MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cauch | 2026-01-26 19:17:10+00:00
Oooh, the poor little trolls, they were doing nice little videos full of flowers and kisses, and the big bad far-right came and stole their memes. Boohoohoo, it's so sad.

Come on, from the start, what the trolls were doing was to parody the initial video game (which is apparently shit) by taking the opposite stance: so, they were, on purpose, making it as much as opposed as the perceived wokeness of the video game. So, they were putting, on purpose, plenty of racist tropes.

The Hindus did not do that: their symbol was used in a totally different context. But the trolls were doing exactly that: the trolling itself consisted in putting plenty of racist things. They knew about it, they knew it was racist, they did it 100% on purpose.

Trolling is, by definition, behaving like an assh*le. I have absolutely no sympathy for those little kids who behave like assh*le and then come crying "boohoo, people say I'm an assh*le". What did you expect? Did you really think you were being smart, or edgy, or that somehow you can spit in people's faces and just say "it was a joke man" and not being accountable?
Show HN: PillarLabAI – A reasoning engine for prediction markets
by simullab | 2026-01-26 19:17:13+00:00
Hi HN, I’m the creator of PillarLab. I noticed that most people betting on prediction markets like Polymarket or Kalshi were either guessing or using generic LLMs that hallucinate data.

I built PillarLab to solve the 'black box' problem of AI. It uses 1,720+ proprietary 'Pillars' (analytical frameworks) to guide the AI through rigorous logic, things like Sharp Money tracking, xG soccer models, and Line Movement.

I’d love your feedback on the reasoning. Does the weighting of factors make sense to you? I'll be here to answer questions all day!
by ares623 | 2026-01-26 19:17:18+00:00
Every time this comes up I always take the opportunity to suggest that it should've been a ban on _smart_phones. Not dumb phones, not laptops, not even tablets (i.e. those without sim).

Easier to enforce, you don't have to rely on the very same companies that peddle the thing you're trying to ban in the first place. It can disrupt the network effects that could hopefully be enough to let people voluntarily cut it out of their lives. People are primed to get rid of it, but can't because it is so addicting and said network effects.
by trympet | 2026-01-26 19:17:24+00:00
> Just wait until you get a group of nerds talking about keyboards

Don’t get me started on the HHKB [1] with Topre membrane keyswitches. It is simply put the best keyboard on the market. Buy this. (No, Fujitsu didn’t pay me to say this)

[1] - https://hhkeyboard.us/hhkb/
by fusslo | 2026-01-26 19:17:30+00:00
Also, anecdotally false. The highest performers were often late 30s-55 yo at both startups I've worked (acquired and 'unicorn'). The young had tons of energy, but their output didn't meet any engineering rigor for working in a hardware startup. Maybe the mobile/web guys have a different story. But here in hardware, firmware, electrical engineering "The Best" had families, children, dogs, homes, heli-ski'd, bicycled from Mill Valley to SF, and were absolutely surgical with their work.

These people were exceptional and I would easily call them The Best any day.
by wpollock | 2026-01-26 19:17:35+00:00
> Steel-manning the idea, perhaps they would ship object files (.o/.a) and the apt-get equivalent would link the system? I believe this arrangement was common in the days before dynamic linking. You don't have to redownload everything, but you do have to relink everything.

This was indeed comon for Unix. The only way to tune the systems (or even change the timezone) was to edit the very few source files and run make, which compiled those files then linked them into a new binary.

Linking-only is (or was) much faster than recompiling.
by fellowniusmonk | 2026-01-26 19:17:42+00:00
I can't think of any credible reason not to have universal healthcare at this point.

Maybe 20 years ago but there is too much empirical data across multiple countries and environments now.

Assuming our cost for care drops commiserate to what's been seen in other countries we could use the saving to increase merit scholarships for the contributing young as a introductory form of UBI.
by zem | 2026-01-26 19:17:52+00:00
I've never used an AI in agent mode (and have no particular plans to), but I do think they're nice for things like "okay, I have moved five fields from this struct into a new struct which I construct in the global setup function. go through and fix all the code that uses those fields". (deciding to move those fields into a new struct is something I do want to be doing myself though, as opposed to saying "refactor this code for me")
by jasonwatkinspdx | 2026-01-26 19:18:00+00:00
Yeah, I stumbled onto J et all after seeing an interesting entry into the ICFP programming contest. So I was on the concatenative languages email list for a bit and knew nsl.com from there.

I've always found this snippet interesting: https://nsl.com/papers/kisntlisp.htm

Comparing the lisp to the non linenoise k syntax you can see there really is something compelling to this sort of lifting of iterator at a time fiddling to a higher level of abstraction where you just think about the shape of what you want.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-26 19:18:19+00:00
it's not just writing code.

And maybe child is too simplistic of an analogy. It's more like working with a savant.

The type of thing you can tell AI to do is like this: You tell it to code a website... it does it, but you don't like the pattern.

Say, "use functional programming", "use camel-case" don't use this pattern, don't use that. And then it does it. You can leave it in the agent file and those instructions become burned into it forever.
by muppetman | 2026-01-26 19:18:43+00:00
Not trying to defend the developer here but they went really silent once before like this. Then came out of the gate with a bunch of updates and new features.
I'm hoping they've just got really busy with life, I know when I emailed them before they have been responsive and helpful.
I mean hell they might have died? Does the Store have a process for this?
This app has been around a long time so I don't understand the rugpull comments.
Also the syned keys are (supposedly, I guess we don't have the source) encrypted so even if the dev is no longer active that aspect should be secure I hope.

My Pro features still seem to be working for me. EDIT: No, I see now that Cloud Sync isn't a thing anymore. Looks like it's really lost its backend servers.
by mmooss | 2026-01-26 19:18:49+00:00
To include the obvious in this discussion, it's your opinion that street art / graffiti makes things ugly; others feel differently. I think it brings places alive, brings human expression into the otherwise highly controlled environment. There's a spirit to it, and I love to see kids who have no voice take the step of speaking up. I love to see it, generally. To me it's a sign of freedom and very democratic.

As for it's quality as art, I don't buy that's a purely subjective, arbitrary opinion (meaning, I think it's reasonable to use some judgment). But people still differ greatly: look at their responses to abstract expressionism, for example; some people think it's trash, others pay tens of millions.

There is plenty of ugly in cities: There is a lot of ugly architecture; buildings are much more visually prominent and for aesthetics I would remove the ugly ones much sooner than removing the street art. There is ugly advertising and marketing; there are ugly industrial sites on beautiful waterfronts and in neighborhoods.

Should those be subject to the same judgement as some kids expressing themselves? The people who make the buildings, ads, sites have far more power and resources, including enough to make those beautiful. They seem much more responsible for the results than the kids, who may have nothing else.
by shevy-java | 2026-01-26 19:19:32+00:00
> YouTube channels with AI generated videos have exploded in sheer quantity, and I think majority of the new channels and videos uploaded to YouTube might actually be AI; "Dead internet theory," et al.

Yeah. This has really become a problem.

Not for all videos; music videos are kind of fine. I don't listen to music generated by AI but good music should be good music.

The rest has unfortunately really gotten worse. Google is ruining youtube here. Many videos now contain real videos, and AI generated videos, e. g. animal videos. With some this is obvious; other videos are hard to expose as AI. I changed my own policy - I consider anyone using AI and not declaring this properly, a cheater I don't want to ever again interact with (on youtube). Now I need to find a no-AI videos extension.
by handedness | 2026-01-26 19:19:43+00:00
> California can float those kinds of costs. So for a place like California, it's definitely something they can do if the issue is pressed on them.

That's correct. For reference, the simple upfront build cost of the desalination plant in Carlsbad in 2015 worked out to approximately $300 per county resident, which was peanuts to become effectively impervious to drought conditions in a populated and economically prosperous desert. San Diego had an over-$200B economy at the time, over $300B now.
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-01-26 19:19:47+00:00
>2. EU is the easiest second market, and another step change of hundreds of millions of customers in a somewhat unified market

I was making hardware at one point, and it took less than a day to decide that Europe was not getting our product.

The regulations were insane.

I imagine software is significantly easier, but there is a mountain of difference when it comes to electrical and plumbing.
by saisrirampur | 2026-01-26 19:19:55+00:00
Thanks for posting this question! Compared to Snowflake and Databricks, a few key differences in our approach are:

(a) An initial focus on real-time, customer-facing applications rather than trying to boil the ocean. This also aligns with where the Postgres + ClickHouse combination has really shined for our users. Both Postgres and ClickHouse are designed primarily with developers building their system of record applications.

(b) Every component in the stack is open source—Postgres, ClickHouse, PeerDB for native CDC, pg_clickhouse, and Ubicloud Postgres (our data plane component). We plan to keep it that way as much as possible, as this strongly aligns with our ethos.

(c)Third, as you noted, Postgres is NVMe-backed and the focus is on performance and scalability, while maintaining top-notch reliability. We think that this more meaningful to fast-growing (AI-driven) workloads than instant provisioning and forking. I talk about this a bit more here - https://clickhouse.com/blog/postgres-managed-by-clickhouse#p...
by willio58 | 2026-01-26 19:20:31+00:00
As someone who did get on the management track a couple of years ago myself, I think it’s great you have that perspective. I miss being able to turn on some tunes, code for a few hours, and call it good for the day. At the same time, I have always naturally fell into leadership positions I think mainly because I like helping people make better decisions. As an IC, I despised broken processes, bad decisions from product, and overall poor management. As an engineering manager, I have some amount of control over these things and I hope those I manage, as well as our users, have benefited from me being in this role.

A few examples of things I heavily influenced:

- reduction in investment of time, effort, and cost going to offshore engineering. We’ve reduced bugs and effort from our engineers in coordinating between disparate time zones.

- advocacy of a design system shared between design and dev teams. We now have one.

- reduction in the amount of meetings our devs are expected to attend weekly, increasing time they can spend building

- heavily advocating to reduce number of clicks for our users to get where they need to be, benefit UX greatly

- better defined incident management process

It’s not perfect though, the amount of control I have is still limited, and I am in meetings basically all day sometimes.

While I will say that would have sounded like hell to me a couple of years ago as an IC, I have been able to sway the direction of the company meaningfully in ways that feel ultimately more impactful than what I could have done jamming on some code in the same amount of time. The cost of doing so is a little more stress, but hey I get to do so from the comfort of my home and I’m allowed a good amount of schedule flexibility outside of some specific meetings each day. It’s definitely not for everyone though!
by simonw | 2026-01-26 19:20:32+00:00
Regular default ChatGPT can also now run code in Node.js, Ruby, Perl, PHP, Go, Java, Swift, Kotlin, C and C++.

I'm not sure when these new features landed because they're not listed anywhere in the official ChatGPT release notes, but I checked it with a free account and it's available there as well.
by aerhardt | 2026-01-26 19:20:47+00:00
I've been recently researching if I could replace American cloud providers with something like OVH or Hetzner (the latter I occasionally use for VPS) and there is no fucking chance. It's great that 37signals and DHH can do it, and I have no trouble believing they have saved money, but for situations in which I operate, both startup and enterprise environments but where devs are scarce and teams small, it's simply not realistic.
by kg | 2026-01-26 19:21:22+00:00
Re this quote from the blog post:

> Chicago Consent Decree: On November 12, 2025, Judge Cummings ruled ICE violated the Fourth Amendment by using fake “warrants” to arrest 615 people. ICE arrested 47 more the next day using identical methods.

The government has begun advancing the position that these fake warrants are sufficient grounds for ICE to invade any home in the country and abduct people, regardless of the fact that they aren't real warrants signed by an actual judge - they're signed by regular federal employees. There was already a recent incident where they abducted a naked citizen out of his home and detained him for a while (thankfully, he was released).
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-01-26 19:21:37+00:00
People use "vibe coding" to mean different things - some mean the original Karpathy "look ma, no hands!", feel the vibez, thing, and some just (confusingly) use "vibe coding" to refer to any use of AI to write code, including treating it as a tool to write small well-defined parts that you have specified, as opposed to treating it as a magic genie.

There also seem to be people hearing big names like Karpathy and Linus Torvalds say they are vibe coding on their hobby projects, meaning who knows what, and understanding this as an endorsement of "magic genie" creation of professional quality software.

Results of course also vary according to how well what you are asking the AI to do matches what it was trained on. Despite sometimes feeling like it, it is not a magic genie - it is a predictor that is essentially trying to best match your input prompt (maybe a program specification) to pieces of what it was trained on. If there is no good match, then it'll have a go anyway, and this is where things tend to fall apart.
by pmontra | 2026-01-26 19:21:41+00:00
That's pretty common: a lot of developers left Windows for a Mac in the 2000s because it was a more comfortable and realiable Unix than Linux. However I never liked the UI of Macs, so I never bought one. It was OK on the 9" screen of the original Mac in 1984, but weird on larger screens.

Luckily I've been able to make my GNOME desktop look like exactly what I want since at least 2020, when the ecosystem of GNOME shell extensions got mature enough. My current desktop is close to mix of old Windows and GNOME 2, with virtual desktops and other stuff that did not exist back then. I like stuff to stay put on screen, so no animations and all those UI gimmicks. Maybe I should have started from KDE but I got burned by KDE in 2014 and I hesitate to invest time to look at it again.
by shevy-java | 2026-01-26 19:21:43+00:00
In a way television was kind of cool. I loved it as a child, give or take.

Nowadays ..... hmmm. I no longer own a TV since many years. Sadly youtube
kind of replaced television. It is not the same, quality-wise I think
youtube is actually worse than e. g. the 1980s era. But I also don't
really want to go back to television, as it also had low quality - and
it simply took longer, too. On youtube I was recently watching old
"Aktenzeichen XY ungelöst", in german. The old videos are kind of cool
and interesting from the 1980s. I watched the new ones - it no longer
made ANY sense to watch it ... the quality is much worse, and it is
also much more boring. It's strange.
Show HN: Cmpsbl OS v5.5.0 – A Self-Hosting Cognitive Substrate (131k LOC)
by promptfluid | 2026-01-26 19:22:27+00:00
I’ve spent the last year building a "Cognitive Substrate" that manages its own technical debt and evolves itself in shadow mode. It’s a 131,000 LOC operating system designed for recursive autonomy - not just another LLM wrapper, but a kernel for long-term digital intelligence.

The system is built on a 4-layer architecture with 13 specialized modules. What makes it different from standard agent frameworks:

Self-Improvement Loop:

The MODERNIZER module scans the codebase, proposes upgrades, and tests them in a parallel "Shadow Mode" before production deployment.

Cognitive Circuit Breakers:

The CORE kernel implements the circuit breaker pattern at the logic level. If a cognitive module (like BRAIN or DECODE) starts to drift or fail, the kernel isolates it to prevent system-wide instability.

Multi-Tier Memory Graph:

BRAIN uses a Hot/Warm/Cold storage strategy. It searches its own knowledge graph and local memory tiers before ever hitting an external API, drastically reducing latency and dependency.

Infrastructure Arbitrage:

I built NEXUS to route requests across free-tier AI providers, essentially "mining" compute to build a permanent, proprietary knowledge base for $0/mo.

As a solo founder, I wanted to see if recursive self-improvement could replace a traditional engineering team. The result is a "Digital Organism" that handles its own health monitoring, security (via a cognitive firewall), and learning cycles.

I’ve published the full architectural deep-dives and live system evidence on Zenodo.

I'm curious to hear what the HN community thinks about the "Shadow Mode" approach to autonomous refactoring and the viability of cognitive circuit breakers.

Scientific Documentation & Artifacts:

https://zenodo.org/records/18379258

Here’s a link to the live system and our template marketplace so you can create models that don’t drift and apps that learn and dream as well.

Free SDK for anyone wanting to check it out:

https://CMPSBL.com

This is v5.5.0 and I have a little more work to do before the system can fully autonomously evolve itself, but it does propose, verify, and build its own patch’s and allies successfully to shadow mode reliably.

Let me know what you think HN!
by djwide | 2026-01-26 19:22:36+00:00
I point that out a little bit when I refer to agencies being discouraged from sharing information. The CIA may be worried about losing HUMINT data to the NSA for example. You may be referring to them worrying about compartmentalizing the information away from the president as well which you are right happens to some extent now but shouldn't 'in theory'. Maybe it's a don't ask don't tell. I think Cheney blew the cover of an intel asset though.
by UncleEntity | 2026-01-26 19:23:05+00:00
>> If someone ends up sniping a famous person, we go back in time and figure out who they are

Yeah, most civilians don't understand operational security at the functional level.

Though... most people doing these thing probably want to be caught because they just aren't quite right in the head and want people to tell them that what they did is 'justified' for whatever reason.
by BinaryIgor | 2026-01-26 19:23:26+00:00
"Perhaps there are frontiers of digital addiction we have yet to reach. Maybe one day we’ll all have Neuralinks that beam Instagram Reels directly into our primary visual cortex, and then reading will really be toast."

Even then, smart people will care about dissecting ideas, explore new concepts and broaden their understanding - and for most of it, Text Is King.
by htrp | 2026-01-26 19:23:47+00:00
>Maia 200 is an AI inference powerhouse: an accelerator built on TSMC’s 3nm process with native FP8/FP4 tensor cores, a redesigned memory system with 216GB HBM3e at 7 TB/s and 272MB of on-chip SRAM, plus data movement engines that keep massive models fed, fast and highly utilized. This makes Maia 200 the most performant, first-party silicon from any hyperscaler, with three times the FP4 performance of the third generation Amazon Trainium, and FP8 performance above Google’s seventh generation TPU.

Anyone know what happened to the first gen chip that they announced at Ignite in 23?
by furyofantares | 2026-01-26 19:24:12+00:00
I was vibe coding in November 2024, before the term was coined. I think that is about as early as anyone was doing it, so 1.25 years ago. Cursor added its "agentic" mode around then, I think, but before that there was just "accept all" without looking at changes repeatedly.

I shipped a small game that way (https://love-15.com/) -- one that I've wished to make for a long time but wouldn't have been worth building other wise. It's tiny, really, but very niche -- despite being tiny, I hit brick walls multiple times vibing it, and had to take a few brief breaks from vibing to get it unstuck.

Claude Code was a step change after that, along with model upgrades, about 9 months ago. That size project has been doable as a vibe coded project since then without hitting brick walls.

All this to say I really doubt most claims about having been vibe coding for more than 9-15 months.
by junesix | 2026-01-26 19:24:21+00:00
It's not that people forget that Intel exists, it's that they are effectively irrelevant to the foundry business.

> Becoming a meaningful customer of Samsung or Intel is very risky: it takes years to get a chip working on a new process, which hardly seems worth it if that process might not be as good, and if the company offering the process definitely isn’t as customer service-centric as TSMC.

TSMC is a reliable supplier and there are no doubts about conflicts of interest. The same cannot be said for Intel and Samsung. If Intel's AI chip business faces chip shortages (like what may already be happening), can their foundry be depended on to ship your chips?

No one wants to be the idiot who staked their future on Intel and then gets wiped out when Intel doesn't deliver.
by CMay | 2026-01-26 19:24:30+00:00
1. I generally agree that China has a better chance with hybrid tactics that escalate in ways that meter western response, but Taiwan can force escalation too once it reaches a threshold and it would be within its right to.

2. If Russia, North Korea, South Korea and Japan join in there is a lot of potential for it to scale up. Whether it would become an all out horrific war like a World War or stay a little bottled up, it does risk becoming a huge conflict. Many Americans love South Korea and Japan, though they're less informed about Taiwanese. If South Koreans and Japanese are dying, we will be involved in one way or another.

3. No it won't. Look at what happened with Hong Kong, it broke its promise, just like the CCP breaks many of its promises. Not sure how bad they are compared to Russia in that regard, but it's pretty bad. Besides, if China wants to expand the way it seems like they want to, they need to take Taiwan so I doubt they would slow roll it.
by parliament32 | 2026-01-26 19:24:37+00:00
> allegations include that Workday, Inc., through its use of certain Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) features on its job application platform, violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (“ADEA”)

I'm interested to see Workday's defense in this case. Will it be "we can't be held liable for our AI", and will it work against a law as "strong" as ADEA?