majority of US voters despise big tech and tech workers. Go out and do some canvassing, I have across the country and the sentiment is quite clear.

Whoever is the first President to decapitate a tech company will likely be put on Mount Rushmore as a hero of the people.

Get out of your bubble because the upcoming change is going to give you whiplash.
by TheRealPomax | 2026-01-15 20:10:09+00:00
Neither the Windows Game Bar nor MacOS's QuickTime offer any sort of meaningful control over the codec or destination. Once you have OBS installed, you have pretty much zero reason to use start-g or cmd-shift-5.

Plus, on a Mac you can't even record your audio using the built in recording solution, you need a third party audio driver for that.
by terminalshort | 2026-01-15 20:10:16+00:00
1. SV workers are anything but cheap

2. There are plenty of Americans with the skills. I know because I went from never having written any code or having any technical education to full time employment in SV in under a year.

3. Housing issues are 100% the fault of the local US citizens and their idiotic policies, but immigrant tech workers absolutely do own land and I know several who do. Plenty of them vote because they are now citizens.
by cbeach | 2026-01-15 20:10:20+00:00
This is poor reporting by Elektrek. The article compares wind and gas costs but completely fails to explain:

* the gas price in the article includes the government’s self-imposed carbon tax. The actual cost of gas (£55) is FAR lower than the £91.20 strike price Milibad has set for wind. And Miliband has locked in this terrible pricing for 20 years!

* there are huge extra costs for wind power that are not accounted for in this quoted strike price. The grid must be upgraded. Expensive new power generation capability will need to be built to compensate for the intermittency of wind

* the stated power capacity of wind generation is a theoretical maximum, and the actual capacity will be much lower in practice.
by stopbulying | 2026-01-15 20:11:06+00:00
> "don’t fight a fraction as hard to help people as conservatives do to [f] people over"

I attribute this more to the relative difficulty to destroy compared with the effort required to create.

It's easier to burn bridges than build them.

It's easier to forfeit external relations saboteurially than to be a decent f person and listen.

They just forfeited 66 very big deals. When they run away like that, they forfeit.
by publicdebates | 2026-01-15 20:11:09+00:00
TikTok does in fact remind you, quite often, that you've been scrolling for a while, and suggests taking a break. Last year, for most of each day, I would just ignore this and keep scrolling. I'd see it so many times each day. That wouldn't change if they added a suggestion like writing a name down. I'd still ignore it, and I think most people in the same situation would too. But when I was at the store, or walking to the store, that's when someone could have found a way in, and been able to get me to make a connection and open up.