MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by asragab | 2026-01-21 16:34:32+00:00
Wait, so you think the principle danger of vibe coding, is the code it produces and not the actual process which the agents take to get there? Given that autonomous agent require extraordinary permissions where as presumably running code on a production website often does not.

Wait, do you also think there are no guardrails in a production system that would fundamentally alter the security posture of a system rather than on a single laptop with a single developer would engender.

Wait, do you not believe all the AI companies aren't also trying to develop (have developed) their own sandboxing solutions?

Wait, did you even bother to think about what you were writing before you decided to write it?
by Moldoteck | 2026-01-21 16:34:34+00:00
Thank you for proving yet again how misinformed you are, up to even spreading some nonsensical links...

Here, read these as a starting point
Carbon Neutrality in the UNECE Region: Integrated Life-cycle Assessment of Electricity Sources->
https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2022-04/LCA_3_FINAL%20...

Other stats too:
https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
https://ourworldindata.org/low-carbon-technologies-need-far-...
Or even from nrel
https://docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/80580.pdf

Or health impact in say Germany https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10640-025-01002-z

Those guys in nirs are clearly some wannabe antinuclear influencers which are concerned about nuclear supply chain and it's overall impact but are fine with ren supply chain with even bigger impact. They seem to be concerned about CO2 impact of nuclear due to concrete but fail to mention lifecycle data per kwh as in links I've provided. They are concerned about radioactive waste but not concerned about other toxic chemicals like arsenic. They are concerned about tritium when it's a low level emitter which you can drink and occurs naturally due to the sun. Most releases of tritium, including in Fukushima are below WHO limits.

They are even concerned about some french units going offline during summer due to heat, but fail to mention even then France is top net exporter on the continent, avg heat impact affecting about 0.18% of production per year. They also fail to mention this is happening in units without cooling towers and edf isn't fixing it precisely because there's no financial value- France is exporting like crazy in this period - can check the data this summer on energy charts for confirmation. The 'article' is written in a childish manner by someone cherry picking everything to confirm own bias

I heavily recommend you to look at this topic pragmatically instead of listening to some influencers like in your link or even greenpeace which did even more damage to the environment. Germany now is suffering due to such antinuclear movements. Not only more people died due to coal still being used, but existing nuclear fleet was cheapest firm power on the grid based on merit order data, while receiving significantly less subsidies than renewables. In fact, per official bundestag inquiry and later a parliament inquiry in Bavaria, nuclear in Germany didn't receive special subsidies for production at all, unlike renewables with EEG, which alone already outpaced the cost of all french nuclear fleet

And naming me a polluter just confirms your bias and unwillingness to be informed about the topic, only to attach labels to people with different point of view
by anileated | 2026-01-21 16:34:55+00:00
> > Actually, you don't have to. You just want to.

> Fair.

I don't think it's fair. That ideology was unquestionably developed with humans in mind. It happened in the 80s, and back then I don't think anyone had a crazy idea that software can think for itself and so terms "use" and "learn" can apply to it. (I mean, it's a crazy idea still, but unfortunately not to everyone.)

One can suggest that free software ideology should be expanded to include software itself in the beneficiaries of the license, not just human society. That's a big call and needs a lot of proof that software can decide things on its own, and not just do what humans tell it.
Show HN: Prometheus – Give LLMs memory, dreams, and contradiction detection
by panossk | 2026-01-21 16:35:08+00:00
LLMs are stateless - every call starts from zero. Prometheus adds persistent
memory inspired by cognitive science: episodic, semantic, procedural, identity,
and imagination layers.

Key features:
- Contradiction detection when new info conflicts with stored knowledge
- Dream mode: synthesizes frameworks from accumulated knowledge during idle time
- Concept imagination: builds internal representations with emotional valence
- Works with DeepSeek, OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama

Built this because I needed persistent context for a biomedical research system.
Happy to answer questions about the architecture.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-21 16:35:16+00:00
More than 80% of home shoppers consider climate risks when looking for a new home - https://zillow.mediaroom.com/2023-09-05-More-than-80-of-home... - September 5th, 2023

Climate risk is a direct influence on future equity gains [1 [2] and homeowner insurance costs [3] [4] [5], so it is prudent and reasonable to consider when making the largest purchase of most folk's lives.

[1] A Climate ‘Shock’ Is Eroding Some Home Values. New Data Shows How Much. - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/19/climate/home-... | https://archive.today/Hf9h9 - November 19th, 2025

[2] Trillions in U.S. Home Value Face Major Risk from Fire, Flood and Wind - https://www.zillow.com/research/climate-risk-home-value-3493... - March 12th, 2025

[3] About half of Americans understand that global warming is increasing homeowners insurance costs - https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/americans... - September 9th, 2025

[4] Climate change is upending homeowners insurance nationwide - https://www.hbs.edu/bigs/climate-change-upending-homeowners-... - August 21st, 2025

[5] When Insurers Exit (2023) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41664750 - September 2024 (35 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43366311 (additional citations)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42450680 (additional citations)
by CyberDildonics | 2026-01-21 16:35:57+00:00
What is worthwhile to ponder has no bearing on what you say.

Ponder all you want, but what you said wasn't a reply to what I said.

Decades? You think that decades is long enough to get down to the fundamentals of a domain?

It is enough for this because people have been going around in circles constantly the entire time. It isn't the same people, it is new people coming in, thinking up something 'clever' like conflating execution and data, then eventually getting burned by it when it all turns into a quagmire. Some people never realize why their projects turned into a mess that can't move forward quickly without breaking or can't be learned without huge effort of edge cases.

It depends on the framework in which you're analyzing it.

No it doesn't. There are a bunch of fundamentals that are already universal that apply.

First is edge cases. If you make something like an array start acting like a function, you are creating an edge case where the same thing acts differently depending on context. That context is complexity and a dependency you have to remember. This increases the mental load you need to get something correct.

Second is dependencies. Instead of two separate things you now have two things that can't work right because they depend on each other. This increases complexity and mental load while decreasing modularity.

Third is that execution is always more complicated than data. Now instead of something simple like (which is simple because it is static and self evident) you have it mixed with something complicated that can't be observed unless it runs and all of the states at each line or fragment are observed. Execution is largely a black box, data is clear. Mixing them makes the data opaque again.
by ericmay | 2026-01-21 16:36:09+00:00
> Right, so you enjoy warmth such as: 1 foot = 12 inches, 1 stone = 14 pounds, 1 pound = 16 ounces. Lots of useless facts to memorize compared to kilo = 1000, milli = 0.001.

Most of life is just useless facts, I think it's fun and I enjoy it.

> You're writing in impeccable English. As we know, English is an international language and most definitely not the pinnacle of cultural uniqueness or non-conformity. Why not adopt a more esoteric and fun language for yourself such as, who knows, Esperanto, Lojban, Klingon, etc.?

I've been learning French actually and have really enjoyed it. When I was in France recently I was able to put some of those skills to the test and found it fun and interesting to see how both difficult, and in some other cases, incredibly easy to fit in even with knowing maybe a hundred or so words and basic grammar. I speak English since that was what I grew up with. English is actually pretty fun as a language too because of the chaos of the very language itself. Read vs read, &c.

But all cultures have some things that are unique and also not very unique about them. I'm not sure why we can't just have our measuring system like we do today and that's just one unique thing about the United States.

To turn this around the other way, maybe everyone should just eat at McDonalds and conform to what's most popular and efficient?

> Decimals are optimized for cold calculation, yes. Would you like to use a monetary system based on pounds, shillings, and pence - like the UK and Australia right into the 20th century? Did you know that the New York Stock Exchange traded in increments of $1/8 and later $1/16, before fully decimalizing?

Yea sure. How many basis points is $1/8?
by MattGaiser | 2026-01-21 16:36:15+00:00
Let Claude have access to everything, have it run a local environment as close to production as possible (Docker with the real dependencies, not some locally installed finnicky Postgres), and tell it to thoroughly test all its work and make sure it is set up to do that.

Paste in ticket, get 95% of the way to the end.

I will add the caveat that this is only with the code. The overhead of communication has not improved at all beyond pasting code review comments into Claude to get replies.

What I really need is something to listen in at meetings for my name, summarize what was asked, and suggest an answer based on the codebase.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-01-21 16:36:18+00:00
You're missing the point.

The guy buying the widgets doesn't care because he's expecting a widget that's plus or minus dozens of the unit the machine is being set to. The setting is just as precise as it is in order to set the fat part of your output curve over the middle of your quality control pass range.

The machine might not even be calibrated in a direct measurement, it might be calibrated in a secondary measurement. Like tons of force or rpm or cycle speed or something that then translates to the dimension of your output part.

The units on machines mostly only exist for calibration. Beyond that they can just be made up "my amp goes to 11" type scales because they're so divorced from the outputs, either in precision (or are literally indirect as described above) that you "just have to know" that if you want a "X<unit>" widget you'll actually set the machine

Tons and tons and tons of stuff in our world is even intentionally spec'd out in this manner. A 14" tire rim is not 14, there's a tolerance. A 3" pipe isn't 3". These are all just nominal sizes. Just about everything in our world is nominally sized. A nut and bolt manufacturer doesn't care whether they're making 12mm or 1/2 on a given day. Those are just nominal sizes, arbitrary names, in their minds. It doesn't matter whether the factory runs on metric or imperial or something else because they're just shooting for an arbitrary number.

The only time your unit really matters is when interfacing with other parties and it only matters insofar as you need to know what each other are uses.
by matesz | 2026-01-21 16:36:18+00:00
> These days, when I think of empire, countries like the US, China or Russia fit the bill much more than the EU, which is struggling to reach that level of integration and influence.

Of course! Especially because there is no unified army control.

But this requires giving more context. We can't forget that there are ways, especially ways made by empires, to force other nations to go to war to make them less relevant or take a hit also.

One of the main factors which makes this more probable, is what op mentioned, the raise of fascism and combatant militaristic attitudes exacerbated by the fact that their own nation / empire is a falling empire.
by Nemo_bis | 2026-01-21 16:36:26+00:00
The first point already exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societas_Europaea

The second point is dubious. A central registry may be better or worse than the best national registry.

The third and fourth are what is usually called the Capital Markets Union in eurobubble speak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Markets_Union

The Draghi report had some specific proposals which are rather realistic:

> Reduce capital market fragmentation
>
> A. Introduce a European Security Exchange Commission
>
> B. Reduce regulatory fragmentation to deepen the CMU
>
> C. Encourage retail investors through the offer of second pillar pension schemes where the successful examples of some EU Member States can be replicated.
>
> D. Assess whether further changes to the capital requirements under Solvency II are warranted by further reducing the capital charges on equity investments held for the long term.

https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/97e481fd-2dc3...

https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/ec1409c1-d4b4... (p. 292)
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-21 16:36:43+00:00
> I don’t think I have ever downvoted or flagged anything. I actually enjoy reading stuff which is controversial or against the grain, even if I don’t agree. Unfortunately voting here seems to be like reddit where you are really voting if you agree with the opinion, and then power users can just nuke your post/comments if they don’t like what you say.

I so much agree with this being one of the biggest issues in Hackernews in my opinion. (I love hackernews but this has genuine impact where genuine posts can get flagged just because it might be negative but that just feels like very much so censorship in some part) and whenever people mention why flagged? people say the moderation's bad and everything (I admit I must have said this once or twice too when getting angry why posts are getting flagged left and right) & then people mention how moderation's not the fault and its always been this way or similar & we just get really tangential.

The real reason probably seems to be this instead.

We probably need some net negative in case someone intentionally flags something like if they flagged a post (>4 hours) and moderators find that they flagged incorrectly, just have it be visible that they flagged such post.

If there was a genuine mistake, I am sure that moderators will be able to do so but we won't really go around then with people flagging anything or everything that they don't like (some of which might be political news)
by ziyaadsaqlain | 2026-01-21 16:36:55+00:00
I found this forum was base for introducing many languages so i thought to introduce mine also.
ZScript is currently heavily in work and pre stage and i wanted some developers to help me in testing and developing also i just have a windows pc and linux server so i cant test it cross platform hoping i will get some positive messages please ask any details if want in comment.
by gus_massa | 2026-01-21 16:36:57+00:00
More specific:

@OP: If your email is john.smith@gmail.com there are probably a few idiots Jonh Smith out there that don't remember their email and fill your email instead. If your email is ju3hh4y3g79us99fahh0827@gmail.com probably your email is leaked and some idiot is sending fake email for grow hacking or just phishing.
by _danish | 2026-01-21 16:37:30+00:00
Hey HN, I'm the author.

The problem I tried to work on: You're evaluating 5 promising papers for your project. Which one actually works for your use case? Right now, you have to implement all 5 to find out - that's days to weeks.

Tomea auto-generates PyTorch implementations from ArXiv papers, runs experiments on cloud GPUs with self-healing, and returns comparative benchmarks. The idea: see what works before committing engineering time.

Reality check: After asking some ML engineers I know, reactions were mixed. Some want exactly this to filter papers fast, others think manual implementation is part of learning. Probably depends on research vs applied work.

I'm 18 and this was my first attempt at agentic dev tools. Would love honest feedback&criticism - would you use something like this? Why or why not?

Technical feedback especially appreciated on the self-healing approach and benchmarking.
by openmarkand | 2026-01-21 16:37:56+00:00
The day I'll have to use an AI will be the day I either resign to be developer or quit my job. My company first disallowed AI and now they say "if you don't keep up we will pay that off someday" and I disagree and stand by that I'll never touch any AI stuff.

My knowledge, my experience and my passion to development is made from tinkering, failing, retrying and challenging. When a friend or colleague ask me a question there is a high percentage I can already fix the issue just by the experience I've accumulated (obviously, if the question is in an area I already explored, I'm not a book).

Thus, I don't want to be integrated in this new AI world and I feel like someday I'll have to do something else as even companies will tell people to use AI by the fact "you should be more productive and cost less". No, AI is a mental disorder.
by 9rx | 2026-01-21 16:37:57+00:00
Only thing is that Google already publicly announced this exact same fact nearly 15 years ago, and it already filled the news cycle back then[1]. To have it show up again now is like today's news reporting on the movie Frozen being released.

But, whatever attracts the most clicks goes, I suppose.

[1] For example,

- https://www.businessinsider.com/google-hiring-non-graduates-...

- https://qz.com/180247/why-google-doesnt-care-about-hiring-to...
by hobofan | 2026-01-21 16:37:59+00:00
With experience and optimal prerequisites (good connections to a notary, single founder with default bylaws and no asset transfer into the company) you can do it in ~4 days, e.g. for a holding company.

I did it in ~2 weeks last year, where almost a week was caused by the coworking space I rent at not notifying me of the physical mail from the court. If that physical mail would be eliminated from the process you could probably do it in 2 days.

Apart from that, for any non-trivial situation, the majority of the time will be determined by how fast you can proceed through the process of adjusting your bylaws, etc. and evaluating tax situation (so lawyer + tax advisor waiting time).

(after that the process of waiting for a tax ID starts, which depending on where you live can easily be the slowest part and take ~6 weeks on its own.)
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-01-21 16:38:03+00:00
You realize you are being part of the problem that fell for the same talking points you accuse others of right?

The “leftists” were arguing to demilitarize the police and spend money on mental health programs and when someone is having a mental health crisis, send someone trained to help the person instead of trigger happy untrained police who don’t know how to de escalate
by fpesce | 2026-01-21 16:38:06+00:00
I wonder if the push for "no politics" is actually a consistent principle, or if it's just a reaction to how much the current news cycle challenges the community's comfort zone.

Someone should look at the flagging rates for political threads from 2012, 2018, and today. It would show whether our definition of a "distraction" is based on content quality, or if the appetite for "apoliticism" fluctuates depending on which side of the aisle holds the megaphone.

Has anyone done a sentiment analysis on flagging patterns versus administrative shifts? I suspect the "politics is a mind-killer" argument is a lot more popular when the headlines don't align with the reader's own worldview.
by Xylakant | 2026-01-21 16:38:10+00:00
There’s absolutely no need to have a business plan to start a company in Germany. You articles of incorporation and they state a company purpose, but this can be something as simple as “do IT consulting”.

Obviously, having a credible plan helps if you try to convince banks to loan you money or any such thing, but the act of registering a company requires no such thing.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2026-01-21 16:38:18+00:00
> Inches and feet are a bit more convenient for measuring human scale things

nope, this is mere familiarity. You find it more natural because you're more used to it, nothing more.

There is nothing convenient about a system where "below zero" and "below freezing" are not synonyms. Or at least that's how I find it. because of what I'm used to. But at least I realise that might be a fact about me, not a fact about the world.
by pf1gura | 2026-01-21 16:39:06+00:00
I am on the same boat. Current user and a fan of uPlot starting to hit performance limits. Thank you for this library, I will start testing it soon.

On the topic of support for worker threads, in my current project I have multiple data sources, each handled by its own worker. Copying data between worker and main thread - even processed - can be an expensive operation. Avoiding it can further help with performance.
by jedberg | 2026-01-21 16:39:09+00:00
This isn't a "gotcha" experiment, it's a real question. And the problem with "I know it when I see it" is that right now people are biasing towards "if it's good it must be AI" and accusing legit artists and writers of being AI.

I happened to me. I spent 10 minutes writing a reddit comment. I researched it, I sourced it. It had sections with headlines, bullets, and even em dashes. 100% written by me.

As soon as I posted it, it was downvoted and I got PMs saying "don't post this AI slop!".

The problem is the AI has been trained on well executed material, and when you execute well, you look like an AI.
by rambambram | 2026-01-21 16:39:11+00:00
These trade unions are notorious for that. I worked as a labor legal advisor and especially the unions for temporary employment agency start 'barking' and demand loads of money (even from years back). Sometimes it's not even clear which union is applicable.

You probably have all the info right now, but make sure everything is 'in line'. I mean, have your company codes at the tax authority match the applicable union match the actual things that your company does. Depending on the jobs of the employees, it might be smart to split the company into multiple legal entities.

All in all you can be happy that this happened within a couple of months. Finding this out when you're years underway and then having to pay millions... I've seen plenty of these cases.

Want to start a business in The Netherlands? Make sure to do a 'CAO check' first, think about how to structure your company (one entity? multiple entities? what job goes where?), and do these checks again once you pivot or make certain changes to the actual work that your company does.

The rationale for this is also pretty simple: somebody got to pay for all this nice social security. They say it's part of the risk of being an entrepreneur.
by zahlman | 2026-01-21 16:39:19+00:00
> Right, so you enjoy warmth such as

... Yes, I think that was unironically exactly the point.

> You're writing in impeccable English.

Which is a ornery bastard of a language with more exceptions than rules. It's about aesthetic, not popularity.

> Would you like to use a monetary system based on pounds, shillings, and pence

I wouldn't be surprised.

Your entire comment comes across like you think you're exposing contradictions that really just aren't contradictions at all.