MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by waynenilsen | 2026-01-16 13:29:14+00:00
> intent drifted

Indeed I believe this is probably the next thing to solve but even here I don't think it is out of reach. What we aught to be able to do is disconnect and make asynchronous the goals of the project with where we are. This, in normal software building, is encapsulated by the roadmap. I am building roadmapping prompts now and broadening the scope of the software development lifecycle even further to the encapsulate the roadmap as well which was previously out of scope for the experiment I am running now.

The prompts I am using now give the agent autonomy over 'make the next prd that makes sense' however I think it is a straightforward extension to add 'in the context of the @roadmap/ ' or similar with probably decent results.

Have you tried something similar?

Even without a roadmap the agent continues to do useful work over 24 hours in. You can see the commits and PRDs they really are quite sensible and I pulled and tested and everything really is working quite well. Frankly, I am shocked it is working at all. I have had to step in once or twice you definitely need to keep an eye on the logs every once in a while. Getting the loop booted up in a reliable way was the hardest part to be honest and even that was not terribly difficult.

https://github.com/waynenilsen/ralph-kata-2
by bigfishrunning | 2026-01-16 13:29:24+00:00
You need to be careful here, because we have a real tendency to get stuck in local maxima with technology. For instance, the QWERTY keyboard layout exists to prevent typewriter keys from jamming, but we're stuck with it because it's the "standardized solution" and you can't really buy a non-QWERTY keyboard without getting into the enthusiast market.

I do agree changing things for the sake of change isn't a good thing, but we should also be afraid of being stuck in a rut
by mrkeen | 2026-01-16 13:30:10+00:00
Nah we know the punch-lines to this one.

Worries about reduced quality of work are overblown, because there's always a human operator of the AI, reviewing the text between copying and pasting (no different from StackOverflow!). Enter vibe-coding.

Worries about AI becoming malicious or Skynet are overblown. Again, it's just a text interface, so the worst it can do is to write text that says "launch the nukes". Enter agents and MCP.

It still staggers me that I occasionally read about a judge calling out a lawyer for citing non-existent cases (this far into chatgpt's life). It was bound to happen to the first moron, but every other lawyer should have heard about it then. But it still happens.

Dumbest possible way is what we do.
by bakugo | 2026-01-16 13:31:44+00:00
> Maybe it's unfair, unhelpful or overdone to call out llmisms

Not anywhere near as overdone as posting AI generated/revised articles to HN that are an absolute slog to read.

A real shame, honestly, because the other article[1] from this blog that made it to the front page recently was good. The difference in writing style between them is striking, and I think it serves as a really good example of why I just can't stand reading AI articles.

[1] https://xlii.space/eng/i-hate-github-actions-with-passion/
by thephyber | 2026-01-16 13:32:35+00:00
I would go even further. I only want to see content created by people who are in a chain of trust with me.

AI slop is so cheap that it has created a blight on content platforms. People will seek out authentic content in many spaces. People will even pay to avoid the mass “deception for profit” industry (eg. Industries where companies bot ratings/reviews to profit and where social media accounts are created purely for rage bait / engagement farming).

But reputation in a WoT network has to be paramount. The invite system needs a “vouch” so there are consequences to you and your upstream vouch if there is a breach of trust (eg. lying, paid promotions, spamming). Consequences need to be far more severe than the marginal profit to be made from these breaches.
by paganel | 2026-01-16 13:32:59+00:00
Bezos, whatever the heck this is [1], you people are delusional.

Later edit: For good measure, Zuckerberg, too [2]

[1] https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/2011935282912731453

[2] https://x.com/infolibnews/status/2011196769363697684
by nake89 | 2026-01-16 13:33:15+00:00
Are those days permanently gone? The days when actual UI/UX innovation was a thing?

I agree mostly with your sentiment. But I still think there is still some work being done. For example the Arc and Zen Browsers. I never used Arc because it is closed source. But it sure looked beautiful. And Zen I tested, but it seemed laggy. I think I might give it another go to see if some of the performance issues have been fixed.
by kylecazar | 2026-01-16 13:33:16+00:00
Populism tends to emerge from real grievances. Economic hardship, job insecurity, rapid social change. We're definitely seeing it.

Simultaneously, propaganda is getting worse. If you read the NY Post/Facebook and watch Fox, you aren't just getting a different opinion from someone watching CNN and reading the NYT. You're getting different facts. I encourage people to do a comparison. Its wild.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-16 13:33:55+00:00
I owned a machine shop, and I'm the founder of a mid sized CNC gear factory. I think I know my way around bearings, lubrication, press fits and other such bits & pieces.

As for the rest of your comment:

What a load of tripe.

I'm doing the exact opposite of what you claim. I am just taking the bits of evidence already available and rejecting root causes that would require those bits of evidence to not exist, which is entirely valid, this still leaves a massive amount of uncertainty which I have underlined on more than one occasion.

Your suggestion:

> "A bearing that fails for whatever reason, welds it self, and then gets spun around in the bore by its shaft is nowhere near unheard of"

is not compatible with what reputable operators of airliners would expect from their gear and if it happens as a rule people die and the NTSB gets involved, see TFA. This is not just any bearing and this is not your average bench top, industrial or vehicular application, this is an aircraft and a major load bearing component in that aircraft.

> Unless you personally designed the mount of have insider knowledge of comparable ones you are speaking with degrees of certainty that are indicative of ignorance so massive it is functionally malice.

I think that's worth a flag, especially coming from an anonymous potato.

> The BS about how aircraft don't fly with worn bearings is just that, bullshit. Everything has service limits that allow degrees of wear. Now on some parts it might be zero or specific preload, but all that stuff is well defined.

Yes, there is 'wear' and there is 'worn out'. Bearings in aircraft are replaced well before they are 'worn out'. Don't conflate design life wear with excessive wear to the point that a part can no longer function.
by roxolotl | 2026-01-16 13:34:15+00:00
This articles claims are also interesting to me in terms of large scale software systems. They authors say:

> They (AI systems) delegitimization knowledge, inhibit cognitive development, short-circuit long term thinking processes, and isolate humans by displacing or degrading long term human connection.

This is a pretty good summary of the worry I’ve seen expressed about extensive use to build large pieces of software. Large pieces of software aren’t just the code that describes them. They exist in some sense in their authors as well.

Effective projects seek to expand understanding of software systems across the organization so that relevant decisions can be made about their future. By relegating much of the decision making around structure of the software to AI you lose the systemic knowledge shared across the organization.
by nerdjon | 2026-01-16 13:34:57+00:00
Not entirely sure where you get that I am not seeing what is happening.

All I am saying is that we need to be better than them and not twisting information to fit what we want to say.

That doesn’t remove or diminish any criticism of trump and this administration but let’s actually fight lies with facts instead of stooping to their level.

It would not be a good look at all (hypothetically since I don’t know) if we go after Palentir for this app and its all trump this, trump that. And it comes to light that the contract started under Obama for example. That doesn’t mean we don’t criticize them, it doesn’t mean we don’t criticize trump, it doesn’t mean we don’t protest ICE. But it means that we don’t try to say that ALL of this is under trump.

We are constantly calling them out for lying, half truths, twisting truths, etc. We must be better than them or we look like hypocrites and all that does is make it harder to get people to actually come out and vote for our side when it matters.
Show HN: Local-First ADHD Planner for Windows and Android (Syncs via GDrive)
by skadldh | 2026-01-16 13:35:01+00:00
Hello HN,

I am a Physics PhD student. I built this app because I kept procrastinating on my thesis due to ADHD, and existing tools didn't fit my workflow.

Most ADHD apps are either mobile-only or require monthly subscriptions for cloud sync on their proprietary servers. Since I work on a Windows PC in the lab and use an Android phone on the go, I needed a cross-platform solution that respects privacy.

The Solution: I built Gravity Focus using Flutter.

Local-first & Privacy: No central server. Data syncs directly via your own Google Drive (encrypted). I have no access to your data.

Cross-Platform: Windows (MSIX) and Android support.

Methodology: Combines Routine blocking, Pomodoro, and Task Chunking (breaking tasks down to lower resistance).

I released it on the Microsoft Store and Play Store. It’s free to use for basic features. I'd love to get some feedback on the sync architecture or the UX from an ADHD perspective.
by rayiner | 2026-01-16 13:35:12+00:00
The United States of America was created by British settlers who displaced the American Indians and created a new nation built on English language, law, and culture, and out of ideas that had been floating around during the English Civil War. In the 20th century we came up with these feel-good narratives about immigrants to help assimilate the massive number of immigrants that we had taken in during the late 19th and early 20th century. But we did that at the same time as we severely restricted immigration under the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act.

And even though British Americans long ago became a minority--the single largest ethnic group is Germans--there is shockingly little influence from any other group in America's core political, legal, and civic institutions. Our constitution and laws have more ideas from ancient Rome and Greece than from all contemporary foreign cultures combined. The Ivy League schools that still dominate our bureaucratic and professional class were founded by British Americans as copies of Oxford/Cambridge. Silicon Valley arose around Stanford University (Stanford being an English surname) and a U.S. military that at the time was still dominated by British Americans. Wall Street is a direct descendant of London's financial sector, though it has some influence from New York's history as a Dutch city.

That's the reason the United States is economically, politically, and culturally more similar to Australia than to Mexico, despite being on the opposite side of the planet from Australia and diverging politically 250 years ago. To the extent the U.S. is an "immigrant nation," that is only in the sense that many immigrants and their descendants happen to live here. But those immigrants are governed and organized by the (now nearly dead) hand of the Anglo-Protestants, through their law, norms, principles, and institutions.

A good bit from the late Justice Scalia on this: https://www.facebook.com/TrueTexasProject/videos/antonin-sca...
by eszed | 2026-01-16 13:35:12+00:00
Are you anywhere near (the remains of?) a canal network? That was how bulk cargo was generally transported in the 18th century. First-mile + last-mile would be by wagon, of course, though usually pulled by oxen, not horses. Canals were economically revolutionary, for 100-150 years, until railroads largely supplanted them. They remained viable, in limited circumstances (ie, some routes for some cargos), until the mid-20th century.
Have you ever tried low-code tools for your work?
by andre_fernandes | 2026-01-16 13:35:13+00:00
I'm curious to know if you've ever tried any low-code tools (e.g., OutSystems, Mendix, PowerApps, etc.).
If not, why not? What are your top objections to those tools?
If so, which ones have you tried and what did you think about them? Any thoughts about them becoming more AI-powered?
by susiecambria | 2026-01-16 13:36:23+00:00
I've not looked at the research associated with the Friendship Bench [1] or UK Men's Sheds [2] -- evaluations or data associated with the model's development -- but I would be surprised if either relied only on individual action. Meaning, the resource is there but participation relies heavily or solely on an individual taking affirmative action to join.

I agree with others that individual initiative is important for connections to be made, but I struggle with imagining how people find out about what the opportunities are. Certainly, there's been a ton of work on social isolation, community connections, whatever you call it, and at some point I need to dive in.

This space needs a lot of investment as well as evaluation of initiatives. I worked in nonprofit land in the US for years and from my limited view of the landscape, way more work is needed to determine what works and fund that and not fund efforts that take no initiative to show their effectiveness.

[1] https://www.friendship-bench.org/
[2] https://menssheds.org.uk/
by youngtaff | 2026-01-16 13:37:17+00:00
Do you understand how the CFDs for these wind farms work?

When the wholesale prices is about the CFD strike price then the excess funds are paid to the Low Carbon Company and used to reduce electricity bills

Storage capacity is being build out - it's one of the prime uses of old power station sites (because they already have grid connectivity)

Grid capacity is being built out e.g. the Eastern Green links to allow transfer of power from Scotland to England and reduce curtailment payments
by jackfranklyn | 2026-01-16 13:37:24+00:00
The tricky thing about "data is the only moat" is that it depends heavily on what kind of data you're talking about.

Proprietary training data for foundation models? Sure, that's a real moat - until someone figures out how to generate synthetic equivalents or a new architecture makes your dataset less relevant.

But the more interesting moat is often contextual data - the stuff that accumulates from actual usage. User preferences, correction patterns, workflow-specific edge cases. That's much harder to replicate because it requires the product to be useful enough that people keep using it.

The catch is you need to survive long enough to accumulate it, which usually means having some other differentiation first. Data as a moat is less of a starting position and more of a compounding advantage once you've already won the "get people to use this thing" battle.
by austin-cheney | 2026-01-16 13:37:43+00:00
You need either a spouse or a business partner.

A good spouse will cure the loneliness and help with your mental health but won't do much to help with business specific stressors. A business partner is the opposite.

When I say spouse I mean a lawful wedding. I don't mean a girl/boyfriend. The conditions change once you are financially locked together unless you have already been living together for 3-5+ years.
by Forgeties79 | 2026-01-16 13:37:54+00:00
> trying to flee being detained for obstruction, and in the process hitting and nearly running over a federal agent in your SUV.

But you have no problem deciding what she is guilty of without the jury she will never see because she is dead.

The other problem with your mentality is that what is considered “obstruction” and “provocation” can be incredibly varied, often depending on the temperament and internal biases of the officer who is quite literally a split second decision away from killing you based on their rapid assessment of what is in front of them, an assessment that is informed by often inadequate training.
by thephyber | 2026-01-16 13:38:12+00:00
Trust in the real world is not immutable. It is constantly re-evaluated. So the Web of Trust concept should do this as well.

Also, there needs to be some significant consequence to people who are bad actors and, transitively, to people who trust bad actors.

The hardest part isn’t figuring out how to cut off the low quality nodes. It’s how to incentivize people to join a network where the consequences are so high that you really won’t want to violate trust. It can’t simply be a free account that only requires an a verifiable email address. It will have to require a significant investment in verifying real world identity, preventing multiple accounts, reducing account hijackings, etc. those are all expensive and high friction.
by hairofadog | 2026-01-16 13:38:24+00:00
There was an inflection point in the 1990's: Newt Gingrich brought a no-comporomise, take-no-prisoners approach to U.S. congress. In 1988, Rush Limbaugh got a syndicated show on AM radio. Blue collar workers like my dad started listenting to it, and shows like it, all day long, and their personalities were transformed. Sky News started in the U.K. in 1989. Fox News started in 1996. The message was consistent, simple, and relentless, for decades: the enemy is liberals and they must be destroyed.

Liberal policies may be better or worse for the world than conservative policies. I tend to think they're better; other people may disagree, and maybe I'm wrong. But I'm confident I'm not wrong that the constant drumbeat of "liberals are the enemy" is bad for the world.

In recent years: Bezos bought the Washington Post. Patrick Soon-Shiong bought the LA Times. The Ellisons bought Paramount. CBS News has joined the chorus of right-wing voices, and 60 minutes is effectively dead. CNN, which right-leaning family and acquaintances like to point at as a liberal propaganda machine, has made a right turn and may soon be owned by Paramount and the Ellisons. Most local TV news stations are owned by Sinclair and Nextstar, whose mission is to push right-wing messaging.

Who's left standing in so-called liberal media? NYT, The Atlantic. Condé Nast (The New Yorker, etc.) seems to be going through some changes. But I would argue these publications don't reach the mainstream. Local Newspapers are struggling to stay afloat.

And now: TikTok, Instagram, Twitter/X, all working hard to curry favor with this administration.
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by gingerlime | 2026-01-16 13:38:58+00:00
Thanks. Yes.

Connecting via an open port between containers isn't a problem though. They all see each other by name anyway (e.g. I can run a pg client to `db` and it will JustWork). The problem is when the coding agent needs to run commands inside the container, or restart the container, inspect logs etc.

If the agent is outside the container, it can run docker (compose) commands and do all that, and it works great. If the agent however is inside the container, it can't. Without mapping the socket that is.
by drob518 | 2026-01-16 13:41:10+00:00
Prolog is pretty unique. I’ve run into similar frustrations when I have used it as well. I think you have to drop all your preconceived notions and past programming experience when you use Prolog and just accept it as it is. Prolog was developed to run in very small machines and so the resolution algorithm operates in a strict order. This means clause order sometimes matters. Overall, I’ve found it useful to always keep in mind that I’m unifying trees of terms, not so much programming in a pure logical language.
by bhouston | 2026-01-16 13:41:34+00:00
Original title was too long: "Canada agrees to cut tariff on Chinese EVs in return for lower tariffs on Canadian farm products"

Key details:

"there would be an initial cap of 49,000 vehicles on Chinese EV exports to Canada, growing to 70,000 over five years. China will reduce its tariff on canola seeds, a major Canadian export, from about 84% to about 15%, he told reporters"
by Someone | 2026-01-16 13:42:03+00:00
So, how much of those gains comes from using the equivalent of malloc/free (FTA: “The most dangerous ArrayPool mistake is forgetting to return arrays. Unlike regular arrays that get garbage collected automatically, pooled arrays must be explicitly returned”), and how much from having pools of a memory blocks of various sizes?

If the former is a significant part, wouldn’t it be useful to just add that to .NET? One would need runtime guards to prevent use after free, but I think at least the “alloc temp buffer for use by function” case isn’t a nightmare to implement (for those working on the .NET runtime)