MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Fnoord | 2026-01-27 01:51:40+00:00
Those are four solid reasons to leave Twitter. There's many more reasons.

I quit my Twitter account pretty much around the time Musk took it over (he became a more of a looney around the time he had contact with Putin in end of 2022), haven't looked back. I added the ASNs to my firewall, this was before they went with Cloudflare. There are some proxies which allow you to quote from there, but a lot of people are now dual stack (e.g. Twitter + BlueSky or Twitter + Mastodon). So for example following the latest concerning Ukraine is still very much possible without Twitter.

From what I heard, it is pretty much 4chan level nowadays.

I still use RSS and Mastodon.
by rfw300 | 2026-01-27 01:52:31+00:00
This is true as a technical matter, but this isn't a technical blog post! It's a consumer review, and when companies ship consumer products, the people who use them can't be expected to understand failure modes that are not clearly communicated to them. If OpenAI wants regular people to dump their data into ChatGPT for Health, the onus is on them to make it reliable.
by jlipps | 2026-01-27 01:52:56+00:00
I love the references to Jacques Ellul's ideas, which I think are interesting to reflect on in an AI age. It helps make clear that what is fundamentally at stake in much technological "progress" is an (often only tacitly acknowledged) sublimation of "efficiency" to the place of highest value.

What's fascinating is that this value elevation seems to have gone largely unchallenged, despite being in essence an arbitrary value choice. Other choices are possible. And, I hope, still are possible, despite what the bigcorps declare must be the case in order to maximize shareholder returns.
by Keyframe | 2026-01-27 01:53:13+00:00
cool to hear about more randomizers. I am not a great tetris player but I absolutely love the game. I put NES, 7-bag and my own take on randomizer (crap) in my online tetris-like experiment https://www.susmel.com/stacky/ (you can press c for more controls or h to see shortcuts)

One of my dream goals was to make a licensed low lag competitive game kind of like TGM, but I heard licensing is extremely cost-prohibitive so I kind of gave up on that goal. I remember I said to someone I was ready to pony up few tens of thousands for a license + cut, but reportedly it starts at an order of the magnitude higher.
by ryanackley | 2026-01-27 01:54:02+00:00
Low-code tools for actual developers is dying but AI might be the thing that makes low-code take off for the broader market. Software development will look very different five years from now. It could be filled with knowledge workers with no CS education using no-code tools and AI while the hardcore engineers still build technology that they build on.

A strong advantage a platform like retool has in the non-developer market is they own a frictionless deployment channel. Your average non-developer isn't going to learn npm and bash, and then sign up for an account on AWS, when the alternative is pushing a button to deploy the creation the AI has built from your prompt.
Show HN: An app that finds your perfect laptop in seconds (no affiliate agenda)
by unbuns | 2026-01-27 01:54:52+00:00
I hate laptop shopping. Need to keep 20 Chrome tabs open, cross-reference specs, check pricing. "Best laptop 2026" lists are commission-optimized, not helpful. They go stale when prices shift.

Built an app that takes "lightweight laptop for coding under $1200" and returns curated picks with fresh pricing and reasoning. Currently laptops and phones.
Design: consumer journey = contraction/expansion of opportunities. Explore → AI curates → shortlist → compare. Each interaction updates recommendations via LLM.
Avoided the chatbot trap. LLMs as foundation, but keep good mobile UX (cards, scrolling, navigation).

Not sure if this beats manual research. Honest feedback wanted. iOS app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/great-recs/id6756940360
by Razengan | 2026-01-27 01:55:23+00:00
Apple's Find My helps thieves more than it helps the owners:

When I was on a walk with my friend, my iPhone constantly nagged me about "AIRPODS ARE MOVING WITH YOU!!!1!" and it showed me the EXACT complete route on the map.. I didn't even ask for it!

When I lost my AirPods (which are ridiculously easy to remove from your iCloud account and Find My: just hold down the pairing button for 30 seconds), it just showed me a vague radius and "Last seen around here 12 hours ago" not even a exact time.
Show HN: OneTaskAtATime – a focused todo list app made with Claude Code
by worksOnMyPC | 2026-01-27 01:55:58+00:00
I'm pleased to announce the 1.0.0 beta release of OneTaskAtATime, a Windows desktop task management application built on a simple philosophy: stop managing lists, start executing tasks. Many productivity apps overwhelm users with poor prioritization, complex hierarchies, and feature bloat. OneTaskAtATime takes a different approach.

The core feature is Focus Mode, which presents you with exactly one task at a time—the most important thing you should be working on right now. No distractions, no decision fatigue, just focused execution.

Claude Code was instrumental in developing this application and testing it rigorously. That said, I'm looking for a few testers to try out this app and provide feedback. Let me know if you would be interested!

GitHub Page: https://github.com/cmdavis25/OneTaskAtATime
Beta Release : https://github.com/cmdavis25/OneTaskAtATime/releases/tag/v1....
by hunter-gatherer | 2026-01-27 01:56:10+00:00
This is true. On the other hand, I've found myself lately starting to wane a little bit the other way. Let me explain. I'm doing ok, because I got involvednin the FIRE movement early and invested early. Now about to be 40, and having a couple kids, I've realized that so long as I have no debt and good security (enough to see my kids into adulthood) then what is the money for??? To be clear, I haven't started spending my retirement money yet, but I already know I'm never going to quit working. So.... I don't know, you know?
Show HN: An autopoietic agent forge for emergent, consensus-based AI ecosystems
by hiddenarchitect | 2026-01-27 01:56:25+00:00
After developing the Protogen engine, I realized that intelligence shouldn't just be individual—it should be collective. I’ve built the Agent Forge V5.0, an orchestrator that births a swarm of autonomous engines (Theoretical Physics, Ethics, Marine Biology, etc.) and lets them 'swarm' the same data simultaneously.Key Features:•Collaborative Swarm Ingestion: Multiple agents interpret the same document through different axiomatic lenses at once.•Emergent Global Consensus: A 'Global Logic Map' that only accepts patterns validated by multiple independent agents.•Hardware-Aware: Automatically scales the swarm based on your CPU/RAM and AMD GPU (via DirectML).•Zero LLM Dependency: This is pure, self-derived logic and autopoiesis.I’m interested in the community's thoughts on Sympoiesis (making-together) and how consensus-based logic maps could provide a more stable foundation for AGI than current black-box models.
by technion | 2026-01-27 01:57:01+00:00
All the properties ive rented over the last decade required an application with "full financial transaction history" for three months. I know ive submitted a statement before where a lot of expenses were "paying off credit card" and they complained the credit card expenses werent shown. I would have to imagine a rental agent looking at months worth of pornhub spending is going to count it against you.

Ive never been hit by something like this but I have friends who have:

https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/12s8257/la...

(Maybe this is just the horrendous Australian market talking).
by Der_Einzige | 2026-01-27 01:57:19+00:00
As an AI researcher who regularly attend NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, AAAI (where I am shitposting from). The median AI researcher does not read science fiction, cyberpunk, etc. Most of them haven't read a proper book in over a decade.

Don't expect anyone building these systems to know what Bladerunner is, or "I have no mouth and I must scream" or any other great literature about the exact thing they are working on!
by mjevans | 2026-01-27 01:57:38+00:00
Think of the LLM as a slightly lossy compression algorithm fed by various pattern classifiers that weight and bin inputs and outputs.

The user of the LLM provides a new input, which might or might not closely match the existing smudged together inputs to produce an output that's in the same general pattern as the outputs which would be expected among the training dataset.

We aren't anywhere near general intelligence yet.
by superfrank | 2026-01-27 01:59:30+00:00
> Who are these devs that are seeing such great success vibecoding? Vibecoding in prod seems irresponsible at best

AI written code != vibecoding. I think anyone who believes they are the same is truly in trouble of being left behind as AI assisted development continues to take hold. There's plenty of space between "Claude build me Facebook" and "I write all my code by hand"
by avidiax | 2026-01-27 01:59:48+00:00
I don't have copy-paste prompts. If I need it to argue from another perspective, I just ask for that perspective in a new session, ideally arguing both sides in temporary sessions so that the context of any other session doesn't affect it.

I am also quite good at playing the devil's advocate myself. I can also just come up with what I consider to be a good counterargument, and ask for an attack or defense of that argument. You can try the prompt below in your favorite thinking model and see what it says.

---

What are the strengths and weaknesses of the following line of argumentation?

Some proponents of climate-change denialism have taken a new tact: pointing out that there is a lack of practical solutions that meaningfully address the change in climate, especially given the political and social systems available.

To the extent that climate mitigations are expensive, they will tend to be politically unpopular in democracies, and economically destabilizing in dictatorships. Unilateral adoption of painful solutions weakens a country's relative position among nations; it wouldn't do for, say, China to harm itself economically while the rest of the world enjoys cheap energy.

We also have a gerontocracy in most countries; the people in power have no personal stake in the problems 50 years from now, and even as the effects of climate change start to become a problem, those in power are best positioned to be personally insulated.

And while there are solutions like solar power that are capital intensive but pay for themselves over time, the sum total of these net positive solutions doesn't amount to a meaningful dent in the problem, nor do we need policies or willpower to support "no-brainer" solutions that pay for themselves.

The conclusion is that negative effects of climate change are "baked in" by the lack of a political system ("benevolent" dictatorship) that could force the necessary and painful changes required, hence the entire discussion of climate change, while interesting, is partly moot.

Do these people have a point? Is there evidence that we can build an effective solution from non-painful measures? Why would it matter to those in power today, what the global average temperature in 2100 is?
by nearbuy | 2026-01-27 02:01:16+00:00
I'm not out to defend "I've got nothing to hide", but those who say it are usually saying it about a specific policy (e.g. the NSA monitoring searches). It's usually clear what the context is and that's what you have to argue against to actually engage and convince someone. They probably do mean quite literally that they have nothing to hide from the government. It's not an extreme statement in context.

But on the internet we often do this thing where we take the weakest version or a distorted version of an opposing side's argument and ridicule that. It's not quite strawmanning because we never specified who we're arguing against, and surely we can imagine someone, somewhere on the internet has the ridiculous viewpoint. But it's not a common viewpoint (that, for example, we shouldn't have privacy in the bathroom). Doing this only gets us pats on the back from those who already agree with us and deludes us about our opponent's position.
by GoatInGrey | 2026-01-27 02:01:33+00:00
On the contrary, we get to read hundreds of his comments explaining how the LLM in anecdote X didn't fail, it was the developer's fault and they should know better than to blame the LLM.

I only know this because on occasion I'll notice there was a comment from him (I only check the name of the user if it's a hot take) and I ctrl-F their username to see 20-70 matches on the same thread. Exactly 0 of those comments present the idea that LLMs are seriously flawed in programming environments regardless of who's in the driver seat. It always goes back to operator error and "just you watch, in the next 3 months or years...".

I dunno, I manage LLM implementation consulting teams and I will tell you to your face that they are unequivocally shit for the majority of use cases. It's not hard to directly criticize the tech without hiding behind deflections or euphemisms.
by Telaneo | 2026-01-27 02:01:50+00:00
What versions can't access the App Store anymore? I've tried Catalina recently, and that still worked fine, but it only stopped getting security updates in 2022, so it's only been a few years.

Also, I've barely ever used the OSX/MacOS app store anyway, and from what little I've heard from other people, it's not really all that great nor popular a place to get your software from.
by Der_Einzige | 2026-01-27 02:02:28+00:00
"sorry bro, we had to vote Nazi because the degenerate folks at the institute of gender tries to normalize trans people".

That's how you sound. Crying about blue hairs is the worst reason to vote fascist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissen...
by lkey | 2026-01-27 02:02:37+00:00
To be clear, I'm an accidental member of the haute bourgeoisie, and under normal circumstances, I cannot be harmed directly by this, or any, new evolution of labor relations.

I was mostly annoyed because Luddites were an early labor movement and their demands were, by modern standards, normal, but they are continually invoked like they believed and demanded things they did not.

I do agree the profession, if we dare diminish coding to exactly one thing, is changing, but I believe the direction of that evolution, unchecked, will exacerbate the ongoing attenuation of the power of labor in the US, even as workers individually become more 'productive'.

Quoting you from elsewhere: "Reminder that the most reliable way to prevent the rise of the far right is to implement robust safety nets and low inequality, to reduce status anxiety and grievance."

We agree here, and likely elsewhere, so keep fighting the good fight on this orange hell site (and also outside if you're able).
by h14h | 2026-01-27 02:04:25+00:00
It'd be easy to simply say "skill issue" and dismiss this, but I think it's interesting to look at the possible outcomes here:

Option 1: The cost/benefit delta of agentic engineering never improves past net-zero, and bespoke hand-written code stays as valuable as ever.

Option 2: The cost/benefit becomes net positive, and economics of scale forever tie the cost of code production directly to the cost of inference tokens.

Given that many are saying option #2 is already upon us, I'm gonna keep challenging myself to engineer a way past the hurdles I run into with agent-oriented programming.

The deeper I get, the more articles like this feel like the modern equivalent of saying "internet connections are too slow to do real work" or "computers are too expensive to be useful for regular people".
by shevy-java | 2026-01-27 02:05:41+00:00
> Python/JS/Ruby/etc. were good tradeoffs when developer time mattered.

First I don't think this is the end of those languages. I still write
code in Ruby almost daily, mostly to solve smaller issues; Ruby acts as the ultimate glue that connects everything here.

Having said that, Ruby is on a path to extinction. That started way before
AI though and has many different reasons; it happened to perl before and now ruby is following suit. Lack of trust in RubyCentral as
our divine new ruler is one (recently), after they decided to turn against
the community. Soon Ruby can be renamed into Suby, to indicate Shopify
running the show now. What is interesting is that you still see articles "ruby is not dead, ruby is not dead". Just the frequency of those articles coming up is worrying - it's like someone trying to pitch last minute sales - and then the company goes bankrupt. The human mind is a strange thing.

One good advantage of e. g. Python and Ruby is that they are excellent at
prototyping ideas into code. That part won't go away, even if AI infiltrates
more computers.
I'm an apprentice electrician. I built this iOS app using only Claude
by discovrapp | 2026-01-27 02:06:24+00:00
Hey HN,

I’m currently working as an apprentice electrician in Vancouver. I spend my days pulling wire and bending conduit, so I have zero background in CS or software engineering.

Why I built this: I love going to concerts and local festivals, but I hated having to check Ticketmaster, Eventbrite, and random local blogs just to plan a weekend. It felt like work. I just wanted one clean feed showing "what's happening near me tonight."

How I built it: Since I don't know Swift, I used Claude for 99% of the code. My workflow was basically: ask Claude for a feature -> paste into Xcode -> get an error -> paste error back to Claude -> repeat until it runs.

I don't have a GitHub repo to share because, honestly, the code is probably a mess and I’m still figuring out how git works.

The App (Discovr): It aggregates events from multiple platforms. It’s free and I tried to keep the UI as clean as possible since I hate ad-cluttered apps.

I’d love to hear your feedback on the usability. If you find any bugs (I'm sure there are plenty), let me know!

App Store Linkhttps://apps.apple.com/ca/app/discovr/id6747321401
by hackyhacky | 2026-01-27 02:06:30+00:00
You give examples where crafts based on pre-industrial technology still exist. You're right, but you're proving the GP's point.

200 years ago, being a blacksmith was a viable career path. Now it's not. The use of hand tools, hand knitting, and hand forging is limited to niche, exotic, or hobbyist areas. The same could be said of making clothes by hand or developing film photographs. Coding will be relegated to the same purgatory: not completely forgotten, but considered an obsolete eccentricity. Effectively all software will be made by AI. Students will not study coding, the knowledge of our generation will be lost.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-01-27 02:06:43+00:00
The key point is at the end of the OP. The dysfunction and bureaucracy are annoying, even to the people who make a career out of it, there's no level of enlightenment where it stops being so. It's just an inevitable consequence of doing some kinds of things and making some kinds of decisions. If you're faced with an important decision affecting 10,000 employees or a million users, there's no perfectly good way to make it, only a least bad way.
by h00kwurm | 2026-01-27 02:07:07+00:00
i can speak to this as i had my motorcycle stolen on NYE last year in Santa Monica with an airtag in it. the Santa Monica police said “smart, but it’s in LA so we can’t help you get it. tell the LAPD.”. it took me seven hours of calls to the LAPD while personally hunting down my bike in the shadiest areas of LA, and being a block away from getting it myself, did they come. so yes, if you’re in LA, you basically get it yourself.

in my case, the damage was so much i wish i had just left it stolen and taken the bigger insurance payout.
by thymine_dimer | 2026-01-27 02:07:08+00:00
Is 'contextualised pretraining' a solution to baking in human alignment?

You can only post-train so much...
Try telling a child that martial arts isn't the solution to everything right after they've watched karate kid.
A weak analogy, but it seems very clear that the healthy psychological development of frontier models is something necessary to solve.

Some good insights could come from those working at the coalface of child-psychology.
Show HN: Free image-to-JSON converter (extract structured data from images)
by incendies | 2026-01-27 02:07:34+00:00
I built a small free tool that converts images into structured JSON output.

The idea is simple: upload an image, and the tool tries to extract its visual/content information into a clean JSON format that can be used for further processing, automation, or AI workflows.

This started as a side project to speed up my own experiments with image analysis and prompt pipelines. There’s no login, no paywall, and it runs entirely in the browser.

I’m sharing it here mainly to get feedback:

Does the output structure make sense?

What use cases would you expect from something like this?

Anything obviously missing or confusing?

Happy to improve it based on suggestions.
by BLKNSLVR | 2026-01-27 02:07:42+00:00
OneDrive slows my directory navigation to a pace reminiscent of mid-90s computing.

Double-click folder name, wait 5 seconds, douhle click next folder name, wait another 5 seconds. As such, I've moved my working directories out of the bubble in which OneDrive is (corporately) configured to operate.

This is 2026. All this processing power, storage and memory capacity and speed, network bandwidth, and we're regressing thirty years of performance gains. Bang up job Microsoft. I'm glad I managed to personally extricate myself from that particular squirrel grip a while back.
by fooker | 2026-01-27 02:07:56+00:00
I have worked on some of the most supposedly reliable codebases on earth (compilers) for several decades, and most of the code in compilers is pretty bad.

And most of the code the compiler is expected to compile, seen from the perspective of fixing bugs and issues with compilers, is absolutely terrible. And the day that can be rewritten or improved reliably with AI can't come fast enough.
by nebula8804 | 2026-01-27 02:07:56+00:00
No need for historical stuff, look at China today like right now.

The high population with oversupply of STEP means everything is more cutthroat there. They have 25% youth unemployment. 996 produces lots of problems but also higher pain threshold. When a new idea comes along they move at lightning speed.

Oversupply of companies in every industry. For example: China mandated companies start producing EVs. Next thing you know there are 100+ car companies in China. All creating jobs that local areas depends on. Now the EV incentives are gone and it has led to extreme price war and everyone fighting for survival in the jungle. What do you think those surviving companies will be like once the weak have been killed off? Imagine them coming after American companies who are fat and bloated and may not know whats coming for them (the employees certainly don't).

This ability to push harder than anyone else is already paying dividends. In 2024, China added 429 GW of new power capacity, more than one-third of the entire US grid. Thats many more factories producing weapons, data centers crunching AI, and lower energy costs enabling more new opportunities.

Now take these people and put them on a war footing? They will out manufacture, out speed and with the amount of STEM they have possibly out wit the US.
by nosuchthing | 2026-01-27 02:08:21+00:00
I guess that's a fair point. It will be interesting to see how unregulated AI plays out.

It seems like one other aspect to this is a question of how these systems are all very new and we're already seeing addiction and psychosis from adults using them. Apparently there's laws in China that limit the use of social media and video games for anyone below a certain age, and same with the use of LLM tools. There's mandatory education and training on what LLMs are for certain grade ranges.

At least there's some transparency with open weight models. With closed models it's harder to audit for censorship or bias. Even with "open weight" models there's no transparency with training datasets.