MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by input_sh | 2026-01-22 22:04:22+00:00
> (which is the actual SotA for Claude)

Cool, how much of it can I use with a $20/month subscription? I'd reach the monthly limit within hours while gaining nothing. It's not that I never tried it, it's that I did and the difference is nowhere near worth 10x my money (nor even the wait time needed to get results).

> I'd suspect a skill issue.

There's 0 skill involved with asking a magic 8 ball to solve your problem for you. There's some skill involved with making it better for yourself consistently by cramming as much useful info as possible into the context window by writing very specific custom agents / skills / MCP servers / whatever, but I have yet to find a client that would pay me to spend an ungodly amount of time fucking around with my toolbelt instead of delivering results.

> Three or four years ago, models couldn't cite their sources at all. Two or three years ago, they started to gain the capability, but a large proportion of the citations would either be hallucinated or irrelevant. About a year ago, significant improvements started to emerge.

Let's translate that: You don't understand what they're doing under the hood when they "do that", you don't understand where that "improvement" is coming from, and I'm not interested in spending my time teaching you for free. For as little as €50/h, I'd be happy to! contact at my username.

> but the hype and promises we started hearing a couple of years ago are starting to bear fruit.

You're gaslighting yourself again in order to justify the price you're currently paying. Downgrade yourself back to $20 subscription, stick to it for one whole month, learn its limits properly, and then if you feel like you need to upgrade to a higher tier again, do so! Spoiler alert: it's gonna appear "significantly crappier" for about a week, and then after that week, you will get used to it and realise you've wasted a fuck ton of money on nothing.

> but to argue that no progress at all has been made is nothing more or less than moon-landing denial.

Where's that coming from? You're putting words into my mouth again. I specifically acknowledged small improvements, but I dismissed drastic improvements. Zero of what you said convinced me otherwise. For the love of all holy, use your own brain a little bit to actually understand the tools you're advocating for. Saying that you drank too much Kool-Aid would've been a severe understatement.
by filipeduarte | 2026-01-22 22:04:56+00:00
Hey,
I'm Filipe, founder of Peekaboo (aipeekaboo.com). We help brands and agencies track how they show up in AI search engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. Think SEO analytics but for the AI era.
We hit $8K MRR about 5 months after launching. Product is working, customers are paying, but due to some misalignment in co-founder objectives we're considering an exit.
If you know anyone who acquires micro SaaS businesses or funds/ventures that focus on this space, I'd really appreciate an intro. Happy to share more details over email.
Thanks in advance.
by reify | 2026-01-22 22:05:35+00:00
I'm in!

I just bought £50 of bitcoin.

I am hoping to be a millionaire by the end of the month.

I am a little confused by the spiel.

Listing is essentially free. Just deposit your tokens to our vault and trade your perp instantly.

I dont know what tokens are, the vault sounds ominous, and perp? is that shorthand perpetrator.

It sounds dodgy. I might lose my £50.
Show HN: Build in Minecraft with LLMs Using MCP
by wmil | 2026-01-22 22:06:13+00:00
So this is a very silly project, but I wanted to understand MCP and improve my Docker knowledge.

The result is kind of fun.

I built a Minecraft mod with a REST API, and then a MCP server to control it.

The build task functions are where I've been spending most of my time, you can queue up a build with tasks from the llm. It saves builds to a db. It's one of the few ways that the llm can inspect what changes were made to the world and build upon them.

I've had interesting but mixed results with the llm builds.

Live Minecraft server is up at veepl.ca

You can add a remote connector to Claude / ChatGPT using the URI https://mcp.veepl.ca/mcp

There are also a bunch of other MCP clients, but you're on your own for configuration.

The API was built in a very ad hoc fashion. Most of my effort was put into figuring out what the LLMs can understand.

Initially I expected that they could read / edit / write a 3d cuboid, but the results weren't good.

Then I wanted to go with a component system hoping to leverage it's skills with things like React. However laying out 3d objects
turned out to be beyond my shape rotation abilities.

So I added in functions to build common structures and then the build queues.

I keep hitting my pro tier token limits, so I'd like some fresh users to try to build some stuff.
by coldtea | 2026-01-22 22:06:21+00:00
This analogy serves my argument, as in it, just like "most people" are mere readers (not just they're not writers, they're also nowhere near the level of a competent book editor or a critic), the programmer becomes a mere user of the end program.

Not only would this be a bad way of running a publishing business regarding writing and editing (working on the level of understanding of "most people"), but even in the best case of it being workable, the publisher (or software company) can just fire the specialist and get some average readers/users to give a thumbs up or down to whatever it churns.
by u1hcw9nx | 2026-01-22 22:07:06+00:00
>Sweeney’s testimony cracked the mystery a little further. He referred to the agreement as relating to the “metaverse,” a term Sweeney has used to refer to Epic’s game Fortnite. “Epic’s technology is used by many companies in the space Google is operating in to train their products, so the ability for Google to use the Unreal Engine more fullsome… sorry, I’m blowing this confidentiality,” Sweeney said.
by smusamashah | 2026-01-22 22:07:40+00:00
Have you looked at retro Diffusion? https://x.com/RealAstropulse

This person shares lots authentic looking ai generated pixel art. This should give the building more realistic pixel art look.

Edit: example showing small houses https://x.com/RealAstropulse/status/2004195065443549691
Searching for buildings
by Joker_vD | 2026-01-22 22:07:42+00:00
> programs could have their output connected to all sorts of sinks (terminal, file, GUI, web content) without carrying baggage related to those sinks' behaviors.

We already have this. The TTY itself is not very special at all. It's just that the applications, traditionally, decide that they should special-case the writing to TTYs (because those, presumably, are human-oriented and should have as little batching as possible). But you, as an application developer, can simply not do this, you know.
by Am4TIfIsER0ppos | 2026-01-22 22:07:54+00:00
> Customer service

An AI might be better than an indian call center but I doubt that when the AI is made by indians anyway.

> writing software, writing docs about software

I have asked AI about exactly one topic and it lied about the API of a library making up the functions I was supposed to call.

> computer graphics (animation, images)

I have indeed seen many wonderful meme images come out of the generators but that was before they got lobotomized for producing that subject matter

[EDIT]

And the worst part is these are all just more "software as a service" designed to remove the possibility of using a tool without approval.
by dctoedt | 2026-01-22 22:08:07+00:00
> What a terrible reply to an interesting and genuine comment.

The "interesting and genuine [GP] comment" was hardly that: While it might not have been the GP commenter's intent, to me the comment came across as evidencing a faint sense of entitlement and tunnel vision — as in, "why hasn't the author of the book — which I haven't read — covered what I think should have been in this first volume of the series?"

I'm listening to the Audible version of the book. It's fascinating — especially the early chapter(s) about the approaches of Henry Royce of Rolls-Royce (costly, near-bespoke manufacturing, by highly-skilled engineers and mechanics, of splendid automobiles meant for the wealthy) versus that of Henry Ford (precision engineering of assembly-line machinery to enable mass production of workhorse cars that working people could afford).

(I hadn't known that in his youth, Stewart Brand was an Airborne-qualified U.S. Army infantry officer for two years after graduating from Stanford — this was back in the days of the draft. https://sb.longnow.org/SB_homepage/Bio.html)
by entropicdrifter | 2026-01-22 22:08:11+00:00
Personally, I'm not as worried about this as an issue going forward.

When you look at technical people who grew up with the imperfect user interfaces/computers of the 80s, 90s and 00s before the rise of smartphones and tablets, you see people who have a naturally acquired knack for troubleshooting and organically gaining understanding of computers despite (in most cases) never being grounded in the low-level mathematical underpinnings of computer science.

IMO, the imperfections of modern AI are likely going to lead to a new generation of troubleshooters who will organically be forced to accumulate real understanding from a top-down perspective in much the same vein. It's just going to cost us all an absurd amount of electricity.
by pests | 2026-01-22 22:08:21+00:00
I was curious and don't know enough of the cloud internals so asked an LLM:

Cloud A: AWS (Amazon Web Services)

Cloud B: Azure (Microsoft Azure)

Cloud C: GCP (Google Cloud Platform)

Cloud D: OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure)

Gemini had some decent evidence for each choice too, but I didn't confirm anything.
by eudamoniac | 2026-01-22 22:09:20+00:00
Workout plans do not need to be tailored. There are one or two dozen of them that are basically optimal for what they do, and everyone should just do those, including women and old people. Tailoring them to a random person's specifications is just going to make them worse 99% of the time, because if those modifications were effective they'd be part of the program, and because a random person will be modifying them mostly to make it easier for themselves. If there was an easy way of getting fit, people wouldn't be so fat; generally if you have chosen an easy fitness program, you are going to remain fat.

Just pick a program and do the program. Using a GPT program is worse than useless; it is going to waste a bunch of man hours.

You could rephrase this program as "this takes optimal training routines and changes them to fit what uninformed people would rather do because it's easier" which is just a bad outcome.
by pixelatedindex | 2026-01-22 22:09:39+00:00
How much space do you really need to raise a child? I’m genuinely curious because Americans act like you need a mansion to raise kids.

A 3 bed with 1K sq ft still gives you like a 10x10 room - more than enough space for a crib and a queen bed. And you have two other bedrooms to spare. As they get older and need space to run around and stuff, there’s no shortage of parks / trails / fields.
by verdverm | 2026-01-22 22:09:44+00:00
Sounds like OP has multiple org accounts with Anthropic.

The main one in the story (disabled) is banned because iterating on claude.md files looks a lot like iterating on prompt injections, especially as it sounds the multiple Claude's got into it with each other a bit

The other org sounds like the primary account with all the important stuff. Good on OP for doing this work in a separate org, a good recommendation across a lot of vendors and products.
by benjiro | 2026-01-22 22:09:53+00:00
Companies will simply give some kind of standard answer, that is legally "cover our butts" and be done with it.

Its like that cookie wall stuff, how much dark patterns are implemented. They followed the letter of the law, not the spirit of the law.

To be honest, i can also see the point from the company side. Giving a honest answer can just anger people, to the point they sue. People are often not as rational as we all like our fellow humans to be.

Even if the ex-client lose in court, that is how much time you wasted on issue clients... Its one thing if your a big corporation with tons of lawyers but small companies are often not in the position to deal with that drama. And it can take years to resolve. Every letter, every phone call to a lawyer, it stacks up fast! Do you get your money back? Maybe, depends on the country, but your time?

I am not pro companies but its often simply better to have the attitude "you do not want me as your client, let me advocate for your competitor and go there".
by nick__m | 2026-01-22 22:10:08+00:00
My experience is almost the inverse of what you describe, I never had to work at all until university, I was a top performer until "physique 1: mécanique newtonienne" it was the first time (and the last) I failed at something academic.

That was quite a shock to realize that I had to do the exercises and the homeworks if I wanted to pass. And since I was not use to efforts, I was no longer the top performer in classss where you have to do the exercises to really understand the matter.

I was recognized as extremely clever by teachers and other students but let me assure you that over long enough, discipline (witch I don't really have) and consistent efforts beats cleverness.
by tliltocatl | 2026-01-22 22:10:15+00:00
> plenty of real usecases show AI solving interesting non-trivial problems ..

Such as? Generating tons of spam? Generating tons of boilerplate code (which shouldn't have been necessary if the industry haven't been valuing coders' fungibility above development time)? Adult content is probably the only usecase so far that isn't automating away what should never be done in the first place.
by hockey | 2026-01-22 22:10:30+00:00
Lower early life performance we with lots of multidisciplinary experience, later life hyperfocus on a specific discipline until world-class levels are reached.

Sounds like they're describing ADHD.

(Side note after the important ADHD joke: there's an old sport textbook called "Periodization" that mentions focusing on breadth rather than depth of sports experience in early life is a better path to olympic-level performance than just going hard in a single sport from a young age.)
by torginus | 2026-01-22 22:10:30+00:00
I just want to add that treesitter is a heuristic, incremental parser.

The difference between regular parsers and treesitter, is that regular parsers start eating tokens from the start of the file, and try to assemble and AST from that. The AST is built from the top down.

Treesitter works differently, it grabs tokens from an arbitrary point, and assembles them into AST nodes, then tries to extend the AST until the whole file is parsed.

This method supports incremental edits (as you can throw away the AST for the modified part, and try to re-parse), but the problem is that most languages are designed to be unambiguous when parsed left to right, and parsing them like this might involve some retries and guesswork.

Also, unlike modern languages, like Go, which is designed to be parseable without any semantic analysis, a lot of older languages don't have this property, notably C/C++ needs a symbol table. In this case, treesitter has to guess, and it might guess wrong.

As for what can you do with an AST and what can't you: you can tell if something is a function call, a variable reference, or any other piece of syntax, but if you write something like x = 2; then tree-sitter has no idea what x is, is it a float, an int? is it a local, a class variable, or a global? You can tell this with a symbol table which the compiler uses to dereference symbols, but treesitter cant do this for you.
by colesantiago | 2026-01-22 22:10:30+00:00
I still don't get how this is "enshittification"?

Bitwarden has to compete with LastPass, Dashlane, 1Password, etc for market share to be around. I mean what should they do not to be seen as "enshittifying"?

Also:

1. Bitwarden is open source, so for those that think it is "enshittifying", can run it for free?

2. So what isn't being "enshittified"? Anything that is open source, free, not owned by PE or VCs and will never take investment?

1Password was bootstrapped for almost 15 years without investment then took investment and suddenly now counts as being "enshittified"?

It seems that "enshittification" (by definition) is incompatible with market competition and fosters it.
by bastard_op | 2026-01-22 22:11:25+00:00
About my not having a software background, I started this as I've been a network/security/systems engineer/architect/consultant for 25 years, but never dev work. I can read and follow code well enough to debug things, but I've never had the knack to learn languages and write my own. Never really had to, but wanted to.

This now lets me use my IT and business experience to apply toward making bespoke code for my own uses so far, such as firewall config parsers specialized for wacky vendor cli's and filling in gaps in automation when there are no good vendor solutions for a given task. I started building my mcp server enable me to use agents to interact with the outside world, such as invoking automation for firewalls, switches, routers, servers, even home automation ideally, and I've been successful so far in doing so, still not having to know any code.

I'm sure a real dev will find it to be a giant pile of crap in the end, but I've been doing like applying security frameworks, code style guidelines using ruff, and things like that to keep it from going too wonky, and actually working it up to a state I can call it as a 1.0 and plan to run a full audit cycle against it for security audits, performance testing, and whatever else I can to avoid it being entirely craptastic. If nothing else, it works for me, so others can take it or not once I put it out there.

Even being NOT a developer, I understand the need for applying best practices, and after watching a lot of really terrible developers adjacent to me over the years make a living, think I can offer a thing or two in avoiding that as it is.
by mmooss | 2026-01-22 22:11:54+00:00
> That's what government social programs like Medicaid and SNAP/EBT are for

Many people intend those programs to work that way, but they don't: People still can't afford food, healthcare, housing, and education. The programs are also being cut back on a large scale.

> The lower class is always subsidised

Many would say it's actually the wealthy who are subsidized. For example, most policy, laws, regulations, and both political parties are oriented toward serving and facilitating the wealthy, or at worst, not displeasing them. The military is sometimes used to serve large corporations, such as oil companies. Weathy people often pay a lower rate of taxes: The tax on their primary form of income, capital gains, is lower than the tax on other people's primary form of income, wages; the numbers get worse when you account for welfare taxes, which are regressive. People literally die of poverty - they are unable to afford the care they need.
by JohnFen | 2026-01-22 22:12:07+00:00
> According to the message, despite a constructive discussion on the topic during the most recent DebConf, no new volunteers came forward.

Wait...

The team all left in a short period of time, and at a Debian conference nobody expressed an interest in stepping up?

This is the sort of thing I'd ordinarily be tempted to take part in, but those two facts are HUGE red flags. It sure looks like something's up. I wouldn't touch this with a ten foot pole without a better understanding of what's going on.
by micromacrofoot | 2026-01-22 22:12:10+00:00
I think you're being too idealistic in these stances, it's just not how it's ever worked.

> And as I learn about such individuals taking credit for others work I have nothing but disgust for them

Historically, this wasn’t considered "taking credit." Leonardo da Vinci’s studio for example, involved apprentices completing significant portions of works under him. Buyers were aware they were commissioning a studio work and not a pair of hands. Koons or Hirst do it today, and it's no secret... it's how prolific artists have operated for centuries, they just can't keep up with the demand for their work solo.

The real soloists, like Van Gogh for example, were mostly obscure while they were alive... didn't really have any patrons, and didn't produce enough work to live off of.

To call the destitute failures "true artists" and someone like da Vinci "soulless" is pointless, because we don't decide these things, history does.

> Ronald Hare figured out how to mass produce penicillin and saved thousands of lives but no Nobel recognition for her triumph were those that got the prize failed.

I don't think this is true? Hare found success from trying to replicate Fleming's results. Fleming, Florey and Chain were jointly awarded the Nobel for the original discovery.

> I personal will never fund AI art / AI artist. There is no personality in such works, only slop

There will come a point in the near future where you won't be able to tell the difference. I lived through the same argument with Photoshop in photography.
by HanClinto | 2026-01-22 22:12:18+00:00
Not to be too much of a devil's advocate (ha!), but I kindof think I _want_ it to have biblical translation data in the dataset. So long as it's not simply copying something like the KJV or ESV into the output, then this should be a good thing, right?

Because much of what it produces (especially in the "poetic" mode) does seem to be very much "off the beaten path" for a good number of renditions.

I don't think that the goal would be to have a dataset that is completely free from scholarship on the topic of Biblical translation, but rather to synthesize the rules and principles from the collected body of knowledge and apply it (with steering) to the entire Biblical text.
by vel0city | 2026-01-22 22:12:39+00:00
Sorry, I either totally misread your comment or was mentally replying to someone else when I wrote this.

Sure, you could just cram the residences to the edges and try to recoup the cost of the rest of the square footage for places that don't need natural light. But once again you've got issues with original designs and intents for the building. None of the plumbing is designed to be pushed to the edges, so you'll need to make massive changes to the structural integrity by drilling a bunch of new floor cores to do all the new plumbing work. You could rent the interior spaces as storage, but you'll probably quickly flood the market of storage units with the massive amount of square footage you'll be bringing.

Trying to have industrial in there as well is asking for problems. Trying to rent some 15th story small/medium interior unit as some kind of industrial workshop would be quite weird. What kind of industry would want a smaller interior space that probably can't support heavy equipment, has a limit to ceilings of ~10 or so feet, can't require odd ventilation or strange/additional fire suppression/separation requirements, probably has significant power limitations (in terms of industrial capacity, at least), noise limitations, difficulty getting much product in and out, etc? Stuff that the city is going to be OK zoning literally across the hall from people trying to live? And that you're going to find a number of these willing to pay a good bit for such a space to cover the maintenance costs? These buildings weren't built for industrial usages, they were built for office desks and couches. Maybe a few floors have been upgraded to handle additional weight to have datacenter kind of spaces, but definitely not most of the floors.

So then you're trying to spread the maintenance costs of this massive and old building across higher value residences and a lot of very low value storage/weird industrial tenants.