MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: AI Music Covers in 2026?
by sexy_seedbox | 2026-01-16 00:47:29+00:00
I asked this back in 2022:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32723101

What's the latest this year?

I'm not looking for SUNO generated AI Music, that type of AI slop is cheap and easy.
I'm looking amazing voice + instrumentation cloning paired with human creative input.
by zahlman | 2026-01-16 00:47:30+00:00
> Nearly all NSFW content takes the most extreme forms of taboos related to social oppression

... what? No, that's a niche that you'd have to go out of your way to find.

> Young boys need only to look at their own usually mutilated manhoods to see what modern society thanks of their desire.

I assume you refer to circumcision. Maybe it's "usual" in your country. In Canada it's the minority condition: https://cps.ca/en/documents/position/circumcision
by mrpippy | 2026-01-16 00:47:47+00:00
Various anticheat/DRM schemes actually do direct syscalls on Windows, so Proton has patches that use seccomp to trap them and jump to the intended Nt* syscall. There was actually a feature added to the Linux kernel a few years ago (syscall user dispatch) so that Wine could stop using seccomp for this, but Wine is still not using it.

Upstream Wine also supports direct syscalls on x86_64 macOS. macOS syscall numbers have a high bit set, so Windows syscall numbers (0 to ~300) are invalid macOS syscalls, that triggers SIGSYS, and then Wine jumps to the Nt* syscall.
by juggerl3 | 2026-01-16 00:48:14+00:00
It's weird to think that ethnic organisations are weird when it's the most natural social group you can form. You are literally genetically similar to these people. You have a shared history, culture, etc. In a biological sense, you have an innate interest in each other's prosperity (at least, moreso than you would an ethnically-distant stranger).

You're taking your "anti-racism" to the point where it is unnatural, absurd, and alienating. People inherently want community with their kin but you are telling them that they are wrong for pursuing it.
by JohnBooty | 2026-01-16 00:48:26+00:00
Yeah. That's one of my other questions. Like, what then?

I would say that it is the moral responsibility of an LLM not to actively convince somebody to commit suicide. Beyond that, I'm not sure what can or should be expected.

I will also share a painful personal anecdote. Long ago I thought about hurting myself. When I actually started looking into the logistics of doing it... that snapped me out of it. That was a long time ago and I have never thought about doing it again.

I don't think my experience was typical, but I also don't think that the answer to a suicidal person is to just deny them discussion or facts.

I have also, twice over the years, gotten (automated?) "hey, it looks like you're thinking about hurting yourself" messages from social media platforms. I have no idea what triggered those. But honestly, they just made me feel like shit. Hearing generic "you're worth it! life is worth living!" boilerplate talk from well-meaning strangers actually makes me feel way worse. It's insulting, even. My point being: even if ChatGPT correctly figured out Gordon was suicidal, I'm not sure what could have or should have been done. Talk him out of it?
by soulofmischief | 2026-01-16 00:48:39+00:00
> If an LLM had only ever seen 1+1=2 and that was the only math they were ever exposed to, along with the numbers 0-10, could an LLM figure out that 2+2=4?

What? Of course not? Could you? Do you understand just how much work has gone into proving that 1 + 1 = 2? Centuries upon centuries of work, reformulating all of mathematics several times in the process.

> Hell, train it on every 2-number addition combination of m+n where m and n can be any number between 1-100 (or 0-100 would be better) BUT 2, and have it figure out what 2+2 is.

If you read the paper I linked, it shows how a constrained modular addition is grokked by the model. Give it a read.

> The “circuit” is just the statistically most likely series of tokens that you’re drawing pretend lines between.

That is not what ML researchers mean when they say circuit, no. Circuits are features within the weights. It's understandable that you'd be confused if you do not have the right prior knowledge. Your inquiries are good, but they should stop as inquiries.

If you wish to push them to claims, you first need to understand the space better, understand what modern research does and doesn't show, and turn your hypotheses into testable experiments, collect and publish the results. Or wait for someone else to do it. But the scientific community doesn't accept unfounded conjecture, especially from someone who is not caught up with the literature.
by fatherwavelet | 2026-01-16 00:48:40+00:00
In the 20th century you left the house because otherwise you were bored.

I love being alone but I am not "lonely" and I am never bored.

When I go for a walk on a beautiful summer night in America, always alone, there is rarely anyone outside. They are in the house, mostly alone unless they have a partner/kids.

I think we have a loneliness epidemic because we have a culture that makes it fun to be alone. Some people don't like this level of being alone but many do. Those that do aren't really going to pitch in to help so I am not sure what the solution is. You can throw a party but I am not going to show up. I would rather be alone. This is enough interaction. There is also a culture of narcissism, hyper stimulation or both involved I imagine. I can't just close the browser window in person if the conversation seems boring or jump to something more interesting instantly.
I would even say that being alone is more fun now than hanging out at someone's house in the 20th century. There is just so much more to do. The group was less bored together but it was still pretty boring then. That is why going to the bar was so popular. Not much else to do then besides get drunk and smoke cigarettes in groups to get rid of the boredom.
by Nevermark | 2026-01-16 00:49:01+00:00
Data.

Vertical integration.

Horizontal integration.

Cross- and/or mass-relationship integration.

Individual relationship investment/artifacts.

Reputation for reliability, stability, or any other desired dimension.

Constant visibility in the news (good, neutral, sometimes even bad!)

A consistent attractive story or narrative around a good brand.

On the dark side: intimidation. Ruthless competition, acquisitions, law suits.

To keep someone is even easier. Tiny things hold onto people: An underlying model that delivers results with less irritation/glitches/hoops. Low to no-configuration installs and operation. Windows that open, and other actions that happen, instantly. Simple attention to good design can create fierce loyalty, after adoption, for those for whom design or friction downgrades feel like torture.

Obviously, many more moats in the physical world.
by al_borland | 2026-01-16 00:49:07+00:00
I had no idea there were two versions of that song by two different groups. I also find it a little surprising how close together those two songs were released… as if a ghost writer sold the concept to two groups.

I wonder what the real story is. The best I could find was an LA times article from 1993[0] where both groups claimed the other ripped them off. 95 South released first, but Tag Teams claims to have recorded it first.

It reminds me of how we often get two summer blockbuster movies with very similar concepts.

[0] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-08-15-ca-23926-...
by NemoNobody | 2026-01-16 00:49:37+00:00
I'm not sure anything has been made more clear at all. In fact, the paper appears to contradict itself, as it uses the most complicated possible everything to make this "simpler to understand"

Was that not the intent??

I think you went around in circles too much.

Consciousness theories must be falsifiable and inputs non-trivial - that is maybe the worse way to say that. Much of this could have been said better.

It reads like you are flexing your disciplines special words and language for normal shit -> a plumber can talk at you and you'll have no idea what they said too, especially if they try to do that.

As an intelligent person, who apparently understands this topic, an article like this can only be a flex for "job security" (like the plumber who describes plunging a toilet as the act of: "Hydrodynamic Pressure Rebalancing accomplished by a manual, oscillatory pressure-differential induction cycle.")

OR... they cannot simplify further due to lack of understanding of the subject matter.

I honestly am unsure what this is.

That is the nicest thing I can say.
by arcanemachiner | 2026-01-16 00:49:54+00:00
Setting up SpeechNote with Kokoro is one of the the best things I've ever done.

I can speak faster than I type, and the flow state is much smoother when you can just dump a stream of consciousness into the context window in a matter of seconds. And the quality of the model is insane for something that runs locally, on reasonable hardware no less.

Swearing at an LLM is also much more fun when done verbally.
by jamespt268 | 2026-01-16 00:50:09+00:00
I keep seeing discussions frame prescribing as a physician-only decision, but in practice that feels incomplete.

In many hospital and specialty settings, pharmacists influence therapy selection through formulary design, protocol development, dose optimization, and real-time recommendations during care transitions.

I’m curious how people here think about this:
• Where do pharmacists meaningfully influence prescribing?
• Where do they not?
• And why is this role so poorly understood outside healthcare systems?

I’ve been collecting examples and analysis here if helpful context: https://www.pharmacytimes.com/
by kbdiaz | 2026-01-16 00:50:15+00:00
Yeah, this is the natural next step. We're currently combining LLMs and compute -- mostly in the form of giving agents tools, then terminal access and now most recently sandboxes. The most logical next step is to give them specialized compute engines and frameworks for their tasks.

I've been building SQL agents recently, and nothing is better than just giving it access to Trino.
by t-writescode | 2026-01-16 00:50:30+00:00
Well, let’s see, in this building - an apartment complex, there’s:

* a coffee shop (that just closed)
* a desert shop
* a fine dining shop (that is open rarely

The apartment building next door has:

* a ramen shop
* a high-end burger shop
* a high-end barber shop

The apartment one apartment away has:

* a nail salon
* a hawaiian food shop

So, yes.
by g-b-r | 2026-01-16 00:50:35+00:00
What if they knew that preventing them would reduce engagement and revenue?

We just don't know, and it seems reasonable to me to investigate it.

Were it only to not degrade the quality model, anyhow, I think it's reasonable that someone's life could be more important than that, but that's me.

> I'm being selfish here! I am confident that no AI model will convince me to harm myself, and I don't want the models I use to be hamstrung.

I do see that you're being selfish
by AlanLan | 2026-01-16 00:51:18+00:00
It’s a bit more fundamental than just "using it badly." The real tension lies in whether a language's safety invariants force a memory layout that is inherently at odds with the CPU cache hierarchy.

In low-latency systems, the true "tax" is often the loss of determinism. If I have to sacrifice a cache-friendly structure or introduce indirection just to satisfy a borrow checker's static analysis, the performance game is already lost, regardless of how "well" I use the language.

To give a concrete example: I previously built a high-frequency bridge for MT4 using a strict Modern C++ stack. I observed that after the initial warm-up, the working set actually settled from 13.6MB down to a stable 11.0MB and stayed there for a 7-day continuous stress test.

This 2.6MB drop was simply the OS reclaiming initialization overhead—a result of manual memory management (via custom pool allocators) preventing heap fragmentation from "pinning" that memory. You don't achieve that level of long-term residency stability by just "using a language well"; you get it by using a toolchain that allows you to treat the hardware as the ultimate source of truth.
by zahlman | 2026-01-16 00:51:34+00:00
> Those were his words

No, they aren't. They're your interpretation of Boston Magazine's spin (and it's really, really obvious purely from the style of the prose that it's a complete hit piece that chose its conclusion ahead of time). The article provides no evidence of any such words. Because there is no such evidence, because he said nothing of the sort.

> They spent a year lying about her “unethical” actions justifying all of the abuse

That is, again, objectively not what happened. Any claims WRT Quinn were evidenced, and were also irrelevant to the large majority of what was going on. (What was actually going on, not what sources like the ones you prefer chose to focus on.)
BGP Network Browser
by hivedc | 2026-01-16 00:52:26+00:00
Hi HN,

When working with BGP data, I kept running into the same friction:
it’s easy to get raw data, but surprisingly hard to browse networks over time — especially by when they appeared, where they operate, and what they actually look like at a glance.

I built a small tool, bgpscout.io, to scratch that itch.

It lets you:

Browse ASNs by registration date and geography

See where a given network appears to have presence

View commonly scattered public data about an ASN in one place

Save searches to track when new networks matching certain criteria appear

All of this data is public already; the goal was to make exploration faster and less painful.

I haven’t invested heavily in expanding it yet. Before doing so, I’m curious:

Is this solving a real problem for you?

What would make something like this actually useful in day-to-day work?

Feedback is welcome.
by jleyank | 2026-01-16 00:52:44+00:00
Two ways come to mind re: retirement. Luck/skill into a big payout via startups or tailor a series of jobs to get you a paid-off residence someplace you'd like to live. Carrying a mortgage into retirement is just too much of a financial restriction for most folks.

You need retirement savings that will cover expenses over any government pension you might get. I assume you're in the US, so there's little chance of a company pension... Basically, save as much as you can while living a reasonable lifestyle. And the killer question is whether or not you have kids - which, usually, suggests a partner having similar decisions. DINKS have more financial flexibility but less populated lives.

In a way, you should "burn the candle at both ends" while younger. Deferring everything until later puts you at risk to not having the physical or mental means to do what you'd like. Or, not having the people you'd like to do them with. I guess you could say "don't waste time". You only get so much and it grows valuable as you age.

And store up memories when you're young. You'll spend them when you're old.
by moregrist | 2026-01-16 00:52:56+00:00
I’ve never worked in big tech, but I have seen the same dynamics play out in much smaller orgs.

If you’re constantly nitpicking and expressing concerns, you become “that person” who’s constantly negative about other people’s ideas. After a while people tune out; they already know that you’ll find “problems.” We all know these people. No one really likes working with them. Thus they’re _not effective_ at what they’re trying to do.

Ultimately you mostly get credit for shipping things that work, and only rarely for preventing the mistakes of other people.

At its core, what the blog post is saying is: keep your powder dry for when it matters. Not every problem is going to make the company insolvent. Not every concern will prove correct. Pick your battles strategically.

It’s good advice no matter the size or nature of the org.
by misswaterfairy | 2026-01-16 00:53:10+00:00
> Nvidia has indeed grown like a monster in the last couple years - 35Bn increase from 23-24 and 70Bn increase from 24-25.

Worringly for Nvidia, Apple is producing products people want and are provenly useful, thus a vast majority of its value is solid, so revenue streams for fabs Apple uses is solid.

Nvidia on the other hand, is producing tangible things of value, GPUs, but which are now largely used in unproven technologies (when stacked against lofty claims) that barely more than a few seem to want, so Nvidia's revenue stream seems flimsy at best in the AI boom.

The only proven revenue stream Nvidia has (had?) is GPUs for display and visualisation (gaming, graphics, and non-AI non-crypto compute, etc.)
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-01-16 00:53:11+00:00
> Level of effort also hard to gauge because it can finish things that would take me a week in an hour or take an hour to do something I can in 20 minutes.

There's an interesting parallel here with modern UI frameworks (SwiftUI, Compose, etc). On one hand they trivialize some work, but on the other hand they require insane contortions to achieve what I can do in the old imperative UI framework in seconds.
by publicdebates | 2026-01-16 00:54:12+00:00
> 3. Decreased American tolerance for and ability to handle awkwardness, and there's always going to be some awkwardness in social interactions.

I wonder how much of this is due to our ever increasing sense of obligation to be "performing" all the time. Maybe increased by the perpetual presence of social media and the habits and mindset that both creating and consuming for it creates.
by soulofmischief | 2026-01-16 00:55:27+00:00
Renee Good was killed after dropping off her six-year-old child at school. I agree with you, but people like her have children and are not trying to die in the street just for looking at somebody the wrong way. And it's one thing to open carry, it's another thing to become a trained and confident marksmen.

And as someone who has had half a dozen police officers simultaneously pointing guns at my head, mistaking me for someone else in public, once you're in that situation, escalation is only going to lead to death. Out here, police shoot you if your hand goes anywhere near your waist.
by wordsunite | 2026-01-16 00:55:59+00:00
Yeah, I’m sure it happens everywhere. And I’m no expert, I worked in state government, fed R&D, big tech and a startup and I feel like the big tech environment was a lot more of the “I need an audience to make my point” in a big staff or strategy meeting vs the small swarms where we just need to get this thing working environment. But it depends on the startup and depends on the people. I’m sure the same goes for teams in big tech but I assume the politics plays more in survival there.
Show HN: BunKill – npkill alternative built with Bun.js
by codingstark | 2026-01-16 00:56:20+00:00
I created BunKill as a faster alternative to npkill for cleaning up node_modules directories.

After working on multiple JavaScript projects, I noticed npkill could be slow when scanning large directory trees. So I built BunKill using Bun.js, which offers significant performance improvements.

Features:

• Ultra-fast scanning with optimized glob patterns

• Interactive CLI with pagination and keyboard navigation (↑/↓ to navigate, Space to select, Enter to delete)

• Accurate size calculation with fallback mechanisms

• Batch operations with multi-select

• Real-time progress display

• Smart filtering to skip . git, build artifacts, etc.

Quick start:
npm install -g bunkill
bunkill --dir ~/Projects

Or try without installing:
bunx bunkill

The tool uses only Bun.js built-ins and TypeScript—no external runtime dependencies. It's fully tested on macOS with Linux/Windows support coming soon.

GitHub: https://github.com/codingstark-dev/bunkill
License: MIT

I'd appreciate any feedback, especially from Linux/Windows users willing to test!
by krapp | 2026-01-16 00:56:49+00:00
>The citizens could easily vote in a new president in 2028 who defunded ICE altogether.

You think that after two more years of this regime that any such candidate would be allowed anywhere near whatever pretense of an electoral system still exists?

I need you to understand that the United States is already no longer a democratic republic in anything but name. The system of government you're assuming will fix the mess will have been entirely dismantled by then. The time to fix this within the system was in 2024.
by Analemma_ | 2026-01-16 00:56:49+00:00
This is probably true, and while I expect productivity to go up, I also expect "FOSS maintainer burnout" to skyrocket in the coming years.

Everyone knows reading code is one-hundredth as fun as writing it, and while we have to accept some amount of reading as the "eating your vegetables" part of the job, FOSS project maintainers are often in a precarious enough position as it is re: job satisfaction. I think having to dramatically increase the proportion of reading to writing, while knowing full well that a bunch of what they are reading was created by some bozo with a CC subscription and little understanding of what they were doing, will lead to a bunch of them walking away.
by NetworkPerson | 2026-01-16 00:56:58+00:00
I honestly wouldn’t call Suno “AI slop” at this point. Yes, there’s a ton of garbage coming out of it. But you can also create some really detailed and intricate songs if you do it right. I’ve made some really nice duets and trios for example. Cloned from a real voice, no… but I’m also not getting sued for stealing a real person’s voice.

And some of their upcoming features which aren’t generally known yet are going to be really useful to creators.
by ksherlock | 2026-01-16 00:57:30+00:00
Your savings rate is a lifestyle choice.

eg, let's simplify and assume spherical cows, no inflation and no ROI. If you save 50% of your income, 1 year of work is 1 year of retirement. If you save 25% of your income, 3 years of work is 1 year of retirement.

So you should probably read bogleheads, live below your means, and max out your 401k/403b/roth ira/etc with low-cost index funds. or just yolo it on stonks and hope for diamond hands.
by mirabilis | 2026-01-16 00:58:25+00:00
very much agree that many of our supposed safeguards are demeaning and can sometimes make things worse; I’ve heard more than enough horror stories from individuals that received wellness checks, ended up on medical suicide watch, etc, where the experience did great damage emotionally and, well, fiscally— I think there’s a greater question here of how society deals with suicide that surrounds what an AI should even be doing about it. that being said, the bot still should probably not be going “killing yourself will be beautiful and wonderful and peaceful and all your family members will totally understand and accept why you did it” and I feel, albeit as a non-expert, as though surely that behavior can be ironed out in some way
by marcus_holmes | 2026-01-16 00:58:50+00:00
This. My wife and I built our social life when we moved countries, and we had a group of friends that we'd meet every week or two. But only when we invited them. No-one else in the group ever organised anything. It got really tiring. We could not get anyone else to organise a meet, they always had reasons why they couldn't organise one (but could turn up to it fine). We tried a bunch of things, but nothing worked - if we didn't organise it, it didn't happen. We ended up moving away and the whole social group collapsed and stopped meeting.
by irishcoffee | 2026-01-16 00:59:03+00:00
My 4-year-old kid was able to figure out 2+2=4 after I taught them 1+1=2. All 3 of them actually, all at 4-5 years old.

Turns out counting 2 sets of two objects (1… 2… 3… 4…) isn’t actually hard to do if you teach the kid how to count to 10 and that 1+1=2

I guess when we get to toddler stage of LLMs I’ll be more interested.