MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by darkteflon | 2026-01-12 20:34:52+00:00
Hello, fellow ZSA Voyager plus dual-weild aficionado! It’s great, isn’t it? I saw [this](https://evantravers.com/articles/2023/04/06/magsafe-tenting-...) here recently and promptly bought some mini-tripods and MagSafe adapters. Access to arbitrary tenting angles has been a big plus. I also have a 3D printed deck for it that sits over my MacBook keyboard and is quite nice. Don’t want to lose access to my Miryoku layout when on the move! Especially home row chording.

I also went down the switches rabbit hole and ended up with lighter weight switches under my pinkies, which I find quite pleasant.

I also dual-wield a Magic Trackpad (outside left) and Logitech Lift (which I have found to be vastly better for my wrist than a normal mouse, since it requires much less unnatural rotation).

I’m also looking forward to the ZSA trackpad attachment for the Voyager. Interested to see whether it’s an improvement on the excellent Magic Trackpad. As an avid Magic Trackpad user, what do you think of the trackball?

All in all, though, this kind of setup feels like something of final destination, don’t you think? No more desire to tinker and can see myself using it this way for decades - just replacing switches if / when they fail. I even have some spare keycaps which I bought from Tai-Hao (who manufacture the original keycaps, I believe). I bought the blanks from ZSA then sort of regretted it. They look so darn cool but made the transition to Miryoku harder than it needed to be.

Goodness gracious look how much I’ve written about my keyboard. My wife would find this very amusing.
by anishgupta | 2026-01-12 20:34:57+00:00
I wouldn't say our friend circle has an accountability group but recently in last 2-3 years they have been lot of green washing and fitness related content on social media which might fuel this obsession, even the popularity of the word 'protein' is in its all-time high if you see on Google trends.

Also, backed by science, they have been increase in nutritional studies since 2010s, the same orange which our grandma consumed, had 5x more nutrition than the ones we eat today just because of the genetic modifications we have done over the years. So yes, being on the same diet we may need more fitness and hence the recent popularity
by tinyhouse | 2026-01-12 20:35:44+00:00
I'm already using Claude Code to organize my work and life so this makes a lot of sense. However, I just tried it and it's not clear how this is different than using Claude with projects. I guess the main difference is that it can be used within a local folder on one's computer, so it's more integrated into ones workflow, rather than a project where you need to upload your data. This makes sense.
by miduil | 2026-01-12 20:36:21+00:00
Seems `session/:id/shell` was also `session/:id/bash` and originally `session/:id/command` in some commits.

Maybe I'm using GitHub code search wrongly, but it appears this was just never part of even a pull request - the practice of just having someone pushing to `dev` (default branch) which then will be tagged should perhaps also be revisited.

(Several more commits under `wip: bash` and `feat: bash commands`)

https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/commit/7505fa61b9caa17...

https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/commit/93b71477e665600...
by Rounin | 2026-01-12 20:37:03+00:00
Many projects have taken longer and been more stressful and had worse outcomes than needed. A lot of the work being done hasn't even been intended to deliver any business value, but to provide an opportunity for one or more people to be seen to be doing something. Actual value creation does occasionally take place as well, but more as a happy accident or a side effect than anything else. I'm very glad I'm not a major shareholder in any of these corporations.
by 112233 | 2026-01-12 20:37:25+00:00
Whoa, git-bug is still being developed, awesome! I wonder how difficult it would be to add other tables to it (I cannot help but think about bug trackers as being a database with a frontend like Access, and many limitations...) — in particular to have Messages (for messages) and Discussions (for hierarchical list of message references). Now that git has reftable maybe this sort of abuse would actually work...
by wmf | 2026-01-12 20:37:28+00:00
"SCION OSS border router performance reached a ceiling of around 400k-500k packets per second, which is roughly equivalent to 5-6 Gbit/s at a 1500-byte MTU." vs. 1.4 M PPS for IP (on an older CPU) https://toonk.io/linux-kernel-and-measuring-network-throughp...
by munk-a | 2026-01-12 20:37:37+00:00
I don't think I was being disingenuous but I did try to specifically call out aiming for a middling (and not perfect) proficiency. Driving onto tram tracks on a clear day is unacceptably poor performance. This is something that a good driver is unlikely to ever do in their lifetime and - if it happened - likely involved some extreme circumstances.
by stefan_ | 2026-01-12 20:37:50+00:00
It's crazy how bad the interface it is. I'm generally a fan of the model performance but there is not a day where their CLI will not flash random parts of scrollback or have a second of input lag just typing in the initial prompt (how is that even possible? you are not doing anything?). If this is their "premier tool" no vending machine business can save them.
by eightysixfour | 2026-01-12 20:37:50+00:00
> but I would much rather be using public transit over adding more and more cars to more and more roads/lanes.

Good luck rearchitecting the entire way of life of the vast majority of Americans, not to mention somehow tearing out and replacing the entirety of our transportation infrastructure. I'm generally of the persuasion that we should reduce our reliance on cars and I intentionally live in a dense city with half-decent transit but this fever dream that highly individualistic Americans are going to get on board with shared transit is just that, a fever dream.

It would be good for us, but that doesn't mean it is inevitable or even possible at this time. Acknowledging that is important because it means you invest in alternatives that may actually get adopted.

> All of the negative publicity around the autonomous cars is justified IMO because, even if these cars are "safer" than a human, they are still clearly not as safe as they need to be when considering liability, local laws and the cost to other humans' incomes.

So now we come to the other half of your argument. Waymos are safer and it isn't even close. If I am an insurance company and you are asking me to cover a human or a Waymo I'm taking the Waymo 10/10 times. Humans are actually pretty bad at driving and we're getting worse as we're more distracted, not better. The simple math of the liability is going to move us towards self-driving cars more rapidly, not slow it down.

The only other argument I see buried in here is "cost to other human's incomes." Whether you mean gig economy workers, taxi drivers, or transit operators, I have a dozen arguments here but the simplest is maybe you should prioritize the 40k lives lost every year to motor vehicle accidents over income. We'll find other places for productivity and income. You don't get the dead people back.
by dpark | 2026-01-12 20:38:08+00:00
You could drive your car erratically and cause accidents, and it would be your fault. The fact that Honda or whoever made your car is irrelevant. Clearly you as the driver are solely responsible for your negligence in this case.

On the other hand, if you bought a car that had a “Mad Max” self driving mode that drives erratically and causes accidents, yes, you are still responsible as the driver for putting your car into “Mad Max” mode. But the manufacturer of the car is also responsible for negligence in creating this dangerous mode that need not exist.

There is a meaningful distinction between a tool that can be used for illegal purposes and a tool that is created specifically to enable or encourage illegal purposes.
by FlowM | 2026-01-12 20:38:18+00:00
BitStory is designed for use cases where durability and verifiability matter more than throughput: public commitments, long-form publishing, readable proofs of existence, and human-auditable records that must remain recoverable decades later.

Messages are stored fully on-chain and cryptographically signed, with identity deliberately separated from transaction funding. This allows authorship to remain verifiable even when messages are mirrored, sponsored, or indexed by third parties.

The protocol is intentionally minimal: no tokens, no sidechains, no smart contracts, and no off-chain state required to reconstruct messages.

Once a message is published on Bitcoin, it cannot be removed or selectively censored by any platform. At the same time, Bitcoin’s fee market provides a built-in economic filter against spam and bots, without relying on moderators, reputation systems, or content rules.

BitStory is explicitly not a platform or a social network. Any BitStory-compatible client can publish and read the same messages directly from the Bitcoin main chain.

There is a live implementation with an explorer, public API, and reference clients available to try.

Happy to answer questions or discuss trade-offs.
by malshe | 2026-01-12 20:38:21+00:00
This is likely because for many young people the only source of news is social media. And they are unlikely to be targeted to see the political ads.

Interestingly, occasionally I see political ads on Willow.tv which I use to watch Cricket. And most of these ads have Noem threatening to deport people ("if you are here illegally, we are coming after you..."). I am a US citizen.
by lopifjun | 2026-01-12 20:38:30+00:00
Show me a single source supporting this convoluted claim.

> or at all

That's called anthropomorphizing, as noted in my gp, and it is a different phenomenon from empathy.

> Anthropomorphism (from the Greek words "ánthrōpos" (ἄνθρωπος), meaning "human," and "morphē" (μορφή), meaning "form" or "shape") is the attribution of human form, character, or attributes to non-human entities [0]

"There is a medical condition known as delusional companion syndrome where people can have these feelings of empathy to a much more extreme extent and can be convinced that the objects do have these emotions — but it is much less common than the average anthropomorphizing, Shepard said." [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropomorphism

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/07/health/empathize-inanimate-ob...
Show HN: API that falls back to humans when AI is unsure
by Saurabh_Kumar_ | 2026-01-12 20:38:59+00:00
Hey HN, I’m the founder of SyncAI.

Previously, I was building internal tools for a fintech startup. We tried using GPT-4 Vision and various OCR APIs to automate our Accounts Payable. They worked great for ~90% of documents.

The problem was the other 10%: crumpled receipts, handwritten delivery notes, or invoices with weird layouts. In fintech, a 90% success rate isn’t automation; it’s a liability. We spent more time fixing the AI’s hallucinations than if we had just typed it manually.

I realized that for high-stakes operations, we didn’t need "better AI"—we needed a Safety Layer.

So I built SyncAI. It’s an extraction API that guarantees "Golden Records" (verified data) by routing uncertainty to humans.

How it works under the hood:

Ingestion: You send a PDF/Image via API.

Ensemble Extraction: We run it through a mix of OCR and LLMs to extract key fields.

Confidence Scoring: We calculate a confidence score for each specific field (not just the whole doc).

The Routing Logic:

If Confidence > 99% (and passes regex validation) → Auto-Approve (Returns JSON instantly).

If Confidence < 99% → Routes to HITL (Human-in-the-Loop) queue.

Verification: A human verifies only the low-confidence fields in a split-screen UI.

Callback: Your webhook receives the strictly typed, verified JSON.

We are positioning this for developers building Autonomous Finance Agents who need deterministic inputs.

I’ve set up a playground where you can try it without signing up. Upload your messiest invoice/receipt to see if we can parse it: [Link to your Playground/Demo]

Pricing is usage-based (per doc). The documentation is here: [Link to Docs].

I’d love to hear your feedback on the routing architecture or how you’re currently handling "AI hallucinations" in production pipelines.
by russellbeattie | 2026-01-12 20:39:06+00:00
Ha! I watched it for a little while on 2x and it was very cool. Then Frodo hit the river and dives in, swimming across with perfect freestyle form like Michael Phelps!

I literally guffawed and thought, "Well, that's one good way of avoiding the dark riders." Makes that dramatic jump to the barge a little less intense. ;-)
by taurath | 2026-01-12 20:39:30+00:00
Fine, call it what you want, but CP of or appearing to be of real children is illegal. There’s some grey area for drawn stuff it seems, but at a certain point there IS a line.

Also what changed, over the past 20 years even hosting stuff like this, or even any pornography whatsoever, would get you pulled from every App Store, shut down by any payment providers. Now it’s just totally fine? To me that’s a massive change entirely decided by Elon Musk.
by ck2 | 2026-01-12 20:39:39+00:00
A more recent question I have is how Amazon is skipping DeMinimis fees which are now massive on 50 cent or $1 items from their "Amazon Haul" which come from overseas

It arrives in a few weeks by Amazon's own carriers, not USPS/UPS/FedEx

Who is paying the $80 DeMinimis fee on the $1 cable I got last week from China?
by jameslk | 2026-01-12 20:39:42+00:00
This is the natural evolution of coding agents. They're the most likely to become general purpose agents that everyone uses for daily work because they have the most mature and comprehensive capability around tool use, especially on the filesystem, but also in opening browsers, searching the web, running programs (via command line for now), etc. They become your OS, colleague, and likely your "friend" too

I just helped a non-technical friend install one of these coding agents, because its the best way to use an AI model today that can do more than give him answers to questions. I'm not surprised to see this announced and I would expect the same to happen with all the code agents becoming generalized like this

The biggest challenge towards adoption is security and data loss. Prompt injection and social engineering are essentially the same thing, so I think prompt injection will have to be solved the same way. Data loss is easier to solve with a sandbox and backups. Regardless, I think for many the value of using general purpose agents will outweigh the security concerns for now, until those catch up
by simonw | 2026-01-12 20:39:45+00:00
I often think suspect that the goal isn't exclusively training data so much as it's the freedom to do things that they haven't thought of in the future.

Imagine you come up with non-vague consumer terms for your product that perfectly match your current needs as a business. Everyone agrees to them and is happy.

And then OpenAI discover some new training technique which shows incredible results but relies on a tiny slither of unimportant data that you've just cut yourself off from!

So I get why companies want terms that sound friendly but keep their options open for future unanticipated needs. It's sensible from a business perspective, but it sucks as someone who is frequently asked questions about how safe it is to sign up as a customer of these companies, because I can't provide credible answers.
by conartist6 | 2026-01-12 20:39:45+00:00
I love that people are downvoting and reporting me for saying these companies hate women, when they're only acting like they hate women.

I would say "don't shoot the messenger," but no, I take that back. Get mad at me. Get furious at me! Then ask yourself "who ya really mad at," cause I guarantee you it isn't me.
by Saurabh_Kumar_ | 2026-01-12 20:39:50+00:00
Hey HN, I’m Saurabh, founder of SyncAI.

While building fintech apps previously, I realized that GPT-4 is great, but getting it to read complex, messy invoices reliably (99.9%) is a nightmare. A 5% error rate is fine for a chatbot, but fatal for Accounts Payable.

I got tired of writing RegEx wrappers and retry logic, so I built SyncAI – a 'Safety Layer' for AI Agents.

How it works technically:

We ingest the PDF and run it through a mix of OCR + LLMs.

We calculate a 'Confidence Score' for every field extracted.

If confidence > 95%, it goes straight to your webhook.

If confidence < 95%, it routes to a Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) queue where a human verifies just that specific field.

Your Agent gets a strictly typed JSON 'Golden Record'.

Tech Stack: Python/FastAPI backend, React for the review dashboard, and we use a fine-tuned model for the routing logic.

The OCR Challenge: I know you guys are skeptical (as you should be). So I built a playground where you can upload your messiest, crumpled invoice to try it out without signing up: https://sync-ai-11fj.vercel.app/

Would love your feedback on the routing logic. I’ll be here answering questions all day!
by arjie | 2026-01-12 20:39:51+00:00
This sounds really interesting. Perhaps this is the promise that Copilot was not. I'm really hoping that this gives people like my wife access to all the things I use Claude Code for.

I use Claude Code for everything. I have a short script in ~/bin/ called ,cc that I launch that starts it in an appropriate folder with permissions and contexts set up:

~ tree ~/claude-workspaces -d
/Users/george/claude-workspaces
├── context-creator
├── imessage
│ └── tmp
│ └── contacts-lookup
├── modeler
├── research
├── video
└── wiki

I'll usually pop into one of these (say, video) and say something stupid like: "Find the astra crawling video and stabilize it to focus on her and then convert into a GIF". That one knows it has to look in ~/Movies/Astra and it'll do the natural thing of searching for a file named crawl or something and then it'll go do the rest of the work.

Likewise, the `modeler` knows to create OpenSCAD files and so on, the `wiki` context knows that I use Mediawiki for my blog and have a Template:HackerNews and how to use it and so on. I find these make doing things a lot easier and, consequently, more fun.

All of this data is trusted information: i.e. it's from me so I know I'm not trying to screw myself. My wife is less familiar with the command-line so she doesn't use Claude Code as much as me, and prefers to use ChatGPT the web-app for which we've built a couple of custom GPTs so we can do things together.

Claude is such a good model that I really want to give my wife access to it for the stuff she does (she models in Blender). The day that these models get really good at using applications on our behalf will be wonderful! Here's an example model we made the other day for the game Power Grid: https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Blog/2026-01-11/Modeling_Wit...
by ben_w | 2026-01-12 20:39:56+00:00
Even given Musk's opinions, he clearly understands that the general public doesn't want kids getting hurt, he demonstrated this by saying Trump was in the Epstein files and by repeatedly saying the UK government isn't doing enough to stop child abuse and opining about a UK civil war.

His hypocrisy, his position on the main-character-syndrome-to-narcissism spectrum, him getting a kick out of trolling everyone, or him having straight up psychopathy: whatever it is, I find I no longer care.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-12 20:39:58+00:00
The federal courts in the US are theoretically non-partisian. But 2025 has shown that the Department of Justice has functioned as Trump's personal legal counsel. That's even happening as we speak with the kerfuffle behind the Central Bank (another non-partisan organization that Trump is desperately trying to make partisan).

As is, Musk probably isn't going to get confronted by this current DoJ. The state courts may try to take this up, but it has less reach than the federal courts. Other country's courts may take action and even ban X.

>what are realistic options? Shaming the perps? A bit of hacktivism?

Those can happen. I don't know how much it moves the needle, but those will be inevitable reactions. The only way out for the American people would be to mass boycott X over this, but our political activism has been fairly weak. Especially for software.
by aeuropean12 | 2026-01-12 20:40:25+00:00
Claude says this about the text:

"This essay by Christopher Henner, a former Wikimedia Foundation Board Chair, argues that Wikipedia faces an existential crisis: while global internet users grew 83% since 2016, Wikipedia's page views declined 9%, and new contributor registrations dropped 36%. He attributes this to Wikipedia's failure to serve the Global South (where most new internet users came from), its outdated desktop-centric design, and AI systems that train on Wikipedia content without sending traffic back. Henner calls for urgent action within two years, including diversified revenue through AI partnerships, aggressive investment in knowledge equity, and a willingness to fundamentally restructure the organization's governance and priorities.

As for whether he's whining: I'd say no. The piece is data-driven, self-critical (he acknowledges his own role in building the systems that created these problems), and proposes concrete solutions rather than just lamenting the situation. It reads more like a wake-up call from someone who genuinely cares about an institution he's devoted two decades to, even if the tone is occasionally dramatic. The frustration is palpable, but it's directed at mobilizing action rather than seeking sympathy."

Please, feel free to use this summary and save precious time instead of reading the long, oh so long, text that is linked to.

Regards.
by sethev | 2026-01-12 20:40:52+00:00
> The SCOTUS ruling went far beyond historical practice.

The ruling was specific to the President, not other officials. Donald Trump is the only president in US history who has been formally charged with committing a crime while in office, so I don't see how the ruling went far beyond historical practice. I do think it went far beyond what some people had assumed would be the case if it were ever tested.

The fact that Nixon resigned rather than triggering a test of this and then was pardoned by Ford (also avoiding a test of immunity) are indicators that historical practice was closer to immunity than not (i.e. past presidents did whatever was in their power to avoid having immunity scrutinized).
by wat10000 | 2026-01-12 20:41:18+00:00
Indeed. Ponzi attempted to buy International Reply Coupons in countries where they were cheap, then exchange them for stamps in the US and sell the stamps for much more than the purchase price of the IRC.

Of course, it didn't work. There wasn't anything fundamentally wrong with the arbitrage scheme, but the profit per coupon was way too low to make it feasible as a business. Ponzi pivoted to paying off older investments with new investments, and the rest is history.
by itintheory | 2026-01-12 20:41:22+00:00
I think it depends. I bought a Dell 1700 laser printer for the low price of $0 at a second hand store about 19 years ago. They said it was failing to pull paper from the tray, and I could have it if I wanted. I fixed the rollers responsible for feeding (turned the rubber wheels inside out), and used it for another 10 years without issue. Sure, toner costs some money, but an off-brand toner cartridge is $25, rated for 3000 pages. I have also needed to replace the drum, and at one point picked up a second 1700 into which I had to put the old drum and toner after some failure or another.

I'd estimate I've put in $200 at most, and probably put 15-20k pages through it. Still prints just fine. It doesn't have color, or networking features, but I can share it on the network from the connected computer. I'm not sure they make anything this reliable these days, but I bet there's quite a few old laser printers floating around still.