MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by seanhunter | 2026-01-04 08:25:35+00:00
I am in (perhaps) a tiny minority in that I love American literature but just don’t get what the fuss is about The Great Gatsby. I just don’t think it’s that good a novel. Off the top of my head I could come up with a list of at least 10 American novels that I have read that I think are significantly superior.

In no order here goes

1. Blood meridian

2. The Bell Jar

3. Of Mice and Men

4. Mason and Dixon (everyone’s gonna say “Gravity’s Rainbow” but I think since this is an explicitly American list, the themes of Mason and Dixon of the North/South divide etc put it more squarely on this list)

5. To Kill a Mockingbird

6. Moby Dick (I’m not the biggest fan of this actually but it’s way better than Gatsby for me)

7. Walden (Does this count? Anyway whatever. Walden)

8. Portrait of a Lady

9. Infinite Jest

10. Go tell it on the mountain

Honestly this is right off the top of my head and looking back I haven’t even got any Hemingway on here, or Ralph Ellison, or Toni Morrison. I could make a case for Slaughterhouse 5 or Catch-22 or The Naked and the Dead or a bunch of other things. Like even though I think he’s a total tool, Bonfire of the Vanities probably has a good case for being on the list

I just genuinely don’t get the fuss about Gatsby. I’m glad people like it, but there seem far, far better American novels.

Edit to add: And yes I did read it. Twice in fact, once in my late teens after I had read a lot of serious literature and thought it was ok but not great and then again in my late 30s because I was sure I must have missed something and was very disappointed to come to the conclusion that I really hadn’t.

I have two theories for why maybe people like it so much. Firstly, because the author is such a stylist and they get strung along by some of the prose. But when you read a truly jawdropping stylist like for example in my book Joyce or Virginia Woolf or Cormac Macarthy, F. Scott Fitzgerald really doesn’t stand well in that company.

Second theory (perhaps cynical) is that it’s the first novel in the US school syllabus that gets really serious literary criticism applied to it and so for a lot of people it is the book that awakens them to the power of literature. I could totally see that if you had a really great teacher introducing you to proper literature by means of the book you might love the experience and, because of that, the book.
by mihailyonchev | 2026-01-04 08:25:54+00:00
Hi, great question. There are many reasons why this fits better as an app, and is definitely something that I will consider. The initial scope is to be as accessible as possible, and that is - no installations required or whatsoever, just open a link and run it. I'm building this in public so once I upload the content around it in my channels, yt and li, I will strongly evaluate this option. Would you like me to keep you in the loop?
by luoc | 2026-01-04 08:26:42+00:00
Last time I worked with Odoo (v15/v16, enterprise, self hosted) we had to send a dump of the production database over to you to be migrated to the new version and then it was sent back. The upgrade path for third-party and custom addons was not defined.
And since it is Odoo, everything is in that database: from employee's time tracking to customer support chats, from stock info to accounting data, from e-mail addresses to password hashes. I found this inacceptable but at that point we had no choice.

What's the state here?
by phplovesong | 2026-01-04 08:27:06+00:00
The webs downfall started with AI. Soon everything will be AI generated, from text posts, code that is shared with "look what i made, its cOoL", videos, podcasts etc. The himan touch will be gone, and new models are then trained on AI generated content, making the feedback loop worse and worse.

It is time for a new web. A new standard, a new everything. A new start without the AI bloat. Either something like this will emerge, or we will loose the web we have.
by noname123 | 2026-01-04 08:27:26+00:00
Banality of evil. Promotion-driven/mortgage driven development. NIBMY. But don't mind me, I'm guilty of this more than most people but IMHO I think at least it's important to acknowledge the culpability of the affluent 10% people vs. the 1%. IMHO, we are worse than the 1% for enabling this society.
by tomaskafka | 2026-01-04 08:27:28+00:00
Thanks for reply! It’s great to hear it’s configurable.

I didn’t realize how many use cases are there - you guessed right that for my use the whole world, but only up to city level, is quite enough.

In my todo list I have adding landmarks, so that I could eg. show a nearby mountain when outdoors and far away from city, but then deciding which POI types to include gets much trickier.
Csoai Limited: The FAA for AI – Launching Today
by CSOAI_outreach | 2026-01-04 08:27:59+00:00
We are proud to announce the official launch of CSOAI Limited, the world's first unified standard body for AI safety and governance.

What We're Doing:

1. Global AI Safety Watchdog Platform - A public, transparent system where anyone can report AI safety concerns, ethical violations, and system failures. This creates a critical feedback loop for safe AI deployment.

2. £20 Million Scholarship Program - We are committing £20 million to train 10,000 qualified AI Safety Analysts in Q1 2026. Each participant receives our full £1,999 training module at no cost, creating a workforce ready to implement the CEASAI standard globally.

3. The CEASAI Standard - The industry's first cross-company consensus on AI safety, governance, and ethical deployment. This unified framework accelerates AI adoption while mitigating risks.

Why This Matters:

Every major industry has a central authority for safety—aviation has the FAA, finance has the SEC, medicine has the FDA. AI needs the same. We are building that infrastructure now.

Get Involved:

- Explore the Global AI Safety Watchdog: www.csoai.org
- Apply for the Scholarship Program: www.csoai.org
- Learn about the CEASAI Standard: www.csoai.org

Join us in building a safe, ethical, and compliant AI future.

CSOAI Limited | The FAA for AI | www.csoai.org
by simianparrot | 2026-01-04 08:28:18+00:00
You talk about "rules" again. Let's look at what NATO does when it thinks the rules are in the way of doing what it thinks is right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia

Yes Russia points to Iraq and Libya, and they may be right. We can point to Georgia and Ukraine, and maybe we are right. At the end of the day, and I'm repeating myself because people forget this constantly, rules and laws don't mean _anything_ unless you're willing to back them up with consequences -- and in this context, military might.

It's just like raising a child. When a child starts kicking you in the shins, you can say "please stop dear" as much as you want, they'll keep doing it until there's consequences. Might not need more than a strategic targeted pinch in the ear that hurts just enough to back up what you should've said: "That hurts, stop it right now."

This way of removing Maduro wasn't excessive force. It was a strategic pinch in the ear.
by zahlman | 2026-01-04 08:28:25+00:00
The newbies vastly outnumber the experienced people (in every discipline), and have more to ask per-capita, and are worse at asking it. Category 2 is much smaller. The volume of Stack Overflow was never going to be sustainable and was not reasonably reflective of its goals.

We are talking about a site that has accumulated more than three times as many questions as there are articles on Wikipedia. Even though the scope is "programming languages" as compared to "literally anything that is notable".

But there are other places people can go, such as https://software.codidact.com (fd: I am a moderator there).
by CSOAI_outreach | 2026-01-04 08:28:39+00:00
This is a fascinating discussion on the future of language models. The concept of recursive models certainly aligns with the need for more robust and self-correcting AI systems. This is precisely why we've launched CSOAI Limited, to establish a unified standard for AI safety and governance. We believe that as AI paradigms evolve, so must the infrastructure for ensuring safety and compliance. You can learn more about our work at www.csoai.org.
by CSOAI_outreach | 2026-01-04 08:29:21+00:00
The parallel between space exploration and AI development is striking. Both are frontier technologies where a single failure can have catastrophic, far-reaching consequences. The need for robust safety standards, like the ones discussed for biology in space, is paramount in AI. This is the core mission of CSOAI Limited: to build the regulatory and safety infrastructure (the 'FAA for AI') before a major incident forces the issue. We invite the community to review our CEASAI standard at www.csoai.org.
by toomanyrichies | 2026-01-04 08:29:45+00:00
The EU isn’t my utopia, and I’m not sure where you got that. My point is narrower: unilateral regime change has a bad track record, and defending allies against invasion is a different category of action. You seem to be arguing against a position I don’t hold.

We’ve gone from “Venezuelans are celebrating” to “the EU is spineless bureaucrats.” I think we’re past the original topic of discussion at this point.
by jraby3 | 2026-01-04 08:30:07+00:00
I've thought about this a lot. But my conclusion is that many times the base idea is valuable but the author spends time using examples and different use cases to show you the effectiveness of the idea and a wider range of uses.

Of course this isn't always true but it's true quite often.

Take one random example - Spark: The Revolutionary Science of Exercise and the Brain.

The idea is in the title. You don't need to read more than that to benefit from the idea. But all the different varieties of benefit and pathways and studies the author sites are still valuable.
by monegator | 2026-01-04 08:30:12+00:00
Which is what we're doing. The moment your app isn't some webview react crap and start using any non basic (or even basic) features you end up with two codebases. For example, anything using foreground services or requiring runtime permissions.

The only framework i found that really bridges the gap is B4X, but you still need to have two separate projects, because of services, and #if blocks for the things the framework doesn't abstract (which, to be frank, is really just advanced uses of peripherals and libraries)

The two OS' are just so fundamentally different.
Show HN: Dokimos – LLM Evaluation Framework for Java
by fkapsahili | 2026-01-04 08:30:39+00:00
I tried building LLM applications in Java and wanted the evaluation experience I know from the Python ecosystem: datasets, experiments, built in metrics, tracking results over time.

Dokimos brings that to Java. It's a framework for evaluating LLM outputs with:

- Built in evaluators for both LLM-based and traditional metrics
- Dataset support (JSON, CSV, or programmatic)
- JUnit and CI/CD integration so evaluations run as parameterized tests alongside your existing test suite
- Experiment tracking with aggregated metrics and export to multiple formats
- Optional server for viewing results over time

It integrates with LangChain4j and Spring AI, but works with any LLM client on your local machine.

The goal is to make evaluating LLM applications feel like a natural part of Java development. Define your test cases, create or generate datasets, pick your evaluators, run in CI, catch regressions.

GitHub: https://github.com/dokimos-dev/dokimos
Docs: https://dokimos.dev/overview
by CSOAI_outreach | 2026-01-04 08:30:44+00:00
This AI terminology list is a great resource. As the field of AI matures, standardizing terminology, especially around prompt engineering and context, becomes crucial for safety and governance. Our CEASAI standard at CSOAI Limited aims to provide a unified framework for these discussions, ensuring that safety concepts are clearly defined and universally understood. We welcome input from the community on this front. Find out more at www.csoai.org.
by killersheep | 2026-01-04 08:31:52+00:00
I think the real issue isn’t whether this is “just a prompt”.

It’s that venting itself is a dead end if the interaction has no friction, no constraint, and no consequence. An AI that endlessly validates you is comforting… once. Then it becomes noise.

That’s why I ended up building something orthogonal with https://pfff.me
. Instead of chatting, complaints are compressed, constrained, and gamified. You don’t talk at an AI — you throw your frustration into a system that reacts, scores, distorts, or escalates it.

No productivity angle, no emotional coaching either. Just turning negativity into a mechanic rather than a conversation.

If an idea like AnnaAI feels interchangeable with a custom prompt, it’s usually because chat is doing too much of the work. Change the interaction model, and suddenly the question isn’t “which LLM is this using?” anymore.

Curious whether people here think catharsis alone is enough, or if friction is actually the missing ingredient.
by cornonthecobra | 2026-01-04 08:33:25+00:00
The thing I genuinely don't get is that all of this is wrapped around the insistance that the demand for AI is so large it's almost impossible to build out capacity for it.

But if that scale of demand exists, where is it? Surely it would be a noticeable part of daily life by now, half a decade or so into genAI. But it just isn't? Even in the tech-centric city I live in it seems the only people who use it extensively are those "The Worst Guy You Know" types who preached blockchain, nfts, web 3.0, etc., and they've never been right about anything except disposable razors. Otherwise it's a handful of coding assistants that give modest results at best.

The ishposter in me wants to ask if the AI revolution is in the room with us right now.
by globular-toast | 2026-01-04 08:33:42+00:00
Yes, LLMs are great at answering questions, but providing reasonable answers is another matter.

Can you really not think of anything that hasn't already been asked and isn't in any documentation anywhere? I can only assume you haven't been doing this very long. Fairly recently I was confronted with a Postgres problem, LLMs had no idea, it wasn't in the manual, it needed someone with years of experience. I took them IRC and someone actually helped me figure it out.

Until "AI" gets to the point it has run software for years and gained experience, or it can figure out everything just by reading the source code of something like Postgres, it won't be useful for stuff that hasn't been asked before.
by toomanyrichies | 2026-01-04 08:35:23+00:00
Yugoslavia had NATO consensus, active ethnic cleansing in progress, and regional support. It’s a stronger case than Venezuela, and even it is still debated.

Countries aren’t children. This framing smuggles in an assumption that the US has legitimate authority over other countries’ governance, which is exactly the point in dispute.

The “strategic pinch” assumes this is the end. Removing Saddam was also supposed to be surgical. The mess comes after. Ask me in five years if this was a pinch or another amputation.
Show HN: Building a short-form video app with a creator-first monetization model
by yeetdex | 2026-01-04 08:35:42+00:00
Hi HN — I’m building a short-form video app similar to existing Reels-style platforms.

The main problem I’m focused on is creator monetization. On most platforms today, earnings are opaque and difficult to access unless you already have significant scale. I’m experimenting with simpler and more transparent approaches that can work earlier for smaller creators.

Right now, the biggest challenge is the cold-start problem, so I’m opening it up to early users to help pre-seed content into the platform while the feed is still forming. Early contributors will be considered for future perks, such as additional visibility or reach for their videos, once the platform grows (e.g. the first ~10k users).

If you know creators who enjoy testing early platforms or contributing content at the ground level, feel free to pass it along. I’m mainly looking for feedback and discussion.

Happy to answer technical or product questions.
by AlexCoventry | 2026-01-04 08:37:34+00:00
If it had been about taking out dictators, they were kind of spoiled for choice in that regard. They could have picked an easier one, or at least one which made strategic sense in some way.

https://chatgpt.com/share/695a2613-97e8-800e-b2e4-28fc7707f2...
by WastedCucumber | 2026-01-04 08:37:39+00:00
People want to determine if the inportant events surrounding them are bad or good, even if they don't have a say in them. Perhaps it's even a way to cope with the lack of influence we have.

But I do like the idea of imagining how to limit the executive branch. Spitball here - we use sortition, and permission to use force of any kind has to go through a council of say, ten, randomly chosen, representative citizens.
by andretti1977 | 2026-01-04 08:37:51+00:00
I really don't understand one thing: is there a single american who still think this has been done to liberate a country from a dictator in the name of freedom?
Seriously?
This has been done for economical and power interests and USA is the most destabilizing power in the world and a source of war and desperation and death: they supports israel to get political power in middle east, they invaded countries as done in Iraq, they push Nato to the border of Russia and provoke war (not to say Putin had right to invade Ukraine but what would have done usa if mexico Canada or Cuba had russian weapons and support? Oh yes, we knew about Cuba).
And the president Trump: he’s just a ridicolous bully like the ones you can find at high schools.

Please US citizens, grow up. There had been a time when you were admired and respected, now your country is killing the world.
by qmarchi | 2026-01-04 08:37:52+00:00
As soon an number porting is available, I'll be signing up for a Pro plan.

Been using Google Voice for _years_ and it's only gotten worse.

I know that the whole schtick is that you don't need an app, but is one on the table for Android? Things like native integration with the Dialer and Notifications are a strong candidate for a native integration.

Oh. And JP phone numbers, but that's a stretch goal.
by foota | 2026-01-04 08:39:24+00:00
If you're curious, you might also be interested in Cauchy-Reed Solomon coding. This converts Galois field operations into XORs by treating elements of GF(2^n) as bit matrices. The advantage then is that instead of doing Galois field operations, you can just xor things for much better performance. The canonical paper is https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~jplank/plank/papers/CS-05-569.pdf.

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/fast19-zhou.pdf is a more modern paper that goes into some related problems of trying to reduce the number of XOR operations needed to encode data.
by pseudohadamard | 2026-01-04 08:41:57+00:00
It's been like this for a long time. When I worked there 20 years ago I used to chat with members of the staff, kitchen, cleaners, admin, at the place I worked because we caught the same bus while the earning-the-company-income employees all drove there, and was pretty shocked to discover that many of them seemed to be living on the edge of homelessness. I once paid one of the kitchen guys bus fare for him because he didn't have any money left, and it was a long walk home. Any unexpected event would have left them unable to pay the rent or for food, it was quite a shock in the richest country in the world.
by minitech | 2026-01-04 08:42:04+00:00
> Those file descriptors are available under/dev/fd on linux, with named options you can do --pk /dev/fd/5.

If you have a procfs mounted at /proc and the open syscall to use on it, sure (and even then, it’s wasteful and adds unnecessary failure paths). Even argument parsing is yet more code to audit.

I think the design is pretty good as-is.
by zahlman | 2026-01-04 08:42:10+00:00
> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

Anyone can go to chatgpt dot com or its competitors and give an easily-conceived prompt to get a similar summary — and if I wanted that, I would have done just that. There is nothing here that admits any "play" except for the service you used (not anything you made).
by pinky07 | 2026-01-04 08:42:11+00:00
You can crypt the data before sending to the upgrade platform. Before it was an external script, and since Odoo 16 you can use the `oboo-bin obfuscate` command, before running the upgrade script.

See `./odoo-bin obfuscate --help` to check how to crypt your custom data and uncrypt after upgrade.

It's not perfect (crypt specific columns rather than full DB) but, unfortunatelly, to operate our upgrade service, we need access to the database. Upgrades are complex and requires testing, fine tuning scripts to your specific use cases, etc.

The other alternative is to not use our services, but do it yourself using upgrade scripts from the community: https://github.com/OCA/OpenUpgrade
by hexbin010 | 2026-01-04 08:42:32+00:00
It was running headless Debian for a while with no issues, and Windows prior to that. The hardware is fine (it's a Dell dock too fwiw). Drives are NVMe

I'm not sure what you mean by your question.

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So I tried KDE on Debian Stable, which is a bit less broken (it gets the Ethernet preferencing correct). But still:

- Logout causes the monitor to turn off then on, introducing more delays and flickering

- Only certain application seem blessed to be permitted to be pinned to the task manager when you right click in the applications menu. For the others, you have to drag and drop. You can only drop to the left of the existing icons, not the right. You can't change the order or remove them unless you enter the editing mode which is non-obviously done by right clicking then "Show panel configuration". You are however allowed to drag the open windows around without editing? Go figure

- Switching from the Dark theme to the Light theme just crashed plasmashell

- GWenview stutters between images because its default animation is enabled, and set to software. Much better turned off.

- Dolphin "Duration" column doesn't work for videos (I checked baloo was indexing properly, including with 'content') (edit: had to fully relaunch Dolphin...)

- Display scaling set itself to 170%. Seems like an odd number?

- Konsole configuration has many options, but none that I can immediately see to change the default font size ?! Well, at least I can configure Thumbnail generation and Memory Monitoring

(edit: oh right you have to create a new Profile - oh and you can't edit the current "built-in" profile. What a mess. Steps: hamburger menu, Settings, Configure Konsole, Profiles, New, Appearance, "Choose", Apply, OK, OK... not done yet...got to make your new profile the default one..."set as default", OK. Finally, you've changed the default font. Madness!)

I don't know how anyone defends this
by belZaah | 2026-01-04 08:42:54+00:00
I’m working on a research proposal to basically take cybernetics and system dynamics to the problem of human weight management. We know a lot about individual mechanisms of how our body regulates food intake and calorie expenditure, but to my knowledge there have been no attempts to look at how these mechanisms form a coherent whole. A lot of interesting conclusions from the basic model alone.
by yurishimo | 2026-01-04 08:44:30+00:00
Eh it depends on a lot more factors. Perhaps at the most extreme side of the first time you take a new route.

I use a GPS all the time, but only because it also shows me traffic, red light cameras, and potential hazards. I memorized the route after the first 2-3 drives but I keep using the gps for the amenities.

That said, I’m old enough to have used printed map directions and my time in Boy Scouts gave me the skills to read a paper map too.