MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by coldtea | 2026-01-16 22:18:15+00:00
>Strelzyk and Wetzel began research into balloons. Their plan was to escape with their wives and a total of four children (aged 2 to 15). They calculated the weight of the eight passengers and the craft itself to be around 750 kilograms (1,650 lb).

That feat would be impossible for the average US family
by brabel | 2026-01-16 22:18:28+00:00
I don't want to defend the AI slop, but it's common for me to go on for a few weeks without being able to compile everything when doing something realy big. I can still compile individual modules and run their tests, but not the full application (which puts all modules together)... but it may take a lot of time until all modules can come together and actually run the app.
by SlightlyLeftPad | 2026-01-16 22:18:46+00:00
Logs are always notoriously expensive to store and also are notorious for accidentally exposing PII, API/private/db keys, etc. They should generally only be stored for a relatively short period of time at scale. In fact, to remain compliant to CCPA, 28 days is the safe number for most things.

Metrics are much more efficient and are the tool of choice for longer term storage and debugging.
by greggoB | 2026-01-16 22:19:34+00:00
Not if I can identify it, which I fear is going to become a harder task in the future.

> If AI leads to decentralisation of press, it sounds better to me.

Seems optimistic to me, given the trend with pretty much everything AI since ChatGPT was announced is concentrating as much power as possible in the hands of a few big tech companies.

As an added example: decentralization was a big promise of crypto; at present, hard for me to see how that's lived up to the promise. I don't see how the current trend with the hands of control over AI will work out any better in this regard.
by andyfilms1 | 2026-01-16 22:19:53+00:00
People will argue that if a shortform video is human made or AI generated it doesn't matter, it's domamine-triggering filler either way.

But I do think that the parasocial relationships and discovering new influencers is a big part of the hook for many people, and taking that away may cause many to have a "what the hell am I even watching" moment.

It's easier to justify the addiction when it feels like you're "hanging out with a friend." When content is AI generated from concept to production, it's just...talking pixel soup.
by sublinear | 2026-01-16 22:20:44+00:00
And there it is.

It's exactly as I suspected. The only people spreading the toxic advice about HR are the ones who benefit most from making the workplace suck for everyone else.

I can only hope you just think HR is there to insulate you this way and haven't had to test it, because it simply isn't. You really don't want to be on the losing end of a wrongful termination suit. It's only because people rarely bother that you may not have come across one of those. Then it then escalates to worse when all of HR spills their guts about the pressure they were under to protect higher ups.

There is no loyalty after all. It's just a job to everyone else.
by neilv | 2026-01-16 22:21:53+00:00
> “Are we here in the West??” Only this one question is asked by Peter Strelzyk and Günter Wetzel when they were in the early morning of the 16th.

The "Handmaid's Tale" TV series has a great variation on that moment, which chokes me up every single time.

(spoilers in video title) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oKZgXvpm0c
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-16 22:21:59+00:00
Original title "FAA issues warnings to airlines on Central, South American flights over potential military actions" compressed to fit within title limits.

https://archive.today/kuo3d

> The Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday it is issuing a series of warnings to airlines to exercise caution when flying over Central America and parts of South America, citing the risks of potential military activities and GPS interference.

> The FAA said it had issued notices for parts of Mexico, Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador as well as other parts of Central America and portions of airspace within the eastern Pacific Ocean.

NOTAM graphical representation: https://assets.newsweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Copy-... | https://archive.today/x5weG

from https://www.newsweek.com/faa-warns-us-airlines-mexico-centra... | https://archive.today/t1Awr

GPS accuracy maps:

https://gpsjam.org/?lat=17.10680&lon=-85.29003&z=4.0&date=20...

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/gps-jamming
by numpad0 | 2026-01-16 22:22:52+00:00
Okay, it's getting clear that I'm in the wrong here with my insistence that languages don't mix and foreign words can't be inserted mid-sentence, yet that is my experience as well as behaviors of people sharing the language, incidentally including GP who suggested that I can always do the switching dance - people can if wanted, but normally don't. It's considered a show-off if the inserted word could be understood at all.

Perhaps I have to admit that my particular primary language is officially a human equivalent of an esoteric language; the myth that it's a complex language is increasingly becoming obsolete(for good!), but maybe it still qualify as being esoteric one that are not insignificantly more incompatible with others.
by kimixa | 2026-01-16 22:22:53+00:00
I worked on an extremely niche project revolving around an old DOS game. Code I worked on is often pretty much the only reference for some things.

It's trivially easy to get claude to scrape that and regurgitate it under any requested licence (some variable names changes, but exactly the same structure - though it got one of the lookup tables wrong, which is one of the few things you could argue aren't copyrighted there).

It'll even cheerfully tell you it's fetching the repository while "thinking". And it's clearly already in the training data - you can get it to detail specifics even disallowing that.

If I referenced copywritten code we didn't have the license for (as is the case for copyleft licenses if you don't follow the restrictions) while employed as a software engineer I'd be fired pretty quick from any corporation. And rightfully so.

People seem to have a strange idea with AI that "copyleft" code is free game to unilaterally re-license. Try doing that with leaked Microsoft code - you're breaking copyright just as much there, but a lot of people seem to perceive it very differently - and not just because of risk of enforcement but in moralizing about it too.
by bluishgreen | 2026-01-16 22:23:12+00:00
The only thing that reliably works is co-working with another human.

This is hard to find and not always possible. The reason it works is that it triggers the "empathy brain," which transfers the importance of the person to the importance of the task. Having an invested person always at your command is impossible, and an AI robot simply doesn't trigger that same empathy. It costs three cents per interaction. It is a robot. It isn't important, no matter how advanced it is.

There is something fascinating yet defeating about how the ADHD brain craves human connection. Just as loneliness can’t be solved by an app, ADHD cannot be "app-ed" out. I have found that these systems can lighten the cognitive load, but that is their limit.

I have a vibed chief-of-staff personal system. It knows everything and it neatly mapped out my state and day. I even know the first simple task I need to do because a prompt organized it for me on another page. Yet, I would still rather write this comment here. You already know this at some level, too.
by ehsanu1 | 2026-01-16 22:23:15+00:00
You don't get a simple request/response paradigm with claude code: 1 message from the user results in a loop that usually invokes many inner LLM requests, among other business logic, resulting in some user-visible output and a bunch of less visible stuff (filesystem changes, etc). You control an input to the outer loop: you can only do some limited stuff with hooks to control what happens within the loop. But there's a lot happening inside that loop that you have no say over.

A simple example: can you arbitrarily manipulate the historical context of a given request to the LLM? It's useful to do that sometimes. Another one: can you create a programmatic flow that tries 3 different LLM requests, then uses an LLM judge to contrast and combine into a best final answer? Sure, you could write a prompt that says do that, but that won't yield equivalent results.

These are just examples, the point is you don't get fine control.
by dannyobrien | 2026-01-16 22:23:44+00:00
I've been asking this for a while, especially as a lot of the early blame went on the big, visible US companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. While their incentives are different from search engines (as someone said early on in this onslaught, "a search engine needs your site to stay up; an AI company doesn't"), that's quite a subtle incentive difference. Just avoiding the blocks that inevitably spring up when you misbehave is a incentive the other way -- and probably the biggest reason robots.txt obedience, delays between accesses, back-off algorithms etc are widespread. We have a culture that conveys all of these approaches, and reciprocality has its part, but I suspect that's part of the encouragement to adopt them. It could that they're just too much of a hurry not to follow the rules, or it could be others hiding behind those bot-names (or others). Unsure.

Anyway, I think the (currently small[1]) but growing problem is going to be individuals using AI agents to access web-pages. I think this falls under the category of the traffic that people are concerned about, even though it's under an individual users' control, and those users are ultimately accessing that information (though perhaps without seeing the ads that pay of it). AI agents are frequently zooming off and collecting hundreds of citations for an individual user, in the time that a user-agent under manual control of a human would click on a few links. Even if those links aren't all accessed, that's going to change the pattern of organic browsing for websites.

Another challenge is that with tools like Claude Cowork, users are increasingly going to be able to create their own, one-off, crawlers. I've had a couple of occasions when I've ended up crafting a crawler to answer a question, and I've had to intervene and explicitly tell Claude to "be polite", before it would build in time-delays and the like (I got temporarily blocked by NASA because I hadn't noticed Claude was hammering a 404 page).

The Web was always designed to be readable by humans and machines, so I don't see a fundamental problem now that end-users have more capability to work with machines to learn what they need. But even if we track down and sucessfully discourage bad actors, we need to work out how to adapt to the changing patterns of how good actors, empowered by better access to computation, can browse the web.

[1] - https://radar.cloudflare.com/ai-insights#ai-bot-crawler-traf...
by yongjik | 2026-01-16 22:24:34+00:00
Sure, as long as you keep the milling machine and its product in your garage and gloat over it, the government will do nothing about it, because it doesn't know (or care).

You so much as walk around with your gun in the streets of Seoul, and you will very quickly find out that the government can, in fact, do something about it, it will do something about it, the general public will side with the government against you, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Gun ownership is a social construct. Where guns are banned, even criminals can't afford one, because there's no place to get these guns in the first place. Those who think they can outsmart the government will quickly find that guns out in the wild is considered a matter of national security and handled accordingly.
by johschmitz | 2026-01-16 22:24:53+00:00
Since this talks about sleep quality I want to add something that was almost unknown to me for over 30 years. Smartwatches AFAIK don't have CO2 sensors. It seems to me though, that that would be extremely useful for sleep quality tracking. I have just a couple of years ago found out that CO2 levels are having the highest impact on my sleep quality besides temperature. I can highly recommend getting a CO2 sensor to get a good feeling for that effect. Also understand how much air is available in your room and how much CO2 your body produces per hour. I totally underestimated this until I was able to measure it. In a small sleeping room with closed doors the amount of CO2 will reach unhealthy levels at the end of the night.
by ndiddy | 2026-01-16 22:25:01+00:00
The problem that providers like Youtube have with the "pay to remove ads" model is that the people with enough disposable income that they're willing to pay $14/month to remove ads are the same demographic of people that advertisers are willing to pay the most to show ads to. It's the same reason why if you watch TV during the middle of the day, the ads are all for medicine (paid for by your insurance), personal injury attorneys, (paid for by the person you're suing), and cash advances for structured settlements (i.e. if you already have a settlement paying $500/mo for 30 years but you'd rather have $20,000 now) rather than for anything you actually have to buy.
by hexbin010 | 2026-01-16 22:25:04+00:00
Yes that's completely expected. Just like any other tool or service.

It's just like a chisel. Well the chisel company didn't promise to let you become a master craftsman overnight but anyway it's just like a chisel in that you have to learn how to use it. And people expect a chisel to actually chisel through wood out the box but anyway it's exactly like a chisel.
by palmotea | 2026-01-16 22:25:20+00:00
> Designed means exactly that I meant ... designed (meant to) ...

> All of this to show you that my understanding of the work [sic] designed is correct.

All right, I see what's going on here. You just don't know what the word designed means.

To illustrate: if went to the hardware store to buy a claw hammer and meant to use it to murder someone, which you then did, does that mean the claw hammer was "designed" to murder people? No, of course not. The hammer was designed to install and remove nails. It can also be used for other purposes for which it was not meant for, such as murder (as hypothetical you showed), but it was not designed for those purposes.

You're not Humpty Dumpty, words don't mean whatever you choose them to mean. The "defund the police" people thought they could do that, and look where that got us.

If you disagree, find me the design documents for ICE (they're surely public), and show me where it says it's "designed to beat up anyone in the US." Remember that's not going to be a Trump executive order, because time machines aren't real.

> If my comment led you to a conclusion that I support "Defund ICE" you would be correct.

And I guarantee you that even if you do that, some other agency will be tasked with what ICE was designed to do.
by hexaga | 2026-01-16 22:25:34+00:00
No person is forced, because a person's agency does not solely consist of the gap. It doesn't matter. The argument isn't: 'advertising is bad because it forces some specific person to do a thing they don't value'. The argument is: 'advertising is bad because it forces things to happen, and those things are bad'.

It's not a moral argument, but a practical one: agency is being extracted on massive scale, and being used for what?

Human beings might as well abstract away into point sources of agency for all it matters to the argument being made. If you can extract 0.1% of the agency of anyone who looks at a thing, and you show it to 3 billion people, _you have a lot of agency_. If you then sell it to the highest bidder, you find yourself quickly removing "don't be evil" from the set of any principles you may once have had.

My overarching point is that value-as-decision-mediator is meaningless in this calculus. It's the part of the equation that doesn't matter, the part you can't manipulate, the part that _is not a source of manipulable agency_. It's not relevant. I'm not saying it doesn't exist, or that it doesn't affect peoples' decisions: I'm saying it _doesn't matter_. It can be 99.99% of how you make your decisions, and it _still doesn't matter_. As long as that 0.01% gap exists.

> The only reason the ML model can predict whether someone will buy a product is because people have bought it in the past.

Yes. This is how you gather evidence that something works. It is not the reason it works. The ML model _knows about the spell_ because people have let it affect them in the past. But the spell works because it's magic. It doesn't need anything other than: Y follows X.

> The ML prediction is descriptive, not prescriptive. I can similarly create an ML model to predict the weather, that does not mean my model causes the weather which is basically what you're saying.

Not all models describe actions which are possible for you to take. Weather models are basically not like that. Advertising models _are_.

You aren't in a position where you can meaningfully manipulate the weather, if only you knew how exactly to manipulate it to maximize your profit. It's a vacuous argument in general. Models are just knowledge. Obviously some knowledge is useful, some isn't, some is dangerous, some isn't, some can be used by specific people, some can be used by any, etc.

It's not the model that is causing things to happen. It's a machine that uses the knowledge in the model, where the model describes actions possible for the machine to take. It is automated greed.

The fundamental concern is not that knowledge is bad, or that ML models are bad. It is that someone is in the position of having a tap on vast, diffuse sources of agency, and have automated the gathering of knowledge in using it to maximize profit, causing untold damage to everything, with the responsibility laundered through intermediary actors.
by throwawayqqq11 | 2026-01-16 22:25:56+00:00
> You don't think it's funny that the people now calling it fascism were ignoring the same thing under Obama?

Obamas ICE didnt sweep from door to door.

> this isn't fascism

Except a cleansed bureaucracy, a paralized legislative, and an "totally immune" unleashed executive. Did you get, trump talking about maybe canceling mid terms and invoking the insurection act?

You didnt answer my question about moral, as expected.
by 15155 | 2026-01-16 22:26:22+00:00
> You so much as walk around with your gun in the streets of Seoul, and you will very quickly find out that the government can, in fact, do something about it, it will do something about it, the general public will side with the government against you, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Only if you're caught - which requires more than magic. Shinzo Abe would disagree.
by OptionOfT | 2026-01-16 22:26:45+00:00
This is merely the first step.

The next step is to have them natively in the output. And it'll happen at a scale never seen.

Google had a lot more push-back, because they used to be the entity that linked to other websites, so them showing the AI interview was a change of path.

OpenAI embedding the advertisements in a natural way is much much easier for them. The public already expects links to products when they ask for advice, so why not change the text a little bit to glorify a product when you're asking for a comparison between product A & B.
by kachapopopow | 2026-01-16 22:26:48+00:00
I remember when I was defending openai for still being relatively open because they are not gatekeeping tech advancements made in model training or inference, but their patent count is shooting up and I am sure the next revolution they will discover will get patented as well. Having the name OpenAI will feel so weird in a couple more years when it'll be the complete opposite with no way to justify the "open" in their name.
by nerdsniper | 2026-01-16 22:27:13+00:00
Interesting! If you sort their monitor reviews[0] page by "Office Rating" the top monitor is the ASUS ProArt Display PA27JCV with a score of 9.0

But their "The 5 Best Work Monitors of 2026"[1] lists a Dell Ultrasharp in the #1 rank and the Asus ProArt does not appear in the recommendations at all. The info cards imply that the recommendation rankings might result from a weighted blend of "Office Rating", "Text Clarity" and "SDR Brightness". However, the ProArt outscores the Ultrasharp in both "Office Rating" and "SDR Brightness" while exactly matching the Ultrasharp's score in "Text Clarity".

So the "The 5 Best Work Monitors of 2026" appears to be a somewhat subjective list, rather than purely a result of objective measurements.

0: https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews

1: https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/best/by-usage/busines...
by anonzzzies | 2026-01-16 22:27:27+00:00
I am going to say that outside the HN echo chamber, it is closer to all than on the other side. Have you been to fortune 1000 non software corps? If you would throw away 90% of their IT people, people would barely notice. Probably just miss John his cool weekend stories on Monday (which is basically almost weekend!). LLM drives this home, painfully; we come in these companies a lot and it is becoming very clear most can be replaced today with a 100$ claude code subscription. We see the skilled devs using claude code on their own dime as one of their tools, often illegally (not allowed yet by company legal) and the rest basically, as they always did, trying to get through week without getting caught snoring too loud.
by pedalpete | 2026-01-16 22:27:29+00:00
I work in neurotech/sleeptech and though I commend @dmvaldman on the project, it falls for some of the common flaws of current sleep medicine/research and some strange decisions in the program itself.

Measuring sleep by time is an antiquated idea, and the industry is just barely starting to move away from this metric. You wouldn't measure your diet based on how much time you spend chewing.

Decreased slow-wave activity, the hallmark of deep sleep, can increase time spent in deep sleep as your brain tries to compensate for the lack. This only works to a certain point, and with significant decrease, such as after drinking alcohol, your brain is unable to make up for the deficit and is actually unable to stay in deep sleep. The deep sleep length doesn't map directly to function.

Chess is an interesting metric because there is an opponent being played against, so what does that really say about the players mental clarity? There are too many factors.

I wonder if sleep regularity (consistent wake in particular) was a metric which was fed into the algorithm, and if it did not correlate?

Though many people say "garmin (smartwatch X) isn't good at tracking" that misses the point that tracking time isn't a valuable metric, and why so many people say "my sleep score doesn't match what my watch tells me".

Beyond just tracking, we have the ability to directly enhance the Neural Function of Sleep, and this is what we're working on at https://affectablesleep.com

However breaking people away from the "sleep time metric" is a challenging one.
by mandevil | 2026-01-16 22:27:30+00:00
After they found the remains of the balloon from the first escape attempt, the Stasi put out a reward for information, I think everyone would take the story seriously at that point. It was why they decided they had to go through with the second attempt, because they were convinced the Stasi was going to catch them soon. But they had to buy the materials for that balloon after the Stasi had found the remains of their previous attempt.
by kaonwarb | 2026-01-16 22:27:41+00:00
Ironically given the topic, the very first sentence on the page ("The size of your plate can influence how much food you eat.") is based on observational research that has not replicated in controlled studies.
[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2129126/
[1] http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12966-019-0826-1?u...