MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zuoning | 2026-01-27 02:21:46+00:00
Kutt AI is a professional AI video generation platform that turns text prompts or images into cinematic videos in seconds. You can create lifelike speaking avatars, swap faces or bodies, and animate characters with action imitation, all in HD and ready to share. The platform bundles top models like Wan and Seedance, offers over 100 effects, fast rendering, and commercial-use rights, so creators and teams can produce social clips, promos, and short films without complex editing.
by yellowapple | 2026-01-27 02:21:52+00:00
Putting “people” in scare-quotes while spewing inhuman and downright unpatriotic rhetoric is certainly a choice.

No, dual-citizenships do not cause people to be “foreign agents and dissidents”, and further, to be a “dissident” is a human right that this country was founded specifically to preserve and defend. Welcome to America, where dissent is our Constitutional right; if you don't like that, you can leave, instead of trying to invoke “wartime laws” to impose your anti-American viewpoints on the rest of us.
by augusteo | 2026-01-27 02:22:30+00:00
n_u's point about LLMs as mentors for Rust's borrow checker matches my experience. The error messages are famously helpful, but sometimes you need someone to explain the why.

I've noticed the same pattern learning other things. Having an on-demand tutor that can see your exact code changes the learning curve. You still have to do the work, but you get unstuck faster.
by happytoexplain | 2026-01-27 02:22:33+00:00
Defining tests that test for the right things requires an understanding of the problem space, just as writing the code yourself in the first place does. It's a catch-22. Using LLMs in that context would be pointless (unless you're writing short-lived one-off garbage on purpose).

I.e. the parent is speaking in the context of learning, not in the context of producing something that appears to work.
by tptacek | 2026-01-27 02:23:25+00:00
You can still run a company from Canada under these terms, the same way every international YC batch company runs --- you can just go to the YC directory and select for EMEA, LATAM, APAC, &c. There's hundreds of them.

Since this is purely about ownership structure and equity governing law, I'm curious what the intersection you're seeing between these terms and "labour rights" are. We're a US company with employees in Europe (not even an HQ in Europe, just employees there), and I've learned more about European labor law idiosyncracies over the last few years than over the whole rest of my career, because I've had to.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-27 02:24:30+00:00
They are more effective then on the ground in your face evidence largely because people who are so against AI are blind to it.

I hold a result of AI in front of your face and they still proclaim it’s garbage and everything else is fraudulent.

Let’s be clear. You’re arguing against a fantasy. Nobody even proponents of AI claims that AI is as good as humans. Nowhere near it. But they are good enough for pair programming. That is indisputable. Yet we have tons of people like you who stare at reality and deny it and call it fraudulent.

Examine the lay of the land if that many people are so divided it really means both perspectives are correct in a way.
by throwaway85825 | 2026-01-27 02:24:34+00:00
There's a great talk that explains how code structure ends up looking like the org chart, and every subsequent organization chart layered on top producing spaghetti code. Windows is now old and full of spaghetti code. Then Microsoft layed off all the expensive seniors who knew the stack and replaced them with cheaper diverse and outsourced staff. Then the people who can't maintain the code use AI and just ship it without any testing.

edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
by mrandish | 2026-01-27 02:25:20+00:00
> If it wasn't eminently obvious, most of these "secrecy" programs are marketing fluff.

Yep, and equally obvious is that keeping some piece of paper in a bank vault for PR doesn't change the fact the "secret" formula still needs to be turned into millions of gallons of product in factories around the world, so people in supply chain procurement and manufacturing processes have to have practical knowledge of how to make it.
by tptacek | 2026-01-27 02:25:20+00:00
Presumably it continues to support them the same way it supports 386 companies headquartered in Europe, 218 in South Asia, 217 in Latin America, 106 in Southeast Asia, 87 in Africa, 71 in MENA, 23 in East Asia, and 14 in Oceania, all locales where you previously had to do a flipped company structure to participate in YC.
by komali2 | 2026-01-27 02:25:56+00:00
> This top-to-bottom social astro-turfing would be just laughable grandstanding if it didn't result in real consequences for less affluent kids: crime, drugs, and deadly injuries as well as filing for bankrupcy

We were discussing graffiti.

You seem to know a lot better than less affluent people what's good for them. When you talk to such people, what do they tell you about crime, drugs, deadly injury, and filing for bankruptcy? When you've talked to graffiti artists, what led you to believe they were doing it so as to cause crime, drugs, deadly injury, and bankruptcy?
by rvz | 2026-01-27 02:26:16+00:00
Well either way, the infosec folks are going to have the time of their lives printing write-ups and lots of money on both sides.

I can see the sandbox escapes, remote code exection paths, exfiltration methods and all the vibe coded sandcastles waiting to be knocked down because we have folks openly admiting that do not know a single line of code they are prompting to the AI.

I don't think we know the scale of the amout of security issues we will see because of the level of hubris there is with AI taking care of all of the coding.
by nirvdrum | 2026-01-27 02:26:36+00:00
My experience with small police departments in the US is that they either don’t have the time or the inclination to deal with small property claims. If you’re a business they’ll be there in 10 minutes, but individuals aren’t afforded the same courtesy. Eventually, citizens realize it’s just not worth the cost or the hassle to report a crime unless it helps with an insurance claim.
by moraesc | 2026-01-27 02:26:47+00:00
A couple questions here - would more clear guidelines in the CONTRIBUTING.md file help in clarifying project direction and what contributions would be most valuable? Is there a better way for projects to indicate what issues should be prioritized? Do you ever want to run your contribution ideas past a maintainer before opening up a PR and if so do you ever do that? I'm curious if your itch may actually be something they're looking for too but it's not made clear in an effective way.
by Arainach | 2026-01-27 02:26:51+00:00
If the person reading the code doesn't quickly understand what's going on from the name or finds the name confusing, the name is poor and should be changed. It is way too easy for the author to be caught up in their mental model and to be unaware of their implicit assumptions and context and choose a name that doesn't make sense.

The bigger problem is people who feel ownership of shared codebases tied to their ego and who get angry when people suggest changes to names and other bits of interfaces instead of just making the suggested change.

If you get code review feedback, the default answer is "Done" unless you have a strong reason not to. If it's not obvious whether the name suggested by the author or the reader is better, the reader's choice should be taken every time.
by the_af | 2026-01-27 02:28:05+00:00
> 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.

Why wouldn't they go away for prototyping? If an LLM can help you prototype in whatever language, why pick Ruby or Python?

(This isn't a gotcha question. I primarily use python these days, but I'm not married to it).
by thih9 | 2026-01-27 02:28:21+00:00
I get it why an article like this is being posted, but I’m also worried that it’s jumping to conclusions.

Devs/support get overwhelmed, apps get buggy. A better course of action to me seems: reporting a broken app, requesting refund, waiting for the fix and switching to an alternative in the meantime.

I also dislike that this behavior could be a reason against sideloading, especially if made more popular.
by KnuthIsGod | 2026-01-27 02:28:22+00:00
" Our lab analyzed WD-40 with gas chromatography (GC) and mass spectroscopy (MS).:

Mineral oil

Decane

Nonane

Tridecane and Undecane

Tetradecane

Dimethyl Naphthalene

Cyclohexane

Carbon Dioxide"

https://www.wired.com/2009/04/st-whatsinside-6/
by krackers | 2026-01-27 02:29:05+00:00
It seems the language would need to be strongly typed, have good error reporting and testing infrastructure, have a good standard library and high-level abstractions, and be "close enough" to existing languages. Go would seem to already fit that bill, any bespoke language you come up with is going to have less exposure in the training set than Go. Maybe Rust as a second, but Go's memory management might be easier for the LLM (and humans) than Rust's.
by venusenvy47 | 2026-01-27 02:29:19+00:00
I bought Juice pro many years ago and use it daily on my phone and Tablet. I like how it gives my one click access to my handful of servers, and I liked the syncing between devices. I started using Termux last week and it seems like a decent alternative. The copy and paste is nicer on JuiceSSH, and I think it is more immune from getting disconnected if you switch to another app during a session.
by nebula8804 | 2026-01-27 02:29:44+00:00
Pearl Harbor and 9/11 are not great examples as they happened in the context a wildly different America. 9/11 was almost a quarter century ago. In both cases the country was more unified and had less income inequality then it does now. Enough people were disgusted by Biden not moving the needle for them personally they ignored the first four years of Trump and voted in him again just so they could benefit themselves.

>If it came down to attrition, it would maybe be AI machine attrition or drone/missile attrition which is in a way a resource war which the US could win even without TSMC, but from where we're standing today it would take more ramping up which is a process that has already started.

I'd argue China adding 1/3 of the entire US electricity capacity in a single year and increasing along with their extreme battery overcapacity makes AI and drone production something that China will win. Like I said it remains to be seen how will the US military will hold up because they do have the Arizona TSMC facility running and that could be a buffer to help the US hold on but people will still feel the pain in massive inflation in all areas and thats where peoples selfishness will rear its ugly head. Why care about Taiwan when the population could just elect someone that will negotiate a short term win for the US (at the expense of a long term loss).

>If OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc were attacked by China in a more critical way, it would have to be for some major short term advantage that is capitalized on immediately, because long-term it would be a losing strategy by itself. China has systems to disrupt as well, so if they let loose on cyber then the US has options too.

So I have been in meetings for things like Franklin Project (https://defconfranklin.com/) which are among many great initiatives the people are doing to help the US prepare for an initial attack where China disrupts all the little mom and pop orgs scattered across the US in a first strike to disorient the homeland. Is it enough? I dont know, we will have to wait and see. I dont know what China is doing to prepare for a response. It seems like their AI initiatives are a pragmatic move (use low cost Ai implemented at various layers across the stack) I do worry that in the last few years its been revealed how little so many Americans take education and critical thinking seriously and that will directly translate into sloppy IT infrastructure around the country.

>Either way, don't conflate general economic preference around an election for whether people would tolerate being unable to access Gmail or order from Amazon like they would all rush to riot in the streets. I think that misreads the situation.

I think you misread my point: Americans would make themselves heard by electing someone who will deliver a quick relief for them at the cost of long term loss.
by tmnvix | 2026-01-27 02:29:56+00:00
Quite possibly because they don't want to become the US and Israel's useful idiots - contributing to calls for war that could easily lead to the deaths of millions if past experience is anything to go by.

If the US were serious about the well-being of Iranian people they'd stop trying to screw the economy and foment violent unrest, but of course that is not what they are interested in. They want war. They want regime change. They want balkanisation.
by GoatInGrey | 2026-01-27 02:30:49+00:00
I'm not taking any position on this, but some data to chew on concerning the US. There are roughly fourteen million cases of larceny in the US every year, and between three and four million cases of stalking in the US every year. Rate of violence with larceny is roughly 1% whereas rate of violence with stalking averages 30%. Threats of violence with stalking occurs in about three out of every four cases, if I recall.

Of course, there is an implicit bias with measuring stalking as "peaceful" stalkers who never get caught leave no evidence. Unlike theft which always leaves evidence by its nature (the thing is gone).
by stego-tech | 2026-01-27 02:30:50+00:00
This is not remotely surprising.

Look, AI Healthbros, I'll tell you quite clearly what I want from your statistical pattern analyzers, and you don't even have to pay me for the idea (though I wouldn't say no to a home or Enterprise IT gig at your startup):

I want an AI/ML tool to not merely analyze my medical info (ON DEVICE, no cloud sharing kthx), but also extrapolate patterns involving weather, location, screen time, and other "non-health" data.

Do I record taking tylenol when the barometric pressure drops? Start alerting me ahead of time so I can try to avoid a headache.

Does my screen time correlate to immediately decreased sleep scores? Send me a push notification or webhook I can act upon/script off of, like locking me out of my device for the night or dimming my lights.

Am I recording higher-intensity workouts in colder temperatures or inclement weather? Start tracking those metrics and maybe keep better track of balance readings during those events for improved mobility issue detection.

Got an app where I track cannabis use or alcohol consumption? Tie that to my mental health journal or biological readings to identify red flags or concerns about misuse.

Stop trying to replace people like my medical care team, and instead equip them with better insights and datasets they can more quickly act upon. "Subject has been reporting more negative moods in his mental health journal, an uptick in alcohol consumption above his baseline, and inconsistent cannabis use compared to prior patterns" equips the care team with a quick, verifiable blurb from larger datasets that can accelerate care and improve patient outcomes - without the hallucinations of generative AI.
by jleyank | 2026-01-27 02:30:58+00:00
Well, it's fully possible to be self-insuring in these areas. Prescription assistance is probably the one significant benefit as physio, mental health and the like can be of limited reimbursement (judging from what I've seen).

The key issue is that the core of one's health insurance is not dependent on the employer or even being full-time employed. This provides tremendous flexibility. And I suspect not having things like pregnancy being seen as preexisting conditions is a big win for parents-to-be.

Age or low-income (I think) provide provincial or federal assistance independent of employment also. Medical expenses are also far easier to deduct on taxes in Canada vs. the US.
Show HN: Compile Python libraries for TypeScript with type completion (umo)
by ashiban | 2026-01-27 02:31:30+00:00
I’ve always wanted a way to use Python’s `networkx` from other languages for years, but crossing languages/runtimes was too brittle and the editing/debugging experience were non-existent. The dream was like having fSharp alongside C#, or in GraalVM world having languages interop without significant overhead.

I wanted to explore what a minimal, pleasant developer experience could look like crossing ecosystems, and for portability WASM felt like a good intermediary but until Components there was straightforward way to handle cross-execution state.

I also wanted to see if Claude Code + Opus 4.5 can build something non-trivial (not another React app) that hadn’t really been done before

Umo is what came out - I recorded a short video that's on github.

It only bridges Python modules to Node, gets the libs, extracts types / docs, create wasm components and builds the typescript interfaces/bindings.

Had fun seeing this happen, sharing with folks to see
by captain_coffee | 2026-01-27 02:31:33+00:00
> in 2026 devs write 90% of the code using natural language, through an LLM.

That is literally not true - is the author speaking about what he personally sees at his specific workplace(s)?

If 90% of the code at any given company is LLM-generated that is either a doomed company or a company doesn't write any relevant code to begin with.

I literally cannot imagine a serious company in which that is a viable scenario.
by nemosaltat | 2026-01-27 02:32:23+00:00
Poverty (of youth or otherwise) is also a pretty powerful motivation to “tinker.” I spent a lot of time with OSX86, and ended up getting proficient enough (multiple all-nighters trying to get it to boot and get the right kexts loaded early on) to run semi-stable Tiger thru Lion on random PCs and my girlfriend’s Vaio Laptop. Then, one day I could afford a MacBook and basically stopped being as curious about that. Decade or so later, ProxMox allowed me to run Capitan thru Mojave virtually, while more recently it makes more sense (and less legal dubiousness) to just buy macs as/if I need them. Overall, I’m still pretty curious, but not curious enough to risk a “hacky” solution when I can mitigate it for relatively low $
by AtomicOrbital | 2026-01-27 02:32:26+00:00
after+30 years writing code in a dozen languages building systems from scratch I love vibe coding ... it's drinking from a fire hose ... in two months I vibe coded a container orchestration system which I call my kubernetes replacement project all in go with a controller deciding which VM to deploy containers onto, agents on each host polling etcd for requests created by the controller ... it's simple understandable maintainable extendable ... also vibe coded go cdk to deploy AWS RDS clusters, API gateway, handful of golang lambda functions, valkey elasticache and a full feature data service library which handles transactions and save points, cache ... I love building systems ... sure I could write all this from scratch by hand and I have but vibe coding quickly exposes me to the broad architecture decisions earlier giving me options to experiment on various alternatives ... google gemini in antigravity rocks and yes I've tried them all ... new devs should not be vibe coding for the first 5 years or more but I lucked into having decades of doing it by hand
by tptacek | 2026-01-27 02:32:41+00:00
Doesn't it seem likely that tax treatment has more to do with this than benefits? People are reading this like YC isn't investing in companies HQ'd in Canada, but there's no evidence of that! I look at a set {US, Singapore, Cayman} and what I think is "this is about taxes". Maybe especially tricky for YC since such a huge fraction of their portcos are pre-revenue.
by motohagiography | 2026-01-27 02:32:44+00:00
Whether it's significant or not, YC's basic model of seed funding with ~$100k could be reproduced in Canada with $10MM or less. Unsure how this is a problem.

If Canada wanted to be serious about startups it could make trivial changes to enable it. However it's committed to becoming a dutch diseased resource colony with no value add and a macquiladora for US software companies. Relative to capital and assets, it's the least productive place on earth. The whole thing runs on riding the coattails of like 5 undergrad profs at waterloo, and a certain bank everyone knows launders cartel money and facilitates capital flight out of China.

Judging by its impact, YC is one of the greatest companies of all time. Canada isn't in that game imo.
by redohmy | 2026-01-27 02:33:26+00:00
Blame AI! Samsung’s reported 100% QoQ increase in NAND Flash contract prices in Q1 2026 confirms a structural shift in the memory market. After sustained DRAM price increases driven by AI data center demand, NAND is now entering the same AI-led pricing cycle.

As generative AI, RAG, and agent-based systems move into production, storage demand is rising in both scale and performance. NAND Flash is no longer a commodity component but a strategic infrastructure asset. With supply constraints persisting and suppliers retaining pricing power, elevated NAND and SSD prices are likely to continue through 2027, affecting enterprise budgets, consumer device pricing, and increasing the value of secondary storage markets.
by JuniperMesos | 2026-01-27 02:33:32+00:00
> Long way from the "Think Different" era Apple. Been thinking about that campaign this week. Posters of people like MLK, which Jobs had to get permission for from each and every estate for the campaign. When Apple was solidly, unambiguously positioned as the computer for the rebels, the misfits, the crazy ones.

"Think Different" was an advertising slogan that Apple Computers, a publicly-traded corporation with thousands of employees, paid an advertising company to create in the late 90s in order to promote a certain image of the company, because the leadership at the time thought it would help them sell more computers. And it clearly worked (or at least didn't abjectly fail) because Apple Computers is still around today and is an even larger corporate entity with a much larger market cap.

Whether a marketing campaign succeeds in appealing to you emotionally has nothing to do with whether rebels, misfits, crazy people, or any other category of person would be better off buying and using computer products made by Apple. I've personally never liked Apple products, I've always felt like they took a lot of practical control away from the end user in order to facilitate what Apple leadership thinks the end user _ought_ to want. So I avoid using their products, and I think other people should to, although I respect that the walled garden Apple provides is a computing product some people do find it useful to pay for.

Leadership at Apple computer was probably engaging in political activities some people at the time objected to when those ads were made, just as they are today.
by simonw | 2026-01-27 02:33:50+00:00
> Exactly 0 of those comments present the idea that LLMs are seriously flawed in programming environments regardless of who's in the driver seat.

Why would I say that when I very genuinely believe the opposite?

LLMs are flawed in programming environments if driven by people who don't know how to use them effectively.

Learning to use them effectively is unintuitive and difficult, as I'm sure you've seen yourself.

So I try to help people learn how to use them, through articles like https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/using-llms-for-code/ and comments like this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46765460#46765940

(I don't ever say variants of "just you watch, in the next 3 months or years..." though, I think predicting future improvements is pointless when we can be focusing on what the models we have right now can do.)