MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gizzlon | 2026-01-23 04:43:24+00:00
yup, by going after Powell he is threatening the rest of them to vote the way he wants in the future.

While it would be great if people of the US started to show some backbone and resist this fascist takeower, I'm quite pessimistic. What's going on makes me really sad.

OTOH it's not too late!! We have seen trends like this turned around before.
by neilv | 2026-01-23 04:43:29+00:00
> AI Overview

> Plagiarism is using someone else's words, ideas, or work as your own without proper credit, a serious breach of ethics leading to academic failure, job loss, or legal issues, and can range from copying text (direct) to paraphrasing without citation (mosaic), often detected by software and best avoided by meticulous citation, quoting, and paraphrasing to show original thought and attribution.
by squeaky-clean | 2026-01-23 04:43:45+00:00
Very often I'll close a tab, realize I need to open it again for some reason, long press on the + button and it just isn't there. I feel like re-opening a closed tab fails more than it works.

Also sometimes the back button will just freeze or not take you back. So I try hitting it again, it takes me 2 steps back in my history (this is fine), then I press forward and it takes me to the end of history, so I hit back again and it takes me 2 steps back. And the page I actually wanted to go back to is just gone from my history. I know there's a lot of whacky JS messing with history that happens on web apps, but it will often happen on HN when the article I clicked on is a plain text blog with minimal JS and definitely not altering the history state.

Edit: This literally just happened to me after writing this comment, with the post about turso database. I clicked the HN comments, clicked the post link (to github), read for a bit and clicked back. And the comments page is just not in my history.
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-01-23 04:44:57+00:00
Most filters have limited effective life for VOC, and "safe" use is measured in a few hours at most. Venting outdoors into a fern/decorative-plant filled yard is the preferred option for both FDM and Resin printers. Most activated charcoal filters just reduce the smell, and do nothing about the the harmful parts even with HEPA14 filters etc.

Chopped CF filled FDM filaments are mostly a scam, but there are few PETG and ASA viable options:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7JperqVfXI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7JAOi4JnBs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAL_p0yYKIc (Fibre Seeker 3)

One challenge designing a metal-printing process was making it safe for people without prior lab-safety training. Some 3D additive processes are simply just not practical for careless "yolo" consumers. =3
by georgemcbay | 2026-01-23 04:45:44+00:00
Yup, the main goal of customer support for almost every Internet-based company for over a decade now is to just be so frustrating that you give up before you can reach an actual human (since that is the point where there is a real cost to the company in giving you that support).

I'm not really sure LLMs have made it worse. They also haven't made it better, but it was already so awful that it just feels like a different flavor of awful.
by in_a_society | 2026-01-23 04:45:56+00:00
Smells like an article from someone that didn’t really USE the XML ecosystem.

First, there is modeling ambiguity, too many ways to represent the same data structure. Which means you can’t parse into native structs but instead into a heavy DOM object and it sucks to interact with it.

Then, schemas sound great, until you run into DTD, XSD, and RelaxNG. Relax only exists because XSD is pretty much incomprehensible.

Then let’s talk about entity escaping and CDATA. And how you break entire parsers because CDATA is a separate incantation on the DOM.

And in practice, XML is always over engineered. It’s the AbstractFactoryProxyBuilder of data formats. SOAP and WSDL are great examples of this, vs looking at a JSON response and simply understanding what it is.

I worked with XML and all the tooling around it for a long time. Zero interest in going back. It’s not the angle brackets or the serialization efficiency. It’s all of the above brain damage.
by billy99k | 2026-01-23 04:47:16+00:00
"Trumpists have already called ICE murdering a white US citizen mom as self defense."

Did we watch the same video? She was harassing ICE agents all day and from the ICE agent's perspective, he had no way of knowing if she was going to kill him or not while almost running him over.

Hardly what I would call 'murder'.

"So the fact that some comments justify ICE snatching five year olds from street doesn't mean much."

You clearly have no understanding of the situation. Ice was arresting the father and he left the 5-year old boy behind. They actually protected/watched him.

This is why the country is slowly inching toward a civil war.
by tartoran | 2026-01-23 04:47:52+00:00
Me too and it's something I've become more aware as I got older. In short well stacked and relaxed at the same time but able to freely move around around a fixed point: the hip through the sit bones connecting to a sturdy surface of a chair. A swivel chair or too soft of a chair could mess up stability and proprioception. And it's about building good habits too, just being aware of the stance is only half the battle.
by btbuildem | 2026-01-23 04:48:24+00:00
Exactly as predicted: the means of production yet again taken away from the masses to be centralized in a few absurdly rich hands.

I ran out of tokens for not just the 5 hour sessions, but all models for the week. Had to wait a day -- so my methadone equivalent was to strap an endpoint-rewriting proxy to Claude Code and backend it with a local Qwen3 30B Coder. It was.. somewhat adequate. Just as fast, but not as capable as Opus 4.5 - I think it could handle carefully specced small greenfield projects, but it was getting tangled in my Claudefield mess.

All that to say -- be prepared, have a local fallback! The lords are coming for your ploughshares.
by jm4 | 2026-01-23 04:48:27+00:00
Really cool product. How do you plan to monetize it?

You guys need some marketing help. There’s a lot of potential here, but you don’t do a good job of selling it. Tell me what problems I’m going to be able to solve or what headaches it will eliminate. Can it going into that shitty Canvas app my kids’ school uses, identify outstanding assignments or low grades and send me a daily text summary? Can it automate buying everything on my grocery list and setting up delivery? Or look up flight options, ask me what I want and book it for me? Even better, I’m stuck having to look up international flights for 7 people in three households, get everyone to agree on one and then book them. Please build something that will do that.

Keep at it because this thing is cool!
by h4kunamata | 2026-01-23 04:48:30+00:00
>but I can feel my brain engaging less with the problem than I'm used to

With me it has been the opposite, perhaps because I was anti-AI before and because I know it is gonna make mistake.

My most intense AI usage:

Goal: Homelab is my hobby and I wanted to setup a private tracker torrent via Proton VPN, fully.

I am used to tools such Ansible and Linux operating system, but there were like 3 different tools to manage the torrents, plus a bunch of firewall rules so in case Provon VPN drops, everything stops working instead of using my real IP Address snitching me to my ISP.

I wanted everything to be as automated as possible, Ansible, so if everything catches on fire, I can run Ansible playbook and bring everything back online.

The whole setup took me 3 nights and I couldn't stop thinking about it during the day, like how can I solve this or that, the solution Perplexity/ChatGPT gave me broke something else so how could I solve that, etc.

I am using these tools more like a Google Search alternative than AI per se, I can see when it made mistakes because I know what I am asking it to help me with, homelab.
I don't wanna to just copy and paste, and ironically, I have learned a ton about Promox ( where I run my virtual containers and virtual machine ).
I always say that I don't wanna just answers, show me how did you get to that conclusion so I can learn it myself.

As long as you are aware that this is a tool and that it makes mistakes the same way as somebody's reply in any forum, you are good and should still feel motivated.

If you are using AI tools just for copy/paste expecting things to work without caring to understand what is actually happening (companies and IT teams worldwide), then you have a big problem.
by varun_ch | 2026-01-23 04:49:19+00:00
Funny that this comes up today! I was just looking into adding a keyboard monitor to my website (I have a goal of making my 'contact me' page have oddly specific information). I wouldn't show the actual keys, just show a blinking light when there's activity, but I guess the timing really could expose quite a lot of information.

I did add a trackpad monitor though. It shows my raw MacBook trackpad data.

https://varun.ch/contact/
by bayarearefugee | 2026-01-23 04:49:26+00:00
Gemini is my preferred LLM for coding, but it still does goofy shit once in a while even with the latest version.

I'm 99.9999% sure Gemini has a dynamic scaling system that will route you to smaller models when its overloaded, and that seems to be when it will still occasionally do things like tell you it edited some files without actually presenting the changes to you or go off on other strange tangents.
by Arainach | 2026-01-23 04:50:22+00:00
You absolutely can, because you can sell the bitcoins and turn them directly into money in your savings account. There are exchanges that declare their exact value. You can't do that with prestige. There's no exchange and no market.

Crucially, money, bitcoin, and pokemon cards are all transferrable. You can't transfer prestige to someone else, so it has no value in financial transactions.
by zarzavat | 2026-01-23 04:50:46+00:00
You have to use the right tool for the job.

XML is extensible markup, i.e. it's like HTML that can be applied to tasks outside of representing web pages. It's designed to be written by hand. It has comments! A good use for XML would be declaring a native UI: it's not HTML but it's like HTML.

JSON is a plain text serialization format. It's designed to be generated and consumed by computers whilst being readable by humans.

Neither is a configuration language but both have been abused as one.
by raddan | 2026-01-23 04:51:04+00:00
That’s a strange argument. There are plenty of stochastic processes that have perfectly acceptable guarantees. A good example is Karger’s min-cut algorithm. You might not know what you get on any given single run, but you know EXACTLY what you’re going to get when you crank up the number of trials.

Nobody can tell you what you are going to get when you run an LLM once. Nobody can tell you what you’re going to get when you run it N times. There are, in fact, no guarantees at all. Nobody even really knows why it can solve some problems and why it can’t solve other except maybe it memorized the answer at some point. But this is not how they are marketed.

They are marketed as wondrous inventions that can SOLVE EVERYTHING. This is obviously not true. You can verify it yourself, with a simple deterministic problem: generate an arithmetic expression of length N. As you increase N, the probability that an LLM can solve it drops to zero.

Ok, fine. This kind of problem is not a good fit for an LLM. But which is? And after you’ve found a problem that seems like a good fit, how do you know? Did you test it systematically? The big LLM vendors are fudging the numbers. They’re testing on the training set, they’re using ad hoc measurements and so on. But don’t take my word for it. There’s lots of great literature out there that probes the eccentricities of these models; for some reason this work rarely makes its way into the HN echo chamber.

Now I’m not saying these things are broken and useless. Far from it. I use them every day. But I don’t trust anything they produce, because there are no guarantees, and I have been burned many times. If you have not been burned, you’re either exceptionally lucky, you are asking it to solve homework assignments, or you are ignoring the pain.

Excel bugs are not the same thing. Most of those problems can be found trivially. You can find them because Excel is a language with clear rules (just not clear to those particular users). The problem with Excel is that people aren’t looking for bugs.
by Spivak | 2026-01-23 04:51:16+00:00
Yes literal dollars I can spend anywhere. It can even be deposited into my bank. For doing nothing at all except paying my normal expenses via my 2% cash back card I get $400-800 annually.

I know I could probably min-max this into more by juggling different cards for things like Amazon and Costco but I'm lazy and don't want to think.
by ryuzaburo | 2026-01-23 04:52:30+00:00
I built a reproducible 6-step framework for using AI as an adversarial co-architect to stress-test security assumptions.
This article documents how I used it on Apple’s identity model, validated it in the Japanese tech community, and distilled it into a general audit methodology.
It’s not a vulnerability disclosure – it’s a method for systematically breaking “consensus logic” in complex systems.
Show HN: Audio AI had a wild day – 5 major open-source / real-time TTS drops
by pratik227 | 2026-01-23 04:52:38+00:00
The audio/TTS space just moved fast. In the last week alone:

NVIDIA – PersonaPlex-7B
Open-source, full-duplex conversational speech model.

Inworld AI – TTS-1.5
Realtime TTS (<250ms), $0.005/min, currently #1 on Artificial Analysis.

Flash Labs – Chroma 1.0
First open-source, end-to-end, real-time speech-to-speech model.

Alibaba Qwen – Qwen3-TTS
Fully open-sourced TTS family: Base, CustomVoice, VoiceDesign.

Kyutai Labs – Pocket TTS
Runs locally on a laptop. No GPU required.

Feels like TTS is hitting the same acceleration moment LLMs had last year.
Realtime, open-source, and local is becoming the default.

Curious what people here are building with this
by eli | 2026-01-23 04:53:06+00:00
I've been hacking on this one for a few months now and it works for me https://github.com/elidickinson/claude-code-mux Been optimizing for routing to different models within one session so maybe overkill.

But I'm surprised litellm (and its wrappers) don't work for you and I wonder if there's something wrong with your provider or model. Which model were you using?
by grishka | 2026-01-23 04:53:28+00:00
Oh it will.

Firstly, neither OpenAI nor Anthropic is profitable, by a wide margin — investors are going to get impatient at some point.

Secondly, people that aren't enthusiastic about this whole thing are already experiencing something of an AI fatigue with all the AI features violently shoved into them by most software products they use. Being involuntarily subjected to slop in various online spaces can't be good either.

Thirdly, remember NFTs? So many people swore they were The Future™... until they weren't. But at least in that case it was much more obvious how stupid the whole idea is. The scale of the hype was also several orders of magnitude less.
by WarmWash | 2026-01-23 04:53:33+00:00
In a bit of a faux pas at a social gathering, I was ranting to everyone about the theft of these big banks offering <0.25% interest rates while the fed rate is at ~4-5%. There I was telling big bank customers that they could be losing hundreds of dollars a month by not switching to a proper bank or credit union. But there response was muted, mild confusion.

Now I have a good job, and have been fortunate, but I don't live in a tech hub or am surrounded by other high earners.

It struck me in that moment that these banks offer high convenience to people who never really have ever had true savings. The interest rate is largely meaningless when your account is chronically in the $250 to $1250 range. Things like app integration, and easy user friendly deposits and withdrawals are much more important.

I think if you are someone who financially made your way to a place where interest payments are meaningful in size, you probably left those "convenience" banks a long time ago. The thought has made me more mindful about my bank rants now.
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-01-23 04:57:27+00:00
There are active studies on chopped CF inhalation/contact hazards, and the SEM images in the above post prove how it occurs.

A lot of plastics contain wide assortments of additives to obtain mechanical properties. Outdoor ventilation is absolutely preferable to filtration or smell reduction filters that does practically nothing about carcinogens.

PLA is comparatively low emission, but a slow cooking PTFE tube in many hot-ends is not something people should be around. ymmv =3
by random3 | 2026-01-23 04:58:00+00:00
"The Alabama Solution" (nominated for best documentary, 2025) is a mind-blowing documentary about the prison system. Indeed, everything gets through prison guards. In that case, the problem was that inmates were self-educating in law, and figured out that their highest leverage is financial and organized strikes targeting free revenue from almost-unpaid labor.

So it makes sense, to avoid these "problems" by restricting books, given that the revenue from contraband with drugs and everything else continues to work through prison guards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alabama_Solution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Alabama_Movement
by chasil | 2026-01-23 04:58:43+00:00
NFSv4 over stunnel, by yours truly.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/encrypting-nfsv4-stunne...

RFC-9289: Towards Remote Procedure Call Encryption

“Special mention goes to Charles Fisher, author of ‘Encrypting NFSv4 with Stunnel TLS’ [LJNL].
His article inspired the mechanism described in this document.”

https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9289
by reutinger | 2026-01-23 04:58:49+00:00
OP here. I literally just got released from 13 hours in a Swiss holding cell because this prototype looked like a bomb to the WEF police.

To get released, I had to walk a forensic expert ('Chris') through this codebase line-by-line. He didn't care about the pitch; he audited the Rust borrow checker logs, the specific hardware interrupts, and the encryption implementation to prove it wasn't a trigger mechanism.

It was the most aggressive code audit of my life. Happy to answer questions about the stack, the 'vibe coding' workflow I used to build it, or the Swiss prison lasagna."
by john01dav | 2026-01-23 04:59:04+00:00
I have a credit card with them for cash back on utilities, and their customer service is awful. For example it takes a lenghty phone call to do anything, in contrast to my primary bank where I can just leave a written message in a minute or so and they respond asynchronously. I also heard from someone who worked with US bank for institutional banking services that they're just as awful there, as well as frequently causing problems for this person's employer's customers, who were mostly low income.
by arthurofbabylon | 2026-01-23 04:59:09+00:00
Contrastingly, Minimal (minimal.app) is a markdown notes app made by me for me (for one person!) improved to support 100 thoughtful writers, improved again to support thousands, then tens of thousands… now 6 years later I continue to ship meaningful updates (OS parity, new features, better designs for existing features, greater stability and performance, and occasionally entirely new patterns).

What made the difference? For one thing, I know better than to ignore the future. A small success in 2020 was like a seed planted amidst an infinite future, and I knew to water the seed. Secondly, I continue prioritize this fulcrum between complexity and utility, where the app gets better by getting simpler wherever possible (most people neglect this fulcrum as not offering much “business opportunity,” failing to realize it is the foundation of all business opportunities). Finally, I just love it, and appreciate that others love it too.

(For those interested, you’re welcome to join the beta at minimal.app/#beta on Apple devices and contribute to the roadmap.)
by Helithumper | 2026-01-23 04:59:32+00:00
also http://captive.apple.com and sometimes I'll do http://lobste.rs.

I used to use neverssl, but it's very different for .org and .com and I kept forgetting which was which.

This post reminded me to make a siri shortcut that just opens safari to http://captive.apple.com to trigger the captive portal.
by boneitis | 2026-01-23 04:59:49+00:00
Right! That, or I otherwise encounter some kind of asymmetry where one side, whether it is a client or server, implements/requires speaking TLS whereas the otherside isn't readily equipped to do so.

I've found stunnel a godsend for bridging the gap. Granted, I am more of a sysadmin-ey type where a few times I've had to abruptly/quickly get something up and running.
by dtkav | 2026-01-23 04:59:58+00:00
I'm not sure I'm fully understanding you, but in my experience I have a few upstream APIs I want to use for internal tools (stripe, gmail, google cloud, anthropic, discord, my own pocketbase instance, redis) but there are a lot of different scripts/skills that need differing levels of credentials.

For example, If I want to write a skill that can pull subscription cancellations from today, research the cancellation reason, and then push a draft email to gmail, then ideally I'd have...

- a 5 minute read-only token for /subscriptions and /customers for stripe

- a 5 minute read-write token to push to gmail drafts

- a 5 minute read-only token to customer events in the last 24h

Claude understands these APIs well (or can research the docs) so it isn't a big lift to rebuild authz, and worst case you can do it by path prefix and method (GET, POST, etc) which works well for a lot of public APIs.

I feel like exposing the API capability is the easy part, and being able to get tight-fitting principle-of-least-privilege tokens is the hard part.
by nani8ot | 2026-01-23 05:00:21+00:00
It was the conservative CDU with the economic liberal FDP which decided in 2011 to stop using nuclear power in Germany.

At the time when the Greens were in power a decade later, it was already way to late to build out nuclear infrastructure again (not to mention the lack of fuel).

So yes, you've metioned a conspiracy theory without any substance.

The Greens continually pushed for renewables, which the (conservative) government largely ignored in favour of building gas pipelines to Russia.
by cman1444 | 2026-01-23 05:01:17+00:00
Parking for charging can be done en masse though. For example, waymo could have a single large charging facility somewhere out-of-the-way. Small price to pay in my opinion.

The parking gains are huge though. As adoption increases, parking demand for shopping centers, apartments, workplaces, etc. should all decrease. Say hello to higher density cities. Although I imagine it will take quite a while (decades) for these pressures to have a real effect.
by gmadsen | 2026-01-23 05:02:30+00:00
I'm sure there is an association between personality traits {openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism} with preferences to specialize or learn broadly. That is seperate from the phenomena of nearly all cognitive tasks being correlated with each other positively, e.g. verbal scores are positively correlated with math and musical scores. This is referred to as g-factor in literature.

My overall point being, yes people learn differently, but it is also true that there exists outliers in general intelligence
by mindslight | 2026-01-23 05:02:59+00:00
The country is heading towards a civil war because we've got a bunch of understandably angry people who rather than organizing to do anything constructive, choose instead to follow a hollow con artist telling them that capricious state-sanctioned violence against their fellow humans is good and righteous.

Stop reading your government propaganda, touch grass (or snow), and get your head screwed on straight by rereading the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.