MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Draiken | 2026-01-21 11:51:14+00:00
Yet this is not reproducible. This is the whole issue with LLMs: they are random.

You cannot trust that it'll do a good job on all reports so you'll have to manually review the LLMs reports anyways or hope that real issues didn't get false-negatives or fake ones got false-positives.

This is what I've seen most LLM proponents do: they gloss over the issues and tell everyone it's all fine. Who cares about the details?
They don't review the gigantic pile of slop code/answers/results they generate. They skim and say YOLO. Worked for my narrow set of anecdotal tests, so it must work for everything!

IIRC DOGE did something like this to analyze government jobs that were needed or not and then fired people based on that. Guess how good the result was?

This is a very similar scenario: make some judgement call based on a small set of data. It absolutely sucks at it. And I'm not even going to get into the issue of liability which is another can of worms.
by 435dfasdf345 | 2026-01-21 11:51:34+00:00
There are levels of intelligence inbetween the general population everywhere. Some are highly intelligent, in ways not easily explainable to the lesser minds.

The advantage of these people over the rest maybe diverse, some edge on maths, other on memory, others on empathy, others maybe in music, sports.

But the advantage is decisive, tangible in actions and facts (in retrospective, obvious), even if not all of them reach "authority" levels, the sheer ideas most introduce in an otherwise anachronic current status quo, are enough to make the "authority" to make a change of course.

Once a new idea was analyzed by lesser minds it's for them reasonable to implement it not minding a lot about where the ideas came from, nor why or who make them come to the attention of the "authority", so they just "complete" the action pattern set up from an external idea.

In the great scheme of things, many core decisitions probably relayed on the thinking of very smart people which created the path followed by others.

Think Da Vinci, Einstein, Von Neumann.

There were many (there are), many of them, most completely unknown to the history.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2026-01-21 11:51:45+00:00
Look at the right wing parties in Europe. They have a decade or two headstart on the MAGA movement. They are getting real power, but it is also moderated by what their coalition can accept.

We are also seeing for example France and the UK dealing with the same problem as the US due to its lackluster electoral system. Not allowing any vents.

The UK venting became Brexit, and then never went away and is today Reform.

The venting becomes a spectrum. One extreme is the US with large constituencies and first past the post voting. Where any vote made by the heart is discouraged.

A little bit less extreme is Australia. Still single member constituencies but you are encouraged to vote first with your heart, and then with your brain. Leading to representation heavily weighted towards the incumbents but some representation for the issues people truly care about.

Then you have proportional parliamentary systems. Here you decide what level of venting you need based on the percentage requirements to enter the parliament.

In Sweden it is 4% of national vote or 12% of a constituency. Single question parties generally need to broaden their spectrum but will get in if enough people care.

In the Netherlands it is 0.67% and you have a flourishing of parties but problems forming coalitions.

Personally I would say - do local constituencies so geographical areas are represented and pick a percentage which works for you.

Pick 10% and you focus on executive action. Pick 1% and you focus on the town hall of messages. But don't pick something where no vent is possible, like first past the post systems.
by nailer | 2026-01-21 11:52:58+00:00
I don’t think the 1992 perspectives would have been different from the 2015 perspectives. Do you?

I was old enough to watch the news (Tom Brokaw) then. People did actually discuss these things. The consensus was: the border should exist. Tomboys were tomboys. Effeminate boys were effeminate boys. You can’t just have a policy of hiring someone based on their race because that’s silly and illegal.
Ask HN: Is it ok to like AI cat videos?
by maxibenner | 2026-01-21 11:53:08+00:00
I've been trying to wrap my head around this: Recently, I've been receiving AI generated animal videos from people close to me. The videos are of the kind that usually gets its charm from real animals acting in impressive, unexpected, or loving ways. Now they are videos of fake animals acting in impressive, unexpected, or loving ways.

I don't fault anyone for liking these, especially if they don't realize they are generated. However, I'm unsure about how to react to them. Me telling people that they are generated usually dampens their excitement. But some of these videos have evoked genuine belly laughs and I don't want to be the person to ruin that.

But I can't help feeling uneasy about people being fed fake videos that toy with their emotions and their sense of reality; even in this rather innocuous context. This gets even more complicated once there is no way of telling if videos are real or fake from the media alone.

However, in the meantime, I'd be curious to hear from people how they feel and how they handle their loved ones enjoying and sharing those kind of videos, not knowing they were generated.
by zvqcMMV6Zcr | 2026-01-21 11:53:14+00:00
I know of 4th - line level interference. I love how it works in IDEA, 30% of time I just slap TAB to accept generated code, if it is wrong I just continue writing as usual. Avoids most drawbacks: you don't pay for it(it is running on local CPU), the "review" is instant while still providing boost to productivity.
by geocar | 2026-01-21 11:53:57+00:00
> and what is obvious to one can be surprising to someone else.

That is how obvious things work. If you were not surprised that a[i:j] and :[a;i;j] are the same (: a i j) then it is because it was obvious to you, and now that you have had it pointed it out to you, you were able to show all of the different other variants of this thing without even being prompted to, so I think you understand the answer to your question now.
by Rover222 | 2026-01-21 11:54:10+00:00
LLM is already an outdated term in terms of frontier models. Continued build out of ever larger data centers will drive the coming wave of robotics with varying forms of world models. People who claim LLMs won’t change the world are stuck in some sort of tunnel vision, IMO. I don’t think Nvidia is at risk of the AI industry falling flat. More like from large companies creating their own chips specific to their needs (ie Tesla). Although there aren’t many companies in the world that are THAT ambitious. I think Nvidia continues its general trend upwards.
by raxxorraxor | 2026-01-21 11:54:12+00:00
I would say yes, but I doubt we have good data since getting papers while working outside of university is quite hard or very expensive. Even with the help of some pirate woman everyone tries to criminalise...

Not that I have ever contributed to open science, it certainly has a net positive effect on education, which I would certainly rate as beneficial from that perspective.

But especially for data sets, open curation would be awesome. Of course scientist need to eat too, but if it comes to publishing, we don't have a beneficial system for anyone aside from large publishers. The still do some form of curation and this isn't a trivial service, but still...

Sure, data can also lead to false conclusions, but this isn't really an argument.
by rnhmjoj | 2026-01-21 11:54:38+00:00
Ok, I'll bite: why do you say that IPv6 lacking NAT (which is not true by the way) would be annoying? We can finally get rid of an ugly workaround from 30 years ago that broke one core principle of the Internet (end-to-end connectivity) and a ton of protocols that required even uglier hacks (FTP and SIP ALGs, TURN/STUN, etc.) to barely work. Why would this be annoying?
by alcasa | 2026-01-21 11:54:59+00:00
Fair enough. I feel like designing AI-proof take-homes is getting ever more futile. Given the questions need to be sufficiently low context to be human-doable in a short time and timespans for AI tasks increasing, I'm not sure take homes can actually serve any filtering function whatsoever, besides checking if applicants are willing to put in a minimal amount of effort.
by J8K357R | 2026-01-21 11:55:04+00:00
My personal experience, agentic coding produces brittle code. Often it works but it violates every opinionated fiber of coding style in me as a developer, even when tuned to my style. It does not give me code that I want to maintain long term. But did I mention it often works. If you treat it like code, written by a petulant toddler, that needs review and refactoring then it works well. It’s also pretty good at code reviewing your code, finding subtle mistakes.
by throw0101c | 2026-01-21 11:55:04+00:00
> No piece of dirt or earth is worth dying for, ever.

If no one ever defends the dirt, the pieces of earth where you can enjoy a drink in peace and freedom will shrink over time as the aggressors will continue to gobble up land because of the lack of defending.

They keep moving forward, you keep moving back, until you have no where to retreat to.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-21 11:55:09+00:00
That's so trite, what makes people write such sentences and not feel embarrassed? I remember when bragging so callously about arbitrary stuff would make you seem off-putting, what happened with that? Today it seems like everyone is bragging about what they do more than actually doing, and others seem fine with this, just part of "the hustle", where did we go wrong?
by nugator | 2026-01-21 11:55:38+00:00
A Swedish pension fund has been doing the same with about 8 billion dollars.

"The reason for the sales is an increased risk linked to the US's more unpredictable policies under Trump's leadership, says asset management manager Pablo Bernengo.
Alecta assesses that the risk in US government bonds and the dollar has increased at the same time as the country suffers from large budget deficits and a growing national debt."

https://omni.se/a/0pK1zJ
by traceroute66 | 2026-01-21 11:56:59+00:00
> I had my experience with bootstrapping a self founded UG (Unternehmergesellschaft), and the process was long (about 8 weeks)

It would have been significantly quicker if you used a well-connected law firm.

I know friends of friends in Germany who have visited the lawyer, the notary and the bank all in the course of one morning. The whole experience was orchestrated by the lawyer because they knew the notary and the bank manager. In some cases the lawyer even drove them around between locations. ;)

The Steuerberater then took care of the Finanzamt.

Of course this entails extra professional fees. But the point is that there are many examples out there showing it can be done in less than 8 weeks.
Show HN: UruFlow – Terminal-based deployment tool with custom TCP protocol
by musnas | 2026-01-21 11:57:51+00:00
UruFlow is a self-hosted deployment engine designed for teams who prefer terminals over browser dashboards.

Architecture: server + agents communicating over UFP (UruFlow Protocol), a custom binary protocol built for real-time bidirectional streaming.

Why not HTTP: Traditional tools poll for updates. UruFlow pushes. When a deploy triggers, the agent receives the command instantly. Logs stream line-by-line as they execute — not on refresh, not batched, actual real-time.

UFP wire format:
- Header: magic bytes (0x55 0x46) + version + type + payload length
- Body: JSON
- Message types: auth, metrics, commands, health checks
- Persistent TCP connection with TLS support

The server runs a full TUI, The agent handles git operations, Docker builds, and streams output back through UFP.

Technical choices:
- Go, single binary for server and agent
- SQLite for state
- Bubbletea for TUI

Supports Docker Compose, Dockerfile, Makefile builds. GitHub/GitLab webhooks for auto-deploy.

MIT licensed.

https://github.com/urustack/uruflow

Looking for feedback.
by teekert | 2026-01-21 11:58:20+00:00
Which has happened before and is the reason why the International Criminal Court is moving away from MS365 [0]

This prompted me to try OnlyOffice, and man is that nice. I do like LibreOffice, but 2 things bug me: It just looks old. And second, I have, since the dawn of time (and the Sun's Star Office) had issues just telling the software: "This is a Dutch doc, apply Dutch spelling and Grammar Checks". It has never worked well, even Firefox text fields work better. But with OnlyOffice it seems to work well so far, and also, it will be much much more recognizable by ex-MS Office users. It hear the interop with MS formats is also better.

[0] https://www.techspot.com/news/110095-international-criminal-...
Ask HN: Why don't tech companies provide housing?
by alcasa | 2026-01-21 11:58:39+00:00
Given most tech companies don't hire locally and people have to move into often quite HCOL areas for them, why don't large tech companies provide company housing? It could be a quite attractive option, especially for young graduates. Factories with large migrant workforces do it and it seems like large tech campuses could fit quite a bit of housing.
by delaminator | 2026-01-21 11:59:06+00:00
Well, honestly, that's already what I do every day. Claude on my phone is rather handy, especially with voice questions.

I get a lot of recipes from it, I've built some tools that I give a list of ingredients I have already and it'll suggest recipes.

And it's just helped me fix my washing machine.

These are things I couldn't do before easily by just asking a search engine.

I get it to make product recommendations.

But that does carry some risk, of course, on the questions where pushing me in one direction or another is favourable to the people answering the question - Where should I get my mortgage? Which products are best that kind of thing.

Right now it is quite neutral, it scrapes existing reviews and gives pros and cons to various decisions.
by detectivestory | 2026-01-21 11:59:20+00:00
I don't disagree with what you are expressing but I think you are overgeneralising.

Sometimes the idea itself can be interesting. If AI is used to manifest the idea then so be it!

Secondly, I think it is almost unavoidable to use some ai generated content (code, design etc) when developing these days. Its just a tool and it can be used well or used poorly.

Lastly, I agree that there does exist a lot of what can truly be labelled "AI slop" where it is just lazy regurgitated content, and that is annoying.
by fhennig | 2026-01-21 11:59:47+00:00
Neat, stuff that makes it easier to find small, independent content is great!

Others in the comments also linked aggregators.

I think what's missing a bit in the indie web, is a bit of curation. I think, it'd be great if we had something like music labels, or book publishers, that have a certain taste, and publish certain things. Or on spotify, there are these playlists where new music gets listed, but hand curated by someone with a particular taste.

I want something like that. I want something like a digital magazine, sourced from blog posts, about a particular topic. Hand curated! Not with automatic topic extraction or whatever. That would be cool to have.
by rubslopes | 2026-01-21 12:00:25+00:00
I've recently heard that using Linux is an excuse to spend the day tinkering and ricing and do no productive work. It's the same kind of prejudice, but opposite.

I like the freedom to run my machine the way I want, but I also enjoy something that is reliable and seamless. My macbook air's battery lasts forever. It's flawless, almost all the time. I can leave home in the morning and not worry about charging for a long time. "oh with nixos if you brick it you can rollback..." that's great, but it does not beat working great for the first time.

Having said that, I'm progressively migrating from MacOS to Linux as MacOS is starting to "get in the way" enough to bother me.
by throw0101c | 2026-01-21 12:00:45+00:00
> All of those are true, yet the US's (PPP-adjusted) per capita GDP was over 37% higher than the EU's in 2024 [0], and GDP growth has significantly outpaced the EU for years.

And? So what? What has that gotten the US?

Lower life expectancy, higher infant/maternal mortality, higher (violent) crime, and generally much less happiness with life:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report

Getting more GDP/money is not the goal in itself: money is a tool to get other things (health, happiness, etc).
by indigo945 | 2026-01-21 12:00:52+00:00
Well, Microsoft SQL Server has built-in Temporal Tables [1], which even take this one step further: they track all data changes, such that you can easily query them as if you were viewing them in the past. You can not only query deleted rows, but also the old versions of rows that have been updated.

(In my opinion, replicating this via a `validity tstzrange` column is also often a sane approach in PostgreSQL, although OP's blog post doesn't mention it.)

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/t...
by alkonaut | 2026-01-21 12:01:32+00:00
I don't understand how to get even bad results. Or any results at all. I'm at a level where I'm going "This can't just be me not having read the manual".

I get the same change applied multiple times, the agent having some absurd method of applying changes that conflict with what I say it like some git merge from hell and so on. I can't get it to understand even the simplest of contexts etc.

It's not really that the code it writes might not work. I just can't get past the actual tool use. In fact, I don't think I'm even at the stage where the AI output is even the problem yet.
by vidarh | 2026-01-21 12:02:22+00:00
> end of 2026 we will not use computer the way we use them now.

I think it will take much longer than that for most people, but I disagree with the timeline, not where we're headed.

I have a project now where the entirety of the project fall into these categories:

- A small server that is geared towards making it easy to navigate the reports the agents produce. This server is 100% written by Claude Code - I have not even looked at it, nor do I have any interest in looking at it as it's throwaway.

- Agent definitions.

- Scripts written by the agents for the agents, to automate away the parts where we (well, the agents mostly) have found a part of the task is mechanical enough to either take Claude out of the loop entirely, or produce a script that does the mechanical part interspersed with claude --print for smaller subtasks (and then systematically try to see if sonnet or haiku can handle the tasks). Eventually I may get to a point of starting to optimise it to use API's for smaller, faster models where they can handle the tasks well enough.

The goal is for an increasing proportion of the project to migrate from the second part (agent definitions) to the third part, and we do that in "production" workflows (these aren't user facing per se, but third parties do see the outputs).

That is, I started with a totally manual task I was carrying out anyway, defined agents to take over part of the process and produce intermediate reports, had it write the UI that lets me monitor the agents progress, then progressively I'd ask the agent after each step to turn any manual intervention into agents, commands, and skills, and to write tools to handle the mechanical functions we identified.

For each iteration, more stuff first went into the agent definitions, and then as I had less manual work to do, some of that time has gone into talking to the agent about which sub-tasks we can turn into scripts.

I see myself doing this more and more, and often "claude" is now the very first command I run when I start a new project whether it is code related or not.
by Macha | 2026-01-21 12:02:25+00:00
Been running IPv6 for years on both my home network and internet servers, and I've never had to think about NDS, DAD, RS. SLAAC is something I've only had to think about once at network setup time, less than I think about DHCP on my IPv4 network. RAs I have actually had to think about because Unifi has had some regressions in IPv6 support over the years, but that's fixed these days so it's likely going into the "don't need to think about it" bucket too.

Of course I'm sure you think about DHCP address management, DHCPDISCOVER and DHCPOFFER packets, mDNS, ACD, etc., since clearly you like to get into the weeds of your network
by rixed | 2026-01-21 12:02:47+00:00
Exact same here; not that I was expecting otherwise, but publishing on HN was a personal milestone.

Seeing the flood of low ambition projects led me to think about the issue. I was wondering if we needed a kind of "proof of work" to help sort the entries.
For instance counting a project number of contributors, number of commits, age of the project... Not that any of those metrics are good indicators or are hard to game, of course, but that could help triage good faith attempts from shallow LLM vomit.

For the record, nobody's denying how useful LLMs are, but let's also acknowledge that they excel at things that have a lot of prior art, so by definition not really a good fit for show HN any more (in the past it may have been; But what was interresting in vibe coding has never been the end result but that it was possible at all, like a dancing bear.)
by bonsai_spool | 2026-01-21 12:03:35+00:00
I encourage you to seek objective statistics on political isssues instead of repeating what the news media (any media) repeat to you.

Obama began an unprecedented increase in deportations (guess who gave the CURRENT director of ICE his first job?).

Biden continued this.

Maybe what you mean is that they didn’t call immigrants by names on TV?
by LoveMortuus | 2026-01-21 12:03:41+00:00
I feel like, from the hardware point of view, wireless charging should be more durable than using a cable, since the charging connection is done without contact. But then again, wireless charging is less good for the battery then wired, so it's probably a balancing act.

That being said, I know that the moment I switch to a phone that supports wireless charging, I won't be able to go back, so I've just been trying to use the phone I have (POCO X3 Pro) until it'll completely break.

I had the battery replaced, because it was starting to bloat to the point that it was starting to bend the phone. I've had the back panel glued three times, but it still comes off, so now there's always a gap in the phone, most certainly not waterproof anymore, I would have wished that the repair would have been flawless, because as things stand, I am disappointed and had I known that this would be the final result (I could try taking the phone back to the service centre to get it reglued, but I've already done that twice, so now I feel uncomfortable and awkward having to ask yet again, for who know if any improvement.