MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mwigdahl | 2026-01-20 22:51:41+00:00
I'm confused where the assertion about the constitution is coming from. There have been at least 5 years of lower court decisions in Japan stating that lack of same sex marriage is unconstitutional. See the below article noting that the current ban on same sex marriage is due to civil law, not the constitution.

https://apnews.com/article/japan-lgbtq-samesex-marriage-ruli...
by solarkraft | 2026-01-20 22:51:48+00:00
Congratulations! I’m a fan of the publicity work and general out-of-the-box DX! That stuff matters a lot and I’m happy you’re aware.

I wonder: Are there any large general purpose agent harnesses developed using Mastra? From what I can tell OpenCode chose not to use it.

A lot of people on here repeat that rolling your own is more powerful than using Langchain or other frameworks and I wonder how Mastra relates to this sentiment.
by mpyne | 2026-01-20 22:52:19+00:00
ICE engines aren't a problem right up until they are.

I had one car where the timing belt broke unexpectedly and because it was an 'interference' engine, that led to damage to the engine head and a piston rod (and could easily have been bad enough to have been irreparable had the timing been a bit different).

Second car, had a loud noise from the engine that resolved on its own while driving up a hill. That car model later has a recall for the engine catching fire. Did I just get lucky? Who knows.

My first car (a minivan), the rear exhaust plate fastener broke while driving and make a noise that could be heard from a mile away... right as I was driving past a bunch of cops on heightened DUI enforcement night. Now I wasn't drinking but I still didn't appreciate my car not only breaking ostentatiously, but buying me a ticket in the process.

A fourth car, also a minivan, had an issue with its automatic transmission where it would struggle to upshift going from first to second gear sometimes. At least once every couple weeks, sometimes more frequent. It was never resolved by the manufacturer or any mechanic we could take it to before we sold it.

Now I did make sure to mention that ICE has evolved a high degree of reliability for a reason, but the fact is that even when the odds of things going bad is low, when there are a multitude of different independent ways for things to go bad (as there are with an ICE engine and drivetrain), the birthday paradox makes it inevitable that something will eventually be an issue.

And even though I had an issue like that with every ICE car I have ever owned, even those I didn't have to take to the mechanic for an issue outside of routine maintenance twice a year. They were more reliable than that, but that wasn't enough to keep them from falling prey to various issues.
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-20 22:52:39+00:00
> Representatives can draft articles of impeached for the President.

Trump has been impeached twice. Even if you could get enough Republicans in the House on board to do so a third time (the GOP holds a majority in both houses of Congress), the threshold of 2/3 of the Senate to convict and remove is far out of reach; there aren't enough Republicans that aren't die-hard Trump loyalists (there are rumors that an actual armed invasion of Greenland might change that, but those kind of rumors of opposition often turn out to be overblown when situations materialize, with a decisive number Republicans offering some criticism and then finding an excuse to oppose actual action.)

> Senators can start impeaching various Secretaries

No, Senators cannot start impeachment, which regardless of which officers subject to it are targeted must start in the House. And the same problems which face impeachment of the President apply here.

> Where are all these much-vaunted "checks and balances" that I've been hearing about for so long?

They rely on the same malign faction not controlling both political branches as well as dominating the Supreme Court at the same time. Unfortunately...
by pvab3 | 2026-01-20 22:53:08+00:00
inference requires a fraction of the power that training does. According to the Villalobos paper, the median date is 2028. At some point we won't be training bigger and bigger models every month. We will run out of additional material to train on, things will continue commodifying, and then the amount of training happening will significantly decrease unless new avenues open for new types of models. But our current LLMs are much more compute-intensive than any other type of generative or task-specific model
by bolechen | 2026-01-20 22:53:15+00:00
I'm Bole, creator of RuShiWoWen.

* How this started: *

November 10, 2022, 3:17 AM. I was in my warehouse in Wuhan, surrounded by 120,000 pairs of socks, fixing a crashed backend system.

As I debugged, a line from the Diamond Sutra appeared in my mind:

> "All conditioned phenomena are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, shadows"

I realized: debugging code and debugging the mind are the same thing.

My background:

- First-generation PHP programmer in China (early 2000s)
- E-commerce entrepreneur for 10+ years (I run a sock brand)
- Self-taught Next.js at 40+ using Cursor AI
- Buddhism practitioner struggling with classical Chinese texts

* Why I built RuShiWoWen: *

After years of entrepreneurial pressure, I found peace in Buddhist scriptures. But classical Chinese was a massive barrier.

Generic translation tools failed because they don't understand Buddhist terminology. ChatGPT gives answers but can't reference actual scriptures.

So I learned Next.js from scratch and built this.

What makes RuShiWoWen different:

- Buddhist-Context AI
Not Google Translate. Our AI understands that "emptiness" (空) is a philosophical concept, not just "empty."

- Scripture-Based Answers
Ask about meditation or suffering, get answers referencing actual passages from the Diamond Sutra, Heart Sutra, and 40,000+ other texts.

- Designed for Buddhist Texts
Parallel reading, Traditional/Simplified toggle, automatic pinyin, eye-friendly design.

- Multi-language
English and Chinese now, more languages coming based on your feedback.

This is not a commercial product.

It's my offering (供养):
- To my once-lost self navigating entrepreneurial chaos
- To anyone seeking wisdom but intimidated by classical language
- To every developer debugging life at 3 AM

* I'd love your feedback on: *

1. What other features would help you study Buddhist texts?
2. Should we add other spiritual traditions (Taoism, Stoicism, etc.)?
3. What languages should we prioritize next?

If this platform helps even one person feel less lost, mission accomplished.

May we cultivate wisdom together

---

伯乐 (Bole)
Wuhan, China
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-20 22:53:25+00:00
That's because Vagrant isn't "VM", it's a developer tool you use locally that happens to use VMs, and it was created in a era where 1) containers didn't exist as they do today, 2) packaging and distribution for major languages wasn't infected with malware and 3) LLM agents now runs on our computers and they are kind of dumb sometimes and delete stuff.

With new realities, new workflows have to be adopted. Once malware started to appear on npm/pypi, I started running all my stuff in VMs unless it's something really common and presumed vetted. I do my banking on the same computer I do programming, so it's either that or get another computer.
by throw0101c | 2026-01-20 22:54:03+00:00
The troops that are being readied are actually the 11th Airborne Division:

* https://time.com/7347191/minnesota-army-troops-standby/

whose deputy commander is a Canadian, as a part of an exchange program:

* https://11thairbornedivision.army.mil/dcgo/

so I'm not sure how sending him to Greenland is going to work.
by HNisCIS | 2026-01-20 22:55:01+00:00
LLMs don't use much energy at all to run, they use it all at the beginning for training, which is happening constantly right now.

TLDR this is, intentionally or not, an industry puff piece that completely misunderstands the problem.

Also, even if everyone is effectively running a a dishwasher cycle every day, this is still a problem that we can't just ignore, that's still a massive increase in ecological impact.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-20 22:55:19+00:00
Crazy how me and my brother had the same idea 7-8 months ago when claude was hosting their own challenge and we were gonna use Apify or build on top of apify itself something eerily similar to this

Though we wanted to include reddit & twitter as well. Reddit's got a recent database and being able to query it with hourly updates iirc so you can probably query this as well or use that as well

Not sure about twitter but twitter does seem to be the most valauable insight in AI/ML right now (considering that I see tweets of qwen guys or similar AI teams on r/locallama whose link might be even on hackernews haha!)

Personally I don't use twitter and follow HN/reddit as such for that sometimes especially reddit's r/localllama

Also my brother wanted to expand this to something general ie people can search for anything on reddit/twitter or get updates if people reference something iirc about anything not just particularly AI/ML

Anyways coding challenges are great and so good luck!
by kilington | 2026-01-20 22:55:34+00:00
It's a modern stage, it doesn't really matter who is physically there.

The EU aligned countries would be crazy to let the US set these rules for some temporary maintenance of income. They've all tended to social Democrats and socialist governments and have a better lifestyle than the US at half or 1/4 the GDP. That goes away if they let the US set pure power based rules, then 1/2 the GDP really is being half an American and if being a whole American was so great no one would have voted for Trump.
by WorldMaker | 2026-01-20 22:55:57+00:00
More reliable than the average ICE, statistically, I will grant you. Though I think that has more to do with Toyota dominating US auto manufacturing reliability statistics in general, more than particulars of hybrids over ICE. The comparison, however, was to a full ("uncompromised") BEV. A full BEV has much fewer moving parts than ICE or Hybrid. (Especially because good electric motors don't even constitute "moving parts" when compared to an internal combustion engine, thanks to magnets.)
by gatefolded | 2026-01-20 22:56:11+00:00
Liz Pelly's book covers this in depth. It's mostly in Spotify's mood and activity playlists ('Chill Vibes', 'Deep Focus', 'Peaceful Piano'). Spotify realized they could save on royalties by paying producers a flat fee to bang out dozens of tracks under fake artist names. "Ghost artists" with no online presence, no merch, no tours, just millions of streams. Pelly calls it 'leanback listening' - music designed to fill silence rather than be actively chosen. If you mainly listen to specific artists you seek out, you'd never encounter it.
by gigatexal | 2026-01-20 22:56:33+00:00
Basic facts taught in economics 101 validated. News at 11.

And yet everyone who voted for the pumpkin idiot don’t believe it. They think 2 plus 2 is 30T enough to pay off the debt. Idiots. The lot of them and anyone here who voted for this. I said it. And I’ll say it again. The man is enacting project 2025 and ruining the country and some of you are laughing giddily while it burns.
by bolechen | 2026-01-20 22:56:45+00:00
A Personal Note:

Today marks 277 days since launching the Chinese version.
2000 commits. Countless late nights. Many cups of 热干面.

I'm nervous, but also excited.

This platform has helped Chinese users find peace for 276 days.

Today, I hope it can bring the same peace to you.

Thank you for being here.
Show HN: A curated list of academic papers and resources on Physical AI
by kwk236 | 2026-01-20 22:57:03+00:00
I've been compiling papers on Physical AI — the intersection of foundation models and robotics. This covers Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models like RT-2 and π₀, world models (DreamerV3, Genie 2, JEPA), diffusion policies, real-world deployment and latency problems, cross-embodiment transfer, scaling laws, and safety/alignment for robots.

The field has exploded in the past 18 months. We went from "lets try llms on robotics" to having so many dimensions to optimize for. so felt right to maintain a running list of resources.

Organized by: foundations → architectures → action representations → world models → learning paradigms → deployment → applications.

Contributions welcome — especially corrections and missing papers.
by rconti | 2026-01-20 22:57:20+00:00
I think my warning would be that prioritizing tasks you know you can do and do well may be satisfying, but may limit growth. I identify with the author's POV quite a bit, but sometimes I find that when I take a step back and put in less effort on the day-to-day tasks, the feedback on my performance goes _up_.

Perhaps it's because completing those tasks elicits a dependency on you, and stepping back from them allows others to step up and fill that gap. In the meantime, you might not _think_ you're doing more impactful work, but perhaps the mental cycles stepping back from those tasks frees you up to think about more important / higher value work.
by protocolture | 2026-01-20 22:57:28+00:00
My biggest software issue with my GWM relates to how they gamed the DPF, which is a local requirement. They built in the required automaticaly regenerating DPF, but also set the temperature/rev requirement so that it never automatically regenerates (even if it indicates it is doing so). So I have to manually regenerate every other month.

Otherwise the software is pretty good, with the occasional midflight reboot.Its definitely no worse than the honda I ran previously.
by troad | 2026-01-20 22:57:56+00:00
I think vim's greatest problem is discoverability. It's a big enough problem that after six or so months working full time in neovim I went back to a GUI editor. I just about barely remember the most common commands, but I do not remember anything I only need occasionally. I also know myself well enough to know I will never remember this sort of thing well. I have a terrible memory for procedural / administrative / ritualistic knowledge.

I'm on Sublime right now. I like it less than vim, but it's far less cryptic. If I need to tile four documents and move text around, I can do so trivially by dragging, without needing a PhD in vim esoterica that I would immediately forget the next day.

If VS Code stopped with the Copilot onslaught, I'd just use that, honestly.
by jasonwatkinspdx | 2026-01-20 22:57:56+00:00
I think you're missing the criticism, which is not just that an armed civil war is extremely unlikely even given everything happening in the US, if it did happen, it would not splinter the US regionally.

The divide here is urban vs rural. There's no way to turn that into a set of successor regions.

If armed conflict does happen, it'll be much more amorphous, terrifying, and random, concentrated in the cities, and resemble things like the Tulsa massacre at a larger scale.
by simonw | 2026-01-20 22:58:37+00:00
This is a neat brute-force search system - it uses goroutines, one for each of the 1,200 books in the corpus, and has each one do a regex search against the in-memory text for that book.

Here's a neat trick I picked up from the source code:

indices := fdr.rgx.FindAllStringSubmatchIndex(text, -1)

for _, pair := range indices {
start := pair[0]
end := pair[1]
leftStart := max(0, start-CONTEXT_LENGTH)
rightEnd := min(end+CONTEXT_LENGTH, len(text))

// TODO: this doesn't work with Unicode
if start > 0 && isLetter(text[start-1]) {
continue
}

if end < len(text) && isLetter(text[end]) {
continue
}

An earlier comment explains this:

// The '\b' word boundary regex pattern is very slow. So we don't use it here and
// instead filter for word boundaries inside `findConcordance`.
// TODO: case-insensitive matching - (?i) flag (but it's slow)
pattern := regexp.QuoteMeta(keyword)

So instead of `\bWORD\b` it does the simplest possible match and then checks to see if the character one index before the match and or one index after the matches are also letters. If they are it skips the match.
by linolevan | 2026-01-20 23:00:11+00:00
I'm not convinced that LLM training is at such a high energy use that it really matters in the big picture. You can train a (terrible) LLM on a laptop[1], and frankly that's less energy efficient than just training it on a rented cloud GPU.

Most of the innovation happening today is in post-training rather than pre-training, which is good for people concerned with energy use because post-training is relatively cheap (I was able to post-train a ~2b model in less than 6 hours on a rented cluster[2]).

[1]: https://github.com/lino-levan/wubus-1
[2]: https://huggingface.co/lino-levan/qwen3-1.7b-smoltalk
by janekfollendorf | 2026-01-20 23:00:27+00:00
I built JackSEO after realizing that reacting to news is basically a cheat code for traffic.

Whenever I replied fast to fresh news with SM Post and SEO/GEO optimized content, reach and traffic jumped immediately.

So I built a tool to automate that.

JackSEO tracks real-time news, figures out what matters for your company, and turns it into ready SM posts and articles optimized for search engines and AI answers.

No prompts. No planning. Just publish while the window is open.

Happy to answer questions or get feedback.
by longbread | 2026-01-20 23:00:49+00:00
Like many people here, I’ve been uncomfortable for a long time with how much personal data is collected, sold, breached, and reused. Spam, robocalls, targeted ads, and data brokers I’ve never interacted with have become background noise most people just accept.

At some point I started digging into the newer state privacy laws (Texas, California, others) and realized that consumers technically have legal rights to opt out of data sales, request deletion, and limit certain uses of their data. I tried to actually exercise those rights myself.

What I ran into was a mess:

• Every company has a different process
• Instructions are scattered across blogs, forums, PDFs, and privacy policies
• Many companies bury where requests are supposed to be sent
• Doing this at any real scale is tedious and easy to abandon
• Opting out of a handful of companies doesn’t meaningfully change much

I tried managing it manually and eventually gave up.

So I kept pulling the thread and ended up building a small, free tool that aggregates what I personally found useful while trying to deal with this:

• A database of common data brokers and companies
• Where privacy requests actually need to be sent
• Step-by-step opt-out instructions tied to applicable laws
• An option to either follow the instructions yourself or have requests sent on your behalf

There’s also a simple breach check, mainly as a way for people to see how exposed they already are before deciding whether to do anything at all.

I’m sharing this here mostly because people in this community already understand the problem better than most. I’m still unsure whether aggregating this information meaningfully reduces friction in practice, or whether efforts like this are inherently too manual to make a real difference.

Curious how others here handle opt-outs at scale, and whether centralizing this information actually helps, or just creates the illusion of progress.
by mmillin | 2026-01-20 23:00:51+00:00
This is a topic I’ve been wanting a book on for a long time. We’ve done so much work to eliminate the need for maintenance for the masses through things like planned obsolescence, renting instead of owning, and appeasing the hedonic treadmill. I can’t help but feel through this we’ve lost a lot of collective skills in patience and ownership as a result.

I’m looking forward to reading this.
by lp0_on_fire | 2026-01-20 23:02:23+00:00
They’ll just move on to the next company that will hire them with a golden parachute.

There’s minimal risk to the decision makers. Meanwhile, every one of us peons is significantly more at risk of losing our jobs whether we could be effectively replaced with these AI tools or not because our own C-level execs decided to drink the snake oil that is the current bubble.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-01-20 23:02:24+00:00
While I’m not part of that community myself, I’ve lived in Japan and have known LGBTQ people who are. In the big metros at least, as long as you’re putting forth even a little effort to follow etiquette and you’re not causing problems for others or making a nuisance of yourself, nobody pays you any mind regardless of orientation. Everybody is too busy with their own lives to go poking their noses into the lives of others without due cause.

This is somewhat true of major US metros, but the effect is particularly strong in Tokyo, etc. It’s one of the things I love about living there… being just a number is liberating, even as someone quite boring and mild-mannered.
by straydusk | 2026-01-20 23:02:27+00:00
What is this? How does it work? How are skills ranked? Seems a little bit fishy to me that you can only tell it's from Vercel if you click the top left corner, and the top two skills come from vercel... despite there definitely being much more used skills in the overall AI coding ecosystem.

The UI looks nice, otherwise. I had thought about building something like this - maybe this just increases my confidence that this is needed, just not affiliated with a company.
by eterm | 2026-01-20 23:02:33+00:00
This makes me think LLMs would be interesting to set up in a game of Diplomacy, which is an entirely text-based game which soft rather than hard requires a degree of backstabbing to win.

The findings in this game that the "thinking" model never did thinking seems odd, does the model not always show it's thinking steps? It seems bizarre that it wouldn't once reach for that tool when it must be being bombarded with seemingly contradictory information from other players.
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-20 23:02:48+00:00
If Trump decides to go pull the plug on invading Greenland an uses the 11th Airborne, McBride would, I would assume, at a minimum, be relieved of his duties with the 11th Airborne and sent back to Canada, with either a subordinate ops staff officer or the Deputy Commanding General (Support) or some combination filling in for the duties of the Deputy Commanding General (Operations).

Depending on the details of timing of the operation and the US-Canada diplomatic situation as a result, what happens after he is relieved might not be as simple as a return to Canada, he might conceivably even end up as a POW.
by randoments | 2026-01-20 23:02:51+00:00
I agree with that. I can get away with it now because I dont have any staff yet and also i dont have the budget to hire any.

I get to “indulge” in the tech now because the developers that was hired to develop the MVP has been doing a terrible job.

I know once the product is in a better place i will need to shift my attention elsewhere and not go back to what feels “comfortable”.
by undeveloper | 2026-01-20 23:02:55+00:00
> (I read a tweet some years ago that Gen. Sherman should have mowed the South like a lawn, with multiple passes.)

Nothing validates this view more than looking at the modern republican party. This is especially blasphemous to say after MLK day, who's life was dedicated to attempting the fix the injustices of the south, and who's death is entirely and inarguably a result of the white supremacist views and actions that were perpetuated, emboldened, and exported by the reconstructionist south (not that the north was innocent, far from it, but the majority of the burden inarguably on the south). At minimum the traitors should have been hanged in public view. The desire to be conciliatory has never been less vindicated -- it's not like the south all the sudden decided to adhere to constitution, they had to be forced to anyhow. It's a nice sentiment, but it should have been left at that.