MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toolazytologin | 2026-01-16 10:06:43+00:00
The site hosting the ads seems like a red herring? Do you mean they could sell or design their own ads? If so, that seems like a difficult proposition.

If we accept that most people won’t pay a subscription, and take ads off the table as an option, then I can only think of 2 other options:

* charitable patrons (this is a thing, but I guess not effective enough?)
* selling other products to subsidize the free content

These both appear to have obvious problems and for a dubious goal of making another party subsidize the visitor’s consumption cost.

Having the visitor cover their own cost seems reasonable. What currency do they have other than money or attention? Maybe a small work problem that provides an abstracted service to a separate payer (a la reCAPTCHA, but for $).
by stavros | 2026-01-16 10:06:54+00:00
This is my experience as well. I work with AI agents a lot, they are very useful. What's not useful is some passer-by telling the AI "implement <my favorite feature>" and then sending that as a PR. I could have written a sentence to the LLM too if I wanted to, you aren't really giving me or the project any value by doing that.

Now that writing the code is the easy part, we're just going to transition to having very few contributors, who are needed for their architectural skills, product vision, reasoned thinking, etc, rather than pure code-writing.
by Scottn1 | 2026-01-16 10:07:56+00:00
>The Speakman S-2251 showerhead, with the flow regulator pried out. Was 100 when >bought, 3x that now.

Holy molly! You aren't kidding. I literally have one laying around in my bathroom cabinet that I bought during Covid for, I wanna say, $60? I used it for about a month or two before I decided I liked my previous shower head better (Kohler Forté).

Also, I'm curious why it is so common recommendation across the internet to take out the flow regulators. Even see it mentioned in Amazon reviews. It is bypassing regulations and selfish. It defeats the purpose of everyone doing their part to cut down their water usage, especially in areas that really need it (Arizona, Nevada and California). I still have mine in at 1.75gpm and it rinses me fine. No one needs the Kramer "Commando 450" force.
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-16 10:08:24+00:00
reaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWNk-4jJb7I ?

Cold cold ground was tragedy[0], but these lyrics are farce.

reaction[1]? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__HPfmvaWRw

literally wrapping himself in the flag[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyFnLqJx-uU

(but that last vid doesn't have so many views; maybe it was even too MAGA for MAGA?)

then again, in light of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46644795 maybe it'd be more effective to address the concerns of the centre right and centre left, than to bother with trolling the far right?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzi-FcFEao8

[1] they've got their Everdeen character, but real archers use thumb draws, and shoot out of gallop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzTaYvMmNYU

[2] maybe the US just needs a better men's World Cup squad, so they can get all the flag-waving out of their systems via sport instead of politics?
by ramraj07 | 2026-01-16 10:08:29+00:00
Do you have actual experience with bugbot? Its live in our org and is actually pretty good, almost none of its comments are frivolous or wrong, and it finds genuine bugs most reviewers miss. This is unlike Graphite and Copilot, so no one's glazing AI for AIs sake.

Bugbot is now a valuable part of our SD process. If you have genuine examples to show that we are just being delusional or haven’t hit a roadblock, I would love to know.
by brailsafe | 2026-01-16 10:11:04+00:00
I sometimes wonder about this, I have a friend who does most of the organizing for parties or whatever. My sense is that there are a few different kinds of people, among those are people who, if they didn't organize parties, there wouldn't really be much of a platform for hanging out for them and others like them, while others are completely isolated, don't organize and don't have any other third space, and others yet have many smaller interactions from many other parts of life that don't necessitate a larger meetup necessarily. If you're an "organizer" type, my guess is that the people you'd hope reciprocate fall into the latter camp; they're happy to show up and have a good time, but they probably have a bunch of other things to explore that for some reason they haven't felt you'd be into... or a bunch of other possible reasons. Asking them to host a party is asking them to fabricate a social setting from thin air, but maybe they just organically don't find that to be something they need to do.

For me, I'll host something for a small group if I get some inspiration, but on a week to week basis I'm often in extremely social third-spaces, supplemented by larger parties (probably bi-weekly). My effort is often best spent meeting people for deliberate, intimate, outdoor sports adventures or coffee hangouts, but the same person I know who tends to organize larger parties doesn't really feel like someone who'd be into these; they can't really hold a conversation 1 on 1 for very long, and they're not super curious or vulnerable or athletic in the way that's necessary to engage in those as much. He's a regimented, scheduled, impatient, person. They often need a sort of fabricated social vehicle (also likes to decorate and host), whereas I get nearly all of my socializing from incidentally being in social space.

I think it's fine to be either of course. It's ok that my organizer friend doesn't like heights, and so I won't invite him to climb mountains, he likes hosting parties, so I try to attend as many as I can.

Note that I don't mean the non-organizer (me) is just passively socializing, it's just that they have different catalysts built into the things they do that extend into socializing easily. I'm DMing 1 or 2 friends, multiple times a week, to do something we both enjoy or just chat while walking around the city. While parties and hosted things are neat, they're just not very good platforms for depth.

Just as well, I do try and be inviting to everyone who'd like to come out and do other things, in general it's important to reciprocate, but I'm not hosting a party just because someone else did.
by dust42 | 2026-01-16 10:11:51+00:00
Yes, apart from voice cloning nothing really new. Kokoro is out since a long time and it supports at least a few languages other than english. Also there is supertonic TTS and there is Soprano TTS. The latter is developed by a single guy while Kyutai is funded with 150M€.

https://github.com/supertone-inc/supertonic
https://github.com/ekwek1/soprano

No affiliation with either.
by BoingBoomTschak | 2026-01-16 10:12:53+00:00
BuzzFeed, Salon and PinkNews being used as reliable sources should be everything you need to know about WP.

Or read some of the more critical viewpoints against the Wikipedia editor bureaucracy (that shields itself with a laughable "Anybody can edit Wikipedia! We don't exist! Don't look at the man behind the curtain") like https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/reliable-sources-how-wik...

Small aside, it's a fun coincidence I (finally!) saw Brazil for the first time a week ago...
by PurpleRamen | 2026-01-16 10:12:58+00:00
2020 was a single accidental case as the result of a poor system. Many people even from within the system on all levels agreed something went wrong and apologized. Today's situation is different, as the whole system is weaponized on purpose from one specific layer/group against the other layers/groups of the system. It's an internal conflict within the system itself, and a prime-example for justifying a civil war. And at the time Trump was still on the leash of his own adminstration.
by ramon156 | 2026-01-16 10:13:08+00:00
> I was tired of console.log in production and existing logging solutions requiring too much setup.

Not only that, libs like pino don't even support spanning, something that's pretty important for how I use logging. Winston has been my favorite so far.

Anyway, this is just a SaaS that claims they offer a "drop-in" library, which it does not. The repo is also Claude-generated, so I'm out.

Website is also very broken, and the docs require a log-in.
by pseudohadamard | 2026-01-16 10:13:15+00:00
I'm drawing a blank on it sorry, it's somewhere in an archive of messages but I can't find the appropriate search term to locate it. However it did turn up a reference to something else, namely this, https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/x509guide.txt. It hasn't been updated for a long time but it does document some of the crazy that's in those standards. The various Lovecraft references I think are quite appropriate.
by lproven | 2026-01-16 10:13:40+00:00
> I'm inclined to think Christianity on paper is "the best" of the Abrahamic religions

Abrahamic? Maybe. I have studied comparative religion somewhat -- more than the vast majority of religious people -- and the least unpleasant "religion" by far is old-school Buddhism.

The original has been widely corrupted and turned into a forest of competing rival faiths, most of which have become religions, but the original seems to me to have been designed by someone very smart, who studied, subjected themselves to various allegedly spiritually-improving practices... and then wrote down a sort of vaccination to inculcate into people carefully designed to protect them from religion.

Religions are contagious memetic infections. Virtually nobody that calls themselves Christian actually follows what little is known of the teachings of Yeshweh. In practice, "being Christian" is not so much a recommendation as a warning.

In my 58 years, I have so far met one (1) person who was a true Yeshweh follower.

Original Buddhism was an inoculation to protect lesser minds from memetic infection.

But it itself has been corrupted by viral influences, to paraphrase Neal Stephenson, and turned into what it sought to protect people from.

Any sect of Christianity that has a name should be avoided. Ditto Islam, Judaism, all the big ones.

For a good overview of world religions, I recommend this excellent book:

https://thebookshop.ie/moncrieff-sean-god-a-users-guide-larg...

Very accessible, funny, and gives you a great "big picture" view.
by quitit | 2026-01-16 10:15:04+00:00
There may be an arrogance that we're not vulnerable to these tactics because the topics of conversation are science and tech focused, rather than celebrity culture.

However this post and the comments really debunk that - here we have a clear example of the author turning these people into characters, archetypes of reality tv, and inviting the reader to have an emotional response to what is potentially interesting, but actually just the mundane business matter of dealing with demand spikes.

A normal conversation might take a step back, above the emotional baiting, and instead lament on how TSMC weren't able to develop sufficient supply capacity in time to maximise yield across not just these clients, but many others whom are looking to get involved in the AI hype train. Instead we're seeing something quite different, and quite uninformed. It's reading like a gossip post from an instagram thread.

I notice that HN is actually more vulnerable to these types of conversations. Maybe it's because HN likely weights towards an ASD audience, which has less experience in handling socially driven narratives. I do definitely see here more of the "one-sided" conversation that is typical of ASD.
by lucasRW | 2026-01-16 10:15:08+00:00
Europe has roughly divided by 5 its imports of Russian gas.

As to the Nord Stream, German prosecution services have arrested a Ukrainian national, Serhii Kuznetsov, in their ongoing investigations. The NY Times, the Spiegel, and Washington Post (all very well-known KGB mouth pieces), strongly point to Ukraine as well.

So my question is, are you really in a good position to lecture everyone about "fake news" on those topics ? I guess you were also telling us all that Trump was a KGB agent, before that got debunked in court ?
by scotty79 | 2026-01-16 10:15:15+00:00
> Countless voiceless people sit alone every day and have no one to talk to, people of all ages, who don't feel that they can join any local groups. So they sit on social media all day when they're not at work or school. How can we solve this?

Solve what? This is the world I have always dreamed of, before even computers became a thing in my life and community. I initially approximated it with books.
by mj2718 | 2026-01-16 10:15:58+00:00
I hit a limit in a CMS that then wanted to charge $300 a month. So I got on the beers and vibed my own CMS with cursor in one afternoon.

Agents are now coding better than most of us, but you still need to know wtf you're doing.

The prompt history is under .specstory/

Use at your own risk. I'm using it for my dads business now and saving the headache of wordpress and the cost of an "enterprise" CMS.
by nathan_f77 | 2026-01-16 10:16:26+00:00
I've had a great time at board game meetups. I highly recommend finding a group of people who play modern board games once a week. There should be at least one in most towns or cities. It can take a while to find the right group, but once you do, you can make some lifelong friends just by turning up every week. I've had some great experiences and a few not as great ones around the world and at various times. My favorites ones always involve food and alcohol in a nice bar or pub, usually starting with some casual or social deduction games. I now have a pretty huge collection of board games. I just moved to a new town though and it's pretty small so I need to be a bit more proactive. Haven't played a lot recently.

Confession... I don't actually like board games all that much, and I don't really care if I win. Some of the games are really cool but I just love hanging out and having fun with a group of people.
by bflesch | 2026-01-16 10:16:34+00:00
I feel the narrative on these kind of issues should be updated. We've been using their framing of "algorithms" but it is taking away all responsibility from the US tech workers who are actually designing and running Google.

The guy lost 20 years of life history due to US tech workers at Google wrongfully blocking his account and then ignoring his pleads for reactivation.

When US tech workers can show up to take cash and bonus payments from Google, they can also show up to take responsibility for Google's impact.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-16 10:17:41+00:00
The forces on that mount are pretty extreme. Once the bearing seized it was really a matter of time before something gave and given the strength of the casing as well as the strength of the material and mount points it was a toss-up between the bolts and the casing. The previous evidence showed a clear order to the bolts breaking suggesting one bolt was heavier loaded than the remaining ones. The new evidence points to a much more extreme failure.

As for your 'limit to rotational torque': seized bearings do not 'rotate if given enough torque' they will break right out of their casings and whatever those casings are surrounded by. The reason is that unlike your cartilage the bearings are orders of magnitude harder than the materials around them. For a bearing to seize indicates that the material has already deformed, you either catch it before the race goes or it will crack and after that all bets are quite literally off. I'm not aware of any design that would spec a bearing in a situation with such forces that would still happily work with that bearing replaced by a bushing welded to the shaft and the surrounding material even if it is statically in exactly the same position.

What you describe is a worn bearing with an excess of play, not a seized one, which tends to exhibit roughly the same characteristics as a welded joint with dissimilar materials.

Bearings are wear items, bearings that are worn or seized are something that should never ever happen in an aircraft, there is no way that this particular design would continue to function with sufficient margin if that bearing would fail. If not caught before it breaks the next flight is going to be a disaster. Take off in a fully loaded aircraft of this size puts extreme stress on the engine mounts. They are designed with all of their parts in working order, this is not a case of 'oh, we'll fix that the next time this craft is in for maintenance'. All parts of a plane that is certified as airworthy are supposed to be operating as originally specified.

The default assumption is that it all looked good during the last inspection and that the time between the failure occurring and the plane going down was short. If it was not that would be highly unexpected. But again, until the final report is in that's speculative, and if anything the people at the NTSB are scary good at getting to root causes.
by robinsonb5 | 2026-01-16 10:17:46+00:00
I'm sorry you're being downvoted - for the record I've upvoted since it's interesting, even if we disagree in some aspects.

Since I still have the machine in question here, and I'm now interested enough to try and get some rough measurements, I've just videoed it with my phone (30fps video) and done some frame counting, both from a cold boot with nothing cached, and also a repeated launch.

Firstly from a cold boot:

It's hard to tell exactly when the keypress registers, but I believe what I'm seeing is the key being pressed, two frames later the hourglass appears, two frames after that the calculator appears. (The TFT screen will likely be adding at least one frame lag, but let's ignore that for now.) So that's somewhere between 166 and 200ms for a cold launch.

If I close the app and repeat, there's now just one frame between keypress and hourglass, and just one more frame between hourglass and the app appearing, so now nearer 100ms.

Looking at the videos my finger is off the key the first time the app appears, but not the second time - though if I made a special effort to release the key as quickly as possible I now think I could probably just about beat it.
by lII1lIlI11ll | 2026-01-16 10:17:56+00:00
> that it takes following the... (charitably) uncommon view that Fëanor was a "good guy" in spite of being a psychopathic thieving mass murderer to excuse the actions of Palantir (the company) should be an indicator that they're Bad, Actually.

While I agree with your assessment of Fëanor I don't think anything in Tolkien's texts indicate that there were nefarious intents for palantiri creation.
by defrost | 2026-01-16 10:18:13+00:00
I'm sure the ICE agents swapping head-shot porn on their phones find that hilarious.

In history mothers against authoritarian rule, against the draft, raising awareness, etc. have been suprisingly effective at slowing violence, attracting press coverage, kick starting civil rights, etc.

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

* https://libcom.org/article/1965-72-sos-australian-mothers-re...

* https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2025/0813/israel...

Not every soldier, not every weekend warrior LEO LARPing, is comfortable shooting women in the face.
by sam_goody | 2026-01-16 10:18:37+00:00
I have never driven a Tesla, so this is all anecdotal.

Some of my (extended) neighbors are members of a family that live near each other. One sister bought a Tesla. The brother who lived down the block laughed at her because politics. Despite that, within a year he had bought one as well. Their parents test drove it a few times and were critical about how it drove weird. But now, after about 9 months, their father mentioned in passing that he ordered one. Another brother mentioned that he would sell his Maxus for a Tesla if he could afford to.

Until recently, one had a Chevy, one a Hyundai, one a Maxus and one an ancient Subaru.

I have never seen such buy-in with any other brand, and that is despite the toxicity of the Tesla CEO. I wouldn't be so quick to write them off.
by virtue3 | 2026-01-16 10:18:41+00:00
It helps to not look at this as zero sum.

A lot of people are more comfortable with a shared experience objective. This provides a means to do something and a reason behind meeting.

If you are always in the mindset that you are giving and everyone else is taking that can really impact how you perceive everyone. And 9/10 most people over estimate how much they give and under-estimate how much they take.

There is also something powerful with "I _get_ to take my new friend to a place I find cool" rather than "My new friend is using me to go to my cool place". Changing the way you internally frame things drastically helps.

I know it sounds absolutely stupid hogwash but it helps.

https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/gratitude-bed-every-morning...

I hope this helps!
by freehorse | 2026-01-16 10:18:44+00:00
Apart from the external person turning out having experience with zig and macos (but not on developing terminals and rendering stuff), this is a good imo example of what ai can be used well for: writing one-off code/tools for which it is enough that it is just working (even if not perfectly), but one does not really care about maintaining, because it is meant to be used only on a specific occasion/context. In this case, the external person was smart enough to use AI to identify the problems and not to produce "fixes" to send as a PR.

Imo, an issue is that the majority of people who submit AI slop as PRs have different motivations than this person (developing a PR portfolio whatever that may mean), or are much less competent and eager to do actual work themselves (which AI use can worsen).
by fedeb95 | 2026-01-16 10:20:14+00:00
there isn't a loneliness epidemic. There is a diffuse inability to stay truly alone. Acquiring that ability would also teach how to not stay alone when needed.

Otherwise, people wouldn't resort to social media. Going to party aimlessly and hanging out isn't necessarily better. It depends on who you hang out with and what you do.

This is just my opinion, of course.
by DrewADesign | 2026-01-16 10:20:44+00:00
Yeah, same. If you’re competing on price, you have to have a competitive price. Unless you can come up with some solid real-numbers benefit to the environment or some other really compelling marketing angle, nobody cares if it’s theoretically the lower-cost way of doing things if that doesn’t translate into either a lower bill, or more service for a comparable bill.

The service seems neat, but the pricing seems more to be a novelty than a real service. Maybe I’m missing something.
by rhdunn | 2026-01-16 10:21:13+00:00
Using neural nets (machine learning) to train TTS voices has been around a long time.

[1] (2016 https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.03499) WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio

[2] (2017 https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.10433) Parallel WaveNet: Fast High-Fidelity Speech Synthesis

[3] (2021 https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.07889) UnivNet: A Neural Vocoder with Multi-Resolution Spectrogram Discriminators for High-Fidelity Waveform Generation

[4] (2022 https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.14941) Neural Vocoder is All You Need for Speech Super-resolution