MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by andsoitis | 2026-01-17 05:39:38+00:00
> What's the actual difference, in that sense, between that forum or subreddit, and an LLM do you feel?

In a forum, it is the actual people who post who are responsible for sharing the recommendation.

In a chatbot, it is the owner (e.g. OpenAI).

But in neither case are they responsible for a random person who takes the recommendation to heart, who could have applied judgement and critical thinking. They had autonomy and chose not to use their brain.
by zippyman55 | 2026-01-17 05:40:04+00:00
I thought toastmasters was great. But all the different clubs had different personalities. So, you have to find the right club. I was in it in the early 1990s and do not know how it’s evolved. What I liked about it was it had a ten speech structure and you could move on w life afterwards. Speaking in a contest beyond the club level could have you in front of 60 or more people. But something magical happens and your comfort level increases.
I think there are other non toastmasters opportunities in volunteering but it’s nice to get the framework before you are thrust in front of large groups.
But back to resources, I e seen some serious professional negotiation programs at my public library that really impressed me.
Finally… and I’m spitballing here, I guess you could beat yourself up with speed dating events. lol.
by ChanderG | 2026-01-17 05:41:14+00:00
I looked at superpowers, but it felt way too generic. Thanks for sharing unwind. More discussion/blogs about these kind of skills is what I am looking for. I would encourage you to write a blog on unwind, explaining in detail how it has helped you. Even better if you do it after 3 months of use, explaining the journey/evolution of the skill.
by secstate | 2026-01-17 05:43:25+00:00
What source? The US birth rate was absolutely not steady from 1990 to 2010 according to the OECD [0]. Fear mongering aside, surely the prospect of a population failing to birth enough new lives to replace the ones that die, as happened in France last year, seems like a bad thing for a capitalist system that depends on growth uber alles. AI and efficiency be damned, fewer people buy fewer things.

0: https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/society-at-a-glance-202...
by throw1235435 | 2026-01-17 05:43:43+00:00
The language is still ahead of C#, and still receiving features and keeping up by and large with the .NET ecosystem. Tbh I don't get the sheer negativity; the same thing could be said for Gleam or any other functional language these days tbh especially with AI coming along w.r.t long term support. Eventually things just work and are mostly complete; things don't have to get reinvented or get better forever.

> As much as I had high hopes for F# I think its safe at this point, to not pursuit it any further

I find this attitude interesting; you wanted it to be more than it was. I don't have high hopes for any language; other than it building my software which it and many others can do. Right tool for right job. I'm not attached to my code, other than if it can be maintained, changed, has sane defaults/guardrails to introduce less defects, etc. F# can do this, as many others. Interestingly I've seen the same attitude eventually happen to all languages of this class other than Rust; Scala, OCaml, etc are in similar positions.

Funnily enough Opus/CC has a number of times for my projects has suggested Rust, and if that doesn't work (too much for the team) went F# even over Java based langs assuming domain modelling code and the need for more perf (e.g. value types, and other stuff) without explicit prompting. Its then generated fsx scripts to run experiments, etc that seem to be more reliable than the default Python ones it runs (package errors and static typing fixes mostly). `dotnet fsi` fits well into the agentic workflow.

> Rescript and that being said, Rescript is probably more of a competitor to gleam

Depends on your target. F# at least has a backdoor into the C# ecosystem - from a risk perspective that makes it more palatable. New languages have an initial "excitement" about them; but generally they are just tools.

Pick something that fits your team and build. F# does work, and so do many other tools. In the age of AI IMO the ecosystem and guardrails for the AI matter more than the language and its syntax IMO other than readability. In this regard F# still is "less risky" with its .NET interop.
by locknitpicker | 2026-01-17 05:44:05+00:00
> Most people are mid.

Most people are mid because you define mid based on where most people stand. The good ones are those who stand out among their peers.

Being mid and competent are two different concepts though. That also depends on the organization you're in. In some orgs, the "mid" can be high-quality, whereas in others the "mid" might even be incompetent.
by rramadass | 2026-01-17 05:44:21+00:00
The real question to ask is;

Is it still worth pursuing a software startup ... using the same strategies/approach/mindset/tools/means/methods of yesteryears?

Answer is Yes for the first part and No for the second part.

Problems which need software solutions and/or have a software component (at this point, practically everything) still exist in plenty. AI/ML has only changed the playing field drastically. It cannot understand the intent behind the problem which is a uniquely Human Dilemma. This is where the opportunities lie; understanding different Problem/Business Domains by studying and closely interacting with possible clients and coming up with tailored solutions whether domain-specific or client-specific.

The emphasis now is on better problem understanding/specification/verification (DSLs/notations/diagrams etc.) and faster iteration to a MVP. AI/ML is a great help here but the cycle is initiated by a Human who is always in the loop and steers it on the right trajectory in the state space of possible solutions.
by falkensmaize | 2026-01-17 05:44:52+00:00
AI companies are actively marketing their products as highly intelligent superhuman assistants that are on the cusp of replacing humans in every field of knowledge work, including medicine. People who have not read deeply into how LLMs work do not typically understand that this is not true, and is merely marketing.

So when ChatGPT gives you a confident, highly personalized answer to your question and speaks directly to you as a medical professional would, that is going to carry far more weight and authority to uninformed people than a Reddit comment or a blog post.
by Tanoc | 2026-01-17 05:44:55+00:00
I've wondered for a while if simple interaction systems would be good enough to fend these things off without building up walls like logins. Things like Anubis do system checks, but I'm wondering if it would be even easier to do something like the oldschool Captchas where you just have a single interactive element that requires user input to redirect to another page. Like you hit a landing page and drag a slider or click and hold to go to the page proper, things that aren't as annoying as modern Captchas and are like a fun little interactive way to enter.

As I'm writing this I'm reminded of Flash based homepages. And it really makes it apparent that Flash would be perfect for impeding these LLM crawlers.
by andsoitis | 2026-01-17 05:46:40+00:00
> majority of Americans, while supporting deporting illegal immigrants, disapprove of ICE and their tactics.
How informed anyone is I don't know... some of my local news channels just parrot official statements.

How can they disapprove (your first claim) if they are ill-informed (implied by your second sentence).

That implies that their disapproval is unwarranted.
by switchbak | 2026-01-17 05:48:22+00:00
If you’re suggesting the only way to mount a display of that weight drives you into that price territory, that’s just ridiculous.

There’s huge monitors from other companies that come with mounts that handle more weight than that. Granted, it’s not some art deco CNC monstrosity.

I think the sibling comment nailed it: this is just a status symbol.
by killcoder | 2026-01-17 05:49:07+00:00
I was working on a speculative decoding optimisation and its accompanying blog post. Explaining the more basic concepts filled so much of the post I decided to pull them out, forming this article.

I had a bit too much fun with the tokenisation diagrams / animations. The raw text is provided to an Astro component, which tokenises it, and forms the individual DOM elements of the tokens. I find it really hard to read 'tokenised' text, I figured some consistent colouring would help. The 'Probabilities' component is a trivial grid, but all the other components support 'word wrap'.

I ended up writing a 'responsive design aware graph colouring solver'.

Multiple screen widths, 'desktop' and 'mobile' are 'simulated', forming an adjacency graph of tokens that touch. Colours are then greedily allocated, then optimised per page over a few hundred iterations, swapping allocations to enforce minimum hue distance between touching tokens at those common screen sizes. The optimising value function prioritises even distribution of colours, because it looks nicer than maximal hue difference.

Originally I naively outputted the palette styles per component, but found the css post processing optimisers didn't handle that as well as I'd have thought. So then I wrote a little 'CSS compiler' that takes the high level palette and timing concepts of the animations, and optimally merges rule declarations.

The start of the post really relies on the animation occurring while fully in view, so I set up some IntersectionObservers that do the 'please scroll' text.

I tried my best to have it all work when JS is disabled on the client. I tried to get the 'hovering' to be CSS-only, but found the JS solution much more performant.

The DAG diagrams are formed with this neat Needleman-Wunsch algorithm from the bioinformatics field. The Astro component accepts several 'examples' then aligns common subsequences, producing the CSS grid and the 'basic SVG' on the server. The responsive nature meant I had to move the final 'allow' generation to the client.

Some browsers seem to throttle the token animations sometimes but I haven't figured out what causes that. This is my first time leaning hard on CSS variables.
by vunderba | 2026-01-17 05:50:15+00:00
I haven’t gotten around to adding Klein to my GenAI Showdown site yet, but if it’s anything like Z-Image Turbo, it should perform extremely well.

For reference, Z-Image Turbo scored 4 out of 15 points on GenAI Showdown. I’m aware that doesn’t sound like much, but given that one of the largest models, Flux.2 (32b), only managed to outscore ZiT (a 6b model) by a single point and is significantly heavier-weight, that’s still damn impressive.

Local model comparisons only:

https://genai-showdown.specr.net/?models=fd,hd,kd,qi,f2d,zt
by defrost | 2026-01-17 05:52:09+00:00
> NGO networks and a lot of unelected bureaucracy are the real government authority by quite a margin

In a well structured government for the people by the people such groups are as essential as military, as law enforcement, as health professionals, etc.

Politicians debate policy and advocate on behalf of representatives.

Unelected civil servants put policy into practice and need to be immune from the cycle of elected officials, just as the military needs to be.

All these groups, military, judges, civil service need to be held to high standards and subject to scrutiny with respect to professional conduct.

The USofA looks a bit off to outsiders in many respects, not simply tipping. So many elected positions that aren't merit based and seemingly immune to standards and termination for misconduct.
by jbritton | 2026-01-17 05:53:39+00:00
The Reddit example is about two different design choices. The DOM is a tree of state that needs to stay in sync with your app state. So how to make that happen without turning your code into a mess. The old Reddit had to first construct the DOM and then for every state change, determine what DOM nodes need to change, find them and update them. Knowing what needs to change gets ugly in a lot of apps. The other alternative is to realize that constructing a DOM from any arbitrary state is pretty much the same as constructing it from initial state. But now you don’t have to track what DOM nodes must change on every state change. This is a massive reduction in code complexity. I will grant that there is something similar to the “expression” problem. Every time there is a new state element introduced it may affect the creation of every node in the DOM. As opposed to every time a UI element is added it may affect every state transition. The first Reddit can be fast, but you have to manage all the updates. The second is slow, but easier to develop. I’m not sure going any lower solves any of that. The React version can be made more efficient through intelligent compilers that are at better at detecting change and doing updates. The React model allows for tooling optimizations. These might well beat hand written changes. The web has complexity also of client/server with long delays and syncing client/server and DOM state, and http protocol. Desktop apps and game engines don’t have these problems.
by PeterHolzwarth | 2026-01-17 05:54:43+00:00
I appreciate people who are confident in their unique, out-of-left-field approach to things!

However, there is value also in being able to demonstrate success. Perhaps you might consider doing both things: pursuing your novel ideas, but also finishing your exams! As the internet meme goes, "why not do both?" There certainly isn't any downside!
by cheroll | 2026-01-17 05:55:32+00:00
went through a divorce and was overwhelmed by how unstructured and confusing the process was — emotionally and practically. I didn’t know what documents I needed, what decisions mattered first, or how to prepare before spending thousands on lawyers. Everything felt reactive.

So I built ReplantLife — a calm, private way to prepare for divorce before you file or speak to an attorney. It helps people organize documents, think through decisions, and approach the process grounded instead of panicked.

I originally built this for myself. As I used it, I realized others might need the same clarity and structure — especially people who want to move forward thoughtfully and protect themselves.

This doesn’t replace legal counsel. It helps people show up prepared.

I’d love feedback from anyone who’s been through divorce, supports people through it, or thinks this kind of preparation tool could help.
by AuryGlenz | 2026-01-17 05:56:33+00:00
Hold on now. Z-Image Turbo has gotten a lot of hype but it's worse at all of those things other than perhaps looking like it was shot on a cell phone camera than Qwen Image and Flux 2 (the full sized version). Once you get away from photographic portraits of people it quickly shows just how little it can do.

It is, however, small and quick.
by switchbak | 2026-01-17 05:56:41+00:00
Say what?

A decent SUV can get you by in a pinch. A “normal sized” truck, is exactly what you take off road - yes you might have to do some modding, upgrades, but I don’t understand this take. And I’ve been around many a truck at the top of a gnarly mountain.

I must be misunderstanding what you’re saying here. Even rock crawlers aren’t typically using F250 and larger truck sizes.
by Skyfall106 | 2026-01-17 05:56:48+00:00
I’ve bounced off a lot of project management tools over the years.
They work well once everything is set up, but the setup itself often
slows things down, especially for small projects

I built Frostbyte to see how little structure a planning tool could
have while still being useful: a simple board, releases, and typed
tasks (features and bugs) and git integration.

It’s something I built for myself and am now using it to plan all of my projects. Would love to hear what you guys think and if this is something you'd use.
by zippyman55 | 2026-01-17 05:57:07+00:00
My thought today is comparing the nearly free and usually good enough LLMs with the reasonably cheap tools at the local hardware store or big box retailer. Then there is this other part of the world investing a trillion dollars to produce snap-on quality tools. Granted they are way better, but it’s so overkill for 99.9 percent of the user space. And the fly in the ointment is you still need to use those tools correctly.
Now speaking or AI (not LLM-specific) … we need to get back to non LLM tools.
by Agent_Builder | 2026-01-17 05:57:08+00:00
This resonates. What we saw in practice is that most failures don’t come from models being too dumb, but from being given too much freedom.

While using GTWY.ai, the biggest reduction in hallucinations came from constraining what an agent was allowed to do at each step, not from better prompts or verification layers.

Once inputs, tools, and outputs were explicit, the model stopped confidently inventing things. It felt less “creative”, but far more useful.

Fewer degrees of freedom beat smarter models, at least in production.
by nerdsniper | 2026-01-17 05:57:14+00:00
We did this where I bartended as well. Generally 15-20 minutes after serving the last drink of the night.

The goal wasn’t to offend or clear out 100% of the customers - just make a large enough portion decide that outside might be more comfortable/conducive than inside. The 20 or so customers who were fine with the cacophony were easy enough to wrangle manually, and also generally either people we knew well .
by Animats | 2026-01-17 05:57:26+00:00
> highly inaccurate authority.

The presentation style of most LLMs is confident and authoritative, even when totally wrong. That's the problem.

Systems that ingest social media and then return it as authoritative information are doomed to do things like this. We're seeing this in other contexts. Systems believing all their prompt history equally, leading to security holes.
by morganherlocker | 2026-01-17 05:58:13+00:00
IDK, it seems like old reddit did just fine without even trying that hard. The DOM and surrounding JS API is already a high level GUI framework, and the post illustrates that it's perfectly capable of doing useful interactions >60fps. I personally love working with native code, but the modern browser is capable of producing fast interfaces that saturate human senses without it. If you write JS like a C programmer would, it will usually be quite fast, even if it's not optimal. If you write native apps in C++ like a modern JS programmer - frameworks and deps with abandon - it will be a stuttery mess.

When the DOM is not enough, there's already WebGL and WASM. A vanishingly small sliver of use cases can't saturate human senses with these tools, and the slowest, jankiest websites tend to be the least deserving of them (ie: why is jira slow? It's literally a text box with a handful of buttons on the side!).
by potamic | 2026-01-17 05:58:40+00:00
Check out the list of all CSS specifications [1], and then open any one of them and see how lengthy and elaborate each is. Then do the same for each version of the spec published over the last thirty years. Before you can start, you must read and understand all of this at a great level of depth. Still, specifications never tell the complete story. You must be aware of all the nuances that are implied by each requirement in the spec and know how to handle the zillion corner cases that will crop up inevitably.

And this is just one part. Not even considering the fully sandboxed, mini operating system for running webapps.

[1] https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/specs.en.html
by csense | 2026-01-17 06:00:33+00:00
Crypto is a PVP zone.

The River [1] consists of people who are attracted to risk and opportunity. They thrive in high-risk high-reward environments.

The Village consists of people who are attracted to safety and stability. They thrive in low-risk environments, which are also usually low-reward by nature.

It's a matter of individual taste. A functioning society benefits from both. And it's a not matter of rationality or EV. Riverians can irrationally choose to make -EV high-risk bets; Villagers can irrationally take costly precautions against remote risks.

Humans are contradictory; the same person who pays for insurance might also buy a lottery ticket. The same gamer who bemoans loot boxes ruining video games might also own a large collection of Magic: The Gathering cards.

Riverian playgrounds are morally offensive to some Village types.

Many people are outraged by crypto because it's not "safe". They're the people who decided the slides and the merry-go-rounds and the pirate ships and the jungle gyms needed to be downsized and padded and supervised and taken out, until all the fun is gone.

I'm continually surprised that a substantial portion of HN, normally a startup-adjacent tech-adjacent River-adjacent community, hates hard on crypto.

[1] https://www.natesilver.net/p/welcome-to-the-river
by lostlogin | 2026-01-17 06:00:47+00:00
> > Democracy = elect whoever the people actually want to elect, even if you don't like their choice.
That rather rules out what happens in, say, the USofA, where entrenched party politics limits the choice of the wider population to those few candidates that are backed.

It’s also weird in that the candidate with the most votes might not win. The electoral system is weird.
by AuryGlenz | 2026-01-17 06:00:51+00:00
Z-Image is roughly as censored as Flux 2, from my very limited testing. It got popular because Flux 2 is just really big and slow. It is, however, great at editing, has an amazing breadth of built in knowledge, and has great prompt adherence.

Z Image got popular because the people stuck with 12GB video cards could still use it, and hell - probably train on it, at least once the base version comes out. I think most people disparaging Flux 2 never tried it as they wouldn't want to deal with how slowly it would work on their system, if they even realize that they could run it.
by topspin | 2026-01-17 06:00:54+00:00
The landlord doesn't want a real lessor that actually cares about the location, signs a 10+ year lease, invests money for improvements, makes weird modifications, etc. They want a junk business they buy out and kick to the curb when the time comes.

That's why you find mattress stores and whatnot. End the lease, fob the mattresses off somewhere and you're left with an empty structure, good as new.
by zacksiri | 2026-01-17 06:01:20+00:00
I never thought of Elasticsearch as a database and always designed systems around what elasticsearch is supposed to be an index based document store for used with search.

I think their API is great and have had amazing results with it. Their recent innovations around quantization (bbq) has been amazing for my use case building an agentic movie database for discovering movies and personalized movie recommendations.

There are benefits to not using your database for everything, even if it adds a bit of complexity by introducing another dependency. If the benefits out weigh the cost of complexity reaching for elastic has almost always been worth it for me.
by evil-olive | 2026-01-17 06:02:07+00:00
here's a primary source: https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/keeping-new-yorkers-safe-go...

> Create a first-in-the-nation policy that requires the establishment of minimum safety standards for 3D printer manufacturers to ensure their products are equipped with technology that blocks the printer from creating firearms and component parts.

I can imagine two ways of implementing this:

a) create a database of all known 3D-printable gun parts, and require 3D printers to load a copy of that database and refuse to print any blueprint if it's in the database

b) require 3D printer manufacturers to implement logic that takes a blueprint and identifies "is this a gun part?"

option A would create a giant, publicly accessible database of 3D printable guns. which seems like the opposite of Hochul's intention.

option B...seems like it's equivalent to the Halting Problem? like, quite literally undecidable. they want to make an algorithm mandatory but the best you can ever do at the problem is a heuristic.