MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ktg0215 | 2026-01-08 17:18:02+00:00
I built this because X became impossible to use without getting sucked into endless scrolling.

The algorithm is incredibly good at showing engaging content - which is exactly the problem. I wanted to check updates from people I follow, not spend 40 minutes on rage bait and viral threads.

X Detox lets you:
- Hide the "For You" feed and keep only "Following"
- Remove trending topics and "What's happening"
- Hide engagement metrics (likes, retweets, view counts)
- Disable infinite scroll with a customizable post limit

It's not about quitting X entirely - it's about using it intentionally.

I'm a software engineer in Tokyo and this is part of a series of "digital detox" extensions I've been building. Feedback welcome!
by Leynos | 2026-01-08 17:18:04+00:00
It's the following that is problematic: "I asked each of them to fix the error, specifying that I wanted completed code only, without commentary."

GPT-5 has been trained to adhere to instructions more strictly than GPT-4. If it is given nonsense or contradictory instructions, it is a known issue that it will produce unereliable results.

A more realistic scenario would have been for him to have requested a plan or proposal as to how the model might fix the problem.
by afavour | 2026-01-08 17:18:04+00:00
I know a certain set of HN users doesn't like to discuss "politics" but if the government's site about "Eat Real Food" can sit on the front page for many hours (currently at spot 14 after being posted 23 hours ago) then this can too. It's important that US citizens know what their federal government is doing in their name.

If you require a tech angle: how about the fact that smartphones have enabled this incident to be recorded from many angles by everyday citizens? A couple of decades ago we'd likely only have the government's word for it. How long before AI messes up that trust?

EDIT: what do you know? This post has disappeared from the front page. Currently in the 57th spot on page 2. And yes, "Eat Real Food" remains exactly where it was.

If you didn't already know about HN's moves to minimize visibility of government wrongdoing, well, you do now.
by JodieBenitez | 2026-01-08 17:18:27+00:00
> "Bose blows" is a popular comment amongst the audiophile community

I have a 15 years old Bose system. Is it audio-transparent ? Absolutely not, its frequency response is well documented. But the sound is very pleasing, it's reliable and nearly invisble in my living room.

I'm not an audiophile though, just a music lover.
by travisgriggs | 2026-01-08 17:18:36+00:00
Another languages that just “gets” concurrent right (imo) is erlang/elixir. I’ve done elixir for the last 3 years off and on.

Can someone with experience in both Go and Elixir compare the two? I’m sure I can have GPT whip up a comparison and see the syntax diffeeences, but I’m curious what the real experience “in the trench” is like.
by bayindirh | 2026-01-08 17:18:38+00:00
Came here to say exactly this. I consider myself an audiophile (the sane kind) and, if I want “that sound” and have time, I use my HiFi, but if I want to enjoy music and just relax, I use my Bose headphones with whatever thing I have close.

I like how they color sound, and how they use psychoacoustics to do what they do.

Audiophiles using music to listen their systems are missing the point.
by Wowfunhappy | 2026-01-08 17:19:39+00:00
> To be more specific, Sound Reproduction Fidelity is not the same as Pleasant Music

If a speaker reproduces some music with 100% accuracy and the result is unpleasant, doesn’t that just mean the original music—as created by the artist—is unpleasant?

Where possible, I’d prefer a speaker that respects the artist’s decisions instead of inserting itself into the creative process.
by yomismoaqui | 2026-01-08 17:19:57+00:00
Another comment already mentioned that the OP don't understand how to work with errors in Go.

As with any language, Go has its own philosophy and you have to first understand why it was created and what it brings to the table. To summarize it in one phrase "Less is more"

I think this post should be a mandatory reading for everybody learning Go. If this resonates with you it's possible you're gonna like the language:

https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponenti...
by jimmytucson | 2026-01-08 17:20:09+00:00
Not shilling for Go here but there are a few misconceptions in this blog post. In addition to the others mentioned:

> All of these examples involve assigning to a constant a value known at compile time but none of them will work

Maps are not known at compile time. Hash functions are randomized based on a seed only known at execution time. The hashed value of "HELLO" is actually different each time the program runs. Even if the hash function weren't random, the runtime has to allocate buckets for map values on the heap, which involves calling the OS to get memory addresses for those buckets, etc.

In Go, `const` means "the compiler can completely evaluate this expression and store the final bytes in the executable," which has the effect of making them non-reassignable, but protection from reassignment is not an actual feature of the language the way it is in Java and C++ (goes back to the maintainers wanting to keep it simple).
Show HN: Learn system design by reverse-engineering open-source systems
by selvaprakash | 2026-01-08 17:20:38+00:00
Hi HN,

In my experience, system design and architecture knowledge usually comes from working with large, complex codebases.

I learned most of my coding by reading Stack Overflow answers and studying existing projects, but understanding system design and architecture from real codebases was much harder. I built revibe.codes to make that process more explicit by reverse-engineering open-source codebases and surfacing their structure and flows.

It analyzes a project’s structure, identifies key files, and builds a high-level understanding of the system by reading through the code. The output is presented in plain English through interactive flow diagrams and guided code walkthroughs.

The experience is interactive — you can start from a step in a user flow, jump to the module behind it, and then into the relevant code files. There’s also a guided path through the codebase that suggests where to start and what to look at next, with explanations of important files.

This is still early and largely driven by my own learning process. I’m curious how others here approach studying large systems, and whether this kind of tooling feels useful.
by thirdthing | 2026-01-08 17:20:46+00:00
Hey HN,

The Last Word is a one-page site with a single message on it. Anyone can replace the message, but they must pay more than the previous person.

Your message stays live until someone outbids you.

It’s an experiment at the intersection of art and commerce — a tiny marketplace where the prices are public and the only rule is "pay more to be heard."

But above all, it’s a simple game with a simple question: how much will the last word cost?

Curious to hear what you think – how you’d use it, how you'd try to break it, and if you have thoughts on experimental sites like this. We hope it's the first of many.
by aftbit | 2026-01-08 17:20:56+00:00
The interesting bit is that Trump and many of his supporters seem (to me) to be openly working to bring an end to US dominance and promote the likes of China to the top spot instead. The US got its global power by being relatively undestroyed by WWII, and thus both willing and able to pay to rebuild the rest of the world, while performing some very sneaky currency and political manipulations. Now the US wants to cut off our allies and strengthen our enemies.
by skeeter2020 | 2026-01-08 17:21:30+00:00
It has definitely cooled dramatically; even reasonable interest rates make the numbers pretty meh.

This feels very similar to the Canadian narrative that foreign (read: Chinese) investors are buying all the houses in Vancouver & Toronto. Does it happen? absolutely, but it's also a nice way to blame a segment that has no voice or recourse. It also allows us to turn a blind eye to the impact of a generation of essentially zero % interest rates and a country that holds twice as much of their wealth in houses as the US. Other popular targets: out-of-province home owners, vacation property owners, multi-generational properties.
by jerlam | 2026-01-08 17:21:33+00:00
I wonder what loophole Waymo used here:

Bonelli said that the Ojai is not affected by the U.S. government's regulations that aim to prevent Chinese cars from being sold to customers in the U.S.

Possibly the Ojai is not fully assembled (therefore, not a car), or Waymo does not count as a consumer.

Also, I hope they're more comfortable than the current Jaguars. I was stuck in traffic in the back of a Waymo for almost an hour and it wasn't great. If Waymo is expanding their range, longer rides might be more common.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-08 17:21:56+00:00
You have got to be kidding me. No one on the face of the earth wants to pay a doctor for time. They want to pay for results.

Nobody is going to pay thousands of dollars for shitty advice or treatments that can potentially kill you... are you kidding me? What human will happily dish out thousands of dollars just to give "time" to the doctor for wrong advice. That has got to be a joke.

>If you want to pay for results only then you're free to negotiate a cash payment contract with your healthcare providers on that basis.

It needs to be law to make it on this basis. Every patient would demand this. The only person who wouldn't demand this is a doctor who's "time" doesn't provide results.

What's going on here is the patient has nowhere else to turn. If every doctor negotiates on "time" and the legal system is set up this way, what other choice does the patient have then to gamble thousands on something that won't work?

Let me explain it to you plainly. The system is set up this way so patients are indoctrinated to accept unfair treatment. They can even be aware of flaws in the system but they still have to accept it because the behavior is so wide spread.

It's similar to North Korea. If everyone in north korea stood up to Kim Jong Un, the sheer number of people getting screwed over vs. people in power is so overwhelming the government would topple immediately. But the system is pervasive. And that is the medical system in the US: Pervasive and systemic. And it goes deeper than just the unreliability of doctors here.

I WANT to negotiate based on results... but thanks to the cartel-like policies of the medical system all together, I can't. Ask any patient... EVERY patient wants this, but none of them can do it. Same as your average north korean... they don't want to starve under an unreasonable regime, but they have no choice.

You may not have realized it but your last sentence was a slip up... Your initial sentences was an attempt to justify time based payment by comparing and contrasting to other occupations like lawyers... but in your last sentence you were essentially (and likely accidentally) telling me to suck it up because I have no choice. That was not something any patient wants to hear.
by surgical_fire | 2026-01-08 17:22:44+00:00
Then don't. You can use Scala to your heart's content. No one is stopping you.

I had to work on a Scala codebase at some point, and I thought it horrible. I judge a language on how easy it allows you to create an unreadable mess. Scala makes it incredibly easy. And the people that enjoy Scala seem to like "unreadable messiness" as a feature.

I found it fun to learn the basics, and it was interesting to think of problems from a FP approach, but it is never something I would use in the real world.

I vastly prefer Java. The features it imported from Scala were fine, made the language better. It doesn't need to import everything.
by jtuple | 2026-01-08 17:22:50+00:00
> A series of 13 cameras, six radar sensors, and four lidar sensors dot the Ojai's exterior, and are fitted with onboard heaters to reduce ice buildup and small wipers and fluid to clear away dirt. These features will be critical as Waymo expands beyond warm-weather cities and into gnarlier climates in the northeast United States.

The whole point of this article is that the new vehicle is better suited to more climates.

All the cities above already have service, the expansion in the title refers to the new markets that should (hopefully) be unlocked with this new vehicle.
by hagbard_c | 2026-01-08 17:23:06+00:00
Only if people start talking about the 'bird-watching' community instead of individual bird watchers and people who happen to like watching birds begin to talk about themselves in that way: as a member of the bird-watching community I .... The same for the other examples: nerds, 'farmers', etc. In essence it comes down to this: when people start being identified and as a result start identifying themselves by some specific characteristic - bird-watcher, nerd, etc - it starts becoming political. Some of these examples - especially the nerdy one - won't come to much but it wouldn't surprise you to read about an organised group of bird-watchers from the bird-watching community staking out a protest in front of some planned building site where a small patch of forest is to be razed to the ground to make place for some housing project. The same is true for the rural example, especially those who actually derive their living from 'rural activities' - farmers and those dependent on them for their livelihood have been active as political groups for a very long time.

Here's one of the many ways the Open University answers the question on what politics is:

Among the broadest ways of defining politics is to understand it as a ‘social activity’ – an activity we engage in together with others, or one through which we engage others. Politics, in this sense, is ‘always a dialogue, and never a monologue’ (Heywood, 2013, p. 1). A similarly broad (or perhaps even broader) definition is offered by Arendt (2005), who argues that politics does not have an ‘essence’ – it does not have an intrinsic nature, or an indispensable element according to which we can definitively, and in all circumstances, identify something as political. Thus, there are no quintessentially political acts, subjects or places. Politics, rather, is the world that emerges between us – the world that emerges through our interactions with each other, or through the ways that our individual actions and perspectives are aggregated into collectivities. [1]

[1] https://www.open.edu/openlearn/society-politics-law/what-pol...
by palmotea | 2026-01-08 17:23:17+00:00
> The ARM Core starts up, does crypto, Loads the SecureOS and the BIOS, then it starts the x86 CPU - In 16 bit mode! Which then boostraps itself through 32 then 64 bit mode.

Well, what if I want to run a 16-bit OS?

Also, I wonder if the transistor count of a literal entire 8086 processor is so small relative to the total that they just do that.

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count#Microprocesso...:

1978 Intel 8086: 29,000

2021 Rocket Lake: 6,000,000,000

So you could fit 200,000+ 8086s on that not-so-cutting-edge silicon.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-01-08 17:23:28+00:00
I've got to wonder what the potential market size is for AI driven software development.

I'd have to guess that competition and efficiency gains will reduce the cost of AI coding tools, but for now we've got $100 or $200/mo premium plans for things like Claude Code (although some users may exceed this and pay more), call it $1-2K/yr per developer, and in the US there are apparently about 1M developers, so even with a 100% adoption rate that's only $1-2B revenue spread across all providers for the US market.... a drop in the bucket for a company like Google, and hardly enough to create a sane Price-to-Sales ratio for companies like OpenAI or Anthropic given their sky-high valuations.

Corporate API usage seems to have potential to be higher (not capped by a fixed size user base), but hard to estimate what that might be.

ChatBots don't seem to be viable for long-term revenue, at least not from consumers, since it seems we'll always have things like Google "AI Mode" available for free.
by doublerabbit | 2026-01-08 17:23:30+00:00
Not use any device that has GSM/LTE, or Bluetooth.

Alternatively, broadcast a hidden SSID WiFi AP via an enabled RPi and use only devices that's have WiFi. Hand them out to people for free to increase the spread.

Attach magnets to the RPi's and go rogue by sticking them to buses, cars and trains et cetera to increase range.
by muragekibicho | 2026-01-08 17:23:58+00:00
Sudoku solvers are great for testing reasoning models. The paper 'Sinkhorn Solves Sudoku' showcases Belief Propagation, an alternative to backpropagation rooted in Optimal Transport theory.

The idea is somewhat analogous to performing a softmax but without the derivatives. It's pretty cool IMO.
by thisislife2 | 2026-01-08 17:24:03+00:00
No, you can't because that would trigger World War 3. Any attack on Russia, by NATO or any European state, would trigger a retaliation from Russia. It would also trigger Russia's military alliance with China and other countries, who would also join the war. This is the reason why NATO or any of the European nation is unwilling to join the war directly, and only helping Ukraine with money, armaments and equipments (which unfortunately isn't enough as Russian economy and military is stronger).
by eqvinox | 2026-01-08 17:24:06+00:00
Not blinding other traffic on the road is a safety critical concern. A few seconds of being blinded is enough to cause a serious accident. This means that any technology that is intended to legitimate brighter headlights by masking other traffic needs to have something like a ≥99% efficacy. (Exact number doesn't really matter.)

> one of the german makes already has something that exempts a car in front of you

… and this technology does not have that level of efficacy, and neither do any of the others.
by JodieBenitez | 2026-01-08 17:24:20+00:00
Bose in general (there are many models...) is not what I'd call high-fidelity. It doesn't mean you can't enjoy your music or your movies with it. Just don't buy this if you care about transparency, otherwise it's usually a pleasing hearing experience. Their PA line is IMO overpriced and sacrifices too much to the design and weight.
by graemep | 2026-01-08 17:24:23+00:00
I have no idea how much of this stuff is volunteer written, and how much is paid work that is open-sourced.

No one if forced to use these licences. Even some FOSS licences such as AGPL will not be used by many companies (even the GPL where its software that is distributed to users). You could use a FOSS license and add an exemption for non-commercial use, or use a non-FOSS license that is free for non-commercial use or small businesses.

On the other hand a lot of people choose permissive licenses. I assume they are happy to do so.
by freedomben | 2026-01-08 17:24:34+00:00
Indeed, and also people buying second-hand are pretty unlikely to buy brand new if they aren't able to find the second-hand item (or use it). It's similar to piracy in that respect, that some people who pirate might have actually bought it, but the majority likely would not have anyway so can't just say "1,000 people pirated our thing, therefore we lost 1,000 sales". The cynic in me thinks they know that and just use it as a convenient way to over-inflate the damage piracy is doing to them, but that's a separate topic
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-01-08 17:24:41+00:00
BYD already assembles buses in SoCal, so I don't see why they couldn't just set up something like that.

Ah, but asking Gemini, I guess its different:

Waymo is partnering with Chinese automotive giant Geely's brand, Zeekr, to produce the new AV platform. To comply with U.S. regulations, the vehicles are imported without any built-in telematics or data-transmitting hardware/software that could pose a national security risk.

"Base Vehicles": The vehicles Waymo receives from Zeekr are essentially "gliders" or base platforms, stripped of any internal communication systems that would allow them to send data back to the manufacturer in China.
U.S. Installation: All of Waymo's self-driving technology and connected components are installed after the vehicles arrive in the U.S. by authorized personnel. This means the entire "connected tech" system on board is American-owned and American-fitted, allowing Waymo to argue its vehicles fall outside the scope of U.S. Commerce Department restrictions on Chinese connected vehicles.

They still have to pay steep tariffs, but on less complete cheaper vehicles.
by ctoth | 2026-01-08 17:24:46+00:00
If you fully accept everything BobaFloutist says, what do you do differently?

Nothing. You just... feel more sympathetic to doctors and less confident that your own experience meant anything.

Notice what's absent: any engagement with whether the AI-assisted approach actually worked, whether there's a systemic issue with ENTs not being current on allergy research, whether patients should try OTC interventions as cheap experiments, whether the 25% localized-reaction finding is real and undertaught.

The actual medical question and its resolution get zero attention.

Also though...

You are sort of just telling people "sometimes stuff is going to not work out, oh also there's this thing that can help, and you probably shouldn't use it?"

What is the action you would like people to take after reading your comment? Not use ChatGPT to attempt to solve things they have had issues solving with their human doctors?
by digdugdirk | 2026-01-08 17:24:58+00:00
"Bonelli said that the Ojai is not affected by the U.S. government's regulations that aim to prevent Chinese cars from being sold to customers in the U.S."

How does this get around the regulations? That's a massive loophole that will absolutely get abused by both China and domestic companies. Trucking, delivery vehicles, etc. will all get slammed by this.

I'm not a fan of protectionist regulations like the ones keeping Chinese automobiles out of the US, but if you're going to have them, at least make them effective.
by whatisthiseven | 2026-01-08 17:25:01+00:00
Again, the Nuremberg Laws were just that, laws on the books in Germany.

Immigration laws I am fine with, some I disagree with, but that's the nature of government.

Interesting how all the laws ICE breaks aren't part of the discussion. Just the ones immigrants break. Should we engage in overly violent reactions to minor infractions by ICE? Why aren't we?

You see the asymmetry of application of the laws? Obviously, if this were about "law and order", this would be done in an orderly fashion, and disorderly application of the law would be punished in a lawful and orderly way.

But it isn't. Because, obviously. The laws do not matter to this administration. They are a post hoc justification for action. It's why Trump just does whatever and then waits for court challenges. It's why he stiffed his own contractors for decades. He doesn't care for the law.

This focus on "what the law says" for immigrants is bizarre, given Trump obviously does not care what the law says. Trump unilaterally re-allocated funds to ICE to engage in his witch hunt.

When will we stop navel-gazing about "the immigration laws" and start seriously asking "why does Trump continue to find innovative ways to shatter every legal separation of powers"?

Seriously, compared to that, immigration is a far-gone minor issue. And that is precisely how you get to Nazi Germany. So much ink spilled on minor infractions by people with no power, but nothing said about those in the highest positions of power abusing and breaking it daily.

What a farcical debate.