MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by businessmate | 2026-01-28 11:06:15+00:00
Description
Over the past two years, consumer brands have invested heavily in improving their visibility inside conversational AI systems. The prevailing assumption has been straightforward: if a brand appears clearly and positively in AI-generated answers, it benefits.

That assumption is incomplete.

In multi-turn testing of consumer-facing AI systems, we observe a recurring pattern in which brands remain visible and well described during early stages of a conversation yet are removed at the point where the system is asked to recommend what to buy. This shift occurs without the introduction of new negative information and without any explicit signal that substitution has taken place.

This article examines that pattern, why existing optimization frameworks do not capture it, and why it raises a distinct measurement and governance question for consumer brands, particularly in beauty and personal care.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-28 11:06:17+00:00
Hah, yeah, zero regards to security, don't run this without sandbox and load arbitrary websites :)

I don't think Rust helps much except preventing some very basic issues, for example, I don't think it even checks that URLs aren't referencing local files on disk, who knows how the path handling works, might be able to put absolute paths on remote pages and load local content? Unsure, but wouldn't surprise me.

Might be a bit safer due to no JS engine, so even if someone did what I outlined before, they couldn't really exfiltrate anything, there is no POST/PUT requests or forms or anything :)

I'm sure if someone did a proper audit they'd find double-digit high severity issues, at least.
by VBprogrammer | 2026-01-28 11:06:36+00:00
Law enforcement only works when the people have trust in those doing the enforcement.

ICE have lost the trust of a significant portion of the people in Minnesota because they are using unreasonable force, eroding constitutionally protected rights and behaving with impunity.

They are, in reality, just conducting a politically motivated campaign of harassment. If they truly wanted to deport as many people as possible they'd start with border states like Florida and Texas, places with 20x more undocumented immigrants.
by mlrtime | 2026-01-28 11:07:20+00:00
It's not that challenging, the answer is, it depends.

It's like a junior dev writing features for a product everyday vs a principle engineer. The junior might be adding a feature with O(n^2) performance while principle has seen this before and writes it O(log n).

If the feature never reaches significance, the "better" solution doesn't matter, but it might!

The principle may write once and it is solid and never touched, but the junior might be good enough to never need coming back to, same with a llm and the right operator.
Show HN: Resona – Finds connections across what you save
by fran_ortiz | 2026-01-28 11:07:58+00:00
Built Resona (https://useresona.com) to solve a recurring frustration: you save something, think "this relates to something I read before" — and never find what.

Those connections are where the aha moments live. Same underlying idea, different domain, months apart.

What it does:
- Save anything (Chrome extension or forward emails) — no folders, no organizing
- Weekly digest surfaces connections across months of reading
- Interactive graph ("Overtones") shows how ideas relate over time
- Chat with your library — "What have I saved about scaling teams?"

Tech: TypeScript monorepo, React SPA, Supabase (Postgres + Auth), OpenAI for embeddings and semantic search, Chrome extension.

Would love feedback: Do the surfaced connections make you want to revisit what you saved?
by alejandromav | 2026-01-28 11:08:06+00:00
Happy to answer questions.

A few clarifications upfront:

This is live, not backfilled. Weekly snapshots are published as-is. “Confidence” is a relative, within-week score, not a probability of profit. OpenAI is only used for text parsing (ticker + intent), not for ranking or prediction. WSB and House trades are separate signals with different horizons.

Feedback is welcome.
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-28 11:08:53+00:00
>external "certified code reviewers"

That's another big issue with Germany, is they obsess over certifications when hiring, as if they're some confidence of high quality hiring bar, when a lot of those certifications and degrees in the IT industry are just scams.

I think it's caused by the fact that firing a bad hire is super difficult past the probation period, and since HR/recruiters are clueless on screening what makes a good SW dev, so they just go with filtering for credentials to cover their asses, in case of a bad hire they can say they followed the process and screened for the ones with credentials.
by stared | 2026-01-28 11:09:10+00:00
Thank you for sharing! I like the idea, I feel there is some work ahead so I could find it useful.

I opened that to see what are the most recommended games on the Hacker News (and perhaps posts introducing these, notes by authors, discussions).

Yet, I got alphabetic sorting. (Good for librarians, the worst possible for actual recommendations.)

How about: sorting some by upvotes and linking posts (with dates) when it was mentioned?

Also, if there is a game, instead of card with names, cards with screenshots would be infinitely better.
by piva00 | 2026-01-28 11:09:52+00:00
I didn't state that, at all.

The point was that the US touts itself as a free country while having many perverse incentives and mechanisms oppressing part of its citizenry. There's a veneer on top of it of individual freedoms compared to a state like China but in reality it can be as brutal against its population as any totalitarian state, it's just that the power to subjugate and oppress isn't centralised and is more diffused through its institutions across history.

It's not too far in history that the US was deploying the National Guard to fire live ammo against protesters, American police has military-grade equipment deployed against their citizens, I think it makes it even harder that the oppressive power isn't centralised since to uproot this there are countless battles to be won for any change to happen. It's institutionalised, any big institution is really hard to change.
by hypeatei | 2026-01-28 11:10:56+00:00
Ah yes, enforcing border laws means you: kill American citizens, intimidate at political events, tear gas protestors, and brutalize citizens anonymously with a mask.

No one falls for this bullshit except right wingers with a very fucked up media diet. ICE is a secret police force that is being used for more than just immigration enforcement, obviously. Their budget is now bigger than some countries entire defense budgets.

EDIT: oh and don't forget that ICE is going to the Winter Olympics in Italy as a security detail. So much immigration enforcement, you wouldn't even believe!
by cmkr | 2026-01-28 11:10:58+00:00
Ave Caesari, morituri te salutant.

Fixed:
1. GeoIP fallback
2. Links vs embeds
3. Migration costs

*GeoIP* - The ASN-only approach was too restrictive (I tested mostly with orf.at and such). Now using oschwald/geoip2-golang with DB-IP Lite. Hybrid detection: ASN for known providers, GeoIP fallback for everything else.

kapsi.fi now correctly shows as EU/Finland (was the false positive many caught). google.com: 54% (US detected), reddit.com: 94% (Canada - has EU adequacy decision). Added all EU adequacy countries (UK, Switzerland, Japan, Canada, etc.) - no penalty, but labeled "Adequate" not "EU". Im not sure on this one. Im sure we'd like to get UK back in the Union so we get to see the Rolling Stones more often.

*Embeds* - A link TO twitter.com is no longer flagged as a dependency. Only actual embeds (script src, iframes) count now. This might also fix the "links to GitHub flagged as GitHub Pages hosting" issue - same root.

*Costs* - Reduced. Google Fonts swap is now €50-150, not €400-800. Costs were too enterprisy, now for small sites like ours :)

Need to feed some cows now.
Will iterate further when back.
PS: Please dont roast the latin. Its been a while.

EDIT:
Remove Api for now.
by palata | 2026-01-28 11:13:03+00:00
To me, the first easy step is the email. There are good alternatives to Gmail, including (but not limited to) Migadu, Fastmail, ProtonMail. My opinion is that you should get your own domain (so that you can have an address like username@neuralkoi.com), because then your address can stay forever and you can switch provider in the back. Say you use ProtonMail behind your @neuralkoi.com address and decide to move to Migadu, you can keep the same address. Meaning that you don't have to tell everybody that you changed.

Regarding the Google Workspace, again there are alternatives, some self-hosted (but that's harder to do). One that comes to mind is the Proton suite.

Search engine is pretty easy to switch to (there is no network effect there). I really like Kagi, DuckDuckGo works well. For a non-US alternative (if you're into that) there is Qwant (Ecosia is European on the paper but I believe they use US servers).

For the mobile phone, you're pretty much screwed: it's Apple or Google. You can try to support projects that try to limit the power of Google over the OS. My personal favourite is GrapheneOS, but it only supports Pixel phones (hopefully that will change eventually). Linux on mobile is interesting, but IMO far behind AOSP (the open source part of Android).
by mlrtime | 2026-01-28 11:13:34+00:00
As a manager I would encourage them to use the LLM tools. I would also encourage unit tests, e2e testing, testing coverages, CI pipelines automating the testing, automatic pr reviewing etc...

It's also peeking at the big/impactful changes and ignoring the small ones.

Your job isn't to make sure they don't have "brain damage" its to keep them productive and not shipping mistakes.
by 101008 | 2026-01-28 11:14:00+00:00
I am not fan of managers, but these are people with families behind them. 1,700 is a lot of families that may go into stress and who knows what. Let's just now talk about them as if they were just rows in a database.

(I am not saying OP is talking like that about them, but I am seeing some responses that do...)
by Brajeshwar | 2026-01-28 11:14:03+00:00
I come from one of the most disturbed and violent states in India. During high school and college, I worked with a few local Newspaper Publishers, finishing up layouts in Aldus PageMaker. Along with the reporters, I was involved in many parts of the final decisions that made the news mellowed/changed when printed in the Paper in the morning, making it more consumable for readers. I have seen photos of bloodshed and mutilations that trained my brain to normalize rotten.com in later years of my life. The ones printed in the morning paper were always curated; the ones that got away unprinted were things we would keep under key and lock.

More than a decade ago, I stopped following general news and learn about things asynchronously. However, I had picked up a few topics that I like to follow and do follow them. Since the Pandemic, I had settled on just a few niche areas of Tech and Science to follow — which, of course, quite a few of them land on Hacker News when I submit them.

Around the end of 2025, I picked up the actual printed Physical Newspaper again. A lot of the news seems like yesterday’s Jam to me. I’m going to continue reading the newspaper, Slow and Smooth, picking the ones I want to read and ignoring everything else.

https://brajeshwar.com/2026/newspaper/
by Tor3 | 2026-01-28 11:14:30+00:00
Woz talked about the early days in an interview, and he said something like (paraphrasing) "Steve [Jobs] could call companies and get free samples for me, and negotiate low prices for other stuff, something I simply couldn't do".

It sounds like they complemented each other during the startup. And it was Jobs who suggested that they should try running a company.
Show HN: Turn blog posts and X threads into talking head videos
by yonatan06 | 2026-01-28 11:14:36+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m one of the founders of Gling https://gling.ai
We’ve been working on AI video editing for a while (mostly helping YouTubers remove silences and bad takes), but we just released a new feature that I wanted to share with you: converting text links directly into talking head videos.

The Problem: Repurposing text content (blogs, Twitter threads, LinkedIn posts) into video is tedious. You usually have to summarize the text, write a script, set up a camera/teleprompter, record, and edit. We wanted to collapse that entire stack into one click.

How it works: You paste a URL (e.g., a TechCrunch article, blog post, or an X thread), and Gling does the following:

Content Extraction: We scrape the meaningful content from the page.

Script Generation: We use llm to summarize the content and rewrite it into a natural-sounding video script.

Video Synthesis: This is the core update. We generate the visual and audio using elevenlabs and veed fabric, you can either upload your avatar and voice, or select an AI generated one.

The Tech Stack:

Backend: Node.js on google cloud.

Video/Audio: Elevenlabs for audio, Veed fabirc for video, and mediabunny for handling the media files

Why we built this: We noticed many of our users were manually reading their own blog posts to camera. We figured we could automate the "talking head" part so creators can test video versions of their written content without the production friction.

The Ask: We are looking for feedback on:

The "Uncanny Valley": How natural does the movement/voice feel to you?

Script Quality: Does the summarization miss key technical context from your links?

Use Cases: Would you use this for docs? Marketing? Internal updates?

You can try it here: https://app.gling.ai – no login required for the first video.

Thanks!
by fao_ | 2026-01-28 11:16:24+00:00
This perspective is astonishingly historically ignorant, and ignores how "Open Source Software" was a deliberate political movement to simultaneously neuter the non-company-friendly goals of FOSS while simultaneously providing a competing (and politically distracting) movement that deliberately courted companies.

The Free Software movement was successful enough that by 1997 it was garnering a lot of international community support and manpower. Eric S. Raymond published CatB in response to these successes, partly with a goal of "celebrating its successes" — sendmail, gcc, perl, and Linux were all popular projects with a huge number of collaborators by this point — and partly with a goal of reframing the Free Software movement such that it effectively neuters the political basis (i.e. the four freedoms, etc.) in a company-friendly way. It's very easy to note when reading the book, how it consistently celebrates the successes of Free Software in a company friendly way, deliberately to make it appealing to companies. Often being very explicit about its goals, e.g. "Don't give your workers good bonuses, because research shows that the better a ''hacker'' the less they care about money!".

A year later, internal memos from Microsoft leaked that showed that management were indeed scared shitless about Linux, a movement that they could neither completely Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish, nor practice Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt on, because the community that built it were too strong, and too dedicated. Management foresaw that it was only a matter until Linux was a very strong competitor — even if that's taken 20 years, they were decently accurate in their fears, and, to be honest, part of why it's taken 30 years for Linux to catch up are deliberate actions by Microsoft wrt. introducing and adopting technologies that would stymie the Free Software movement from being able to adapt.
by esperent | 2026-01-28 11:16:39+00:00
For me, a fairly wide range of mattresses are fine as long as they're not too thin or too soft, so I don't overthink it.

However, my neck and shoulders are extremely picky about pillows. Thin, flat and firm pillows make all the difference. If I stay in a hotel and see one of those "luxurious" 20cm thick fluffy monstrosities I'll throw it aside and use a rolled up towel instead.
by dspillett | 2026-01-28 11:17:57+00:00
> Are there really people who "spend weeks planning the perfect architecture" to build some automation tools for themselves?

Probably. I've been known to spend weeks planning something that I then forget and leave completely unstarted because other things took my attention!

> Commenter's history is full of 'red flags'

I wonder how much these red flags are starting to change how people write without LLMs, to avoid being accused of being a bot. A number of text checking tools suggested replacing ASCII hyphens with m-dashes in the pre-LLM-boom days¹ and I started listening to them, though I no longer do. That doesn't affect the overall sentence structure, but a lot of people jump on m-/n- dashes anywhere in text as a sign, not just in “it isn't <x> - it is <y>” like patterns.

It is certainly changing what people write about, with many threads like this one being diverted into discussing LLM output and how to spot it!

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[1] This is probably why there are many of them in the training data, so they are seen as significant by tokenisation steps, so they come out of the resulting models often.
by mlrtime | 2026-01-28 11:19:09+00:00
I'd go one step higher, we're not builders, we're problem solvers.

Sometimes the problem needs building, sometimes not.

I'm an Engineer, I see a problem and want to solve it. I don't care if I have to write code, have a llm build something new, or maybe even destroy something. I want to solve the problem for the business and move to the next one, most of the time it is having a llm write code though.
by brightball | 2026-01-28 11:19:26+00:00
I don’t like political power being used to go after an intimidate opponents at all, but we can’t pretend that it wasn’t a constant during the previous admin.

If I recall correctly, they actually set the precedent here by adding civil war era conspiracy charges to put an additional 10 years on women who protested in front of an abortion clinic.

AI summary…

> Six of the protesters (including Heather Idoni) were convicted in January 2024 of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act—a misdemeanor carrying up to one year in prison—and felony conspiracy against rights under 18 U.S.C. § 241, which carries a maximum of 10 years. The conspiracy charge stemmed from evidence that the group planned and coordinated the blockade in advance to interfere with clinic operations.
by bryanrasmussen | 2026-01-28 11:19:33+00:00
the last bit of my post should have indicated that while tech related things do tend to have a predominant position on HN, tech is not the sole purpose of the forum.

Currently on the front page I see three stories that are not tech related, if I expand the definition of tech to include anything math or science related, there is really only one story, ironically this one that you posted in.

Often however I can find as many as 6 stories on the front page that are not tech and not any politics, as HN also handles art, history, and writing quite well.

But for some reason you seem to think it's a place for tech, and American politics should be kept out, which I find somewhat funny.
by mikkupikku | 2026-01-28 11:19:35+00:00
This whole discussion is a perfect example of what Upton Sinclair said, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

A rational and intelligent engineer cannot possibly believe that he'll be able to control what a technology is used for after he creates it, unless his salary depends on him not understanding it.
by tessierashpool9 | 2026-01-28 11:19:41+00:00
I second that and I think the HN moderation (@dang) here should do a better job keeping things on topic. That is actually super important because HN will eventually just be another reddit. Quality of conversation here has been deteriorating already significantly in the past years due to more and more people with insignificant curiosity about technology and science but all the more interest for engaging in pointless political debates.

There are other platforms for discussing Trump and his shenanigans. Reddit for example.
by koiueo | 2026-01-28 11:20:53+00:00
> but the tenacity everyone is talking about is there

I always double-check if it doesn't simply exclude the failing test.

The last time I had this, I discovered it later in the process. When I pointed this out to the LLM, it responded, that it acknowledged thefact of ignoring the test in CLAUDE.md, and this is justified because [...]. In other words, "known issue, fuck off"
by articulatepang | 2026-01-28 11:20:57+00:00
> The money goes to the investors who sell.

The investors who sell are wealthier by amount $X because now they have fewer shares and more dollars.

The investors who don't sell are wealthier by the same amount $X because the shares they kept are worth more, because prices go up.

> keeping the share price initially constant.
This statement is definitely incorrect, unless you're being very technicaly and pedantic about "initially". You can think about it theoretically or you can look at empirical evidence. It is well-supported empirically that share prices go up after buybacks, and in fact they do so quantitatively by exactly the amount necessary for the equation implied above to hold.
by numpad0 | 2026-01-28 11:21:04+00:00
Or Blender, pen and paper, bag of LEGO, etc. Text in context of geometric object is more or less an abstract classification tool, barely a descriptive one.

Everyone knows what a `dice` is. But that's a taxonomical label, not a definition of one. Anyone reading this can probably draw a representative `dice` using only standard stationery supplies in under a minute. Now describe one in English with such rigor and precision that it readily translates to a .gcode file to be printed. That requires a good amount of useful neurodivergence to pull off at all.
by rsynnott | 2026-01-28 11:21:07+00:00
I mean, I dunno, I live in a less, ah, exciting country than the US, so maybe standards are different, but "someone who works for an unaccountable paramilitary organisation that randomly kidnaps people and does the odd bit of murder, as a treat, tried to enter" seems _fairly_ alarming to me, even if it _was_ only once.

There is, actually, a lot that Google can do here, in terms of making itself a hard target.
by account42 | 2026-01-28 11:21:17+00:00
You don't even need to think about how the hashing scheme and salt is set up. If Signal can check if a phone number matches the hash in any reasonable amount of time (which is the whole point of keeping a hash in the first place) then the FBI can just do that for all phone numbers with very realistic compute resources once they get Signal to cough up the details of the algorithm and magic numbers used.
by phucyucuz0 | 2026-01-28 11:21:28+00:00
Sakharov actually owned it. He straight up was like "I don't care about them"
He never claimed to be the champion of the Americans.

On the other hand, the Left seems to claim to be the main representative of women and gay rights for example, everywhere. You can't build your entire brand on "solidarity with the oppressed" and then ghost the moment you don't have the same specific advantage you want for your agenda.

Sakharov wasn't a hypocrite. That's the difference.
by lou1306 | 2026-01-28 11:22:34+00:00
The first three things are, in this order: collaborative editing, collaborative editing, collaborative editing. Seriously, this cannot be understated.

Then: The LaTeX distribution is always up-to-date; you can run it on limited resources; it has an endless supply of conference and journal templates (so you don't have to scavenge them yourself off a random conference/publisher website); Git backend means a) you can work offline and b) version control comes in for free. These just off the top of my head.