MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lapcat | 2026-01-15 13:29:59+00:00
> We shouldn’t ban drinking and driving. It doesn’t even help, because people do it anyway.

> Do you see the trouble with the logic here?

I think you misunderstood my comment. The second sentence was not intended to be an argument or justification for the first sentence. The first sentence stands alone: I think it's unprincipled to ban children from drinking. The second sentence is merely a corollary. Also, I think that legalization and the introduction of adult supervision would ameliorate some of the problems associated with youth drinking, would "moderate" it to some extent.

My view is that the government should not try to be a parent, should not restrict personal freedom, not even of kids, except in so far as one's exercise of freedom harms others, and even there it has to be significant harm, e.g., you can ban violence but not hurting someone else's feelings. The drunk driving laws, which apply to all ages, may be justified by the known role of drunk driving in car crashes. The same principle apples to public smoking bans: the issue is not the first-hand smoke, which is your own business, but rather the second-hand smoke, affecting people who choose not to smoke.
by anonu | 2026-01-15 13:30:08+00:00
I am not sure its "not allowed". The abstract is interesting and thought provoking.

I would love to read the book but I personally don't have time for it - so most likely would not pay for it.

There is a danger in thinking of our "meat machines" in purely mechanical terms - so my first interest is whether whatever model being proposed can actually be adhered to. Or maybe an "AI Copilot" can implement such a framework and assist us mere humans in attaining our goals.
by delis-thumbs-7e | 2026-01-15 13:30:08+00:00
Yep, this is definitely written by an LLM. I doubt any model is capable of reasoning this bad.

> “harmful compared to what?”

The kids can sniff glue all I care, at least we get some good punk rock out of it. That largely depends on their parents. But children spending time completely unsupervised with bunch of adult men only some of which are pedophiles while shooting into their brains 24/7 the most powerful advertisement ever known to man wrapped into an application that has the same operationational logic as one-armed bandit will not bring anything good to anybody - except loads of money to the tech bro’s. It is basically same as raising your children in a Las Vegas casino.

But you don’t have to take my word. You know you can just ask the kids who have been raised with social media, the first generation of which is adult now? Every single one of the zoomers say it sucks. That should be enpugh.
by GuB-42 | 2026-01-15 13:30:12+00:00
And that's exactly the same for coding!

Coding is like writing documentation for the computer to read. It is common to say that you should write documentation any idiot can understand, and compared to people, computers really are idiots that do exactly as you say with a complete lack of common sense. Computers understand nothing, so all the understanding has to come from the programmer, which is his actual job.

Just because LLMs can produce grammatically correct sentences doesn't mean they can write proper documentation. In the same way, just because they are able to produce code that compiles doesn't mean they can write the program the user needs.
by selfhoster11 | 2026-01-15 13:30:17+00:00
1. You can run decent local AI now - see /r/LocalLlama. You pay the electricity cost and hardware capex (which isn't that expensive for smaller models).

2. Chinese APIs like Moonshot and DeepSeek have extremely cheap pricing, with optional subscriptions that will grant you a fixed number of requests of any context size for under $10 a month. Claude Code is the bourgeois option, GLM-4.7 does quite well on vibe coding and is extremely cheap.
by andrewinardeer | 2026-01-15 13:30:21+00:00
Whoa boy. I caught Landman for the first time today because my partner was watching it.

Oil, cigarettes and alcohol were all clearly being pushed and promoted. Pretty sure it was episode four where a women rather matter-of-factly stated that one alcoholic beverage when pregnant was perfectly fine - inso much that it was good because it helped her body generate breast milk. Such a weird statement to shoe-horn into this soap opera.

Coupled with BBT chain smoking the coffin nails, the rampant shit-canning of renewables and incessant self promotion of how large and wonderful the fossil fuel industry is the money behind the show was as subtle as a sledgehammer.

Plus the sexual objectification of women in this show is ludicrous.

It's 2026. It seems everything old is new again.

Oh, and the
by nindalf | 2026-01-15 13:30:36+00:00
https://nindalf.com. I've written a few posts that have made it to HN [1].

I strongly oppose writing with LLMs and think it's more important than ever to write with our own words. If my writing is to be better than LLMs I need to hone it by writing more.

I'm proud of the website as well. I have used LLMs to assist with the UI dev. It has all 100s from PageSpeed. I've made it so it's easy to add pages within. All the books I've read in the last few years [1] and a minimalist gym tracker I use myself (any anyone can too!).

[1] - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] - https://nindalf.com/books

[3] - https://nindalf.com/gym
by nacozarina | 2026-01-15 13:30:49+00:00
Forcing people into a social underclass via digital exile is a grotesque abuse of power and makes a mockery of the ‘values’ you claim to uphold.

Glazing it all with ‘for the children’ makes it acutely Less sincere, given the convenience with which that phrase gets trotted out. Zero points.

The only consolation in this spectacle is that such abuses always bring unexpected consequences as harsh as the fools were misguided.
by lnsru | 2026-01-15 13:30:50+00:00
This is super interesting to watch. NATO will collapse as it is and hopefully Europe will crawl from under the skirt of Americans. I mean being there for 80 years after end of WW2 was a long time to develop some feeling of independence. Greenland is still a price to pay. Carelessness and ignorance aren’t cheap. Or Europe will be only very worried and sad again. I hope not. President Trump is a great wake up call for Europeans. Much better than million russian soldiers.
by sevensor | 2026-01-15 13:31:06+00:00
See also: librarians, archivists, historians, film critics, doctors, lawyers, docents. The déformation professionnelle of our industry is to see the world in terms of information storage, processing, and retrieval. For these fields and many others, this is like confusing a nailgun for a roofer. It misses the essence of the work.
by krapp | 2026-01-15 13:31:10+00:00
Yes like every other concept in the religion, including the nature and morality of God, the nature of the afterlife and divine punishment and reward has evolved over time. Because it isn't real. It's folklore and mythology.

The ancient Israelites originally believed in Sheol[0,1], an afterlife where everyone went, regardless of their morality. The modern concept of Hell is a political construct meant to answer the problem of evil and the absence of God's justice in times of persecution[2..4].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheol

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUCW-PMBvKE

[2]https://old.reddit.com/r/AcademicBiblical/comments/1fsatrp/o...

[3]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEOj-ceCy58&app=desktop

[4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42eoA2-kzO0
by gaganyatri | 2026-01-15 13:31:11+00:00
Built discovery using
- Qwen-3-VL-8B for Document Ocr + Prompts + Tool Call
- ChromaDB for Vector storage.
- BM25 + Embedding model for Hybrid RAG.
- Backend- FastAPI + Python
- Frontend- React + Typescript
- vllm + docker for model deployment on L40 GPU

Demo: https://app.dwani.ai

GitHub: https://github.com/dwani-ai/discovery

Now working on added Agentic features, by continuous analysis of Document with Generated prompts.
by ochrist | 2026-01-15 13:31:13+00:00
Currently USA only has one base left: Pituffik Space Base (previously called Thule Air Base). They used to have about 17 bases and several thousand military personnel, but now it's down to about 200.
If USA wanted it, they could establish all the bases they wanted and send more people, but they chose to cut down on military presence over the past years.
Source: Have worked on that last base several years ago.
Also check wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pituffik_Space_Base
by nine_k | 2026-01-15 13:31:21+00:00
> If the "half a million tons" figure were accurate, a single 1 GW data center would consume 1.7% of the world's annual copper supply. If we built 30 GW of capacity—a reasonable projection for the AI build-out—that sector alone would theoretically absorb almost half of all the copper mined on Earth.

Quickly doing such "back of an envelope" calculations, and calling out things that seem outlandish, could be a useful function of an AI assistant.
by boilerupnc | 2026-01-15 13:31:48+00:00
Well said. I try to capture and express this same sentiment to others through the following expression:

“Technology needs soul”

I suppose this can be generalized to “__ needs soul”. Eg. Technical writing needs soul, User interfaces need soul, etc. We are seriously discounting the value we receive from embedding a level of humanity into the things we choose (or are forced) to experience.
by rasmus-kirk | 2026-01-15 13:32:16+00:00
https://rasmuskirk.com/

My personal blog and resume. I have written a couple of blog-posts:

- 2025-06-18: Lasso Transactions as an alternative to Copyright

A Solution to Fund Creativity and Combat the Free-Rider Problem in a World Without Copyright.

https://rasmuskirk.com/articles/2025-06-18_lasso-transactions-as-an-alternative-to-copyright

- 2024-12-23: Why Nix Is the Perfect Package Manager for Your Steam Deck

An article exploring the benefits of using Nix on the Steam Deck, with a step-by-step guide to installation and configuration using Home Manager.

https://rasmuskirk.com/articles/2024-12-23_why-nix-is-the-perfect-package-manager-for-your-steam-deck

- 2024-07-24: You Don’t Need NixOS

Why you should consider Nix Devshells and Home-Manager rather than NixOS if you want to get into Nix

https://rasmuskirk.com/articles/2024-07-24_dont-use-nixos

The blog is custom-made, built using Nix and pandoc. The website builder is its own Nix flake:

https://github.com/rasmus-kirk/website-builder
by smitelli | 2026-01-15 13:32:20+00:00
Never played Thief, but I logged a lot of hours in Unreal, 1998. I was (and still am) amazed at how full-featured the software renderer was. I always wished I could peek at the code behind it.

If memory serves, the only thing my 3dfx Voodoo3 could do that software-only mode could not was surface reflections. Maybe something with colored lighting too, it's been a long time. Point is, it was a decent enough substitute for dedicated graphics hardware.
by amistico | 2026-01-15 13:32:38+00:00
Over the last few years, prediction markets have quietly proven something important: people want to express opinions about the future with skin in the game. Kalshi, Polymarket, and others showed there’s real demand for this behavior.

But I think we’re still missing the next layer.

Right now, prediction markets mostly optimize for outcomes:

Yes or no

Buy or sell

Price discovery

What they don’t really optimize for is people.

There’s very little identity, reputation, or social context. You’re usually trading alone, against an anonymous market, with no persistent sense of skill or progression.

That’s where we think the next evolution comes in.

At GameStock, we’re building what we believe is the social and competitive layer on top of markets.

Instead of asking:

“What do you think will happen?”

We ask:

“Can you outperform other people over time?”

The product looks closer to fantasy sports or online poker than a traditional prediction exchange:

You compete in daily or weekly tournaments

You pick a small portfolio (stocks or crypto) with the same virtual starting capital as everyone else

Performance is ranked on live leaderboards

You can play free or paid, create private leagues, or challenge friends head-to-head

Skill compounds into reputation, not just a single binary outcome

What’s interesting is how this changes behavior.

Markets become something you show up to, not just something you trade.
Winning feels less like guessing right once, and more like being consistently good.
Discussion shifts from “what’s the price” to “who’s actually good at this.”

Prediction markets discovered willingness.
We think the next step is habit, identity, and social gravity.

Not saying this replaces prediction markets. More like it sits on top of them and expands the surface area:

From outcomes → performance

From liquidity → community

From one-off bets → repeat competition

Curious how others here think about this.
If prediction markets were v1 of “betting on the future,” what does v2 look like?
by scotty79 | 2026-01-15 13:32:39+00:00
Obviously sycophants of the dictator taken over all civil institutions as evidenced by the quality of this term when compared to previous one.

But are the any signs that they taken over military? Iran and Venezuela was something they had in mind for decades. But are there any generals itching to test themselves invading Greenland against European military? They don't have to obey the civilians. Rule of law is a thin veneer that this president stripped clean. Now personal interests of the people in power is what matters. Are there any generals with personal interest to invade Greenland and fight Europe? They obviously can develop some but it should take few years at least, right?
by cue_the_strings | 2026-01-15 13:32:45+00:00
Yeah, a lot of people who went to the US illegaly now own businesses. A highschool buddy went to drive trucks in like 2014, now has his own trucking company, several trucks, bunch of employees (Montenegrin and otherwise).

When I say semi-legally, there are people who do kind of get the green card through marriage, but it's fake marriages. A lot of truckers do it and it seems to be tolerated.

BTW apparently (I searched online) now people from Serbia also go to the US to work illegaly, but it's a recent trend, in Montenegro it was commonplace since at least 2010 and in Albania since the 90s.
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-15 13:33:01+00:00
>The F-series is the best selling car family in the US. Some of them are using it for its intended purpose sure, the majority are just using it as parent said, a luxobarge.

A F550 box truck and a crew cab shortbed F150 are both F-series as well as everything in between.

If not the best selling it had better be damn close with all the different vehicles that exist under that one nameplate.
by DonHopkins | 2026-01-15 13:33:28+00:00
Where and how Cursor store all its workspaces, chats, prompts, thoughts, context, completions, tool calls, searches, schemas, and images:

"Cursor Mirror" Anthropic Skill and Python Sister Script:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629604

cursor-mirror skill: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/tree/main/skills/cursor-...

cursor_mirror.py script: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/skills/cursor-...

DATA-SCHEMAS.yml schema map: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/skills/cursor-...

PR-CURSOR-MIRROR-GENESIS.md pr description: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/designs/PR-CUR...

cursor-chat-reflection.md session log: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/examples/adven...

I-BEAM-CHARACTER.yml a spirit familiar embodying Cursor's soul: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/skills/cursor-...

IMAGE-GALLERY.md analysis of images dropped into Cursor chats, their context, and meaning: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/skills/cursor-...

>Note: This gallery contains descriptions, analysis, and context — not the actual images. The images live in Cursor's workspace cache. The point: cursor-mirror can find them, the Read tool can see them, and I-Beam can narrate their significance within the conversation where they appeared. Image archaeology!
by Jnr | 2026-01-15 13:34:11+00:00
I have claude code hooks that send local computer notifications when action is required or processing finished. And when I step away from computer, I get those notifications through pushover. Then I login on phone to ssh (mosh) with Termius and connect to the tmux session running claude. I use this approach when watching TV with the family and laptop is not appreciated on the sofa. :)
by gethly | 2026-01-15 13:34:12+00:00
I am working on layouting library(inspired by the concepts behind Clay). There are two modes in which these things operate - immediate mode where you recreate everything anew for every frame, or retained mode where you create everything only once and then mutate the existing state for every frame and render only the differences.

HTML DOM uses retained model as it would be unimaginable to completely throw out the entire DOM and rebuild it anew with every frame. But React, Vue and other libraries use immediate mode to communicate with HTML DOM. They might internally have retained mode, but in the end they only perform mutations based on their internal differences.

So the whole web ui is layer upon layer of immediate, retained and hybrid modes all talking to each other. Now imagine how much wasted resources all of this layering implies :)

Another interesting fact is that when you have opacity or translucency in web ui, the browser render the background elements off canvas and uses it as background for the element with the opacity in order to avoid issues with various elements seeping through in many unexpected ways.

tl;dr this topic has been thoroughly discussed in here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYFBOIr6n_s
by nerdbert | 2026-01-15 13:34:30+00:00
Very similar to my experience. I never managed to either ask or answer a question on there. Everything I did was "bad" for reasons that were never explained to me in a constructive way that made me feel empowered to get a better outcome.

I used it as a reference when someone had a similar question to mine, but over time the bad taste in my mouth caused me to avoid it in google search results.

I fell into using an early — and I would say, far superior — form of ChatGPT, which consisted of carefully and clearly laying out my question, point-by-point, in a blank text file, and then usually having an insight as to what my particular stumbling block actually was and thereby being able to move forward.
by timschmidt | 2026-01-15 13:34:36+00:00
I recognize that user name from previous questionable takes about security here on HN. Many of the issues with OpenSSL 3 which have been discussed in this thread, including unnecessary amounts of runtime configurability, forests of ifdefs, API changes which fail to make the library any simpler to use and continue to expose internals unnecessarily, etc. absolutely have security implications.

A codebase which is difficult to understand or maintain is also difficult to properly audit or secure.
by norman784 | 2026-01-15 13:34:37+00:00
Agree, it would be awesome to move all your mac windows all over the place instead of being constrained in a virtual display. That would cut the amount of displays you need o have in order to be able to see more without switching between stacked windows, I will be tempted to buy one, if that were possible.

I have 3 displays and I am tempted to replace them with a single one, but bigger (with something like the Samsung Odyssey Ark).
by scotchmi_st | 2026-01-15 13:34:43+00:00
Sure the US could para a few soldiers in and raise the flag, but then what? US equipment and training isn’t designed for a country where the average temperature is above freezing for only 3 months of the year. When it’s minus 30 Celsius, lubricants gum up, batteries die and you need ice-breaker ships to resupply forces (which the US doesn’t have many of). Denmark and the other Nordic countries do have equipment and training designed for those conditions, and they know the (vast) landscape well, since they train there.

Imagine Afghanistan but against a modern, professional army and with the weather trying to kill you.

Which isn’t to say that it would be impossible, but certainly it would cost more in terms of casualties and money than most Americans realise.
by nomilk | 2026-01-15 13:35:02+00:00
> There are now enough statistics to prove that social media has a negative impact on the mental health of users

Yes, but the point of the article is compared to what.

I feel negative after 15 minutes on twitter (depending on the topic, of course), but I feel far less negative than if I'd tried getting similar info from legacy sources (10x slower, and with 10x the suits, lipstick, and ads).

The point isn't that social media are supposed to make users feel good, but that they're important information tools - a window to the world - and the alternatives - ignorance or less diverse more bloated sources - aren't the answer.

The solution isn't banning; it's the same as what we do with every single other useful but potentially dangerous thing: fires, pools, beaches.. - education. Perhaps secondary school could have modules for how to responsibly use social media, set and manage expectations/anxiety, when to use it (some people recommend not before sleep etc).

Banning only removes upside and delays downside. Education lessens/removes downside altogether with full upside.
by emilburzo | 2026-01-15 13:35:04+00:00
> unsupervised in a VM in the cloud where the agent has root

Why in the cloud and not in a local VM?

I've re-discovered Vagrant and have been using it exactly for this and it's surprisingly effective for my workflows.

https://blog.emilburzo.com/2026/01/running-claude-code-dange...
by elzbardico | 2026-01-15 13:35:16+00:00
A somewhat related anecdote:

Two years ago, I asked chatgpt to rewrite my resume. It looked fantastic at a first sight, then, one week later I re-read it, and feel ashamed to have sent it to some prospective employers. It was full of cringe inducing babble.

You see, for an LLM there are no hierarchies other than what it observed in their training, and even then, applying it in a different context may be tricky for them. Because it can describe hierarchies, relationships by mimicry, but it doesn't actually have a model of them.

Just an example: It may be able to generate text that recognizes that a PhD title is a step above from a Master’s degree, but sometimes it won't be able to translate this fact (instead of the description of this fact) into the subtle differences in attention and emphasis we do in our written text to reflect those real world hierarchies of value. It can repeat the fact to you, can even kind of generalize it, but it won't take a decision based on it.

It can, even more now, get a very close simulation of this, because relative importance of stuff would have been semantically capture, and it is very good at capturing those subtle semantical relationships, but, in linguistic terms, it absolutely sucks at pragmatics.

An example: Let's say in one of your experiences, you improved a model that detected malignancy in a certain kind of tumor images, improving its false negative rate to something like 0.001%, then in the same experience you casually mention that you tied the CEOs toddler tennis shoes once. Given your prompt to write a resume according to the usual resume enhancement formulas, there's a big chance it will emphasize the irrelevant tennis lace tying activity in a ridiculously pompous manner, making it hierarchically equivalent to your model kung-fu accomplishments.

So in the end, you end up with some bizarre stuff that looks like:

"Tied our CEO's toddler tennis shoes, enabling her to raise 20M with minimal equity dilution in our Series B round"