MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by judahmeek | 2026-01-09 13:37:53+00:00
> LLM marketers have succeeded at inducing collective delusion

That's the real trick & one I desperately wish I knew how to copy.

I know there's a connection to Dunning Kruger & I know that there's a dopamine effect of having a responsive artificial minion & there seems to be some of that "secret knowledge" sauce that makes cults & conspiracies so popular (there's also the promise of less effort for the same or greater productivity).

Add the list grows, I see the popularity, but I doubt I could easily apply all these qualities to anything else.
by DSingularity | 2026-01-09 13:37:57+00:00
Please. There is literally documentaries with retirement age Israelis laughing about the horrible things they did to ethnically cleanse Jaffa and Haifa and various parts of historic Palestine. You accepting real war crimes that have happened repeatedly — from before Israel to now — at the hands of blood thirsty European Zionist settlers against Palestinians because of some rhetoric of Arab leaders? The way Zionists can act like victims when their victims get angry and fight back. It’s like that famous quote by that Ukrainian settler of Palestine that was a prime minister “we will never forgive the Arabs for making us kill their children” or something like that. Psychopaths.
by mexicocitinluez | 2026-01-09 13:38:03+00:00
lol People don't realize that Tailwind democratized styling for a lot of people who didn't want to or didn't know how to write CSS. We're not going back to writing hand-crafted CSS with or without LLMs. LLMs, by their nature, work better with Tailwind since it needs a much smaller context to make the right decision.
by jrjeksjd8d | 2026-01-09 13:38:30+00:00
To be clear this is me making the most generous case for LLMs, which is that some people really do just want a shitty app to check a box. In my experience fixing LLM-produced software is worse than just writing it from scratch.

I think LLM writing replacing actual authors or AI "art" is fundamentally worthless though, so at least coding is worth more than "worthless"
by lm28469 | 2026-01-09 13:38:35+00:00
When a was a teenager, not so long ago really, everyone wanted to move the US and saw them as a global cultural power. The only people who truly disliked them were a minority anti capitalists, most people had positive views about Americans.

Now wherever I look at, from far left to far right, virtually no one fully support the BS they're currently pushing, even the usual bootlicking lapdogs are staying silent. In recent German polls about which countries are considered partners the US is barely ahead of Russia.
by mickael-kerjean | 2026-01-09 13:39:07+00:00
I use WASM extensively in my OSS work with Filestash (https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash
) in 3 main areas:

1. to create web versions of applications that are traditionally desktop only to render things like Parquet, PSD, TIFF, SQLite, EPS, ZIP, TGZ, and many more, where C libraries are often the reference implementations. There are almost a hundred supported file formats, most of which are supported through WASM: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash?tab=readme-ov-f...

2. to create plugins that extend the core application. As of today, you can add your own endpoint or middleware in Filestash, package it with its own manifest, and run server-side code in a constrained environment. For example, there is a libreoffice wasm edition that can run from your browser but requires a couple HTTP headers to be sent by the server to work so the plugin has this bit that run server side to add those HTTP headers: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash/blob/master/ser...

3. in the workflow engine to enable people to run their own code in actions while ensuring they can't fuck everything up
by lelanthran | 2026-01-09 13:39:11+00:00
> He has opinions on how the company should be managed, what the product should be, and how to interact with the community... but he abdicated all the responsibility, didn't provide leadership, and is now complaining it didn't turn out how he wanted it. This is personality problem and business books won't help.

This isn't a personality problem; it's far far worse (or better, depending on your point of view) than that:

FTFA

> We hired two new staff to work on it, and did our best to reconcile what little guidance we got from Leadership with an internal process focused on discussion and consent. By late 2024, the app wasn’t what anyone wanted it to be,

Yup, no surprises there.

> Toward the end of our time at CAS we experimented with sociocracy as a way to organize without hierarchy and coercion,

> how much to disclose in our negotiations with CAS (IMO everything) or whether board members should be required to donate money (IMO no, plutocracy is bad at all times and at all levels)

> I tried to do what seemed like the only thing I could do in a hierarchy

> Accepting a grant without any consultation with staff about how its obligations might be met

...

> Since the exodus, Leadership has improved on some fronts [...] They hired three new engineers for the mobile team that seem both experienced and enthusiastic.

Well, a large grant will let you do that :-/

It seems to me that the problem was not one of personality, but of ideology.

Personality is deeply embedded in humans, ideology is merely adopted.

Author's ideology differed from that of leadership. His personality is probably irrelevant.
by PeterStuer | 2026-01-09 13:39:17+00:00
"It literally costs nothing to become a competitor"

but

"The new strategy will address the economic and political importance of open source, as a crucial contribution to a strategic framework for EU technological sovereignty, competitiveness and cybersecurity." (as per the call document)

This means OSS, but with an ecosystem that does NOT rely on anything non-EU for development, maintenance and distribution. This brings the price from "literally costs nothing" to hundreds of millions Euro.
by alphadatavault | 2026-01-09 13:39:28+00:00
"Test first bug fixing" is probably the highest ROI activity in the entire testing lifecycle. There is no better way to understand a bug than being forced to reproduce it in a minimal, isolated environment.

The challenge I see most often in industry is that reproduction in a test environment is often 90% of the work. If your system requires a massive integration test just to reproduce a simple logic bug, it’s a sign that your testing pyramid has inverted into a "testing ice cream cone."
by vittorioexp | 2026-01-09 13:39:37+00:00
I noticed many founders try to write authority or business books and quit halfway.

ChatGPT helps with drafts, but breaks down on long books: structure, consistency, and context...

I built a tool that learns your writing style, generates a real book outline, and keeps context across chapters, so you can finish a nonfiction book to build authority, get clients, or sell on Amazon.

Not for fiction.

We already have a couple of paying users doing this.
Looking for blunt feedback from people who’ve actually tried writing a nonfiction book.
by kolektiv | 2026-01-09 13:39:40+00:00
As I'm from - and in - the UK, let's have a look at this shall we? Both the tweet and the one to which it's responding...

> There are always technical bugs during the early phases of new technology, especially AI, and those issues are typically addressed quickly.

But this is precisely the point - they haven't been addressed quickly, they've been excused and generally ignored/used to troll. I believe they've now been moved behind a paywall, which is certainly one way to communicate how you feel about CSAM material.

> Let’s be clear: this is not about technical compliance. This is a political war against @elonmusk and free speech—nothing more.

Hardly - X has acted without any real consequence here for ages, despite turning into an absolute cesspit. MPs, Ministers, government departments - many are still using it despite everything. That aside, that a different country has slightly different views on free speech than (part of) your own country is not, in any way, a crime. Most nations have some speech which is restricted, at least in some circumstances, the US is no exception to this.

Now, onto the "inspiration"...

> The UK jails people for calling rapists "pigs."

Does it? Show me. Show me the case where that has happened. Our legal rulings are public.

> ...various other unhinged lunacy until...

> Starmer is just punishing a platform that won't bend the knee.

Do these people have the concept of irony surgically extracted? Everything Trump does is generally about punishing people that won't bend the knee/pay him/hand over a chunk of their Kingdom. "Country actually enforces own law" shouldn't really be a headline, but I guess for these people it is now...
by whatshisface | 2026-01-09 13:41:30+00:00
Look, there's no way the coordinates this guy triangulated lined up with the religious site by chance. That would be similar to the odds that a flawed calculation of the age of the earth would turn out to be 6,000 years. If he had said anywhere else that argument might be right, but not of all places the temple mount. If you're saying he was writing from a pragmatic standpoint, perhaps he argued that it would be convenient and more conducive to organizing power to follow along with what others believed. I am sure many religious leaders have the same motives. ;-)
by munksbeer | 2026-01-09 13:42:05+00:00
I'm not sure. Possibly?

I'm still doing most of my coding by hand, because I haven't yet committed. But even for the stuff I'm doing with claude, I'm still doing a lot of the thought work and steering it to better designs. It requires an experienced dev to understand the better designs, just like it always has been.

Maybe this eventually changes and the coding agents get as good at that part, I don't know this, but I do know it is an enabler to me at the moment, and I have 20+ years of experience writing C++ and then Java in the finance industry.

I'm still new to claude, I am sure I'm going to run up against some walls soon on the more complicated stuff (haven't tried that yet), but everyone ends up working on tasks they don't find that challenging, just lots of manual keypresses to get the code into the IDE. Claude so far is making that a better experince, for me at least.

(Example, plumbing in new message types on our bus and wiring in logic to handle it - not complicated, just sits on top of complicated stuff)
by hypeatei | 2026-01-09 13:43:07+00:00
> But the use of ICE is the same with Obama and Trump.

> So do we agree that on the deployment and tactics of ICE that Obama and Trump are roughly equal

No, they're not the same as I've demonstrated. I'll ask again: did Obama do those things above? You can keep pretending that "ICE is only there to deport people" but as reality has shown, that's not true. They show up to events to intimidate, they tear gas and shoot protestors, etc. all the while cabinet members cover for their abhorrent behavior because the cruelty is the point.

This conversation is obviously going nowhere so I'll let you keep living in fantasy land and obfuscating with "but Obama!!" like usual. Maybe you'll repent one day.
by amiga386 | 2026-01-09 13:43:30+00:00
> Do you have the name or names of the person accused of 'attacking police with sledgehammers'?

You should be less flippant.

The accused's name is Samuel Corner. He and his friends are still on trial for their actions.

Here's the bodycam footage where you see Samuel Corner attack police seargent Kate Evans with a sledgehammer while she was on the ground, fracturing her spine. Watch from 3m05s to 3m10s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6P7p_5D4hw

The police seargent is now disabled:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g54g1r15eo

> It's not terrorism.

The group's stated aim is to stop the UK or any UK companies giving Israel any military support. They target companies who they think supply Israel. They break in and smash them, and as you've hopefully just seen with your own eyes, they are not afraid to attack people with sledgehammers. They use violence to achieve their political aim. They are terrorists and belong in prison.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1dzq41n4l9o

> Samuel Corner, 23, [...] Oxford University graduate from Devon [...] when asked why he struck Sgt Evans with the sledgehammer, he replied: "It was me not really knowing what I was doing

Thanks Samuel. That Oxford degree really shows, doesn't it?
by szanni | 2026-01-09 13:45:04+00:00
I am rather surprised the article does not mention the shared hunting technique of pursuing prey until exhaustion as a possible link.

Many hunter gather tribes apparently employed this technique and it can still be found today in Africa with the San people.

Sharing food or stealing wolf puppies were probably part of the domestication but was this because humans possibly hunted alongside wolves? Humans possibly being capable of pursuing for longer distances due to better body temperature control through sweating while wolves being better at tracking.

At least that would be my take.
How do you manage quality when AI write code faster than humans can review it?
by lostsoul8282 | 2026-01-09 13:46:39+00:00
We are shifting to an agentic workflow. My thesis is "Code at Inference Speed." My CTO's counter-argument is that reviewing code is harder than writing it.

His concern is simple: If AI increases code volume by 10x, human review becomes a fatal bottleneck. He predicts technical debt will explode because humans can’t mentally verify that much logic that quickly. My concern is as competitors,clients, etc are able to release code quickly then we need to be faster on our product - clients expectations are increasing.

How do handle this? I know one option is to slow down releases but is there any other approaches people are taking.
by devnavigator | 2026-01-09 13:46:43+00:00
Multi-Graph Agentic Memory represents a fundamental shift in how AI agents store, retrieve, and reason over long-term information. Rather than relying on flat vector similarity or monolithic memory buffers, this architecture structures memory across semantic, temporal, causal, and entity dimensions, allowing agents to retrieve information in ways that align with human reasoning. This article explains the MAGMA architecture shown in the infographic, based on the research paper “MAGMA: A Multi-Graph based Agentic Memory Architecture for AI Agents”, and explores why Multi-Graph Agentic Memory enables more accurate, interpretable, and scalable agent behavior.
by pmontra | 2026-01-09 13:46:47+00:00
About building web apps:

> It could be the continued lack of DOM bindings that have been considered a key missing piece for several years now, or maybe something else or more fundamental.

More fundamentally, every front end developer uses more or less the same JS language (Typescript included) and every module is more or less interoperable. As WASM is a compilation target, every developer could be using a different language and different tools and libraries. One of them could have reached critical mass but there is a huge incumbent (JS) that shadows everything else. So special purpose parts of web apps can be written in one of those other languages but there still is a JS front end between them and the user and GUIs can be huge apps. It looks like a system targeted to optimizations.

And for the backend, if one writes Rust or any other compiled language that can target WASM, why compiling to WASM and not to native code?
by jrjeksjd8d | 2026-01-09 13:46:48+00:00
It really depends on the movies you're watching and how you watch them. I've watched "It Follows" like 4 times in the past year to show it to different people. I would watch The Shining every year at Halloween, and It's a Wonderful Life at Christmas. On the other hand, sometimes you just want to throw on one of your comforting favorite movies in the background.

There's also a media preservation angle - you can imagine the monopoly media companies of the next decade not wanting to stream "My Own Private Idaho" or "Female Trouble".
by AstroBen | 2026-01-09 13:47:10+00:00
I like eating, I just don't like spending so much time and decision fatigue on prep. I'm probably the target audience for Huel but I don't actually think it's good for you

90% of meals aren't some special occasion, but I still need to eat. Why not make it easy? Then go explore and try new things every now and then

Treating food as entertainment is how the west has gotten so unhealthy
by kolektiv | 2026-01-09 13:47:19+00:00
I'm not sure they've been shown to be violent (unless you consider damage to property as violence- I know some do, but personally my "things are just things" stance limits violence to actions which impact people, who matter.

Broadly speaking though, I agree. What they did was criminal damage, undoubtedly, I have no problem arresting and prosecuting people for that. But I don't believe that it's terrorism, nor that it would have been so unpopular had it not been bloody embarrassing for the armed forces. Honestly, bolt cutters and some paint should not be grounding some of your air defence.
by lelanthran | 2026-01-09 13:48:19+00:00
> But when someone doing something interesting or non-hierarchical talks about their fuckups, we talk about how misguided their intentions are? Seems a little ~~off~~ unfair to me

In that might tome of an essay, where did he tal about how he fucked up? I read the whole thing and it is clear to me that he doesn't think he fucked up.
by throwawayqqq11 | 2026-01-09 13:49:03+00:00
At that point, its not libertarian anymore, its identitarian. The victim was from an outgroup so anything goes, including your values around liberty out the window.

Identity politics is at the core of conservativism and what ever is good for, or part of your group or yourself is just by nature and good for society. This tribalistic bias skews your reasoning, because we apes have evolved to sustain our own group or ourself. As social animals, we have externalized our self-preservative drive onto the tribe we live in and this bias drives libertarians to these comments and why there is such a significant overlap between religion, racists (group oriented) but also libertarians (individual oriented), etc. The big political divide is between people who are more vulnerable to such identity based biases and people who are lesser so.
by culebron21 | 2026-01-09 13:49:12+00:00
I'm from Russia. There's no such special department there, nor police shoots at anyone in a car. They do chase, then after some minutes, if nothing works, shoot at tires. There's no rule, nor drilling to shoot then think, nor to take a gun ASAP. There's no qualified immunity for police either. (Right-wing Russians, even die-hard Putin's supporters, in fact admire this side of the American police -- like "you don't stare at a policeman in America", they say.) The whole issue of detainees being shot -- that's not a problem there at all.

There is one department that's similar to ICE, the riot police called Rosgvardia (Russian Guard), which is anti-mass-protest force. When it was created, they hired all the normal police drop-outs, the worst. But they only carry batons.

The real issue with human rights in Russia is in courts and law application, and inside prisons, out of public eye.
by chrisjj | 2026-01-09 13:49:22+00:00
> Note that the recent controversy is about Grok, not Twitter.

You heard the prime minister yesterday. He was abundantly clear that X needs to act, and needs to act now. It is time for X to grip this issue.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/09/no-10-con...
by graemep | 2026-01-09 13:49:24+00:00
> Spain army's is 1/10th of Ukraine's and basically haven't been in anything close to a war in decades, so yes, really and easily lmao.

They do not have a border with Russia so how could Russia get their army to Spain?

Ukraine has armed forces geared to fight a land war with Russia. How do Ukraine's air force and navy compare to Spain's?

> Ukraine alone produces more military drones per month than the entire EU per year btw.

Because they are in a war. You cannot compare fully geared up war time production to peacetime production. What was Ukraine's drone output prior to the current Russian invasion?
by jamesblonde | 2026-01-09 13:49:31+00:00
Subsidiarity has been a key building block of the EU and has failed the EU for unexpected reasons. Subsidiarity was pursued for accountability and to make the EU less centralized - decisions should be made at the lowest, most local level possible, with central authorities only stepping in when a task cannot be effectively handled locally.
However, it means that here in Sweden govt bodies are all individually moving to Azure, because each one makes that local decision in their best interest. The same thing has happened all over the EU - and very few govt bodies would ever take the risk of investing in using EU cloud or data platforms. We need public procurement to help kickstart life into the Eurostack.
by Atreiden | 2026-01-09 13:49:57+00:00
As self-proclaimed hackers who are part of a community whose core values include curiosity and critical thinking, we do ourselves, and the world, a massive disservice by closing our eyes and ears to important information just because it's political in nature.

Hacker culture and fascism are antithetical, and we should all be acutely aware when the current regime moves towards violence to squash dissent.
by vrighter | 2026-01-09 13:50:01+00:00
Are you sure the numbers are correct?

Wikipedia lists LNG as 53.6 MJ/kg and 22.2 MJ/L and jet fuel as 43MJ/kg and 35MJ/L.

53.6 / 43 = 1.247

22.2 / 35 = 0.634

Energy density by mass is higher than jet fuel. But it is higher by less than jet fuel's energy density by volume is higher than LNG. And LNG requires heavier tanks.

So all in all, if it's not absolutely needed because of the cooling advantages, LNG can store less energy in the fuel tanks.
by thomasrp | 2026-01-09 13:50:26+00:00
When EU?

We’ve built a data‑layer for European markets: https://stream.estate. It aggregates public land‑registry, cadastral, and market‑listing data across the EU and returns it via a simple REST API, so you can plug in the same kind of instant yield and risk calculations you’re doing for U.S. addresses.

Happy to chat if you plan to expand to Europe.
by PeterStuer | 2026-01-09 13:50:33+00:00
No, I mean an entire EU software ecosystem that can keep the lights on even under extreme sanctions from US (or Russia, or China, but we are in practice mostly dependent on US). You can have your local GitHub mirror, but if projects are forced to stop exporting to and collaborating with EU developers, who in the EU will maintain and further develop the now isolated EU codebases?
by nirui | 2026-01-09 13:50:35+00:00
Funny enough, based on my observation, X (formerly know as Twitter) is more likely to ban/shadowban normal users who has weak engagements than algorithm-optimized bots.

A lot of bots are posting pornographic content or selling illegal items on that platform. And since many of the bots are "verified", it is harder to filter them out completely. The whole thing is a mess at this point.
by aldarion | 2026-01-09 13:52:01+00:00
Staples, but eaten in very small quantity, at least in France. As for Italy, Italians actually have massive problems with obesity, especially in children, precisely due to their consumption of bread and pasta. Traditional Italian diet is massive on vegetables, fruit and meat (fish and pork in particular), with bread and pasta being basically side dishes. But that is not what Italians are eating now, and so they've gotten sick as well.