MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pjerem | 2026-01-26 16:13:23+00:00
Yep but with AirPods, you are listening music or watching a video, on your Mac, your iPhone rings (on your AirPods), you accept the call, and now the video is paused on your Mac and your AirPods are already connected to your iPhone.

Any time any of the registered devices needs to emit sound, the AirPods instantly switch to this device (and both devices will show an unobtrusive notification to reverse the auto switch).

And it works every. single. time.

Apple can't make Airdrop work reliably after decades but somehow, they are able to magically and instantly transfer bluetooth audio from a device to another device.

Though, if you use your airpods with anything non apple, it will juste work like a classical bluetooth device, with manual pairing and no magic switching.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-26 16:13:39+00:00
LLMs are already used in signal processing so the idea is explored.

Simply put anything that can be encoded is a language, so you just need sensors to capture and classify the incoming data and build that into a model. The real question is post training the model to behave correctly as these places are far less explored than things at the human scale. RLHF may be a poor choice because the models may see actual behaviors that humans don't and humans will discount it as being incorrect.
Show HN: Got tired of chasing clients for Google &Meta access, so I built this
by connexify_io | 2026-01-26 16:13:54+00:00
Hey HN,

I'm one of two co-founders behind Connexify. We're a marketing guy and a developer who got tired of the same painful workflow: every time a new client signs up, someone has to manually chase them for Google Ads access, Meta Pages permissions, Analytics, Search Console... you name it.

We built Connexify to flip that process. Instead of back-and-forth emails asking clients to "please add this email as admin," we generate a single link. The client clicks it, authenticates via OAuth, picks the accounts they want to share, done. All permissions land in one dashboard.

Tech stack: Next.js, Supabase for auth (magic links + SSO), Stripe for billing, and a lot of painful OAuth integration work with Google, Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, and Amazon.

What we learned the hard way:

Meta's and Google's developer support is essentially non-existent. When you do get a response, it's clearly from someone reading a script who doesn't understand the API.

LinkedIn's API access is a black box. We've been trying for months. If anyone here has navigated their partner program successfully, I'd genuinely love to hear how.

Same story with Google Business Profile (formerly GMB) – the hoops to get API access approved are brutal.

The core product was built before "vibe coding" was a thing, so no AI-generated spaghetti here – just two people solving our own problem.

Would love feedback on the onboarding flow. You can try it without signing up by checking the demo on the homepage. Especially interested in hearing from anyone who's dealt with the LinkedIn or GMB API approval process.
by alright2565 | 2026-01-26 16:13:59+00:00
I misremembered :(

4.5 Sonnet, but because I've been stuck on 3.7 Sonnet for so long due to corporate policy I wrote the wrong thing.

And yeah corporate policy. Opus is not available. I prefer Codex for my personal coding but I have not needed to look in the Git history here yet.
by rossdavidh | 2026-01-26 16:14:16+00:00
So, a couple years ago Microsoft was the first large, public-facing software organization to make LLM-assisted coding a big part of their production. If LLM's really delivered 10x productivity improvements, as claimed by some, then we should by now be seeing an explosion of productivity out of Microsoft. It's been a couple years, so if it really helps then we should see it by now.

So, either LLM-assisted coding is not delivering the benefits some thought it would, or Microsoft, despite being an early investor in OpenAI, is not using it much internally on things that really matter to them (like Windows). Either way, I'm not impressed.
by Bishonen88 | 2026-01-26 16:15:21+00:00
Expertise won't be needed (it already isn't). One can create copies of apps with vague descriptions referencing those big apps:

"Create a copy of xyz. It needs to look and behave similarly. I want these features ... And on top of that ...".
Millions decisions not needed. A handful of vague descriptions of what one wants is all it takes today. I think claude and co. can even take in screenshots.

Documentation won't be needed either IMO. Since humans won't write nor read the code. They will simply ask LLM's if they have a question.

I totally am giving up my experience with various paid SaaS this year, which I was paying for last years. Not only am I able to add the features that I was wishing for those tools to have (and would have never made it into the real app because they're niche requests), but am saving money at the same time.

And the above is just whats happening today. Claude Code is younger than 1 year old. Looking forward to come back to this thread in a year and swallow my words... but I'm afraid I won't have to.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-01-26 16:15:37+00:00
There's an even bigger problem if you're talking about the soutwhest in general: huge parts of it are thousands of feet above the Great Lakes. The energy costs of moving water horizontally are probably doable; pumping millions of acre-feet 5k feet vertically are almost certainly not (no matter what energy source you suggest using for this).
by carlosjobim | 2026-01-26 16:15:38+00:00
Talk is even easier. You just need to press record. Or not even that, go and talk with people or scream at people.

Talking has always been superior to text, and most of the problems of industrialized society is that the majority of people have become psychotic brained by thinking that the written word is higher than the spoken word. The spoken word is of course superior, and has always been.
by plingamp | 2026-01-26 16:16:05+00:00
My car got broken into in Oakland, California. Multiple pieces of luggage stolen (yes, my fault for leaving it in the car in the first place). Luckily I had an AirTag that showed the exact location of the stolen items. I called the police but they said they couldn't do anything. Apparently, even if I had the location the thief would have to invite them in. Regardless, I was put on a waiting list, they finally called me back 3 days later. I promptly left the state a few months later.
by mambo_giro | 2026-01-26 16:16:10+00:00
Apple rarely offers direct discounts of closeout or excess merchandise. Instead to clear out back stock they’ll work with partner retailers (Amazon, Best Buy, etc.) who don’t mind the brand perception associated with offering deeper discounts.

First-gen AirTags have been on sale on Amazon frequently over the last year, and they’ll probably drop the price again soon.
by adrian_b | 2026-01-26 16:16:42+00:00
YouTube has a lot of junk, but there are also a lot of useful videos that demonstrate various practical skills or the experiences of using certain products, or recordings of certain natural environments, which are original, in the sense that before YouTube you could not find equivalent content anywhere, except by knowing personally people who could show you such things, but there would have been very small chances to find one near you, while through YouTube you can find one who happens to live on the opposite side of the World and who can share with you the experience in which you are interested.
by WorldMaker | 2026-01-26 16:16:51+00:00
> people used to get strong naturally because they had to do physical labor

I think that's a bit of a myth. The Greeks and Romans had weightlifting and boxing gyms, but no forklifts. Many of the most renowned Romans in the original form of the Olympics and in Boxing were Roman Senators with the wealth and free time to lift weights and box and wrestle. One of the things that we know about the famous philosopher Plato was that Plato was essentially a nickname from wrestling (meaning "Broad") as a first career (somewhat like Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, which adds a fun twist to reading Socratic Dialogs or thinking about relationships as "platonic").

Arguably the "meritocratic ideal" of the Gladiator arena was that even "blue collar" Romans could compete and maybe survive. But even the stories that survive of that, few did.

There may be a lesson in that myth, too, that the people that succeed in some sports often aren't the people doing physical labor because they must do physical labor (for a job), they are the ones intentionally practicing it in the ways to do well in sports.
by digiown | 2026-01-26 16:17:01+00:00
> which means full reads and scrubs touch more bits and inevitably brush against those error rates

Does this make sense at all? ZFS scrubs only reads the data you have, not the whole drive, and repairs data if possible. The more data you have, the more you have to validate regardless of the tools used. The BER is also just a terrible metric and is not reflective of how drives actually behave.
by atwrk | 2026-01-26 16:17:20+00:00
"run" as in run locally? There's not much you can do with that little RAM.

If remote models are ok you could have a look at MiniMax M2.1 (minimax.io) or GLM from z.ai or Qwen3 Coder. You should be able to use all of these with your local openai app.
by bringitup | 2026-01-26 16:17:41+00:00
Thanks for your feedback,
Workflows are essential components of advanced systems, and AI excels at orchestrating them. Cori Kernel now secures the foundational elements at the data layer, enabling you to inject orchestration logic directly into the agent that interacts with Cori.
But if this orchestration is mission-critical and requires enforcement, we are developing a dedicated workflows component to facilitate the orchestration of multiple services, including APIs and MCP servers
by willhslade | 2026-01-26 16:17:42+00:00
In 2023, the median Canadian income was roughly $44K CAD.
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=111000...

Looks like the USA in 2024 was $51K USD.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_...

I know we need to adjust for health care, but I think the median income in the USA is higher.
by ryandrake | 2026-01-26 16:17:42+00:00
Having to reach for a 3rd party tool to keep litter off your system is the opposite of the Just Works marketing that Apple stands by. One of the reasons for switching over to a Mac is so you don't have to sit there running these dicey Cleaner and Sweeper apps just to keep your system maintained. If a software's (OS or otherwise) pile of vague "caches" and "library files" grows unbounded, then I would consider that a bug.
by tracker1 | 2026-01-26 16:17:53+00:00
I reject the assertion that AI Vibe Coding has to have any affect on how OSS maintainers get paid (or not). Most of those that are paid, are paid because their job is related but the OSS library/project itself is not directly monetized. I don't see AI/Vibe coding changing this... except that now the maintainer can choose or not to accept or use those tools on their project or not.

But the assertion that everything needs to change is absurd. Articles like this are similar in my mind to arguments for communism because every artist deserves a living wage... that's just not how society can sustain itself in reality. Maybe in a world without scarcity, but I don't see scarcity going away any time soon.
by ecshafer | 2026-01-26 16:18:02+00:00
I never really got onto "vibe coding". I treat AI as a better auto-complete that has stack overflow knowledge.

I am writing a game in Monogame, I am not primarily a game dev or a c sharp dev. I find AI is fantastic here for "Set up a configuration class for this project that maps key bindings" and have it handle the boiler plate and smaller configuration. Its great at give me an A start implementation for this graph. But when it becomes x -> y -> z without larger contexts and evolutions it falls flat. I still need creativity. I just don't worry too much about boiler plate, utility methods, and figuring out specifics of wiring a framework together.
GitButler is super cool but not ready for the real world
by mithr | 2026-01-26 16:18:06+00:00
I really wanted to love GitButler (https://gitbutler.com/).

It makes it really easy to work with stacked PRs and keep them in sync, and do some nice tricks like decide which part of the stack a commit goes into, and apply and unapply parts of the stack.

I loved the operation log and how you can instantly revert to an older operation, as an escape hatch from weird merges and other things that go wrong.

But. It is absolutely incapable of dealing with merge conflicts. No matter how trivial the conflict, GitButler makes you click through sometimes multiple iterations of a rebase-like flow where you fix an issue and then go back to the app to tell it you've done so. When clicking the "done" button, it often takes ~5 minutes to recognize what you've done, sometimes reporting several errors (but still proceeding past them) as it's going. During this time, there's no indication of how long you'll be stuck there, or if the operation will ever actually complete successfully. Sometimes I'd restart the app after a few minutes and try again. This process became a daily occurrence.

It got so bad that I tried resolving conflicts using GitHub's UI, thinking I'd just be able to pull down the changes when done. But GitButler wouldn't have that: it detected the changes and required me to rebase or merge to pull them in. The final straw for me was when both of these options resulted in errors, and I was effectively stuck. Luckily, it's easy to just ignore the workspace branch and switch back to your standard git client.

I think the tool shows a lot of promise, but it's just not ready for use in a real-world working conditions, where you're often integrating your work with that of a team and need to frequently merge it, even in the most common cases where conflicts should be easily resolved. I'll revisit it in a year!
by dns_snek | 2026-01-26 16:18:15+00:00
How long will this heavily subsidized price of $200/month last? Do you really think these companies are going to let you pocket all the surplus value forever?

We all know that the music is going to stop eventually and that the landscape after that is going to look very different. Subsidies will stop and investors will want their trillions in returns. Talking about "democratization" while everyone is just using other people's money is completely premature.

Airbnb "democratized travel" for a while and now they're more expensive than their predecessors.
by steve1977 | 2026-01-26 16:18:25+00:00
> Maybe? I guess the better question is "when?"

And also at what cost and at what scale?

Will we be able to construct a supercomputer/datacenter that can match or exceed human intelligence? Possibly, even probaby.

But that would only be one instance of such an AGI then and it would be very expensive. IMHO it will take a long time to produce something like that as a commodity.
by sgjohnson | 2026-01-26 16:18:25+00:00
> A connection to the internet should be equal to any other connection to the internet

It's not your connection. It's your ISPs. They are also their IPs.

> Noone has a right to dictate what services I run or don't run, what protocols I speak or don't speak, what traffic I accept or deny, but me. That's the whole point of being on the internet rather than Prodigy or Compuserve or something.

Then become your own ISP. Get an ASN (easy), acquire your own IPv4 and IPv6 space (also easy, but v4 is expensive), get a commercial connection that'll allow for BGP, and go ahead, do whatever you want with your IP addresses.

> The physical location of that connection is irrelevant.

It's not about the physical location, it's about who's IP addresses are you using. If they are not yours, the service provider has every right to restrict what you do with them.
by bane | 2026-01-26 16:18:46+00:00
The fermentation traditions around soybeans are particularly interesting. The starting point is called meju [1] which are blocks of open air fermented soybeans in blocks.

From there you can continue to process and ferment them to produce a variety of sauces, pastes, soup bases, and so on - soy sauce is the most famous in the west, but the rest of the products have honestly mind-blowing, highly complex, tastes.

There's also a broad tradition of preserving and fermenting various seafoods, from the corvina to fermented skate (hongeo) [2].

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meju

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hongeo-hoe
by buildbot | 2026-01-26 16:18:49+00:00
If you are sensitive you can get really, really annoying blips of flicker even above 1khz - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1477153512436367

They also flicker really badly if your power is not perfect, like you have a decent sized training rig on a different circut.

Incandescents are basically little light inductors and I would imagine the luminosity curve would be sinusoidal vs whatever hell a LED driver chip puts out.
by sheepscreek | 2026-01-26 16:18:53+00:00
Good for the author. Me, never going back to hands-only coding. I am producing more higher quality code that I understand and feel confident in. I tell AI to not just “write tests”, I tell it exactly what to test as well. Then I’ll often prompt it “hey did you check for the xyz edge cases?” You need code reviews. You need to intervene. You will need frequent code rewrites and refactors. But AI is the best pair-coding partner you could hope for (at this time) and one that never gets tired.

So while there’s no free lunch, if you are willing to pay - your lunch will be a delicious unlimited buffet for a fraction of the cost.
by duffyjp | 2026-01-26 16:18:58+00:00
Nothing. This summer I set up a dual 16GB GPU / 64GB RAM system and nothing I could run was even remotely close. Big models that didn't fit on 32gb VRAM had marginally better results but were at least of magnitude slower than what you'd pay for and still much worse in quality.

I gave one of the GPUs to my kid to play games on.
by jimnotgym | 2026-01-26 16:19:06+00:00
Totally agree. But if we believe in property protection, we shouldn't steal those rights though.

Any temporary payment will not be trusted, since future governments can undo it.

The government should buy the land, and the rights, at full market value, discounted by the value of a new perpetual right to graze what is left after the flooding. Peat bogs are also the best carbon sinks we have, aren't they?

One interesting part of this, is that there are plans to reforest some of these areas (which were deforested perhaps 1000 years ago), and the main opposition to that is from the general public, who like to look at the hills as they are! People are complex...
Show HN: The Rekord – Global AI-generated polls for major events
by shawarmazgreat | 2026-01-26 16:19:14+00:00
I just launched The Rekord — AI turns world news into point-blank polls, and people around the world answer.

Today, the same questions are asked everywhere in fragmented silos — on Twitter/X in particular, polls are tied to accounts, timelines, and follower graphs — amplifying echo chambers instead of global insight.

The Rekord asks the same question once, translates it across languages, and aggregates responses in one place so people from different platforms vote on the same thing.

I’m posting this here mainly to get feedback from builders: what works, what doesn’t, and what would make this genuinely useful.

I’m considering features like public-figure approval ratings, light gamification (points/badges), richer comments (e.g. short videos), and stronger anonymity — curious what else you’d want to see.

Sample polls to get a sense of the polls:

Did Brahim Díaz miss the penalty on purpose?:
https://www.therekord.ai/polls/cmklv519n00fqle1h59qy0qlo

Is Trump right that Canada lives because of the United States?
https://www.therekord.ai/polls/cmksgwc2q0020l51he6s9vmq2

Should the ICE agents who shot Alex Pretti be charged with murder?
https://www.therekord.ai/polls/cmku7cb10001jl41h1tz6pjlp

Landing page:
https://www.therekord.ai

Built solo with Next.js, hosted on AWS Amplify, vibe-coded in Cursor, using LLM APIs for poll generation and translation.
by gorpomon | 2026-01-26 16:19:24+00:00
This is all really good stuff, and thankfully I feel like I have been practicing a fair bit of this already (so, I could be biased here!).

I like the umbrella callout especially, that one took me a few years to really internalize. "Protection" isn't as beneficial as "good stress" is. You don't just protect muscles, you use them in a responsible manner to get stronger. I've started trying to ensure my team gets a lot of "good stress" (so projects that grow careers, develop expertise, etc), while getting some concentrated down time after to rest, reflect and grow (often it manifests as time to fix bugs and just not be the star of the show).
by doug_durham | 2026-01-26 16:19:46+00:00
Do you honestly get satisfaction out of writing code that you've written dozens of times in your career? Does writing yet another REST client endpoint fill you with satisfaction? Software is my passion, but I want to write code where I can add the maximum value. I add more value by using my experience solving new problems that rehashing code I've written before. Using GenAI as a helper tool allows me to quickly write the boilerplate and get to the value-add. I review every line of code written before sending it for PR review. That's not controversial, it's just good engineering.
by reeredfdfdf | 2026-01-26 16:20:02+00:00
Voice is going to become more important, but I doubt it's going to be that much of a threat to websites. I can already ask Gemini in my last generation smart watch for latest news, but I much prefer reading them myself. IMO AI will be simply integrated to smart watches and phones. Maybe you'll also have more devices like Amazon Alexa at home, but I see no demand for an entirely new kind of a device/user interface.

That said, I don't have much faith in the future of my programming career either. Unless robotics gets exponentially better, registered nurses are going to be way safer from automation (at least the ones doing physical treatment).
by saghm | 2026-01-26 16:20:17+00:00
IMO one of the best features of AppImage is that it makes it easy to extract without needing external tools. It's usually pretty easy for me to look at an AppImage and write a PKGBUILD to make a native Arch package; the format already encodes what things need to be installed where, so it's only a question of whether the libraries it contains are the same versions of what I can pull in as dependencies (either from the main repos or the AUR). If they are, my job is basically already done, and if they aren't, I can either choose to include them in the package itself assuming I don't have anything conflicting (which is fine for local use even if it's not something that's usually tolerated when publishing a package) or stick with using the AppImage.
by dippatel1994 | 2026-01-26 16:20:35+00:00
Last year, we evaluated different agentic LLM frameworks before selecting to architect our production system. Too many options out there.

So I built a covering their capabilities. If you're evaluating agentic solutions for your next project, hope this saves you time. It maps what's native, what needs integration, and what's not supported.

Let me know if anything needs correction or want to add any other framework.