MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by namelosw | 2026-01-31 09:06:13+00:00
Impressive work! The idea and the UI is very intuitive.

Though, as a guy who speaks perfect mandarin from Beijing, I’m struggle even to pass the easy ones… So it can definitely used some improvements. The example 你好吃饭了吗 returns hào → hǎo, fān → fàn, le → liǎo. The first two are the model listen my tone mistakenly, and the last one should be le instead of liǎo in this context.

Also I see in the comment section people are worry about tones. I can guarantee tones are not particularly useful and you can communicate with native speakers with all the tones messed up and that’s perfectly fine. Because as soon as you leave Beijing, you’ll find all the tones are shuffled because of every region has their own dialect and accents, which doesn’t stop people from communicate at all. So don’t let tone stuff slow your learning process down.
by chrisvalleybay | 2026-01-31 09:06:52+00:00
The best definition of art I've read is the one from "What is Art?" by Tolstoy. I haven't read it myself, but came across it in a Van Neistat video recently.

Tolstoy argued that art is essentially the transmission of feeling from the artist to the audience. He claimed that when an artist experiences an emotion and then, through their work, evokes that same emotion in others, that is art.
by vjerancrnjak | 2026-01-31 09:07:10+00:00
I tried just repeating guó for as many times as symbols and repetition was not recognized.

Although I like the active aspect of the approach. Language apps where sound is the main form of learning should have a great advantage, as any written text just confuses as every country has its own spin on orthography. Even pinyin, despite making sense, for a beginner, has so many conflicting symbols.
by ben_w | 2026-01-31 09:07:21+00:00
I doubt "extremely interested" is the reason.

There may indeed be some tracking that MS does via IPv4, but it's not a good way to do it.

I suspect any such tracking is essentially just some cruft that snuck in (either their own or legislative) in the early 2000s, and nobody thinks it's their problem to make go away.

That said, that IPv4 is a poor way to do tracking doesn't guarantee there's no manager demanding it: any corporation eventually gets someone with no technical knowledge demanding bad solutions.
by julioa2026 | 2026-01-31 09:07:54+00:00
La verdadera transformación personal comienza cuando una persona decide vivir desde la coherencia y no desde la presión externa. En un mundo que premia la imagen rápida y el reconocimiento superficial, elegir la conciencia financiera es un acto de valentía silenciosa. La libertad no nace de lo que se muestra, sino de lo que se sostiene en el tiempo, y comprender esta idea cambia por completo la relación con el dinero, el esfuerzo y la identidad. Cada decisión económica refleja una conversación interna sobre valor propio, propósito y visión de futuro, y cuando esa conversación se vuelve honesta, el rumbo de la vida se redefine.
by mlsu | 2026-01-31 09:08:42+00:00
Buddy if you think financial crashes were bad today, you should see what happens when banking is not regulated (great depression). Or, if you think war is bad today, you should see what happens when the world becomes multipolar and countries start carving up the world for territory (WWII).

Like please, read a history book.

I'm sure I agree with you that there are many problems with this system but life without it can get so much worse. The green agenda? 4G? That's the worst thing you can imagine?
by pyrale | 2026-01-31 09:09:04+00:00
> Economic crashes are hard to predict.

Some of them are, some of them aren't. An economic crash is pretty much guaranteed if international relations break down in such a way that international partners believe trading with the US is a liability. Dollar going down won't stimulate exports if the cause for it was an aversion to buying US products in the first place.

Whether or when that will happen, and to which extent, is another story, all we can say is that the momentum created by the current US administration moves us closer to that point. Will they come to their mind before that happen? Will they be able to restore trust? Will the lingering effect from the damage already done subside? These are hard questions.
by lyu07282 | 2026-01-31 09:09:11+00:00
> After a deputy called one or more of the state court officials listed in the letter and got confirmation it was legit, the deputies said they were satisfied the men were authorized to be in the building.

Doesn't say they called the "numbers on the letter" anywhere?

Also that wasn't even the point the sheriff made:

> He said the Dallas County Courthouse was under his jurisdiction and he hadn’t authorized any such intrusion.

He was upset at the idea of higher authority overriding his authority, he was power tripping. Seems so arbitrary to decide for you to bootlick his authority in particular, just because he is a cop?
by csomar | 2026-01-31 09:09:19+00:00
Most of Singapore looks like the Soviet Union: https://www.google.com/maps/@1.3756813,103.9459007,3a,90y,26...

Sun/Light has a lot to do with it. The place linked looks fine/tolerable but put that in the northern of Europe/America and you'll looking at the edge of depression (at least for myself).
by throw310822 | 2026-01-31 09:10:46+00:00
It's not their slogan and it doesn't mean "death"- that's just a purposeful literal mistranslation. "Death to" in Farsi translates as "down with" in English, and that's the actual official translation. And they have all reasons to be angry with the US.

Ah, and one thing I think the world would be definitely better without, is a western apartheid state with genocidal tendencies placed in the middle east and hell-bent on conquering land and destroying all opponents, armed to the teeth and supported by the west beyond all reason.
by Tiberium | 2026-01-31 09:11:24+00:00
Sorry, but I really wouldn't trust a website that uses Gemini's image models for generating scientific diagrams. The website itself is also vibe-coded. That's not an issue by itself, but there are lots of layout issues visible, see https://i.imgur.com/SidB6pI.png

A bit offtopic: If anyone wants to check whether a specific image is generated by Google models without using Gemini, go to https://images.google.com/, upload the image, click the "About this image" section. It'll say "Made with Google AI" if it was generated with their models.
by tgv | 2026-01-31 09:11:41+00:00
I'm pretty much on the no-AI side (learning, art, decision making, etc.), but this is the kind of thing I can appreciate. I suppose OP didn't want to learn more about coding this kind of visualization, but rather learn from the visualization. Any tool that can help with that is acceptable, whether it produces code or not. That the tool produced code has the advantage that OP can share this with us. I only hope it doesn't contain fundamental errors, because that would make this project a negative contribution.
by aucisson_masque | 2026-01-31 09:12:10+00:00
Sure, they weren’t annoying and aren’t taking much space.

It’s more about privacy, when you launch a firewall like pcapdroid and notice all the data these apps send in the background… that’s insane.

Plus, I just gave you 3 apps but there are dozens if not hundreds of them on any third party rom. The list is never complete because it keeps changing with each update. Some can’t be disabled or uninstalled because they break the phone.

Once you get in this rabbit hole, it’s maddening and you start to appreciate stock rom like iOS or pixel.
by 9dev | 2026-01-31 09:13:27+00:00
> Their customers clearly don’t care about AI or Siri’s lacklustre performance.

I would rather say their products didn’t just loose in value for not getting an improvement there. Everyone agrees that Siri sucks, but I’m pretty sure they tried to replace it with a natural language version built from the ground up, and realised it just didn’t work out yet: yes, they have a bad, but at least kinda-working voice assistant with lots of integrations into other apps. But replacing that with something that promises to do stuff and then does nothing, takes long to respond, and has less integrations due to the lack of keywords would have been a bad idea if the technology wasn’t there yet.
by defrost | 2026-01-31 09:13:34+00:00
> I would say your guess is as good as mine

Spolier: I did a few decades of exploration geophysics, some time working on the production circuit of the SuperPit, and part of a team that sold a global minerals intelligence database to Standard & Poor 16 or so years ago.

> there might just have been untold megatons within reach as low-hanging fruit

And yet the total amount of known gold in all of history is less than a quarter of a single megaton .. suggesting mega tonnes of gold from from before the Roman Rio Tinto mining days has lasted more than two thousand years stacked up as nuggets in many many many caves and structures without being found.

That's an interesting hypothesis.

> Of course cave men had no formal education

Interestingly nor did my father (born 1935) and he's still walking about

> recognize the advantage of not telling anybody about "untold" amounts of anything when it's regarded as valuable.

Can you expand upon the value of megatons of gold to cavemen ?

> no telling what they were keeping off the books when there weren't any books yet !

Oh, you know, gravitometers, ground penetrating radar, seismic surveys, etc. are all means of exploring for things not yet on any ledger.

> Edit: Not my downvote!

I don't fuss much about those, not on my comments, and I see no reason to downvote yours - just ride it out, they mostly even out over time.
by Mordisquitos | 2026-01-31 09:14:06+00:00
> this points to arguably _the_ deepest question we can ask about LLMs right now—are they conscious?

When I am awake I am fully conscious. While sleeping my consciousness ebbs and flows between different levels of activation. When I am under general anaesthesia I am absolutely not conscious.

If LLMs are conscious, when are they conscious?
by phatskat | 2026-01-31 09:14:39+00:00
The most fun I’ve had with regards to baseball is either getting tanked watching the local team in clllege on cheap beer and a short walk to the stadium, or a team-management game for Wii where the main focus was building your team and playing the whole 200+ game season. There was still a game of sorts for the actual play, but it was by no means the focus in terms of presentation nor mechanics.
by vessenes | 2026-01-31 09:14:39+00:00
Native here: you’re correct it’s a weird sentence and turn of phrase in English.

That said, can/cannot is a flexible word in English and we could take it to mean “Anyone discussing the significance of JUMPSEAT [accurately] [should never] understate it.”

But I think he meant overstate in this case. Or maybe he hated JUMPSEAT, thought it sucked and put that right out there in the press release.
by alecco | 2026-01-31 09:17:11+00:00
Papers by Stonebraker on that:

"What goes around comes around" (2005) https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~mozafari/fall2015/eecs584/papers...

"What Goes Around Comes Around... And Around..." (2024) https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3685980.3685984 (ft Andy Pavlo)

Or video (2025) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Woy5I511L8
by nova_engine_dev | 2026-01-31 09:17:48+00:00
Author here.
NovaEngine v4.0 is optimized specifically for cloud log datasets where redundancy patterns repeat across services and time windows. Instead of generic compression, it uses a lightweight pattern recognition + deduplication pipeline tuned for log entropy.
Current benchmarks show ~40 MB/s single-thread throughput on commodity hardware, with up to ~90% space savings on highly redundant logs (Kubernetes, app logs, infra telemetry).
I’m especially interested in feedback on the architecture choices and ideas for scaling this further (parallelization, streaming ingestion, or edge use cases). Happy to answer any technical questions.
by samiv | 2026-01-31 09:18:23+00:00
As a person who lived in Taiwan and reached C1 in Chinese, I can also say that the tones are indeed less important than one might thing once one can say more and communicate more context. In the beginning when you're very limited in your expressive capacity and only can say simple sentences there's less context and getting the tones wrong does produce confusion.

"Because as soon as you leave Beijing, you’ll find all the tones are shuffled because of every region has their own dialect and accents, which doesn’t stop people from communicate at all. "

Isn't this in fact one of the reasons why China relies heavily on the written language because the different regions lose vocal communication ability as the changes in tones and pronounciations render the language understandable to people from other regions?
Show HN: Altimeter – an extension to track token usage in Antigravity IDE
by pqub | 2026-01-31 09:18:31+00:00
Altimeter is a lightweight open-source extension that shows almost real-time token statistics in the Antigravity IDE sidebar.

Features:

- Input, output, and cache token counts

- API calls and cache efficiency

- Per-model breakdown

It has been tested on Linux (expected to work on Windows/macOS too).

Install from Open VSX: https://open-vsx.org/extension/pqub/altimeter

Source code and README: https://github.com/pqub/altimeter

Happy to hear feedback or suggestions!
by carbonguy | 2026-01-31 09:19:13+00:00
> I, a foreign entity, have sold something to an american and now have 10 dollars and zero treasuries.

Or you sold something to a non-American entity in a dollar-based market, eg. oil. The dollars do come from America to begin with, but once they get "out there" they work as a medium of exchange for whoever wants to use them for that purpose.
by aitchnyu | 2026-01-31 09:21:33+00:00
"build, then rebuild 3 times in less time than it would have taken to build manually" - wish this is explored more. I saw the typical guy one-shot code generation (seen one with undefined variable in happy path) and throw it over the wall. I'm trying to use my 1200 words per minute typing gift for harder tests, readable code, refactors, scripts etc. Starting with my side project though.
by tete | 2026-01-31 09:21:54+00:00
Please make it open source. Please create an API. Please, if you feel like you have to have your own client, build it, but don't ignore the reality of Linux gamers using a whole set of tools and one doesn't need to reinvent the wheel.

Especially for the older games you will get a lot more reach. You'd even reach beyond Linux (BSDs, etc.).

Please don't forget that a big chunk of your audience are nerds and that a lot of games run on engine re-implementations by nerds.

It's great that you make a client, but if you really want to offer something that would make people get games on GOG then do something that Steam does not offer, while probably being easier for you.

If that is too much to ask, please, at least do it in an unofficial capacity.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-01-31 09:22:29+00:00
> Government involvement in business decisions, even if indirect, is not a market economy. In a true market economy supply and demand should determine prices and businesses and consumers make the decisions on their respective side.

This is true but not a novelty. The US has been doing all kinds of things to harm its markets for decades, e.g. artificially constraining the housing supply, using tax incentives and manipulating interest rates to goose consumer spending and in the process drive up consumer debt, and let's not even get into all the ways it molests the healthcare market.

That isn't to say that they're good -- those markets are very messed up -- but things like this are bad, not new.

> Trump raised the fee for H1Bs, blocked student visas from 19 countries, and revoked 100k visas for people who were here as students, business reasons, vacation, and other.

The H1B program has been widely abused for a while now and in general the US is in need of significant immigration reform. Many of the things Trump does are stupid, because of course they are, but the general premise of "hey wasn't this supposed to be for researchers and scientists rather than mechanic-level IT work" seems to have something to it here.

You can't say we're importing the best and brightest while also doing everything possible to make it so that someone who is a doctor in another country with a world-class medical system has to basically start over from scratch in order to be a doctor in the US.

And then people will have much to criticize about what Trump is doing. But okay then, so do something better instead of all the doing nothing that was happening before.

> It's justified to cut waste as government spending is a problem but speed and extent of the cuts makes it questionable if a proper assessment was done.

It clearly wasn't. The problem is we need some kind of structural reform -- a system that doesn't allow wasteful programs to accumulate and increase in number over time -- but that would require a functioning Congress, which has instead been doing everything it can for decades to abdicate their role to the executive branch. Which has term limits and therefore the attention span of a goldfish for those kinds of structural problems, and then we end up back in the situation where either no attempt is made to fix it or the attempt is amateur hour because it's attempting a contextual fix to a structural problem.
by phatskat | 2026-01-31 09:22:33+00:00
I’m definitely going to read those, but even without doing so “inviting the users” as a concept carries a lot of potential. We were tasked to rewrite a very old windows app for backend grocery store sales in a web/Laravel/Vue application, and product spent _months_ if not longer sitting with sales reps, watching them use the old tool, and asking them what they would want to see - how does it work? Can it be more efficient? What do you dread most when using this?

The end result was a real pleasure both to write and to use.
by item007 | 2026-01-31 09:22:35+00:00
I get that, and I think that distinction is healthy.

“Knowledge base” can imply objective truth and completeness, which creates pressure. For a lot of us, what we store is really a snapshot of attention, curiosity, anxiety, and identity at a moment in time — more like a personal log than a database.

One framing that helps me is: the archive isn’t “truth”, it’s “evidence of what I cared about”, and it’s only useful when it reduces friction for a real moment (re-entry, reflection, or a concrete next step). Otherwise it’s just noise.

Do you find it more useful as a mirror (patterns about yourself), or as a tool (helping you make decisions / take action)?
by ben_w | 2026-01-31 09:23:35+00:00
I doubt it's "real time" even now.

That said, my actual experience of processing earth observation satellite images was with scientific data, not spy sats, and in any case it was just over 20 years ago and may be out of date.

What I was working with, any given satellite image capture was a line rather than a rectangle, basically a rolling shutter effect but on a planetary scale and taking ~90 minutes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_broom_scanner
by laserlight | 2026-01-31 09:24:51+00:00
It upsets me to see YouTube Premium apologists despite all the hostile moves by YouTube. YouTube Premium is an extortion scheme. When there are enough paying customers, YouTube Premium will begin showing ads to them. They won't forget sugarcoating ads as being “unobtrusive” or “environment-supporting” or whatever. But guess what? If you don't want to see them, you can upgrade to YouTube Premium Plus and continue being an apologist.
by phatskat | 2026-01-31 09:25:39+00:00
> handles navigation poorly

My current pet peeve: I’m often going back to the previous week on Monday to fill out my time sheet. So, I open the chat for a meeting last week to see how long it took, fill it out, and hit the calendar icon in teams and I’m back on the current week. It’s a painful UX flow that I’ve now built in to my brain, so help me god if they fix it.

Note that teams does include a “back” button, and also note that it doesn’t give a flip about state - it knows you were just at the calendar but doesn’t care where, so you’re back on the current week
by mijoharas | 2026-01-31 09:27:38+00:00
I feel like there is a commonly mentioned idea that "speaking a foreign language is easier after having a drink or two".

I've found that especially true with Mandarin because (I think) a beginner speaker is more likely to speak a little more quickly which allows the listener to essentially ignore the occasional incorrect or slightly mispronounced tone and understand the what theyî're trying to say.

(This is anecdotal, but with n>1. Discussed and observed with other Mandarin language learners)
by redml | 2026-01-31 09:29:22+00:00
i had that happen on firefox mobile months ago and installed video background play fix which all it does is stop sending the js hooks for when tab/window focus is lost. it was something clearly targeted to mobile browsers for people like me who don't bother with official apps anymore as they're riddled with antipatterns and ads. you can just youtube to the homepage like it's an app anyway.
by keepamovin | 2026-01-31 09:29:55+00:00
I'm glad to see this was not unexpectedly fast to load. Would not want to upset those distributed expectations! I wonder if there's a business model in selling speed on a robust network that is on average too slow. Is there anyway to incentivize more nodes through micropayments distributed from people who pay for their site to be served faster?

Ultimately I guess the distributed web is felled by economics thus far.
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-31 09:33:04+00:00
Back during the first "America First", there was a series of satire videos titled "America First ${COUNTRY} Second".

They're somewhat dated now, but still informative if you're curious about the rest of the world.

"Netherlands Second" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-xxis7hDOE was I believe the first second, but not only other european countries but many others globally (as well as a few regions and fictional countries) eventually produced one, easily found on YT.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-31 09:33:17+00:00
> The meaning of words is derived from our experience of reality.

I didn't say "words". I said "concepts"[0].

> Words is how the experiencing self classifies experienced reality into a lossy shared map for the purposes of communication with other similarly experiencing selves, and without that shared experience words are meaningless, no matter what graph you put them in.

Sure, ultimately everything is grounded in some experiences. But I'm not talking about grounding, I'm talking about the mental structures we build on top of those. The kind of higher-level, more abstract thinking (logical or otherwise) we do, is done in terms of those structures, not underlying experiences.

Also: you can see what I mean by "meaning being defined in terms of relationships" if you pick anything, any concept - "a tree", "blue sky", "a chair", "eigenvector", "love", anything - and try to fully define what it means. You'll find the only way you can do it is by relating it to some other concepts, which themselves can only be defined by relating them to other concepts. It's not an infinite regression, eventually you'll reach some kind of empirical experience that can be used as anchor - but still, most of your effort will be spent drawing boundaries in concept space.

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[0] - And WRT. LLMs, tokens are not words either; if that wasn't obvious 2 years ago, it should be today, now that multimodal LLMs are commonplace. The fact that this - tokenizing video and audio and other modalities into the same class of tokens as text, and embedding them in the same latent space - worked spectacularly well - is pretty informative to me. For one, it's a much better framework to discuss the paradox of Sapir-Whorf hypotheses than whatever was mentioned on Wikipedia to date