MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nonethewiser | 2026-01-23 19:01:37+00:00
Thats not the point of the original commenter. The point of the original commenter is that he expects Claude can inform him well enough to be a farm manager and its not impressive since Seth is the primary agent.

I think it is impressive if it works. Like I mentioned in a sibling comment I think it already definitely proves something LLMs have accomplished though, and that is giving people tremendous confidence to try things.
by bikenaga | 2026-01-23 19:02:24+00:00
Original article: "Peripheral cancer attenuates amyloid pathology in Alzheimer’s disease via cystatin-c activation of TREM2" - https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(25)01433-3?_re...

Abstract: "Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and cancer are among the most devastating diseases worldwide. Epidemiological data indicate that the incidence of AD significantly decreases in patients with a history of cancer. However, whether and how peripheral cancer may affect AD progression is yet to be studied. Here, we find that peripheral cancer inhibits amyloid pathology and rescues cognition via secretion of cystatin-c (Cyst-C), which binds amyloid oligomers and activates triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) in microglia, enabling microglia to degrade the pre-existing amyloid plaques in AD mice. These effects of Cyst-C are abolished by a cell-type-specific deletion (Cx3cr1TREM2−/−) or mutation of TREM2 (TREM2R47H) or Cyst-C (Cyst-CL68Q) in microglia. Together, these findings provide significant conceptual advances into cancer neuroscience and establish therapeutic avenues that are distinct from the present amyloid-lowering strategies, aiming at degrading the existing amyloid plaques for precision-targeted AD therapy."
by JimsonYang | 2026-01-23 19:02:32+00:00
short answer it depends and idk. When I was doing some testing with prompts like "what should I have for dinner" adding variations, "hey ai, plz, etc" doesn't deviate intention much. As ai is really good at pulling intent. But obv if you say "i'm on keto what should i have for dinner" it's going to ignore things like "garlic, pesto, and pasta noodles". Although it pulls a similar response to "what's a good keto dinner". From there we really assume the user can know their customers what type of prompts led them to chatgpt. You might've noticed sites asking if you came from chatgpt, i would take that a step further and asked them to type the prompt they used.

But you do bring a good perspective because not all prompts are equal especially with personaliztion. So how do we solve that problem-I'm not sure. I have yet to see anything in the industry. The only thing that came close was when a security focused browser extension started selling data to aeo companies- that's how some companies get "prompt volume data".
by culi | 2026-01-23 19:02:35+00:00
Nobody is denying that this is AI-enabled but that's entirely different from "AI can grow corn".

Also Seth a non-farmer was already capable of using Google, online forums, and Sci-Hub/Libgen to access farming-related literature before LLMs came on the scene. In this case the LLM is just acting as a super-charged search engine. A great and useful technology, sure. But we're not utilizing any entirely novel capabilities here

And tbh until we take a good crack at World Models I doubt we can
by socalgal2 | 2026-01-23 19:02:52+00:00
To me, this project is the point. AI makes "push button get image" is now a thing just like photography made "push button get image" a thing. People complained then that photography was not art. But then eventually we mostly found the art of photography. I think the same will happen for AI stuff. When everyone can do it you need to do something else/more
by zdragnar | 2026-01-23 19:03:36+00:00
I can't believe it took this long.

We have mandatory identification for all kinds of things that are illegal to purchase or engage in under a certain age. Nobody wants to prosecute 12 year old kids for lying when the clicked the "I am at least 13 years old" checkbox when registering an account. The only alternative is to do what we do with R-rated movies, alcohol, tobacco, firearms, risky physical activities (i.e. bungee jumping liability waiver) etc... we put the onus of verifying identification on the suppliers.

I've always imagined this was inevitable.
by Capricorn2481 | 2026-01-23 19:03:43+00:00
Homes became more affordable from 1989-1996. So I don't think they were retroactively saying "this isn't affordable anymore."

To be clear, I agree that houses are way less affordable now, which was the point of this thread. I just don't think fictional TV is a good reference point for that. They famously exaggerate the spaces people live in so they can film better angles or block different scenes. See "Friends"
by roberttod | 2026-01-23 19:04:08+00:00
Mostly, it's not the model that is lacking but the visibility it has. Often the top level business context for a problem is out of reach, spread across slack, email, internal knowledge and meetings.

Once I digest some of this and give it to Claude, it's mostly smooth sailing but then the context window becomes the problem. Compactions during implementation remove a lot of important info. There should really be a Claude monitoring top level context and passing work to agents. I'm currently figuring out how to orchastrate that nicely with Claude Code MD files.

With respect to architecture, it generally makes sound decisions but I want to tweak it, often trading off simplicity vs. security and scale. These decisions seem very subtle and likely include some personal preferences I haven't written anywhere.
by modernpacifist | 2026-01-23 19:04:29+00:00
The [ONT → OLT(+BNG)] → Internet] sections of the paths will continue to be owned by commercial entities that can still be the subject of court orders and/or government pressure.

Even if you were to roll your own cable in the ground to your own ONT/OLT/BNG at some point you will need to acquire IP transit or peering from other commercial entities.
by SoftTalker | 2026-01-23 19:05:44+00:00
Some of this is over-the-top paranoia. If ICE wants to get into your car, they'll just break the window.

It's been very long established that nobody has a "right" to operate a motor vehicle. It's something you are permitted to do under the terms of a license, and it's fairly regulated (though not as much as in some other countries).
by __MatrixMan__ | 2026-01-23 19:06:08+00:00
It's pretty much just docker compose, but you don't have to forward ports or map volumes because the processes are not running in containers. The TUI is pretty nice also. If docker compose has an equivalent I'm not aware of it.

Its especially nice for use with agents because the process-compose commands can be used to understand what's running, what's pending, what's failing, etc. Of course there's always `ps aux | grep` but that's full of noise from the rest of your system and it doesn't provide and structure for understanding: "foo is not running because the readiness check for bar is failing".

Containers have their place, but I don't think it's everywhere.
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-23 19:06:24+00:00
There are some sales where it is straightforward, you're talking to the person up front who is empowered to buy.

Then there are those sales where, as you say, understanding politics is the most important thing.

There is no trick that makes that complex sale easy but it sure is helpful to recognize that this is normal and know what you're dealing with.
by rootusrootus | 2026-01-23 19:06:35+00:00
> Are people still not over him buying Twitter and firing all the dead weight?

You think that's really the issue? Or are you not making a good faith comment yourself?

I cannot remember the last time I saw someone hating on Elon for his Twitter personnel decisions. The vast majority of the time it is the nazi salutes he did on live TV and then secondary to that his inflammatory behavior online (e.g. calling the submarine guy a pedo).
by x0x0 | 2026-01-23 19:06:57+00:00
I don't think there's a good answer here.

Users absolutely 100% will lose their password and recovery key and not understand that even if the bytes are on a desk physically next to you, they are gone. Gone baby gone.

In university, I helped a friend set up encryption on a drive w/ his work after a pen drive with work on it was stolen. He insisted he would not lose the password. We went through the discussion of "this is real encryption. If you lose the password, you may as well have wiped the files. It is not in any way recoverable. I need you to understand this."

6 weeks is all it took him.
by duskwuff | 2026-01-23 19:07:08+00:00
> There are two ways to log into macOS: a local user account or an LDAP (e.g. OpenDirectory, Active Directory) account.

And just in case it wasn't clear enough, I'd add: a local user account is the default. The only way you'd end up with an LDAP account is if you're in an organization that deliberately set your computer up for networked login; it's not a standard configuration, nor is it a component of iCloud.
by habinero | 2026-01-23 19:07:15+00:00
That's a terrible analogy lol.

1. Chefs do learn the chemistry, at least enough to know why their techniques work.

2. Food scientist is a real job

3. The supply chain absolutely does have scientists involved in day to day operations lol.

A better analogy is just shoving the entire contents of the fridge into a pot, plastic containers and all, and assuming it'll be fine.
by mindslight | 2026-01-23 19:07:38+00:00
> support for effective border enforcement

Trump does not support effective immigration enforcement whereby the rule of law is carried out. Rather Trump supports similarly ineffective immigration enforcement, just with the incompetence accruing in the opposite direction.

The point is twofold. First, we need to stop letting the fascists own this idea that they're effective at anything beyond causing unnecessary human suffering (that many of their sick supporters actually seem to relish).

Second, regardless of the Democrats' policies, the fascists won by promising a siren song of simplistic fairy tale answers that were never going to work out (obvious to anybody using half their brain). There is no way to remain honest and overcome this when the People want to choose feel-good lies over uncomfortable truths. And if you try to compete by adopting similarly dishonest tactics, you're never going to catch up to the fascists who have years of a head start and an emotionally-resounding message of restorative cruelty.
by tialaramex | 2026-01-23 19:07:42+00:00
I don't know that an EU Hacker News makes sense, a core EU idea is Freedom of Movement.

This started out as an ideal about Goods. You make a Doodad in Venice, clearly there should be as few obstacles as possible to prevent somebody in Dublin having that Doodad, so no export taxes between Venice and Dublin, shared regulatory framework so that your Venice "This Doodad won't choke a baby/ burn down a house/ spy on you/ etc." paperwork is valid in Dublin, and so on.

But immediately people who make goods said well this rule needs to include Capital, it's great that I can sell Doodads from Venice in Dublin, but if I want to build a Doodad factory in Venice but my money is in Dublin that should be easy too. And Workers realised if it's just Capital and Goods then it's a race to the bottom for Labour, the Capital and Goods will go where it's cheapest but the workers can't move. So very soon Workers can move freely too, in order that Hans the Doodad Engineer can move to Venice and the courts ended up deciding that in practice everybody gets this freedom, a 5 year old can't have a job and a 105 year old probably doesn't want one, but maybe Hans needs to support his 5 year old grand-daughter and his 105 year old grandfather, so Freedom of Movement must apply to all EU citizens.

So, with that idea in mind, I suspect the EU's perspective is that you should come to Europe and write software here, rather than that you should stay exactly where you are and if it's not an EU country then too bad, no EU Product Hunt for you.
by orange_joe | 2026-01-23 19:08:20+00:00
contra-pessimism: My parents run a small organic farm on the east coast — (greenhouses, not row crops) and they extensively use chatgpt for decision making They obviously haven’t built out agentic data gathering, but can easily prompt it with the required information. they’re quite happy with everything.

I’m guessing this will screw up in assuming infinite labor & equipment liqudity.
by epistasis | 2026-01-23 19:09:01+00:00
> it was really easy to set up without a Microsoft account.

By "really easy" do you mean you had a checkbox? Or "really easy" in that there's a secret sequence of key presses at one point during setup? Or was it the domain join method?

Googling around, I'm not sure any of the methods could be described as "really easy" since it takes a lot of knowledge to do it.
by wincy | 2026-01-23 19:09:33+00:00
I dunno, I live in what most people would call peak Suburbia and have all sorts of bike trails I didn’t even know existed until I got the electric assisted bike, I can range 5 miles away from my house in any direction without having to be on any major roads, and have a trailer for doing grocery shopping. I went 15 miles away and back one time but took quite awhile. All the grocery stores I frequent are within this range. When it’s warm out, I use my bike for probably 90% of my trips out of the house.
by dfxm12 | 2026-01-23 19:09:38+00:00
A very frustrating part is how much bad faith the admin is engaging in. We see a question asked in good faith and an answer that completely ignores the question at hand and instead against a strawman. This is also the regular MO of Vance and Miller, etc. It's obvious these folks never grew out of their trolling people on message boards phase.

Between the use of AI to generate videos and photos and the way the administration refuses to engage the media or their constituents in good faith, it just shows that they are trying to create their a reality that simply doesn't exist. "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command..."
by _verandaguy | 2026-01-23 19:09:45+00:00
What?

A vehicle (presumably a car, since bikes are vehicles too) gets you and your stuff from point A to point B. Bikes do that too, though at a smaller scale.

If your commute or your errands aren't excessively long or require the use of a controlled-access highway, a bike's a perfectly fine alternative. The limiting factors are seasonal road or bike path maintenance and the discipline of other road users.
by thewebguyd | 2026-01-23 19:09:46+00:00
Yes, you cannot be compelled to testify against yourself, but Microsoft is under no such obligation when served a warrant because of third party doctrine. Microsoft holding bitlocker recovery keys is considered you voluntarily giving the information to a third party, so the warrant isn't compelling you to do anything, so not a rights violation.

But, the 5th amendment is also why its important to not rely on biometrics. Generally (there are some gray areas) in the US you cannot be compelled to give up your password, but biometrics are viewed as physical evidence and not protected by the 5th.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-23 19:10:29+00:00
I do think most people implementing something like this, especially in the exact way this one was implemented would really just be interested in the Wi-Fi ranges.

When I was doing wireless stuff we'd show customers the output of RF analysers to show that even with their wifi turned off their spectrum was packed full of noise.

Having a large viceral display of this would quickly enlighten them.
by nonethewiser | 2026-01-23 19:10:59+00:00
>So far it's bothered 10 companies directly with no legal authority to actually follow up with what is requested?

Aren't these companies in the business of leasing land? I dont see how contacting them about leasing land would be spam or bothering them. And I dont really know what you mean by "with no legal authority to actually follow up with what is requested."
by seattle_spring | 2026-01-23 19:11:03+00:00
An opaque method of ensuring investors get a huge payout at the expense of employees with ISOs that convert to common stock. Many startups refuse to share this multiplier with candidates, and will instead insist their equity grant is "competitive with the market" and "very generous."

I wouldn't be surprised if, despite the large-sounding acquisition sum of ~5b, many employees are getting their equity zero'd out and replaced with a back-loaded 4 year grant, with vesting starting today and no credit for time already worked.
by socalgal2 | 2026-01-23 19:11:11+00:00
HN type "about the website itself, not it's content" comment but ... it would be great if we could somehow get the major browser vendors to agree on some monospaced fonts. I'm on M1 Mac and the small ASCII diagram, nothing lines up (Safari/Firefox/Chrome). I see this on many ASCII diagrams. Maybe that's the site's fault. Not sure)
AbëONE: Relational AI That Learns Your Cognitive Patterns
by buttersmoothAI | 2026-01-23 19:11:16+00:00
AbëONE: Relational AI That Learns Your Cognitive Patterns

We're building AbëONE at Bravëtto—an AI system designed around a fundamentally different premise than current LLMs.

Core innovations:

1. *Persistent Relational Memory* — Not just conversation history, but learned patterns of how individual users think, communicate, and solve problems.

2. *Emotional Intelligence Layer* — Affective computing that recognizes emotional states and adapts responses accordingly. Not sentiment analysis—actual emotional context awareness.

3. *Neuromorphic Architecture* — Event-driven processing that mimics biological neural networks. Result: 60% lower energy consumption than traditional transformer models.

4. *User Evolution Tracking* — The system doesn't just remember what you said; it tracks how your needs and patterns evolve over time.

The technical challenge: How do you build memory that's meaningful without being creepy? Our approach uses client-side preference stores with user-controlled retention.

Early benchmarks:
- 40% improvement in emotional context recognition vs GPT-4
- 60% lower power consumption
- 85% user preference in A/B tests for "feels like it knows me"

Looking for feedback from the community. What are the technical challenges you see in building truly relational AI?

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by scotty79 | 2026-01-23 19:11:25+00:00
> if we allow our government

This is so tiresome when people who don't have a single tank think they are in a position to allow people with tanks to do this or that.

Things happen because their value for people in power exceeds the value of your consent. And you have fewer and fewer ways to make your consent any more valuable to cross the threshold of relevancy.

I know it's an attractive illusion to believe that people have a say. But it's time to shake it off because this veil is one of the things used for control.
by salawat | 2026-01-23 19:11:45+00:00
Indeed. Third Party Doctrine has undermined 4th/5th Amendment protections due to the hair brained power grab that was "if you share info with a third party as art of the only way of doing business, you waive 4th Amendment protections. I ironically, Boomers basically knee-capped Constitutional protections for the very data most critically in need of protection in a network state.

Only fix is apparently waiting until enough for to cram through an Amendment/set a precedent to fix it.
by LTL_FTC | 2026-01-23 19:12:02+00:00
I mean, you could put together a cluster of dgx sparks (8 of them) and hit 100tps with high concurrency:

https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/6x-spark-setup/354399/...

Or a single user at about 10tps.

This is probably around $30k if you go with the 1tb models.
by shykes | 2026-01-23 19:12:16+00:00
It's difficult to tell the whole story in a HN comment, but if you're interested, I did share my experience in a few podcasts over the years. Here are a few that I could find on youtuve: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVED44sb7zg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSlHvz57RKs

I also recently discovered a trove of my old presentations, retracing my early obsession with the same problem, and my repeated failed attempts to get people to care. I shared some of them in a talk a few weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huRfsLMK5sA
by neilv | 2026-01-23 19:12:22+00:00
If that's true, when a startup is making you an offer for ISOs of common shares, and explaining it... how likely are they to know that, in event of a successful exit for the startup, your shares would be diluted and preferenced to 0 value?

(The two most recent offer equity components I accepted were "2%" and "a million shares". On the latter, an upper exec did a kind of deal-closer meeting for their offer, showing me a spreadsheet, estimating how much the options would be worth if there were an exit in X years at $Y valuation.)
Ask HN: What's a good format to submit CSV data for LLMs
by JimsonYang | 2026-01-23 19:12:23+00:00
I need to submit like 1000 rows of data to an llm so I can ask it for trends within the data. If I use json, I check gpt tokenizer and thats like 40 tokens per row(cuz headers were being referenced everytime leading to inefficiency). Meaning 40k input, which definitely would put me in context rot(hallucination) territory. And I heard using csv was very inaccurate. Any suggetions
by hinkley | 2026-01-23 19:12:30+00:00
You don’t think in language though. You consider in language. Otherwise we’d all be dead every time a car changed lanes unexpectedly.

Some people have a voice inside their head that never stops. Mine was that way until I started meditating. I didn’t believe that it was me thinking, but I didn’t know until I could do things without a constant internal monologue.

There are people who almost never talk to themselves in their heads. They have to talk to other people about their thoughts in order to process them. And one of the first tenets of speed reading is stop saying the words in your head and just read.
by mancerayder | 2026-01-23 19:12:38+00:00
I've lived in a few countries including the UK and France, by the way. And I don't think any Canadian would compare their healthcare system to either of those countries, they'd rather use the U.S. insurance system than be given paracetamol while waiting a few weeks to get a CAT scan. In fact, according to Gemini googling 'Canadian healthcare wait times':

Key Figures & Trends (from Fraser Institute & CIHI reports, late 2025):
National Median Wait: ~28.6 weeks (down slightly from 30 weeks in 2024).
Longest Waits: New Brunswick (~60.9 weeks), PEI (~49.7 weeks).
Shortest Waits: Ontario (~19.2 weeks).
By Specialty: Neurosurgery (49.9 weeks), Orthopaedic Surgery (48.6 weeks) were longest; Oncology (Radiation 4.2, Medical 4.7 weeks) shortest.
Diagnostics: CT (8.8 weeks), MRI (18.1 weeks).

That's pretty bad. In the U.S. you wait one week for an MRI and it's paid for, minus copay, by your insurance if your insurance is good. The U.S. healthcare is pretty great if you a) work b) work in a place that gives you good healthcare or c) are old enough to qualify for Medicare. It also depends on which state you are in, since the state laws differ on healthcare (Texas and New York are not the same).

But I don't think your point is fact-finding, it's hating on the U.S. or provoking.

I know the political parties are as corrupt as they get but that is your problem to fix, even so Trump's talking points, that the USA has been financing the rest of the world are plain bullshit.

Not sure the point of this angry statement.