MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by d1sxeyes | 2026-01-13 12:37:29+00:00
Once you learn how to read it, it's actually pretty clear.

This element has a small amount of x and y padding that is suitable for (for example) keeping text away from the edge of the container. The text is white. The corners of this are rounded.

The background is the default intensity 'sky' colour, which darkens slightly on hover and darkens further when it's active.

You can take this from 77 characters to 189 like this:

.button {
background-color: #0ea5e9;
color: white;
padding: 0.5rem 1rem;
border-radius: 0.5rem;
}

.button:hover {
background-color: #0284c7;
}

.button:active {
background-color: #0369a1;
}

Tailwind simplifies consistency, and frankly is pretty readable. It's not like <button type="button" class="button">Button</button> is exactly the pinnacle of human clarity and simplicity in the first place.

Of course there are other ways to do it, but this faux outrage demonstrates not that this is some 'fresh fucking hell' or some 'crack induced nightmare', but rather that you simply don't get it.
by goku12 | 2026-01-13 12:39:15+00:00
How do you know that all of those were inevitable? After WWII, most nations had little appetite for another conflict. The world order wasn't something America imposed on the others. World nations voluntarily chose it.

Meanwhile, you also have never seen an alternative to say that the current world order is the best there could be. If the US had so much interest in world peace, why were they involved in so many conflicts? Also, do you know how many projects by American allies got sabotaged, that they silently blame the US for?

This is what I was alluding to. From your perspective, it's hard to see the other side of the narrative.
by jdiff | 2026-01-13 12:39:36+00:00
There's odd cases where it still has uses. When I was a teacher, some of the gamifying tools don't allow video embeds without a subscription, but I wanted to make some "what 3D operation is shown here" questions with various tools in Blender. GIF sizes were pretty comparable to video with largely static, less-than-a-second loops, and likely had slightly higher quality with care used to reduce color palette usage.

But I fully realize, there are vanishingly few cases with similar constraints.
by wtcactus | 2026-01-13 12:39:50+00:00
> I do agree that every goalpost can be moved by drawing the boundary as you wish, but surely the fact that developed countries enjoyed a good standard of living for 100+ years and contributed more for a long time counts for something

As the fact that you had much higer bitrates than us for sevral centuries also counts for something.

The west is finally waking up. America already did and the political panorama in the EU is clearly going to eventually follow the same path: we are not going to keep apologising for being more advanced and destroy our countries just to be on the same level as less advanced societies out of some weird guilt.
by jbms | 2026-01-13 12:39:54+00:00
Not a new thing.

"a 2024 study by researchers at Clemson University has estimated that 4% of content relating to independence were linked to one Iranian-backed bot network of around 80 accounts."

Speaking as a Scot, I would expect there are those who support attempts to break up the UK who care zero about Scotland. Who's ultimately behind it is speculative.
by hju22_-3 | 2026-01-13 12:39:57+00:00
I tested the Japanese app, in in a bit of a hurry, but here are things I noticed.

- 1 time when matching pairs, two different sounds played. Not the automated and presumably yours, but two different sounding sounds. E and another one I think it was.

- One run the male voice played when I clicked on the Japanese symbols to the left when matching pairs. All the other times it played together with the automated voice.

- The error log empties itself despite not leaving the current run, so you can't see what you did wrong. Not sure if it's page specific, but if so it ties into this next point.

- When matching one symbol to four different sounds, the page transition is too abrupt. This is also a thing on the other pages. I'd say better UX here is to give feedback that you did it right, and let the user choose to continue. A score too, if you'd like to "gamify" it.

- The options for modifying runs doesn't work.
I was interested in seeing the other tasks, but even when only enabling the task or tasks I wanted, I kept only getting match the pairs and match the symbol to the sound.
by TechTechTech | 2026-01-13 12:39:58+00:00
My 75" Samsung The Frame (2024) uses 70w in 'art mode'. It has a motion sensor and you can configure to fully switch off after some timeout.

I see a lot of blocked requests in my OPNsense firewall (not sure what exactly) but I see that with almost all 'smart' devices (which I like to keep local).
by jmward01 | 2026-01-13 12:40:46+00:00
I hate to admit it but I failed the NPR real vs fake video quiz [1] and it is exactly because of this. There is so much fake noise out there that it is very hard to tell what is true.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2025/11/30/nx-s1-5610951/fake-ai-videos-...
by lrvick | 2026-01-13 12:40:54+00:00
The linux ecosystem is a peaceful and effective system of anarchy with no central authority. Pretty much the exact opposite of the Apple dictatorship.

I am a Linux distro maintainer and my team and I do whatever we think is best in our distro, even including patches and defaults Torvalds did not approve of, because our goal is security first and his is compatibility first. That is what we mean when we say "free" in free open source software. Torvalds can do whatever he wants in his branch, and we can do whatever we want in ours, selectively taking the bits we want.

Want to modify the operating system on your iPhone? Want to use Tor globally for privacy? Want to use an external NFC/USB smartcard for secret management or authentication? Want to use a browser with an engine other than last gen crippled webkit? Good luck. Apple did not extend those freedoms to you.

You have no freedom on that device but to install binaries Apple blesses and use it the way they intend. Apple does not produce free software or give their users freedom over their devices because they want maximum profit and control.
by notahacker | 2026-01-13 12:41:32+00:00
The UK doesn't cease to exist though, it just shrinks. Plus the USSR fragmenting and Russia (as the main constituent part, the nuclear power and the country the independent republics were happy to acknowledge as the continuation of the USSR) becoming the successor state is pretty well-established precedent for what happens when states fragment, whose legitimacy Russia probably doesn't want to contest too strongly...

General disruption in the UK would help the Iranian government a little, but I managed to click on one of the accounts before it was suspended, and its most popular tweets received very interaction (and were pretty banal statements of independence support indistinguishable from stuff thousands of completely normal Scottish people posted) I assume their attempts to seed wilder rumours were low effort and had very little success.
by 542354234235 | 2026-01-13 12:41:36+00:00
Literally no one is saying overweight people are magically defying the laws of physics. Managing weight involves the brain, and the brain is a biological organ that is affected by genetics and the chemical and hormonal signals from other organs in the body. this moralizing about using a drug to lose weight being wrong or lazy or cheating or whatever is no different than people saying depressed people need to just stop being sad or ADHD people need to just pay attention.

The solipsistic idea that because your brain has the ability to do X means that everyone must work the exact same way, therefore if my brain is able to do something everyone else must too. If I can sit down and focus, ADHD must just be lazy and choosing not to. If my feelings of hunger are mild and easy to moderate, overweight people must just be weak willed and gluttonous.

To frame this as trying to argue for basic thermodynamics is such a strawman that my pet crow flew out the window in fear. If you think fat people are lazy and refuse to use willpower, and using a drug is a lazy substitute for mental willpower, then say so and have an honest discussion.
by roenxi | 2026-01-13 12:41:43+00:00
If there are sock puppets around here they are probably native internet crazies or maybe lazy covert software salesman. Most of the posters just represent the wide variety of opinions on a planet with 8 billion people competing with each other. There isn't much evidence of it and political propagandizing of HN through bots is pointless anyway - most readers have practically no money or power, there aren't that many of them and they aren't trying to coordinate to achieve anything politically interesting.

> The radicalization of, e.g., Marc Andreessen was very useful to some group, so there is no reason they wouldn't try more of the same in this venue.

He's a billionaire. They come pre-radicalised and detached from reality by default. A body don't get to be a billionaire by just going with the flow and not having any particular interest in influencing the world around them.
by ricardo81 | 2026-01-13 12:42:07+00:00
Makes sense. Russia and friends would seem to have an interest in Scottish independence as it undermines the UK.

It seems to me most social platforms (not just big tech, smaller UGC sections like the BBC) have many puppet accounts that are triggered by certain content.

Anecdotally looking at BBC comment sections of Scottish content, the "highest rated" comments are almost unilaterally pro-British/anti Scottish National Party which deviates a long way from historical voting preferences. The SNP have performed very well in Scottish and Westminster elections and the weakest barometer for them is/was the 45%/55% vote split in the Scottish independence referendum 12 years ago. I think if anyone took a "sentiment score" of what's there vs how people generally think or behave there'd be a large deviance.

More generally, any platform seems to have systemised abuse and this pattern goes all the way back to generic content management systems being abused in the early 2000s.

I do wonder, are these accounts being accessed via proxy? i.e. someone claiming to be from the UK and having a residential IP- if the platform doesn't care about the location of access, maybe start checking for latency?
Show HN: Talkolia – An AI chatbot that understands your website
by kokau | 2026-01-13 12:43:00+00:00
Hi HN

I’m the maker of Talkolia, an AI chatbot designed for websites that actually understands your content instead of hallucinating generic answers.

The problem:
Most website chatbots rely on embeddings, manual training, or static FAQs. They’re painful to maintain and often give wrong answers.

What we built:
Talkolia reads your website dynamically (pages, structure, context) and answers users only based on your real content.

Key points:

No embeddings

No manual training

No hallucinations

Setup in under 2 minutes

Works for landing pages, SaaS docs, agencies, e-commerce

It’s early-stage and we’re actively improving it based on feedback.

https://talkolia.co

I’d love to hear what you think, especially from people who’ve tried other website chatbots and were disappointed.
by everdrive | 2026-01-13 12:44:13+00:00
I'd like to think HN is generally better at this than most communities, but it's hard to imagine we're immune.

It's also important to remember that (rightly or wrongly) a lot of these culture war issues are really touching a tribalism nerve rather than really touching on the issues themselves. To a lot of people, the EV debate amounts to "those _other_ people trying to force a change on _me_." Mind you, I'm not suggesting this is the right way to look at these sorts issues, but I think that's how it plays out for a lot of people. I had a real-life friend who was very anti-environmentalist, and his view was effectively that it was all made up, and was just an excuse for the left to push things on people
by cyberrock | 2026-01-13 12:44:17+00:00
I've been mostly using it as what I would call a "medium scope search engine". Instead of searching "$topic" or "$topic site:wikipedia.org", I can pick a few dozen links from different sources (wiki, documentation, tax code, papers, videos), toss it in NotebookLM, submit my search query in the form of a question, and look at the linked source. I see it as an evolution of doing research through library books, Internet search, and Wikipedia. I didn't know I wanted something like this until I used NotebookLM this way. It also seems to handle multiple languages reasonably well.
by Bender | 2026-01-13 12:45:37+00:00
Any site that becomes sufficiently popular will attract sock puppets, shills, paid agitators, paid astroturfers, spammers, scammers, people paid to warm up accounts and to vouch for their alternate accounts, accounts pretending to ask questions with alternate accounts that suggest a solution that they own and operate and many many other shenanigans. There are also no shortages of people that try to influence the thinking of others or trick them into buying something or voting a particular way. Some of them get nullified in /newest by some of us. Some make it through. Some even get massive responses and that is is a chance they are rolling the dice on.
by password54321 | 2026-01-13 12:46:08+00:00
I sometimes wonder how much your own beliefs change consuming some content online even if you consciously disagree with it. Like a slight subconscious erosion that you don't even realise is happening until you have been radicalised. Ironically I think people who are more honest or empathetic might be more susceptible to this as they try and take in other people's view points without crudely dismissing it.
Ask HN: Browser Use, Skyvern or Other for Automating Directory Submission
by onescales | 2026-01-13 12:46:14+00:00
Trying to figure out how to automate website directory submission to a project i have. I tried out both "browser use" & skyvern but they both are not inconsistent from my limited trials. i tried different ai models and detailed prompts but the quality/consistency is very low. They fail to understand the task or fail in step 2 or 3.

Note: i have about 80 sites in my initial list.

Appreciate your insights on directions on how to tackle this.
by noelwelsh | 2026-01-13 12:46:42+00:00
Indeed, this thread is very contentious. Although my top-level post has a lot of upvotes, one of my comments is bouncing up and down. Very strange to me.

Do I agree with your post? No, I think >50% is too high. Do I think you should be downvoted? No, I don't think your comment is in bad faith or inflammatory.
by gnosis67 | 2026-01-13 12:46:45+00:00
> Where is this language coming from

I have been called a “race traitor” for suggesting white American men do not have an exclusive right to power.

I know it is hard to comprehend that society is a false front for powers so sophisticated the government itself has long since become a host to parasites of such power. Most of the private security companies the government rents domestic infrastructure from are “white supremacy cells.” The CIA actually rents domestic safe houses from them. The Vegas shooting was one of those safe houses “popping off” when their contract was canceled.

Where do you think public shooters get their military style gear?

The Vegas guy actuall tried to use all market weapons, yet accidentally used bullets obtained from an Arizona white terror cell (a government contractor.)

I know , the press and the FBI left “white terror cell” out of their report. Those were white terror cells. Check your narrative, white terror has been waging a secret war upon us the whole time.
by 4ggr0 | 2026-01-13 12:47:00+00:00
US would simply have a large impact as well, of course because lots of internet-users are from the US, but also because the US likes to astroturf as well.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160406094911/http://www.reddit..., Most addicted city (over 100k visits total)
Eglin Air Force Base, FL
by walkthisway | 2026-01-13 12:47:16+00:00
https://github.com/TheusHen says you're 14 years old.

The project is very impressive, as is https://github.com/TheusHen/ternary-ibex and having papers: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5055-5884

What's the education path for a 14 year old that does this stuff?
by btasker | 2026-01-13 12:47:20+00:00
All of what you said could be true and it'd *still* be wrong for Grok to be allowed to generate it.

All Musk actually needed to say was "oh fuck, we'll fix that". Instead, he responded with laughing emojiis and nothing's changed.

> is not technically illegal in the US

Bully for you.

X is operating in the UK and it *is* illegal here (and not just here). X can either comply with our laws (and the associated moral standards) or it can cease operating here.

There's weird nerd diving in front of Musk to defend him and then there's defending his AI generating CSAM. Neither's a good look, but one is much worse than the other
by chithanh | 2026-01-13 12:47:31+00:00
I put the blame squarely on Microsoft, how they released a turd with WP7 (a shiny one with responsive UI, but nonetheless a turd).

About phone OS upgrades, remember the HTC HD2 which originally released with WM6.5 but could be upgraded to WP7 and then to WP8 through after-market community ROMs. It was also Microsoft's decision to not officially allow that.
by pjc50 | 2026-01-13 12:48:12+00:00
DATELINE 1PM - ARTILLERY FIRE HEARD OVER EDINBURGH

Aka, the one o'clock gun, which locals ignore entirely as it's every single day but always surprises a tourist: https://www.edinburghcastle.scot/see-and-do/highlights/one-o... . There is actually a small barracks on the site as well, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redford_Barracks ; the city as a whole contains a few more barracks for various units, including a signals unit conveniently located near the main telephone exchange.
by fsloth | 2026-01-13 12:49:28+00:00
He explains their pivot with Ben to GOP in this podcast episode.

The main argument was that democrats policies were detrimental to their business.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_sNclEgQZQ&t=11s

Mr. Andreessen has been involved with high level politics for a long time. This is not "random radicalization". I will not comment on the quality of the politics but it feels fairly deliberate.
by philbo | 2026-01-13 12:49:36+00:00
Russia was allowed to inherit the USSR seat on 3 conditions:

- It took on all the sovereign debt from the newly independent nations.

- It relinquished nukes that were left behind in Ukraine.

- The United Nations collectively agreed to it.

I don't think any of those things would happen in the UK's case. But of course it doesn't matter what you or I think. It only matters what _Iran_ thinks will happen if Scotland gains independence.
by UncleMeat | 2026-01-13 12:49:50+00:00
When I look at the US, the symptom -> diagnosis hypothesis is not anywhere near the most expensive bit. If you have a medical issue and AI works effectively for this then it saves you maybe one trip to your GP. Your insurance probably still requires your GP to provide a referral to a specialist. If insurance companies allow for AI to be used in place of a referral then you save this trip. But you still need all of the stuff to confirm a diagnosis. And you still need all of the treatment.

If you don't have a medical issue and an AI system tells you this then you save yourself a trip to a specialist and the associated diagnostic tests. Again, this saves a bit of money but is nowhere near the bulk of medical expenses. And it has to be able to do this without any diagnostic testing, just based off of your reported symptoms.

Even if AI diagnosis works flawlessly we save a bit of money but absolutely do not revolutionize the cost of the industry.
Show HN: RAGGuard – Permission-aware retrieval for RAG applications
by maximus242 | 2026-01-13 12:50:22+00:00
I built RAGGuard because most RAG systems have a security gap: they filter documents after retrieval, meaning unauthorized data has already hit the retrieval layer. RAGGuard filters during vector search at the database level.

- Works with 14 vector DBs (Qdrant, ChromaDB, Pinecone, pgvector, etc.)
- Integrates with existing auth (OPA, Cerbos, OpenFGA, custom RBAC)
- Drop-in replacement for LangChain/LlamaIndex retrievers

GitHub: https://github.com/maximus242/ragguard

Would appreciate any feedback on the approach or API design.
Show HN: Aurora – open-source cross-platform music player (lossless)
by bbbneo333 | 2026-01-13 12:50:47+00:00
Hi HN, I built Aurora, a cross-platform music player focused on local, lossless playback with a clean UI and playlist support. I had a large FLAC library on macOS and couldn’t find a simple player that just works, so I made this.

Features:

- Local playback from your machine
- Supports FLAC, MP3, M4A, WAV
- Basic playlist management
- Open-source on GitHub

Download (macOS):
https://github.com/bbbneo333/aurora/releases/tag/v1.0.0

Windows/Linux builds are being tested. I’m actively looking for feedback and bug reports:
https://github.com/bbbneo333/aurora/issues

Happy to take questions or suggestions!
by dpitkevics | 2026-01-13 12:51:17+00:00
As a developer of more than 15 years, it was a bit of a struggle when AI came in and wanted to change the traditional ways of building products. The results weren't very convincing initially.

But as things progressed, the code quality quickly improved. It allowed me to try out a "pure vibe coding" approach for a few small projects. There were some very frustrating moments, to say the least, but I got them working and learned a lot along the way.

That's when the idea of building a Vibe Coding Starter Kit appeared.

I built a native desktop app that helps you throughout the whole process:

The Generation: An interactive wizard lets you set project details, pick colors, fonts, and integrations (Supabase, Stripe, etc.) to get a project ready to go.

The Setup: It guides you through installing dependencies, pushing to GitHub, and - crucially - "teaching" Cursor about the project, coding guidelines, and security.

The Build: Scaffolding is just the start. The project comes with specific Cursor commands to help you actually build the product, even if you are not a technical person.

The Planning: I included a Project Planner command that interviews you about the software you want to build, integrates with Figma/Google Stitch, and creates a step-by-step plan for the AI.

My main goal was to remove the repetitiveness when creating new projects and allow non-coders to build their own businesses.

The Demo: I used the kit to build the landing page for the project itself. I recorded the process (edited down to ~33 minutes) to show how it works from start to finish.

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SywZzPKOgA

Happy to answer questions!
by rich_sasha | 2026-01-13 12:51:22+00:00
But it's at best much harder to find stuff in the reflog than to simply use git's history browsing tools. "What's the state of my never-rebased branch at time X" is a trivial question to answer. Undoing a rebase, at best, involves some hard resets or juggling commit hashes.

None of it is impossible, but IMHO it's a lot of excitement of the wrong kind for essentially no reward.
by arghwhat | 2026-01-13 12:51:29+00:00
It's not the power demand that is the problem.

It's that the majority of AI deployments are happening in a country which has a has had very poor renewable adoption adoption and is now actively sabotaging renewable projects with an active opposition to climate goals because a particular group wants to protect their existing revenue.

Renewables are cheap and highly profitable, and money talks - even in the US, as can be seen in Texas. But it's hard to fight against your government when they want to force you to buy their rich friends' fossil fuels instead...