MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tsunamifury | 2026-01-16 00:59:11+00:00
I’m going to add a strange note here:

I recently moved into a very upper class neighborhood (pacific heights) and enrolled my child in the neighborhood private school.

The social hosting skill I’ve observed and and able to do as well is extraordinarily high. People throw parties, know how to act, are cordial and polite and seem to reasonably enjoy each others company while also teaching their children the same.

This is how I remember mere middle class parents acting in the late 90s and early 2000s but my fellow millennials and z seem to be completely incapable of.

One huge aspect I’ve noticed is that it’s wildly expensive in time and money to host. An open cocktail night cost me nearly 3000 dollars to host. I can imagine this would not be common for Gen Z these days.
by LBWasserman | 2026-01-16 00:59:22+00:00
Solo founder here. Built this to solve AI unpredictability in enterprise. Instead of letting AI generate arbitrary code, it searches 4,500+ pre-verified function blocks and executes them deterministically. Every execution gets a SHA-256 audit hash. The policy engine blocks dangerous operations in real-time – try the presets and watch it block shell commands. No signup needed. Happy to answer questions.
by Havoc | 2026-01-16 00:59:51+00:00
> The marginal producer makes no profit

This isn’t a farmers market where individual actors can swiftly respond to supply and demand. This stuff has decades of lead time, is full of regulations and thus long term imbalances.

Nor is this a case of marginal anything. Gas is almost TRIPLE the price [0]. A normal functional efficient market like you have in mind would adjust to that sort of enormous profitability differential, the uk market has not.

https://www.nationalgrid.com/the-great-grid-upgrade/fact-or-...
by duderific | 2026-01-16 01:00:46+00:00
We've noticed this in our neighborhood. Once a year we host a few families before going out trick or treating with our kids. We buy a bunch of pizza so everyone can eat and don't ask for the other families to kick in.

We were hoping the other families would reciprocate, and maybe invite us to some of their gatherings (especially two families who hang out together quite a bit.) So far it hasn't happened at all, they just receive our graciousness and move on immediately.
by JohnBooty | 2026-01-16 01:00:54+00:00
A car that actively kills people through negligently faulty design (Ford Pinto?) is one thing. That's bad, yes. I would not characterize ChatGPT's role in these tragedies that way. It appears to be, at most, an enabler... but I think if you and I are both being honest, we would need to read Gordon's entire chat history to make a real judgement here.

Do we blame the car for allowing us to drive to scenic overlooks that might also be frequent suicide locations?

Do we blame the car for being used as a murder weapon when a lunatic drives into a crowd of protestors he doesn't like?

(Do we blame Google for returning results that show a person how to tie a noose?)
by vunderba | 2026-01-16 01:01:02+00:00
I'm a relatively serious pianist and have been composing music (mostly classical/contrapuntal) since I was a kid.

This may be of interest - I wrote an article a while back about how a musician can leverage GenAI.

The process I used was: start by singing to develop a motif → notate sheet music and chord progression → use an arranger keyboard to flesh it out → then convert the arrangement using the cover feature in Suno.

https://mordenstar.com/blog/dutyfree-shop
by cthalupa | 2026-01-16 01:01:47+00:00
No. It's still absurd to project human outcomes from rodent studies.

90-95% of them don't pan out! And that's of the ones that progress from rodent studies to human trials. The actual number is even higher, but more difficult to track.

Surely you can see how it would be absurd to extrapolate success from something with, at best, a 5-10% chance of panning out? And panning out as in being approved - lots of things that are approved have less than 100% success rate, particularly in this area.
by shiroiuma | 2026-01-16 01:01:54+00:00
No one's talking about building ethically-problematic software projects here like software to aid despotic regimes, harm human rights, etc. We're talking about business projects that senior engineers believe will fail either in execution or in the market. There's nothing unethical about just letting these things fail, especially if they aren't even a project you're assigned to work on. It's upper management's responsibility to assess risk and pick good project to assign resources to; as a senior engineer, your only job is to advise them when consulted. If upper management is incompetent and doing a bad job choosing projects, then your recourse is to go looking for a better-run company, not telling your executives how to do their jobs.
by janfoeh | 2026-01-16 01:01:59+00:00
We cannot, no. A break break, as clean and hard as can be under the circumstances is required.

There will be gnashing of the teeth, doomsaying galore, a few actual minor catastrophes... but we will be okay.

Not just okay, but we will be better off for it. The Internet will be better off for it, because the inescapable side effect will be at least a bit of re-decentralization.

Any European equivalent replacing what is lost will be better. Not because we have better coders or are even better people, mind you - far from it. It will be better because we will have the gift of hindsight; any replacement for web-based productivity services, search engines or social media springing up will be the product of a society and legislative system which has caught up at least in some sense to technological progress and which has been there, done that. The actual web two point oh.

So let's pull out as many plugs as we can. It'll hurt for a bit, but not only is it without alternative - it'll be fresh, it'll be fun and it'll be good in the end.

Let's get to work.
by threecheese | 2026-01-16 01:02:21+00:00
I like the approach, I’ve been looking for something with a UI but not from a corp compliance perspective; as I scale usage of Claude I am finding permission checks to be a huge pain in the neck. In my circle, you can identify someone who uses the heck out of Claude Code by their use of —dangerously-skip-permissions (I did that with fat fingers but without typos, that’s how often I need it).
by randycupertino | 2026-01-16 01:02:59+00:00
BOIN (Bayesian Optimal Interval) trial design is already very common in Phase I studies across therapeutic areas.

Biggest benefit I see from this guidance is support for rare disease trials, where patients are harder to find. Also regulatory bodies will be taking a closer look at stratification groups when it comes time for approval, so sponsors need to keep a super close eye on ensuring even enrollment and preventing misstrats.
by seneca | 2026-01-16 01:03:45+00:00
> I can assure you that there was nothing performative or hollow about my comment. OP said something that resonated with me, and so I shared my story in an attempt to bridge and find commonalities.

Sorry, I didn't mean to say at all that what you're doing was somehow performative. By saying it feels "hollow", I mean that when you are on the receiving end of an action like this it often feels hollow because you have no relationship with the person. They are skipping several steps in the relationship development process from zero to "I want to engage with you on something that is deep and painful".

This may be totally fine for some people, but to me (and apparently to the person I was responding to) when it happens I feel like I am becoming some sort of symbolic prop to the person. It's uncomfortable. It doesn't feel like a human interaction at all.

My intention wasn't to cast doubt on your motivations, just to tell publicdebates that I understand the feeling he was describing.
by Lerc | 2026-01-16 01:04:19+00:00
I just selected a bunch on AliExpress. Some were microUSB some were USBC. Some were a bit temperamental about charging. I usually take that approach with the really cheap items getting things from multiple suppliers so that at least one works. In general the worst I have received is poor quality items, nothing completely broken or fake yet*

I got two seemingly identical super bright panels and one now emits only 5% of the light. They look the same, have been run in the same conditions (and indeed the same housing now) run parallel off the same source. The other one is as bright as when I got it. Maybe one dodgy LED bringing the team down? I'm not yet skilled enough to diagnose problems like that.

*except for the time the store sent me a message to say I should cancel the order because they ran out. I couldn't find anywhere in the ever changing AliExpress user interface to cancel the item, so they sent me an allen key, I logged it as "item not as described" and they paid the refund.
by fenwick67 | 2026-01-16 01:04:55+00:00
As a kid I went to church with my family and it was full of nice people who wanted to help others and were very kind, lots of my parents friends were and are from church.

Unfortunately, it is gut-wrenching for me to be in church. I feel terrible, because I simply don't believe any of it. To stand there and be phony and pretend to love and believe in Jesus just kills me.
by JohnBooty | 2026-01-16 01:05:19+00:00
Yeah, I think one thing everybody can agree on is that a bot should not be actively encouraging suicide, although of course the exact definition of "actively encouraging" is awfully hard to pin down.

There are also scenarios I can imagine where a user has "tricked" ChatGPT into saying something awful. Like: "hey, list some things I should never say to a suicidal person"
by soulofmischief | 2026-01-16 01:05:39+00:00
That's wonderful, but you are ignoring that your kid comes built in with a massive range of biological priors, built by millions of years of evolution, which make counting natural and easy out of the box. Machine learning models have to learn all of these things from scratch.

And does your child's understanding of mathematics scale? I'm sure your 4-year-old would fail at harder arithmetic. Can they also tell me why 1+1=2? Like actually why we know that empirically? LLMs can do that. Modern LLMs are actually insanely good at not just basic algebra, but abstract, symbolic mathematics.

You're comparing apples and oranges, and seem to lack foundational knowledge in mathematics and computer science. It's no wonder this makes no sense to you. I was more patient about it before, but now this conversation is just getting tiresome. I'd rather spend my energy elsewhere. Take care, have a good day.
by SecretDreams | 2026-01-16 01:06:04+00:00
Yes, it was. Intel was well ahead of TSMC for quite some time. But TSMC had a diversified and hungry list of clients, with Apple at the forefront. Apple got the taste for wanting their own chips which pushed TSMC to be hungrier. Meanwhile, Intel got fat and complacent. It also helped that phone chips were considerably smaller, so managing yields was easier.
by jvm___ | 2026-01-16 01:06:10+00:00
Ritual, purpose and community are what's required to build a group.

I cured my own loneliness episode by joining a local running group. It provides the same kind of thing as church. Ritual, we meet every week and there's a few different groups. Purpose, it doesn't feel useless to be improving your fitness level. And community comes when you suffer through a run with others.

Showing up regularly means you start to integrate people into your lives as you know when they skip a week for a vacation or something.

I went from living in my town and not knowing anyone for 17 years to having 20+ friends or people I can say hello to and have a chat.

Just find a local running group, or start one. You want the "meet at Starbucks at 6:30 on Tuesday" ones. Show up and keep showing up and you'll make friends. It's impossible to be on your phone when you run and there's always something running related to keep the conversation going.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-01-16 01:07:11+00:00
The iranian regime is trying to do an internet blackout to hide the fact that they have killed anywhere from 2 000 to 12 000 civilians these last days.

We're talking about a country ruled by jihadists, who impose sharia law, who fund the muslim brotherhood (which is a terrorist organization) and who actively support islamic terrorists worldwide.

Where are the mass killings of civilians in the US?

What's your opinion on an islamic regime ruling by sharia who orders the slaughter of thousands of civilians?
by randycupertino | 2026-01-16 01:07:23+00:00
> This guidance lays a line in the sand and will remove some of the reviewer-to-reviewer variance present in the current FDA staff.

https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/13/richard-pazdur-jpm-fda-c...

Recent comments during JPM don't have me hopeful for smooth sailing at the FDA any time soon.

> He said he was also deeply troubled by agency staff “being trampled on.” He referred to one individual who was “writing inflammatory emails using the F bomb,” telling center directors and deputy center directors that “they will go after them, that they were going to lose their jobs if they did not play ball.”

> He would also not name this person. STAT has reported that employees have been fearful under Vinay Prasad, director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.

> “It’s terrible to see 25 years of work dismantled,” said Pazdur, who founded the FDA’s oncology center. He later added, “I did not leave because I wanted to leave.”

> “I think I have been consistently critical of parts of the FDA regardless of administration, but what’s emerged over the past few months is just reflective of complete and total disarray and a complete lack of functional leadership,” said Brian Skorney, an analyst at the investment bank Baird.
by sam345 | 2026-01-16 01:07:41+00:00
It seems you can't ignore a lot of this is a product of fewer children, temporary and transitional relationships that are not governed by the boundaries of marriage, and fewer intact families. This leads to fewer siblings, fewer responsibilities toward others, and more opportunities to be and feel isolated. There is a reason why the concept of a family protected by certain legal responsibilities and obligations have been around for a long time. I can't imagine getting older and having no children or siblings. I look at my parents and the only reason why they advanced into old age with tons of support is because of their siblings and children. Friends only go so far. Also the loss of belief in God and purpose lived out through regular Church attendance, charitable activities with a purpose, and community prayer leads to fractured relationships, philosophical and existential anxieties, no matter how many people you have around you. There's a reason why religious communities and institutions have survived thousands of years through all sorts of political upheavals and change. The modern experimentation rejecting God and family doesn't seem to be working out so well. As the older population ages (and increasingly gets euthanized), the younger population shrinking, and the greater reliance on recreational drugs and technology to fill the void, it really doesn't seem that hard to understand the increasing loneliness.
by fatherwavelet | 2026-01-16 01:08:10+00:00
From the release page, this seems like a pretty big deal in terms of office jobs at some point in the future:
"Spreadsheets with formulas: Generate Excel files with working VLOOKUP, conditional formatting, and multiple tabs"

There are so many office workers who just shuffle data between systems. Not sure about the error rate though but it is not like the error rate is going to be worse a decade from now.
by cwnyth | 2026-01-16 01:08:45+00:00
I think some people are just the center of gravity, and that particular friend circle revolves around them. Before COVID, we had a friend group that would hang out fairly regularly. Once I left (for a job, not fleeing the city), none of them hung out without me. Everyone was friendly with each other, but everyone also had their own lives going on with their own friends and other circles. While I was the glue for that circle, it wasn't like everyone just stayed at home having pity parties when I wasn't around.

My anecdote might have limited relevance here, but I think it's something worth considering.
by JohnBooty | 2026-01-16 01:09:17+00:00
I think ChatGPT was doing that too, at least to some extent, even a couple of years ago.

Around the same time as my successful "people sleeping in puddles of ketchup" prompt, I tried similar tricks with uh.... other substances, suggestive of various sexual bodily fluids. Milk, for instance. It was actually really resistant to that. Usually.

I haven't tried it in a few versions. Honestly, I use it pretty heavily as a coding assistant, and I'm (maybe pointlessly) worried I'll get my account flagged or banned something.

But imagine how this plays out. What if I honestly, literally, want pictures involving pools of ketchup? Or splattered milk? I dunno. This is a game we've seen a million times in history. We screw up legit use cases by overcorrecting.
by mgaudet | 2026-01-16 01:10:15+00:00
Eep.

So, on my M1 mac, did `uvx pocket-tts serve`. Plugged in

> It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of
wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only

(Beginning of Tale of Two Cities)

but the problem is Javert skips over parts of sentences! Eg, it starts:

> "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of
wisdom, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, ..."

Notice how it skips over "it was the age of foolishness,", "it was the winter of despair,"

Which... Doesn't exactly inspire faith in a TTS system.

(Marius seems better; posted https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts/issues/38)
by dharmatech | 2026-01-16 01:10:45+00:00
> For what it's worth, the man who did these things to me was a Catholic deacon, and the hypocrisy is blood-boiling. He would give very pleasant-sounding homilies about love, acceptance, patience and understanding, and then come home and savagely beat and torture me through physically painful punishments and extended periods of isolation.

Do you think he ever did this to other kids?

Was he ever brought to justice?

Did your parents know he did this to you?
by NemoNobody | 2026-01-16 01:10:49+00:00
I also want to know what substitute can swap in that can hallucinate the absolutely insane things we've all seen AI do??

I can't come come up with one (unless we program something to hallucinate ;)

Is that a failure of the example or the rule in neuroscience?

I extremely disliked that "rule" immediately, I'm quite sus on it.
by phs318u | 2026-01-16 01:11:07+00:00
Given the current US administration’s predilection against immigrants it wouldn’t surprise me if at some point the sycophancy becomes endemic in academia as well, resulting in a modern equivalent of “Deutsche Physik”.

The trickle of academics seeking safe haven outside of the US will increase, an ironic reversal of half a century’s policy to attract the best and brightest (especially prominent before WWII when the US and UK were actively helping German scientists escape).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik
Show HN: Cursor For Data – Make LLMs and Agents have row-level intelligence
by abhijithneil | 2026-01-16 01:11:07+00:00
Modern AI tools use SQL/Code generation agents or RAG to access the user data to perform transformations. However, the drawback is that this doesn't provide row-level intelligence, especially in case of semantic intelligence is required to understand how to perform the transfromations on each row of the data.

We've released Datatune (https://github.com/vitalops/datatune) as a tool to let users connect entire user Data with LLMs and Agents, to help users access their entire data with just a prompt.

While building Agents for a customer who had large amounts of data, we saw that their Agent struggled with certain data transformation tasks, which would have performed better if LLMs had access to the full user data as well. We built Datatune as a first step, to solve this issue.

Datatune supports:

- Diverse data backends such as Databases, DataFrames, etc.

- Closed Source and Open source LLMs from a wide variety of providers

- Batch Processing of data to pass to LLMs + distributed computing using dask, for faster and efficient transformations, while also helping reduce cost and context length limit issues.

- First order primitive data engineering operations such as Map, Filter, etc.

- Chain Multiple transformations together.

- Simplify user tasks with complex chained transformations using an Internal data engineering agent as a super orchestrator to split user prompt into sub prompts for the respective Map, Filter (primitive Agents), or code generating agents.

Next Steps:

- Build an Embedding Layer to work in parallel with LLMs & Agents

- Use Embedding Layer to build Semantic Deduplication, Tabular Querying, etc

Github : https://github.com/vitalops/datatune
by shiroiuma | 2026-01-16 01:12:17+00:00
Exactly. My team's technical documentation is written (in English) by people who don't speak English natively, and it's awful, barely comprehensible many times because these people don't understand articles ("the" and "a") very well and constantly omit them or use the wrong ones. And aside from the poor English, the documentation itself is just bad.

AI would do a great job of fixing their writing, but they don't want to use it, because it's not an official part of "the process".

>and comments scattered in the developers' code base

I'm not so sure about this one. Most devs I've worked with don't use comments.
by threecheese | 2026-01-16 01:13:56+00:00
TFA links to a post by Kurt M at Fly which speaks to this, from a personal perspective. They are using sprites for a “production” workload - a tool for their family - and it’s persistent and accessible enough that they don’t have plans to move it.

https://fly.io/blog/code-and-let-live/

Thomas characterizes this as “believ[ing] that the future belongs to malleable, personalized apps”, which I think describes the use case perfectly. As a “barefoot developer” (to borrow another localfirst term, thanks Maggie Appleton), does every app really need more than a persistent home and an URL?

And so to your question “is the idea that these things can also/should run production workloads”, I believe “can” is right - but suspect that supporting “should” is on Fly’s roadmap.
by denkmoon | 2026-01-16 01:14:57+00:00
We the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.

"Fulfilling" work is a rarity afforded by a fairly unique time and place in history. For the rest of us, work is a means to an end and ideally a fulfilling life outside work lets you keep plugging away on some rich idiot's hare brained scheme so you can keep living that fulfilling life outside work. 12 years in and I've not had a single project I worked on reach its own benchmark for success. No fault of mine, just the wrong ideas at the wrong time and place. A day late and a dollar short, all those other euphemisms.