MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by maltyr | 2026-01-22 17:14:00+00:00
This is the business model for most of the large gaming companies at this point.

Activision had three or four studios dedicated to Call of Duty leapfrogging each other to release one every year. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Duty)

Their last (2022, pre-acquisition) annual reports literally spell that out.

> For example, in 2022, revenues associated with our three franchises—Call of Duty, Warcraft, and Candy Crush
—collectively accounted for approximately 79% of our net revenues—and a significantly higher percentage of our operating income. We expect that a relatively limited number of popular franchises will continue to produce a disproportionately high percentage of our revenues and profits. - https://investor.activision.com/annual-reports
by emmaviolet | 2026-01-22 17:14:00+00:00
That makes a lot of sense, and we've been considering some of those options too so good to know we're on the right track there. On trying to figure out whether a PR was vibe-coded: in some cases it's obvious, but in many cases it's hard to figure that out without AI, and we're not sure we love a solution that requires maintainers to use AI to tackle AI. My hope is that if we can provide some non-AI tools first (disabling PRs, creating more visibility around new users, etc), we can then build better management and triage tools with AI second. We're working on an Issues triage agent now that we hope to bring over to PRs too.
by londons_explore | 2026-01-22 17:14:05+00:00
I'd like to see a financial approach to deciding pay by giving researchers a small and perhaps nonlinear or time bounded share of any profits that arise from their research.

Then peoples CV's could say "My inventions have led to $1M in licensing revenue" rather than "I presented a useless idea at a decent conference because I managed to make it sound exciting enough to get accepted".
by lurk2 | 2026-01-22 17:14:12+00:00
2022-11-28 - “About 2.6 million Uyghur and Kazakh people have been subjected to coercion, “re-education programs” and internment in the Xinjiang region of north-west China, which is the source of 40-45% of the world’s solar-grade polysilicon. A report by the United Nations office of the high commissioner for human rights three months ago found Xinjiang was home to “serious human rights violations”, and the US has listed polysilicon from China as a material likely to have been produced by child or forced labour.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/29/evidence...

2024-08-27 - Indian solar panels face US scrutiny for possible links to China forced labor

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/indian-solar-panels-...

2025-04-30 - Human Rights in the Life Cycle of Renewable Energy and Critical Minerals

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/issues/c...
by wat10000 | 2026-01-22 17:14:14+00:00
The claim is that this would qualify as fraud, which is also illegal.

If you do a search for "contractor imprisoned for fraud" you'll find plenty of cases where a private contract dispute resulted in criminal convictions for people who took money and then didn't do the work.

I don't know if taking money and then merely pretending to do the research would rise to the level of criminal fraud, but it doesn't seem completely outlandish.
by eigenspace | 2026-01-22 17:14:54+00:00
> Particularly in heating, where peak demand is in times with very little solar generation, it seems like this will be challenging.

Heating is actually likely to be one of the easier questions here, because heat is just fundamentally an easier problem to tackle than most other intensive uses of energy in the modern world.

1. Solar isn't the only incredibly cheap form of intermittant renwewable energy production. Wind is also great, tends to support local manufacturing economies more than solar, and is anti-correlated with peak-sunshine. The wind tends to blow hardest in the winter and around sunset.

2. Heatpumps can pretty comfortably achieve 300+% coefficients of performance, meaning that for every joule of energy you put into a heatpump, you'll get 3+ joules of heat pumped into your home, office, or city-scale heat thermos

3. Heat energy storage is cheap compared to batteries. You just store large quantities of water or sand and heat it up with a resistor or a heat pump. The scaling of surface area versus volume ensures that the bigger you make the heat-battery, the less energy you'll lose from it over time (percentage wise).

4. Heat is a waste product from many other forms of energy usage, and can be harnessed. For instance, gas peaker plants aren't going away any time soon, and cities which aren't harnessing the waste heat from those peaker plants and using it in a district heating system are wasting both money and carbon.

Just a couple kilometers from my home for instance is a gas power plant that stores waste heat in giant thermoses, and pumps hot water to my building to to be used for heating. They currently have the largest heat pump in europe under construction on the same site intended to supplement the gas plant, both to take up slack from the fact that it'll be running less often, and to expand the service to yet more households.
by testing22321 | 2026-01-22 17:14:56+00:00
> if I was a renter/condo owner I'd be annoyed that everyone is subsidizing your free solar however.

As a non car owner are you annoyed everyone gets subsidized roads?

Are you annoyed corn farmers get subsidies for growing corn?

Would you be annoyed if people got subsidized life saving health care?

It feels like the US can’t have nice things because people are hell bent on others not having nice things.

What a shame.
by TACD | 2026-01-22 17:15:30+00:00
This isn't the first time it's happened, either. It's a pretty frequently recurring issue, in fact:

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16723

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16725

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16732

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16734
by SV_BubbleTime | 2026-01-22 17:15:33+00:00
The people that gave you that don’t make games anymore. Or they can’t. Or they’re not allowed.

If it came out now, it was going to be filled with busy work, loot, achievements, collectible, just a ton of nonsense to get you to play longer and longer even after the game stopped being fun.

Beyond good and evil 2 was never going to be the sequel that you wanted. The best it was going to be Space Assassin’s Creed.

Be glad you were there for the original and got to experience it.
by iainctduncan | 2026-01-22 17:15:42+00:00
People into this sort of stuff might be interested to know that s7 Scheme also runs really well in WASM. It's 100% ansi C and uses its own GC, so getting it compiled and running in WASM is very simple. I use it in both my audio project (Scheme for Max, an s7 interpreter in Max/MSP) and in a browser based set of music practice tools I am working on as a solopreneur. It's fantastic to be able to write the music theory engine in Scheme instead of JS.

An example page (not mine) of it running in the browser is here: https://actondev.github.io/s7-playground/

I really hope the racket effort gains traction too! Excited to see this. In comparison, s7 is much more minimal. Though this also means the FFI is dead simple too, so extending it and bridging to js functions is much easier, and everything in s7 is available now in WASM - CL macros, keywords, hashtables, first class environments, continuations, etc
by WorldMaker | 2026-01-22 17:15:55+00:00
VS Code does exactly that, warns before loading this non-interactive code. It warns you loudly, with an ugly modal dialog, on opening a new to it folder and suggests Restricted Mode. A lot of the arguments here relate to:

1) This loud warning is easy to ignore, despite how loud it is

2) This loud warning is easy to disable, which many desire to do because it is very loud

3) This loud warning is easy to build bad habits (instead of marking safe parent folders, continually clicking Allow and training yourself to only click Allow)

4) Restricted Mode sounds "too restricted" to be useful (though it isn't too restrictive and is very useful)

5) Restricted Mode is also loud to remind you that you are in it, so many users think it is too loud and never want to be in it (despite it being very useful)
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-01-22 17:15:59+00:00
Sorry I looked away from the daily updates on the internet blackout for the last few days.... because I thought it was slowly being restored? You know the mainstream media is reporting quietly (last I saw maybe on the weekend or Monday) that internet is being restored. Is that true/possible? Suppose I believed it because information and videos were trickling out more, so figured it was due to relaxed internet restrictions. Doesn't appear so .
by schopra909 | 2026-01-22 17:16:00+00:00
Oh damn! Thanks for catching that -- going to ping the HF folks to see what they can do to fix the collection link.

In the meantime here's the individual links to the models:

https://huggingface.co/Linum-AI/linum-v2-720p
https://huggingface.co/Linum-AI/linum-v2-360p
by nerdsniper | 2026-01-22 17:16:26+00:00
> Is this cultural?

Many of my Indian friends say it is, but sometimes I feel they can be as self-critical of their country as many Americans are of the USA.

Demographics show that it doesn't have to be cultural - it could just be that India has 9x as many people under the age of 35 compared to the USA. Even if we were culturally similar, for every annoying US youngster "hustling" to try to get employment, there would be 9 early-career Indians doing the same. That alone is enough to drown the "Vox Agora" with Indian voices. Chinese citizens generally don't participate in English-language fora, so their large numbers would be massively under-represented.

If anything else is biasing the populations, the difference in numbers could be even more stark.
by Night_Thastus | 2026-01-22 17:17:02+00:00
It may slightly help with capacity, but it causes bigger problems financially. Even if a home uses next to no power, it still must be connected to the grid. The total number of such homes ends up meaning a lot of power lines, transformer stations, monitoring equipment, and people to do all the work.

If you have all of that expense, and suddenly people have solar panels so pay $0 for an energy bill - do you see the problem? The actual cost of fuel/generation is very small compared to the fixed costs.

The more people use solar, the more in the red the utility becomes. You can 'fix' this by making it so every home has a fixed 'connection cost' and then a smaller 'usage cost' on top, but that destroys the incentive for solar panels - they'd never break even for the average buyer.

Solar is great, fantastic even. But it should be done centrally, or people will have to get used to the idea that they will never pay themselves off and are just doing it for the environment.
by tinfoilhatter | 2026-01-22 17:17:57+00:00
https://www.kitco.com/opinion/2026-01-09/silver-price-suppre...

https://auronum.co.uk/from-fix-to-fraud-silver-price-manipul...

https://www.investing.com/analysis/silver-physical-demand-ki...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02649...
by ryandrake | 2026-01-22 17:18:04+00:00
I think the public still has a wildly inaccurate picture of what a farmer is. When people think "Farmer" they still think of the romantic picture of 1930's Ma and Pa dressed up in work clothes, working the land like in American Gothic or some Norman Rockwell painting. So, of course we should help subsidize good ol Ma and Pa to live off the land! Be kind to these fictional figures in the painting!

The general public are not picturing "Farmer = billion dollar agri-business who's finance department is bigger than some small towns".
by latexr | 2026-01-22 17:18:04+00:00
If you follow cURL’s development, what you’ll see is the main contributors tend to be extremely patient, helpful, and thankful of contributions. Sometimes too patient. If you look at the HackerOne slop reports cURL got, you’ll see Daniel accommodating people outright wasting their time.

So if you follow what’s been happening, you know the types of reports this message is talking about. What they consider time-wasters are slop reports where the reporter didn’t do any effort to even test the “bug” and then keeps pasting whatever the LLM says in replies and lying about using them.

In other words, for a legitimate report it’s hard to believe that was the reaction. I would expect them to be patient with a human contributor which really put in the work. It’s particularly hard to believe the maintainers would even waste their time to lambast someone on Reddit. Doesn’t seem like their style.

Maybe the person in this thread is exaggerating, maybe they misinterpreted it, or maybe it did happen. But it seems so out-of-character that some proof would be warranted, especially since it’s a single report.
by SoftTalker | 2026-01-22 17:18:06+00:00
A truth of human behavior: most employees will steal if they think they can get away with it. Most students will cheat if they think they can get away with it.

Religion, the concept of sin as evil, codes of behavior, moral principles of right and wrong are the systems we developed to combat these tendencies.

Nobody wants to judge people's behavior anymore, for fear of hurting feelings or anxiety about confrontation.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-22 17:18:16+00:00
> Definitely a great deal if you own a home, if I was a renter/condo owner I'd be annoyed that everyone is subsidizing your free solar however.

What kind of selfish point of view is this? Don't you want people to use energy sources that are better for our entire world, even if it costs you like $10 more in taxes per year? Seems like a no brainer deal if you like "the outside" and you want it to still be there.

I'm a renter, been all my life, I'd be happy to pay more in taxes if it means more solar panels for everyone except me. But I also feel the same about elder care, health care and a bunch of other things, do you feel the same for those things too, or this is specifically about solar or owning vs renting?
by temp0826 | 2026-01-22 17:18:22+00:00
Usually when people just say DMT they mean nn-DMT (which is a lot more visual/weird and can bring on the "elves" at breakthrough dosage). 5-meo-dmt(/bufo) is much more of a felt thing, but can definitely have some visual effects (I usually get enveloped in the bright white light of god before dissolving into everything/nothing, ymmv).
by holowoodman | 2026-01-22 17:18:33+00:00
Make it possible to turn off PRs from new accounts, accounts with a low PR acceptance rate or accounts that create lots of PRs all at once in unrelated projects. Or mark those kinds of PRs in a visible special way. Or make those kinds of issues and PRs non-public so that maintainers can silently drop them without creating publicity for the slop-spammers.
by striking | 2026-01-22 17:18:49+00:00
Got you to talk about it, though, didn't it?

> CW: Do you consider what you did protest, performance art, both, or something else?

> GG: Both. It’s a protest against the school’s AI policy specifically and it’s performance art because I needed something that would elicit a reaction. So this could reach more people.

Not everything has to be a global battle for all the marbles. Sometimes you're just pissed off that your school has a stupid policy and the administration won't listen to you. No better way to change that than make the news (aside from maybe going after donors).
by ben_w | 2026-01-22 17:18:50+00:00
A Kessler cascade necessarily requires the density of shrapnel destroys basically everything in that orbit. Below the density where this happens, it isn't a Kessler cascade in the first place.

You would be forced by (currently around) 2000 tons worth of bullet-mass shrapnel to wait for that shrapnel to de-orbit. Depending on the orbit, this takes months to millenia, because it's determined by atmospheric drag.

The lower the orbit, the better. Starlink's orbits got lowered, this is better vs. that particular issue.
by akarshc | 2026-01-22 17:18:59+00:00
While building AI features that rely on real-time streaming responses, I kept running into failures that were hard to reason about once things went async.

Requests would partially stream, providers would throttle or fail mid-stream, and retry logic ended up scattered across background jobs, webhooks, and request handlers.

I built ModelRiver as a thin API layer that sits between an app and AI providers and centralizes streaming, retries, failover, and request-level debugging in one place.

It’s early and opinionated, and there are tradeoffs. Happy to answer technical questions or hear how others are handling streaming reliability in production AI apps.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-22 17:19:14+00:00
Edit: I asked chatgpt and just tinkered around till I found a setting which could work

{
"agent": {
"default_model": {
"model": "hf.co/sweepai/sweep-next-edit-1.5B:latest"
}
},
"inline_completion": {
"default_provider": {
"model": "hf.co/sweepai/sweep-next-edit-1.5B"
}
},
"chat_panel": {
"default_provider": {
"model": "hf.co/sweepai/sweep-next-edit-1.5B"
}
}
}

Then go on the down bottom AI button or that gemini like logo and then select sweep model. And also you are expected to run ollama run command and ollama serve it

ollama pull hf.co/sweepai/sweep-next-edit-1.5B
ollama run hf.co/sweepai/sweep-next-edit-1.5B

I did ask Chatgpt some parts about it tho and had to add this setting into my other settings too so ymmw but Its working for me

It's an interesting model for sure but I am unable to get tab auto_completion/inline in zed, I can ask it in summary and agentic mode of sorts and have a button at top which can generate code in file itself (which I found to be what I preferred in all this)

But I asked it to generate a simple hello world on localhost:8080 in golang and in the end it was able to but it took me like 10 minutes. But some other things like simple hello world was one shot for the most part

It's definitely an interesting model that's for sure. We need stronger model like these I can't imagine how strong it might be at 7B or 8B as iirc someone mentioned that this i think already has it or similar.

A lot of new developments are happening in here to make things smaller and I am all for it man!
Show HN: Qt bindings for i3wm's IPC interface
by vhantz | 2026-01-22 17:19:21+00:00
A handful of C++ libraries already exist for interprocess communication with i3wm. However, integrating them with Qt tends to require quite a lot of boilerplate. For my own projects, none of them could be integrated in a way that feels clean enough to my taste, so I decided to build my own library to do just that.

The result is qi3pc. A simple C++ library that provides idiomatic Qt bindings for i3wm's IPC interface.

Getting information from i3 is as simple as sending a message and waiting for a reply or subscribing to events and waiting for them to be triggered. This is done with the signal/slot mechanisms offered by Qt and normal C++ functions.
by lapcat | 2026-01-22 17:19:27+00:00
> 40% of us still support the administration, ICE and everything that's happening here.

This number is misleading. Overall job approval does not entail equal approval for "everything." Typically, job approval depends a lot or even mostly on the economy. There was a famous expression from the Bill Clinton Presidential campaign...

Anyway, back when I studied math, 40% represented a minority, not a majority. And I'd like to see your polling on Charlie Brown; it feels like you're just projecting your personal feelings onto that rather than relying on any empirical data.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-01-22 17:19:29+00:00
I never watch TV and especially not news on TV, except when its a major debate that they're broadcasting, I always go for raw unedited sources. So if there's a White House announcement, through every presidency I just go to the White House youtube livestream no commentary, just the raw announcement / press briefing (I did this through all of Trump, Biden and now Trump again, though I've decided to take a break, I'm exhausted mentally). So many years ago, I was in a relatives home. They turn on the news, no big deal. I hear what sounds like a news reporter screaming and whining, I dont pay attention for about 5 minutes because I'm busy reading something on my phone, but I notice it. Then I finally look, and I had no idea what leanings they had at the time since I never watch news but it was CNN and she was saying all sorts of things about Trump in what was very obvious anger (why any organization that calls itself News / Journalistic would ever do this is beyond me). I don't think the hateful rhetoric is exclusive to one side. I think the mainstream media is pushing poison on both ends and any time something tragic happens in either direction I always see clips of news reporters from either side saying the most vile things, regardless of what the issue is or who it affects.

In my eyes, TV journalism is mostly dead. I rather stick to local stations that stay focused on things that affect me most directly.
by WorldMaker | 2026-01-22 17:19:47+00:00
Right, I think one of the biggest problems is the name "Restricted Mode" itself. It sounds like a punishment, when it is a safer sandbox. Restricted Mode is great and incredibly useful. But it is unsurprising how people don't like to be in Restricted Mode when it sounds like a doghouse out back, not a lobby or atrium on the way to the rest of the building.
by mediaman | 2026-01-22 17:20:06+00:00
Yes - I've been thinking about why this is. I'm guessing part of it is that writing forces us to think. I often find when I write something that I haven't thought it out fully, and articulating it makes me see a logical failure in my thinking, and gives me the ability to work that out.

So when we just have AI write it, it means we've avoided the thinking part, and so the written article will be much less useful to the reader because there's no actual distillation of thought.

Using voice to article is a little better, and I do find that talking out a thought helps me see its problems, but writing it seems to do better.

There's also the problem that while it's easy to detect AI writing, it's hard to tell the difference between someone who thought it out by talking and had AI write it versus someone who did little thinking and still had AI write it. So as soon you you smell the whiff of AI writing, the reasonable expectation is that there's less distillation of thought.
by trinsic2 | 2026-01-22 17:20:31+00:00
> We treat the constitution as the final authority on how we want Claude to be and to behave—that is, any other training or instruction given to Claude should be consistent with both its letter and its underlying spirit. This makes publishing the constitution particularly important from a transparency perspective: it lets people understand which of Claude’s behaviors are intended versus unintended, to make informed choices, and to provide useful feedback. We think transparency of this kind will become ever more important as AIs start to exert more influence in society1.

This isn't a Constitution. Claude is not a human being, The people who design and operate it are. If there are any goals, aspirations, intents that go into designing/programming the LLM, the constitution needs to apply to the people who are designing it. You can not apply a constitution to a piece of code, it does what its designed to do, or fail to do by the way its designed by the people who design/code it.
by standeven | 2026-01-22 17:20:32+00:00
Some provincial grants remain ($5k in BC last time I checked), but yes - Canada can and should do more. Balcony solar seems like such an easy win. Hopefully tariffs get dropped now that we’re talking to China again. And federal Liberals could force municipalities and provinces to reduce some of the red tape surrounding solar installations. Come on Canada, unlocking clean energy shouldn’t have to be a fight!