MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tw1984 | 2026-01-28 05:45:40+00:00
> The great leap forward

You need far better propaganda materials for your "great leap forward" blames in 2026. There were bad policies, but the intention good, it was all about moving the country forward. It failed horribly with huge consequences, that is just the reminder that a full scale industrialisation for over 1 billion people is not something that can be earned easily.

Like it or not, the "Exceeding the UK, catching the USA" (超英赶美) goal of the great leap forward has been overfulfilled under the leadership of the CCP with the help of brutal state capitalism. Everything else is just cheap talk.

Having a full scale industrialization larger than the G7 combined is not something handed to China on a silver platter - those very sad deaths caused by the failed attempts during the great leap forward was a part of the costs.

> and the cultural revolution have not comparison.

The cultural revolution is brutal, nothing should be used to defend it. It is just so wrong. That being said, the west is going through the exact same cultural revolution -

* extremely polarised society with everything is politicalised
* populism taking control
* suicidal policies destroying the civilizational foundations

the difference is 99% Han Chinese consider the cultural revolution as extremely bad, while the west is enjoying having its own ongoing cultural revolution.

if you add the recent woke cancer, the western version of the ongoing cultural revolution is far more brutal.
by ajkjk | 2026-01-28 05:45:50+00:00
this doesn't really matter, but, normal english would be either "Why are people all (of) the sudden writing browsers with AI?" or (slightly less normal) "Why all (of) the sudden are people writing browsers with AI?", with the (of) being more 'correct' but often omitted. Regardless, it should be "are people" instead of "people are" in a question.
by linguae | 2026-01-28 05:46:39+00:00
This reminds me of something I thought about last night while I was preparing lecture slides for an introductory object-oriented programming course for a community college. I was rewatching Steve Jobs’ January 1997 Macworld speech, where he was presenting OpenStep to the audience (this was just a few weeks after the announcement of the merger of Apple and NeXT). OpenStep is the original name of the Cocoa Objective-C API in macOS. When Steve Jobs was talking about the benefits of OpenStep compared to the Macintosh Toolbox and Win32, he said it was much easier to develop apps using OpenStep compared to them. He went on to talk about how many small software companies with small teams will be born from leveraging the OpenStep API and development tools.

While the Mac ecosystem did get the Omni Group and some other companies who leveraged OpenStep/Cocoa to build great software, the Mac ecosystem was (and still is) dominated by major vendors (e.g., Microsoft and Adobe) shipping very large apps (e.g., Office and the Creative Suite) developed by very large teams.

I believe ease of development, whether through new APIs or through generative AI, isn’t enough. Competitors to entrenched software companies need to deal with network effects, proprietary file formats and protocols, and the “long tail” of features in large software packages that deter users from switching to smaller, less feature-rich applications.
by dlcarrier | 2026-01-28 05:47:08+00:00
Great project!

here's some feedback, for future updates:

The text on the buttons cuts off after the first word, mangling most of the options.

Every decision it presented to me, except Marbury v. Madison are presented as expanding or limiting rights, when in reality they may be preserving rights or weighing one group's rights vs anther's, so defining them as only expanding or limiting does not always make sense.
by aix1 | 2026-01-28 05:47:13+00:00
Fair point. Here is some data on the fraction of caloric intake:

* During August 2021–August 2023, the mean percentage of total calories consumed from ultra-processed foods among those age 1 year and older was 55.0%.

* Youth ages 1–18 years consumed a higher percentage of calories from ultra-processed foods (61.9%) than adults age 19 and older (53.0%).

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db536.htm

The study is from 2023 and notes that there had been a decrease during the preceding decade.
by amarant | 2026-01-28 05:47:40+00:00
What is it like in the US these days? I'm on the outside (occasionally) looking in, and it looks like something out of European history class! The ice seem to have roughly the same priorities and roughly the same methodology as the SA had in the beginning.

Is stuff really as bad as it looks or are media somehow exaggerating things? I mean I saw the pretti videos and it certainly seems to corroborate what media is saying. But I'm curious to hear Americans view on matters?

As a European I'm also somewhat confused. I always thought that the reason the second amendment was made into such a big deal was because Americans felt they needed to be able to protect themselves in case the government ran amok.

Isn't this the exact scenario those arguments were talking about? Have all the second amendment supporters been employed by ice/agree with what they're doing, or was it just empty talk?

Stuff seems rough over there, if they actually are, take care everybody! Also please tell me how things actually stand inside the US cause it's making very little sense right now.
by Quarrelsome | 2026-01-28 05:47:44+00:00
Are you being intentionally obstinate? I can't help but feel like you're sealioning.

An increasing number of young people get their news from social media and what is "engaging" isn't necessarily what's true. This leads to greater political polarisation, nuance is lost, tribalism increases, people treat conversations as things to be won as opposed to opportunities to share information. People spend their entire time doomscrolling because everything is "engaging" so it caters to their paranoia and attempts to keep them glued to their phone, ramping up their anxiety and paranoia because it makes them more money. People stay up late scrolling a feed that hooks them, sleep less, perform less well at work, may lose their job and all the ramifications that go along with that. Parents spend more time on their phones than with their children, a generation of babies and toddlers are having to compete for attention with these apps and in many cases fail because they're designed so well. What's worse is the babies get thrust an ipad and then are brought up by arbitrary strangers who may not have their best interests at heart and are exposed to considerable amounts of advertising at far too young an age.

I could go on but I feel like you're just going to give another one liner where you pretend that actually there's nothing wrong with this or smth.
by josephg | 2026-01-28 05:47:51+00:00
Yeah; this is such a hard intuition to teach beginners. And something I think will be lost as we move more and more toward vibe coding.

There is so much to be learned about a problem - and programming in general - by implementing stuff and then refactoring it into the ground. Most of the time the abstractions I think up at first are totally wrong. Like, I imagine my program will model categories A, B and C. But when I program it up, the code for B and C is kinda similar. So I combine them, and realise C is just a subset of B. And sometimes then I realise A is a distinct subset of B as well, and I rewrite everything. Or sometimes I realise B and C differ in one dimension, and A and B in another. And that implies there's a fourth kind of thing with both properties.

Do this enough and your code ends up in an entirely unrecognisable place from where you started. But very, very beautiful.
by rda2 | 2026-01-28 05:49:38+00:00
The gyro permission request doesn't work on iOS since it's not tied to user input.
If you're feeling brave, you can paste this into your phone's javascript console to add a button that requests permission.

var b=document.createElement('button');
b.textContent='Gyro';
b.style='position:fixed;z-index:999';
b.onclick=()=>{DeviceOrientationEvent.requestPermission();b.remove()};
document.body.appendChild(b);
by josephg | 2026-01-28 05:50:36+00:00
This is what it looks like when trust has broken down at a company. Management don't trust engineers when they say "this needs more time". And engineers don't trust management with the truth (it kinda works - we really could ship it now if we wanted to).

Remarkably common, but not inevitable. Thankfully there's plenty of workplaces which don't look like this.

And yeah, lying is certainly one way to get work done in a bad organisation. I'd much rather - if at all possible - to find and fix the actual problem.
Ask HN: Vibe Researching" with AI – Anyone Using It for Real?
by spenceXu | 2026-01-28 05:50:46+00:00
The concept of "vibe researching" – using AI to rapidly explore, synthesize literature, and generate novel research ideas or frameworks – seems promising. Beyond just literature reviews, it could act as a brainstorming co-pilot.

Has anyone here seriously used AI (e.g., Claude for long-context paper analysis, custom GPTs on arXiv, or specialized agents) to aid in hypothesis generation, research gap identification, or drafting substantive parts of a paper?

What are the biggest pitfalls regarding accuracy, hallucination of citations, or superficial understanding of complex theory? How do you validate the AI's output?

Do you see it as a legitimate accelerator for early-stage research, or more of a productivity tool for mundane tasks? Any success stories linking it to a tangible research outcome?

Looking for honest experiences from academics, industry researchers, or solo discoverers.
by insane_dreamer | 2026-01-28 05:50:50+00:00
Geely is Volvo's parent company but Volvo still designs and manufactures its cars. Geely gets to benefit from Volvo technology for its own Chinese brands.

Just like Tata owns Jaguar and Land Rover but it doesn't mean India is "pumping out world-class cars".

I left China in 2017 so my info is a little dated but unless there was a _giant_ leap in quality I wouldn't trust a Chinese car any more than I trust other Chinese products (products made to spec in China is a different matter altogether). And when I was there anyone in China who could afford a foreign brand wasn't buying Chinese brands either.

It's not that Chinese are incapable of making great products, but cutting corners and crappy customer service is deeply embedded into their business culture. Things are changing but there's still a long way to go.
by s3micolon0 | 2026-01-28 05:50:51+00:00
This is a useful methodology and article nudges the reader towards doing things and "taking action". I am sure it will appeal to a huge number of people and indeed, rightly it has climbed to the top of HN, else I would have completely missed it.

I have found these articles on the exact same topic to be creating more actionable mindset.

1. The cult of done by No Boilderplate: https://youtu.be/bJQj1uKtnus?si=efV5OTF35LcDjuN3. Through the years, I have come back to this video many a times and even have the Cult of Done manifesto (snipped from this video) stuck on to my wall.

2. High agency by George Mack: https://www.highagency.com/. This is a long form article and sitting and just reading it has helped me unblock myself. I have a bookmark of this on my favourites bar at all times.
by b1temy | 2026-01-28 05:51:07+00:00
Even if it does have false positives, I expect it would make a nicer starting point for finding and verifying bugs/vulnerabilities, compared to wading through the entire codebase until you find something. Even if it is a false positive, it would probably be due to sketchy looking code (hopefully, unless it hallucinated completely new code) that you can take a look at, and maybe spot something else that the AI didn't catch.

Besides the HN submission, XBOW and Hacktron AI has found plenty of vulnerabilities in code.
by thewhitetulip | 2026-01-28 05:51:55+00:00
And I keep reading people who heap praises at AI like the Staff engg at Google who weirdly praised a competitor LLM. They miss one important part - AI is good for end to end problems that are already solved. Asking it to write a load balancer will result in a perfect solution because it has access to very well written load balancers already.

The real MOAT is to write something custom and this is where it struggles sometimes.
by noahjk | 2026-01-28 05:51:58+00:00
I noticed when I was reading Federico Viticci's post about it that he was using telegram, which has much better support for "markdown"-y rendering, which looks a lot nicer than iMessage. And then I thought to myself, why would iMessage actually matter? The only other use-case would be interacting with texts, but almost anyone can tell when someone is using an LLM to text - I feel like our texting styles are so personal, and what is there even to gain from using an LLM just with text messages? So is it even worth it to run on a Mac?
by _wire_ | 2026-01-28 05:52:19+00:00
//As I stood there coughing, eyes streaming, lungs on fire, watching cops lose their goddamn minds over a dildo, I realized something sacred and stupid and true: You can’t baton your way out of satire. You can’t gas a punchline. And you absolutely cannot maintain authority while tear-gassing people over a rubber dick.//
by josephg | 2026-01-28 05:52:31+00:00
I think the original agile people had the right idea. Do some planning, not too much. Then write some code - but not too much. Then take what you've learned from implementing and replan.

Or if you want another way of thinking about it, code isn't only useful for deployment. Its also a tool you can use during the planning process to learn more about the problem you're trying to solve. When planning, the #1 killer is unknown unknowns. You can often discover a lot of them by building a super simple prototype.
by solaris2007 | 2026-01-28 05:52:36+00:00
Make the data available through bit-torrent and IPFS. Redirect IPs that make excessive requests to response only kilobytes in size "use the torrents and IPFS".

As an SRE, the only legitimate concern here could be the bandwidth costs. But QoS tuning should solve that too.

Supposedly technical people crying out for a journalist to help them is super lame. Everything about this looks super lame.
by andai | 2026-01-28 05:52:39+00:00
Story time! A couple years ago, I found myself with pretty severe ADHD and no way to get treatment for it. (There may have been a global healthcare cataclysm involved...)

I wanted to make some progress on a personal project, but I had a history of abandoning things, without external accountability. I had a guy for that the previous year, which worked great, but our interests diverged, so I had to find a way to do it on my own.

I realized that I couldn't force it. I had to find a way to make it work without having sufficient dopamine. Without relying on willpower at all.

So I stumbled into environmental design from first principles. I simply designed around all the failure modes.

1. I noticed that if I skipped a day of working on my project, the chance of completely losing momentum would rise enormously. So I decided I have to work every day, but to make it sustainable it only needs to be an hour.

2. I noticed that if I put work off until later in the day, the chance of skipping a day would rise enormously. So I decided that I had to start working as soon as I woke up. (But only for an hour. I could keep going but I didn't have to.)

3. And finally I noticed that, if I started playing with my phone or surfing the internet, the day was basically over. So I made a rule that I had to keep them both off for the first hour of the day. (And I turned them off the night before for good measure. That way I am waking up into the correct state by default.)

And what do you know. I didn't miss a day for 3 months. Even my dopamine starved brain was able to persist on this project every day without fail for several months straight, because I simply made these small changes to my environment!

The project suddenly became the most fun and interesting thing I could be doing. I actually looked forward to working on it the next day, when I went to sleep at night!
by Quarrelsome | 2026-01-28 05:53:09+00:00
Its not a double standard. If someone talks to me like a cunt then there is no reason why I should just sit there and take it and give them an etiquette they do not give me. I will be a prick to you if you're a prick to me, the sin is in escalating to petty insults which you were first to do.
by notpushkin | 2026-01-28 05:53:48+00:00
There’s physical dependence and there’s psychological dependence. Most drugs can cause both, but hallucinogens in particular are usually thought to cause only psychological dependence. Whether that makes them less dangerous is debatable, but the fact is, they can still cause addiction if used carelessly.

Now to your main point... dopamine hits aren’t inherently good or bad. They can, however, also make things addictive, and drug abuse is indeed a good parallel here.
by keeda | 2026-01-28 05:54:03+00:00
True, the tech VC incentive structure is weird from a typical perspective -- it is very hit-driven... throw money at a thousand startups burning cash to capture a market, and hope one of them becomes a unicorn. However, it has been working very well for them, so at this point nobody questions it.

> They are using the word "revenue", but can you be certain that the word means "revenue from product sales"? Or does it just mean "revenue from investment".

Investment and revenue are accounted for very differently, and if there's any mingling between them that would be highly problematic, probably fraudulent. For instance, there are tax implications, investments are not taxed but income from revenue can be. There can be all kinds of shenanigans that happen with finances in startups for sure, but those are typically unethical and illegal.

In this case they all are talking about revenue. Some articles do mention that funding rounds are also being affected because these companies have been hitting revenue milestones so much faster yet with much fewer people, but that is a separate aspect from the revenue.
by mattnewton | 2026-01-28 05:54:13+00:00
Oh, apologies, I'm not saying that King didn't risk considerable injury or death. I'm saying that he did not plan to be injured and die the way he planned to accept arrest. He's not saying to accept being attacked by dogs in his letter from the Birmingham jail. The passage gp quoted is about how accepting lawful penalties from an unjust law venerates and respects the rule of law.

I think it's different with illegal "penalties" like being mauled by a dog or an extrajudicial killing. While those leaders of the civil rights movement faced those risks, I don't think King is asking people to martyr themselves in that passage, but to respect the law.
by runarberg | 2026-01-28 05:55:32+00:00
Have you ever learnt a foreign language (say Mongolian, or Danish) and then never spoken it, nor even read anything in it for over 10 years? It is not like riding a bike, it doesn’t just come back like that. You have to actually relearn the language, practice it, and you will suck at it for months. Comprehension comes first (within weeks) but you will be speaking with grammatical errors, mispronunciations, etc. for much longer. You won‘t have to learn the language from scratch, second time around is much easier, but you will have to put in the effort. And if you use google translate instead of your brain, you won‘t relearn the language at all. You will simply forget it.
by shihab | 2026-01-28 05:55:36+00:00
To the author (or anyone from vectorware team), can you please give me, admittedly a skeptic, a motivating example of a "GPU-native" application?

That is, where does it truly make a difference to dispatch non-parallel/syscalls etc from GPU to CPU instead of dispatching parallel part of a code from CPU to GPU?

There is an argument that GPUs have succeeded _because_ they aren't the central nerve of a computer: they can get away with small dumb cores (lots of it); much easier to bring large changes in hardware and instruction set compared to x86 devices etc.
by spenceXu | 2026-01-28 05:55:50+00:00
This is a spot-on observation about 'AI as a garnish.' In my own work, I've seen many teams rush to add a chat interface just to say they have AI, without solving any core user problems. It often does make the product more complicated.
I wonder if the path to true replacement starts in smaller, vertical niches rather than trying to overhaul giants like Excel from day one?
by kube-system | 2026-01-28 05:56:44+00:00
1. murder and arson are crimes. I figured that was obvious enough without elaboration.

2. asking for a large amount of damages is how all lawsuits work. That doesn’t mean that amount will be awarded.

3. Even if they lose and are ordered to pay 15m (which absolutely will not happen), they won’t pay 15m, an LLC protects the owners personal assets from the judgement.

The likely result is that they are forced to repaint the truck.

The worst case scenario is that Kelloggs takes the truck and the egg rolls that are in it.
by jordanb | 2026-01-28 05:57:36+00:00
> Coding agents are really good at tasks where you can define a concrete goal and then set them to work iterating in that direction.

Specifically ones that are in the training data.

> A web browser is the most ambitious project I can think of that leans into those capabilities.”

I assume Linux and gcc are in the training data, so additional options may be OSes and compilers..
Ask HN: If Everyone Can "Build" a SaaS, What Becomes Valuable?
by spenceXu | 2026-01-28 05:58:11+00:00
The narrative is shifting: from “no-code” to prompts that generate full-stack apps. Reports suggest the future may belong to “Agent Platform Companies” with usage-based pricing, not traditional seat-licensed SaaS .

This leads to a two-part question:

Future of SaaS: If custom, “good enough” software becomes trivial to create for specific needs, does the traditional SaaS model collapse? Will value shift entirely to AI platforms and infrastructure, with most SaaS becoming commodities?

The New “Valuable Thing”: In a democratized creation world (like TikTok for video), what becomes the scarce asset? Is it distribution, vertical-specific data/models, or integration & trust? What would the “App Store” for these AI-generated micro-SaaS look like?

Looking for perspectives from builders, investors, and SaaS users.
by cferry | 2026-01-28 05:58:46+00:00
Please don't bring attestation to common Linux distributions. This technology, by essence, moves trust to a third party distinct of the user. I don't see how it can be useful in any way to end users like most of us here. Its use by corporations has already caused too much damage and exclusion in the mobile landscape, and I don't want folks like us becoming pariahs in our own world, just because we want machines we bought to be ours...
by hellojesus | 2026-01-28 06:00:40+00:00
I would prefer that tax disincentives existed in the form of excise taxes on things the government doesn't want consumed. Instead of offering EV tax credits, why not offer 0% tax on EVs and 200% tax on ice? Let's get rid of this nonsense 16A and go back to the correct form of federal taxation: excise and/or apportioned if you need a non consumption based tax.
by Grisu_FTP | 2026-01-28 06:01:13+00:00
I might be misremembering or mixing memories but i remember something about them only storing the hash of the number.

So the FBI cant ask what phone number is tied to an account, but if a specific phone number was tied to the specific account? (As in, Signal gets the number, runs it through their hash algorythm and compares that hash to the saved one)

But my memory is very very bad, so like i said, i might be wrong