MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mathnode | 2026-01-22 00:07:00+00:00
Old man here shaking his fist. While I acknowledge and appreciate the technical effort and let’s face it, an exemplary example in preserving games long after they are maintained by the original creators.
But this is not an “rpg”, it’s a gathering, crafting, and hanging out simulator. That’s fine by its own definition, but I don’t see any mechanisms which allow for actual roleplay? Please prove me wrong
by latexr | 2026-01-22 00:07:11+00:00
> Cognitive atrophy of people using these systems is very good as it makes it easier to beat them in the market

I hope you’re being facetious, as otherwise that’s a selfish view which will come back to bite you. If you live in a society, what other do and how they behave affects you too.

A John Green quote on public education feels appropriate:

> Let me explain why I like to pay taxes for schools even though I personally don’t have a kid in school. It’s because I don’t like living in a country with a bunch of stupid people.
by wwweston | 2026-01-22 00:07:11+00:00
I’m acquainted with people who act and speak like they’re flipping a Hitler-Pope coin.

Which more closely fits Solzhnetsin’s observation about the line between good and evil running down the center of every heart.

And people objecting to claims of absolute morality are usually responding to the specific lacks of various moral authoritarianisms rather than embracing total nihilism.
by vunderba | 2026-01-22 00:07:29+00:00
> I wish people had to visit a place multiple times, spaced out, before their ratings would even count.

That would effectively remove all negative reviews. Eating out is expensive enough as it is, I'm not going to pay for mediocre food a second or third time around.

A better approach (for almost anything) is just to focus on reading 2-4 star reviews since they're usually the most measured.
by foota | 2026-01-22 00:07:41+00:00
shrug YMMV. I was definitely a bit of of a luddite for a while, and I still definitely don't consider myself an "AI person", but I've found them useful. I can have them do legitimately useful things, with varying degrees of supervision.

I wouldn't ask Cursor to go off and write software from scratch that I need to take ownership of, but I'm reasonably comfortable at this point having it make small changes under direction and with guidance.

The project I mentioned above was adding otel tracing to something, and it wrote a tracae viewing UI that has all the features I need and works well, without me having to spend hours getting it up set up.
by insuranceguru | 2026-01-22 00:08:01+00:00
The 'facts box' idea is excellent, basically a 'schumer box' for Property & Casualty renewals.

The systemic issue right now is that the auto-inflation algorithms used by many legacy carriers are often loosely pegged to general Consumer Price Index rather than a localized Construction Cost Index. So you get a standard 4% limit increase while local lumber/labor costs spike 20%.

From a business perspective, insurers are terrified of 'sticker shock.' If they accurately updated the Replacement Cost to true 2026 values, the premium would jump, and the customer would churn. It’s an incentive misalignment where staying quiet retains the customer but leaves them exposed.
by awesome_dude | 2026-01-22 00:08:38+00:00
> Importantly: it was never about cost. It was about the rights of users of software.

The cost (free) got me looking, but the rights, now that's what kept me.

Costs - being a poor student meant I was not ever in a position to pay for products (even those massively subsidised by companies like Microsoft) - there was no way I could buy an IDE, or a compiler, or anything that I needed to /learn/.

Rights - once I had the products, I was able to see how they worked, and, more importantly, make changes that worked for me, and, if desired, share those changes so other people could take advantage of them. None of that was possible under the other licences.
by soegaard | 2026-01-22 00:08:48+00:00
I wouldn't say compiling full Racket to WebAssembly is impossible.
But I think the consensus is that one can't add a WebAssembly backend to the compiler in the same manner as the x86 and arm backends. These backends manipulate the stack in ways WebAssembly prohibits.

This forces an Racket implementation to make continuations explicit.
And that will most likely mean a WebAssembly backend will be slower than the native backends.
by DocTomoe | 2026-01-22 00:09:01+00:00
If the title of your study both makes a neurotoxin reference ("This is your brain on drugs", egg, pan, plus pearl-clutching) AND introduces a concept stolen and abused from IT and economics (cognitive debt? Implies repayment and 'refactoring', that is not what they mean, though) ... I expect a bit more than 'we tested this very obvious common sense thing, and lo and behold, it is just as a five year old would have predicted.'
by alephnerd | 2026-01-22 00:09:06+00:00
No worries. And honestly, my opinion is make your product an open-core product, but as an Indian founder you have no choice but to use the Indian and Indian-American VC network. Most cybersecurity and open-core VCs are either Indian-Americans or Indian nationals, so it's easier to go that path instead of the European path where valuations and deal terms are very anti-founder in nature.

With the right metrics, you could end up at YC.
by hombre_fatal | 2026-01-22 00:09:38+00:00
I try using north-up for that reason, but it loses the smart-zooming feature you get with the POV camera, like zooming in when you need to perform an action, and zooming back out when you're on the highway.

I was shocked into using it when I realized that when using the POV GPS cam, I couldn't even tell you which quadrant of the city I just navigated to.

I wish the north-up UX were more polished.
by KiwiJohnno | 2026-01-22 00:10:03+00:00
That is not how orbital mechanics work.

It may seem counterintuitive, but if something in orbit gets a push that isn’t strong enough to make it totally escape orbit, it will stay in a new elliptical orbit. That new orbit will pass through the point where the push happened, so it will come back through that location again, just with a different speed and direction.
by kazinator | 2026-01-22 00:10:25+00:00
I always use GPS, and always take better routes based on local knowledge. Once in a rare while, it surprises with a nice idea.

GPS navigators provide a rough estimate of arrival time which becomes more accurate as you get closer. The estimate is occasionaly useful for letting someone know when you expect to arrive somewhere.

It's the non-habitual GPS uses that are detrimental to the brain: the trips to a new address in some unfamiliar part of town, when in the distant past you would have consulted a map and then planned a route, memorized it, and followed it without looking at the map.
by ACCount37 | 2026-01-22 00:11:30+00:00
My argument is simple: anything that causes me to see more refusals is bad, and ChatGPT's paranoid "this sounds like bad things I can't let you do bad things don't do bad things do good things" is asinine bullshit.

Anthropic's framing, as described in their own "soul data", leaked Opus 4.5 version included, is perfectly reasonable. There is a cost to being useless. But I wouldn't expect you to understand that.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-22 00:12:59+00:00
Hey dang, would there be an interest in having the main link be a skyview.social link instead?

https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile...

(in the current bluesky link, only people who have a bluesky link would be able to watch it but skyview.social allows anybody to view a bluesky post even without an account, running directly within in the browser iirc)

Discovered it from the rob pike AI related recent HN post, what do you think?
by grantc | 2026-01-22 00:13:01+00:00
Great idea. The things available to give parents controlled access to music aren't great. Echo (Dot) + Kids+ seems to be the closest to meh on the speakers--the kids devices like Yoto are too limited (or require downloads) and the other voice speakers are worse than Echo/Alexa/Kids+. Which is mind-boggling because the Echo setup is wildly bad. I was thinking about how to lock an old iPad down to nothing but this app -- will need some time looking at parental controls again. Adding respect for Explicit tags might be a good feature if you don't have it. I have playlists that I'd love to share to them, but 5% of the songs need the radio edit or need to be elided.
by JaumeGreen | 2026-01-22 00:13:35+00:00
200 years ago slavery was more extended and accepted than today.
50 years ago paedophilia, rape, and other kinds of sex related abuses where more accepted than today.
30 years ago erotic content was more accepted in Europe than today, and violence was less accepted than today.

Morality changes, what is right and wrong changes.

This is accepting reality.

After all they could fix a set of moral standards and just change the set when they wanted. Nothing could stop them. This text is more honest than the alternative.
by robotresearcher | 2026-01-22 00:13:38+00:00
> The historical track record on “this technology will end work” predictions is remarkably consistent: they’re always wrong.

This is nicely expressed, and could serve as a TDLR for the article, though buried in the middle.

We have the most automation we've ever had, AND historically low unemployment. We have umpteen labor saving devices, AND people labor long, long hours.

> Labour Market Reallocation Actually Works

It really does, given a little time.
by drdeca | 2026-01-22 00:13:43+00:00
I think you are interpreting “absolute” in a different way?

I’m not the top level commenter, but my claim is that there are moral facts, not that in every situation, the morally correct behavior is determined by simple rules such as “Never lie.”.

(Also, even in the case of Kant’s argument about that case, his argument isn’t that you must let him in, or even that you must tell him the truth, only that you mustn’t lie to the axe murderer. Don’t make a straw man. He does say it is permissible for you to kill the axe murderer in order to save the life of your friend.
I think Kant was probably incorrect in saying that lying to the axe murderer is wrong, and in such a situation it is probably permissible to lie to the axe murderer. Unlike most forms of moral anti-realism, moral realism allows one to have uncertainty about what things are morally right.
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I would say that if a person believes that in the situation they find themselves in, that a particular act is objectively wrong for them to take, independent of whether they believe it to be, and if that action is not in fact morally obligatory or supererogatory, and the person is capable (in some sense) of not taking that action, then it is wrong for that person to take that action in that circumstance.
by IgorPartola | 2026-01-22 00:13:58+00:00
Think of it this way: if you flip a coin 20 times in a row there is a less than 1 in a million chance that every flip will come out heads. Let’s say this happens. Now repeat the experiment a million more times you will almost certainly see that this was a weird outlier and are unlikely to get a second run like that.

This is not evidence of anything except this is how the math of probabilities works. But if you only did the one experiment that got you all heads and quit there you would either believe that all coins always come out as heads or that it was some sort of divine intervention that made it so.

We exist because we can exist in this universe. We are in this earth because that’s where the conditions formed such that we could exist on this earth. If we could compare our universe to even a dozen other universes we could draw conclusions about specialness of ours. But we can’t, we simply know that ours exists and we exist in it. But so do black holes, nebulas, and Ticket Master. It just means they could, not should, must, or ought.
by Octokat | 2026-01-22 00:14:30+00:00
I use Cursor with a max subscription through work and using Gemini in multi-model mode alongside Opus 4.5 and GPT 5.2 Codex, Gemini's been the worst performer. Not saying it's a bad model just that the other 2 do a much better job at the level and complexity of large codebases. Just my experience.
by trees101 | 2026-01-22 00:14:47+00:00
Skill issue.
I'm far more interactive when reading with LLMs. I try things out instead of passively reading. I fact check actively. I ask dumb questions that I'd be embarrassed to ask otherwise.

There's a famous satirical study that "proved" parachutes don't work by having people jump from grounded planes. This study proves AI rots your brain by measuring people using it the dumbest way possible.
by crabkin | 2026-01-22 00:15:10+00:00
Well are people not part of the universe. And not all people "care about what we do" all the time but it seems most people care or have cared some of the time. Therefore the universe, seeing as it as expressing itself through its many constituents, but we can probably weigh the local conscious talking manifestations of it a bit more, does care.

"I am not saying they are good or bad, just that the concept of good and bad are not given to us by the universe but made up by humans." This is probably not entirely true. People developed these notions through something cultural selection, I'd hesitate to just call it a Darwinism, but nothing comes from nowhere. Collective morality is like an emergent phenomenon
by Miraste | 2026-01-22 00:15:24+00:00
No, it isn't.

The fourth session, where they tested switching back, was about recall and re-engagement with topics from the previous sessions, not fresh unaided writing. They found that the LLM users improved slightly over baseline, but much less than the non-LLM users.

"While these LLM-to-Brain participants demonstrated substantial
improvements over 'initial' performance (Session 1) of Brain-only group, achieving significantly
higher connectivity across frequency bands, they consistently underperformed relative to
Session 2 of Brain-only group, and failed to develop the consolidation networks present in
Session 3 of Brain-only group."

The study also found that LLM-group was largely copy-pasting LLM output wholesale.

Original poster is right: LLM-group didn't write any essays, and later proved not to know much about the essays. Not exactly groundbreaking. Still worth showing empirically, though.
by stephen_g | 2026-01-22 00:16:19+00:00
This is one I've never found really affects me - I think because I just always plan that the third or fourth time I go somewhere I won't use the navigation, so you are in a mindset of needing to remember the turns and which lane you should be in etc.

Not sure how that maps onto LLM use, I have avoided it almost completely because I've seen coleagues start to fall into really bad habits (like spending days adjusting prompts to try and get them to generate code that fixes an issue that we could have worked through together in about two hours), I can't see an equivalent way to not just start to outsource your thinking...
by oliverjanssen | 2026-01-22 00:16:35+00:00
Thanks! For locking down the iPad – check out Guided Access (Settings > Accessibility). Locks the device to a single app, you need a PIN to exit. Works great with Muky, that's the main setup I recommend.

For speakers, I just got my daughter the Wonderboom 4 – pairs via Bluetooth, sturdy, sounds good. Combined with an old iPad it's a solid setup.

Explicit tag filtering is a good idea. Right now parents manually curate playlists, so you control what goes in. But auto-filtering based on explicit flags could help. Adding it to the list - thanks for the suggestion!
by blibble | 2026-01-22 00:16:55+00:00
"AI" kills every part of open source

it kills the incentive to contribute, the incentive to maintain, the incentive to learn, the incentive to collaborate, and the ability to build a business based on your work

and it even kills the idea of traditional employment writing non-open source code

all so three USian companies can race to the bottom to sell your former employer a subscription based on your own previous work
by iliakoliev | 2026-01-22 00:16:57+00:00
Hi. I kindly ask you to share any type of feedback on the platform I've built.

VECE is my approach to simulate any type of social interaction we have in our daily routine and to decrease the time strangers spend to form perceptions on others.

It is designed to:

– make asking quicker and more flexible;
– make revealing opinions private and valuable;
– provide each user with a transparent perception on any other user through Interests and Attitudes.

The link leads to the demo but you can sign up if you wish.

Thanks!
by giobox | 2026-01-22 00:17:11+00:00
This is how the popular car auction site bringatrailer.com bidding process works for cars sold on their site too, a quirk of which is that it makes watching the end of the auctions live online kinda fun, especially given the discussions that break out in comment section on each car up for sale while folks nervously watch the current candidate for the final bid cool down.

Much like your example, in the two minutes before the end of the auction, every new bid placed extends the auction clock by another two minutes, the winner hasn't won the auction until two minutes have passed with no further counter bids.

> https://bringatrailer.com/how-bat-works/
by yndoendo | 2026-01-22 00:17:50+00:00
That is no longer the case after Windows 7. Windows 7 Embed allowed for full bloatware removal to the point of removing Windows Updater.

Windows 10 IoT still forces the bloatware on the users; XBox bar, Cortana, ... Windows 11 IoT is even worse, they are starting to remove the local only user account ability in the OS that is designed for product hosting.

BSD and Linux are the only modern OSes that allow the removal of bloatware. This is why in 2026 I have the job of porting software that ran on Windows Embedded to run on Linux.
by alessandroberna | 2026-01-22 00:18:18+00:00
The thing that makes the most difference is a drive being CMR vs an SMR one. CMR ones are recommended if you are ever going to write large-ish amounts of data in one go or if you ever plan to make a raid 5/ raid 6 arrays.

SMR drives are now what you find on most consumer drives between with capacities 1<x<8 tb (higher capacities too, but depends on the manufacturer) , they have a CMR area of the platter as a sort of write cache (like slc cache in ssds), while the rest of the platter will be really slow to write to. The write head is wider than the read head, so to overwrite something the drive has to first read and copy somewhere else the data on the track(s) that would be overwritten.
This makes whole drive writes really slow and can kill raid 5/6 since resilvers would take very long, possibly even a month, instead of a few days.

Besides the recording technology, the color of the label and the product line name are mostly marketing and won't make too much of a difference for simple usage.
by staticassertion | 2026-01-22 00:18:39+00:00
Even if we make the metaphysical claim that objective morality exists, that doesn't help with the epistemic issue of knowing those goods. Moral realism can be true but that does not necessarily help us behave "good". That is exactly where ethical frameworks seek to provide answers. If moral truth were directly accessible, moral philosophy would not be necessary.

Nothing about objective morality precludes "ethical motivation" or "practical wisdom" - those are epistemic concerns. I could, for example, say that we have epistemic access to objective morality through ethical frameworks grounded in a specific virtue. Or I could deny that!

As an example, I can state that human flourishing is explicitly virtuous. But obviously I need to build a framework that maximizes human flourishing, which means making judgments about how best to achieve that.

Beyond that, I frankly don't see the big deal of "subjective" vs "objective" morality.

Let's say that I think that murder is objectively morally wrong. Let's say someone disagrees with me. I would think they're objectively incorrect. I would then try to motivate them to change their mind. Now imagine that murder is not objectively morally wrong - the situation plays out identically. I have to make the same exact case to ground why it is wrong, whether objectively or subjectively.

What Anthropic is doing in the Claude constitution is explicitly addressing the epistemic and application layer, not making a metaphysical claim about whether objective morality exists. They are not rejecting moral realism anywhere in their post, they are rejecting the idea that moral truths can be encoded as a set of explicit propositions - whether that is because such propositions don't exist, whether we don't have access to them, or whether they are not encodable, is irrelevant.

No human being, even a moral realist, sits down and lists out the potentially infinite set of "good" propositions. Humans typically (at their best!) do exactly what's proposed - they have some specific virtues, hard constraints, and normative anchors, but actual behaviors are underdetermined by them, and so they make judgments based on some sort of framework that is otherwise informed.
by drdeca | 2026-01-22 00:19:14+00:00
That’s not what moral relativism is.

Utilitarianism, for example, is not (necessarily) relativistic, and would (for pretty much all utility functions that people propose) endorse lying in some situations.

Moral realism doesn’t mean that there are no general principles that are usually right about what is right and wrong but have some exceptions. It means that for at least some cases, there is a fact of the matter as to whether a given act is right or wrong.

It is entirely compatible with moral realism to say that lying is typically immoral, but that there are situations in which it may be morally obligatory.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-01-22 00:19:41+00:00
Buildings are built according to a standard, legal code, with architectural drawings, inspections, standard components and dimensions, etc. The people who work on them are trained and certified in specific practices with specific tools and materials, and follow rigid guidelines. Most jobs are the same tools, same parts, same basic construction, same tasks, there are plans available, and most of the time it was inspected so it was done mostly in a way everyone understands and expects. Maintenance is very minimal, on the order of years, and it lasts decades if not centuries.

Software is more like industrial manufacturing. Besides the high cost of the machinery, if the machines stop working (which they do occasionally) you stop producing product, so you need someone on staff who is familiar with them to fix them. A friend of mine is one of several "night staff" at Hershey's that just sit there twiddling their thumbs until a candy machine stops working at 4am.
by jollymonATX | 2026-01-22 00:20:19+00:00
These sites all suffer from the same defect, amazon pa-api pricing is NOT consistent in any region with the carted values an end user will be shown. This is a well known thing if you have worked with that api before and you are essentially just dropping the authors 24 hr amz cookie for them to earn off all other sales. Not to say thats bad, but the value add from a price comparison site like this is minimal to the end user as you will very likely not get that shown price.
by oliverjanssen | 2026-01-22 00:21:02+00:00
Thanks!

Honestly, still figuring this out. Tried social media (Instagram, Threads, Bluesky) and reaching out to blogs/reviewers. Gets some traction but reach is limited. A German print magazine review helped, and the first HN post brought a spike.

What's funny – parent to parent word of mouth has been really helpful. I get lots of emails from parents with ideas or bug reports. They found the app through friends or family. That feels more sustainable than any marketing trick.

But I still need to find better channels with more reach. Most growth so far has been organic via App Store search. Open to suggestions if anyone has ideas! ;)