MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bArray | 2026-01-20 18:38:55+00:00
> My 30k ft view is that the stock will inevitably slide as AI datacenter spending goes down. Right now Nvidia is flying high because datacenters are breaking ground everywhere but eventually that will come to an end as the supply of compute goes up.

Exactly, it is currently priced as though infinite GPUs are required indefinitely. Eventually most of the data centres and the gamers will have their GPUs, and demand will certainly decrease.

Before that, though, the data centres will likely fail to be built in full. Investors will eventually figure out that LLMs are still not profitable, no matter how many data centres you produce. People are interested in the product derivatives at a lower price than it costs to run them. The math ain't mathin'.

The longer it takes to get them all built, the more exposed they all are. Even if it turns out to be profitable, taking three years to build a data centre rather than one year is significant, as profit for these high-tech components falls off over time. And how many AI data centres do we really need?

I would go further and say that these long and complex supply chains are quite brittle. In 2019, a 13 minute power cut caused a loss of 10 weeks of memory stock [1]. Normally, the shops and warehouses act as a capacitor and can absorb small supply chain ripples. But now these components are being piped straight to data centres, they are far more sensitive to blips. What about a small issue in the silicon that means you damage large amounts of your stock trying to run it at full power through something like electromigration [2]. Or a random war...?

> The counterargument to this is that the "economic lifespan" of an Nvidia GPU is 1-3 years depending on where it's used so there's a case to be made that Nvidia will always have customers coming back for the latest and greatest chips. The problem I have with this argument is that it's simply unsustainable to be spending that much every 2-3 years and we're already seeing this as Google and others are extending their depreciation of GPU's to something like 5-7 years.

Yep. Nothing about this adds up. Existing data centres with proper infrastructure are being forced to extend use for previously uneconomical hardware because new data centres currently building infrastructure have run the price up so high. If Google really thought this new hardware was going to be so profitable, they would have bought it all up.

[1] https://blocksandfiles.com/2019/06/28/power-cut-flash-chip-p...

[2] https://www.pcworld.com/article/2415697/intels-crashing-13th...
by accrual | 2026-01-20 18:39:04+00:00
I'm in a similar situation, thinking about a paycut or sabbattical just to do something different.

I think it's key to think about what makes you happy and interested in your work, and then find a way to map from your current position to a new position where you can do more of that.

If you're ever unsure or worried about making a move, remember that life is fluid, things change, doors open and close all the time. Taking a step forward into the unknown will light the path to the next step, but taking that first step requires accepting some uncertainty and trusting it will work out anyway.
by StephenHerlihyy | 2026-01-20 18:39:10+00:00
If you really dive into Canada's behavior since the Bush administration it's plainly obvious that they have not been a good ally. They have the hubris of the United States with the economy of Mexico. I don't agree with Trump's rhetoric and think his handling of the situation has been antagonistic and counter-productive. But his grievances are legitimate. Canada has been actively undermining the United State's attempts to contain/separate from China. They are using the opportunity to enhance their own economy at the expense of the American people. The historic nature of the relationship between Canada and America has allowed for much of it to stay under the radar. I don't think Canada would be in my top-10 allies list though. I would be much more concerned about losing Japan, South Korea, Mexico or Israel. Canada is what I would have described in high school as a "fake friend".
by asukachikaru | 2026-01-20 18:39:28+00:00
I tried many tricks (pomodoro, meditation, atom habit, you name it) to fight lack of discipline. TLDR: non really worked, to the point that I’ve accepted that it’s part of my character.

The one that kind of worked, at least for a while, was external reward. I set point for each task or habit I want to achieve, and the longer the streak goes the more point I earn. Point can be used as currency for rewards. I monitored my motivation against the tasks to iterate on the point distribution design. It worked great for six months in which I regularly slept and waked up early, did spanish vocabulary anki sessions, and no phone during remote work (“no phone for two hours” task,) etc., until I used all my point for a M2 IPad Pro which was the ultimate reward I set for myself from the very start.
by dr_kvet | 2026-01-20 18:39:34+00:00
I built a TypeScript job queue where jobs are stored in your existing database (Postgres, SQLite, MongoDB) rather than Redis.

The main idea: start jobs inside your database transaction. If the transaction rolls back, the job never exists. No dual-write consistency problems, no transactional outbox pattern needed.
Job chains work like Promise chains — continueWith instead of .then(). Jobs can branch, loop, or wait for other jobs to complete (like Promise.all).

Redis/NATS can optionally be added for faster notifications, but no job state lives there — just an optimization.

Looking for feedback on the API design.
by subscribed | 2026-01-20 18:39:38+00:00
Just to install a proper call recorder or a better Work Profile manager.

Turning a possibility to install software outside of the app store should be about as normal as the fact you're using a laptop or desktop to install your pirated games.

Yeah, you.

If someone having access to "side load" an app has it to install a pirated game, then you have your OS, where you are not limited only to Apple/Amazon/Google store, simply for installing pirated software.

QED :)
by AlanYx | 2026-01-20 18:40:15+00:00
That same paragraph also describes ways in which it can be accomplished other than chemical etching ("...chemical etching, laser ablation, mechanical removal of material, mechanical pre-treatment followed by etching, lithography in combination with etching, and combinations thereof.").

There are also paragraphs describing applying "a plurality of inorganic dielectric layers".

Like most patents, it's hard to understand what has actually gone into production here. Could be done in a variety of ways consistent with the patent. The inorganic coatings are mentioned in claim 1, so the actual new aspect is probably the combination of etching and specific coatings.
by kagakuninja | 2026-01-20 18:40:16+00:00
If The US goes to war against China, we are screwed, because we outsourced our manufacturing to China. We cannot quickly ramp up our manufacture of ships, tanks, aircraft or ammunition. Not only do we lack manufacturing capacity, the entire supply chain is in China / Asia.

In addition, China leads in the critical technologies need for drone oriented warfare, like we are seeing in Ukraine.
Show HN: AIChatLens – Save AI chats and snippets locally in the browser
by chaimaaM | 2026-01-20 18:41:04+00:00
Hi HN,

I built AIChatLens because I kept losing useful answers, ideas, and code from AI chats.

AIChatLens is a Chrome extension + simple web viewer. It works by letting you save full AI chats or highlight specific parts (snippets) directly inside ChatGPT, Gemini, or Copilot, and then find them later in one place.

Current features:
- Save complete AI chats
- Highlight and save text snippets (e.g. code or key answers)
- Tag saved snippets
- Browse and search saved chats and snippets
- Revisit full chats alongside the snippets saved from them

Current limitations:
- Full-text search is available for snippets only (not full chats yet)
- Tags apply to snippets only
- Data is stored locally in your browser (no accounts or backend)

This is an early MVP, and I’m using it myself daily.

I’d really appreciate feedback on:
- Would full-content search across saved chats change how you’d use this?
- What would make this immediately more valuable?
- Any privacy or UX concerns?

Chrome extension (currently unlisted while testing):
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/aichatlens-ai-memor...

Short demo video (apparently I say “perfect” more than I realized ):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV8D_mIWd6c

Happy to answer questions or share technical details.
by alex1138 | 2026-01-20 18:41:22+00:00
I want to point out a few things here because people are going to split hairs about definitions and other irrelevancies

I don't know exactly how they do this in non-english languages, but english speakers have complained that all the posts they see from friends are the most abrasive and inflammatory. Specifically those. So it's not just "a neutral platform". If this was happening in Myanmar then of course it inflamed ethnic tensions

Second, Facebook's barging into emerging markets - with Free Basics, they sent letters on behalf of Indians to the telecom regulatory body (including net neutrality advocates who were very much against it). Facebook in Myanmar would not even be a thing in the first place were it not for their larger internet.org initiative. (I don't dislike "social media". It's fine to connect with people, but not the way FB does it) Whether we ought to have these services wholly decentralized or some sort of KYC system - dunno. But FB (and specifically Zuckerberg) are just bad faith actors
by bogwog | 2026-01-20 18:41:28+00:00
Lol, are you a Meta lawyer or something? This is the most bad-faith interpretation imaginable. Not a single one of your bullet points is an accurate representation of anything in the OP.

Seriously, if you are not a Meta lawyer, what tribe or political group do you feel you're defending with this? I can't imagine anyone except maybe Zuckerberg himself who would defend the things Meta and their lawyers have done and are currently doing to America's children.
by ericmay | 2026-01-20 18:41:31+00:00
Right, but what I'm arguing is that the currency isn't going to be that valuable without doing things like opening their markets to outside investors. You could just go with the Euro even if you didn't like the dollar.

That's the thing I keep coming back to. What are the specific features of the currency that make it more valuable than the other reserve currencies that exist today? I don't think China is willing to do what they would need to do add those features, because it requires CCP to loosen control and they can't do that.

If China "democratized" it would unlock a ton of potential and go on to dominate the globe. But doing that requires untenable changes for the CCP so it won't happen.

Plus everyone is going to be mad and distrustful once they invade Taiwan.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-01-20 18:41:34+00:00
US health insurance premiums are not insurance-like, as they are mostly a tax due to the forced wealth redistribution.

US health insurance coverage is very insurance-like, due to the out of pocket maximum.

Determining auto insurance coverage is very simple, because fixing/replacing cars is simple.

Determining health insurance coverage can't be simple, because fixing bodies is not simple. It's unknown what will and will not fix issues, how to even measure if there is an issue, and what will cause more issues and the cost/benefit of that fix.

The people who can fix the issue are a lot more rare and in demand than the people who can fix automobiles.

Also, the medicine is patented, and the seller of the medicine wants to be able to charge different prices to different buyers, hence all the games.
by vel0city | 2026-01-20 18:41:38+00:00
In fact, re-reading RFC 6238 it states:

Note that a prover may send the same OTP inside a given time-step
window multiple times to a verifier. The verifier MUST NOT accept
the second attempt of the OTP after the successful validation has
been issued for the first OTP, which ensures one-time only use of an
OTP.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6238

Assuming your adversary isn't actually directly impersonating you but simply gets the result from the successful attempt a few seconds later, the OTP should be invalid, being a one time password and all.
by pessimizer | 2026-01-20 18:41:39+00:00
I think that we haven't even started to properly think about a higher-level spec language. The highest level objects would have to be the users and the value that they get out of running the software. Even specific features would have to be subservient to that, and would shift as the users requirements shift. Requirements written in a truly higher-level spec language would allow the software to change features without the spec itself changing.

This is where LLMs slip up. I need a higher-level spec language where I don't have to specify to an LLM that I want the jpeg crop to be lossless if possible. It's doubly obvious that I wouldn't want it to be lossy, especially because making it lossy likely makes the resulting files larger. This is not obvious to an LLM, but it's absolutely obvious if our objects are users and user value.

A truly higher-level spec language compiler would recognize when actual functionality disappeared when a feature was removed, and would weigh the value of that functionality within the value framework of the hypothetical user. It would be able to recognize the value of redundant functionality by putting a value on user accessibility - how many ways can the user reach that functionality? How does it advertise itself?

We still haven't even thought about it properly. It's that "software engineering" thing that we were in a continual argument about whether it existed or not.
by itqwertz | 2026-01-20 18:41:57+00:00
Take a break for a few months to recalibrate what you want from life. Tech will still be here when you’re ready again. Go travel, use your physical body to walk and hike and lift, have a couple of flings, go to a bar at noon, work a few temp jobs, apply minimalism in your life, learn about something you like, etc.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-20 18:42:03+00:00
> where the "safe harbors" were during the Great Depression [...] were that there were no safe harbors

Surely economy and the world economy operates in a completely different way now than it did back them, if not in the US, the very least in the rest of the world? But that's just my intuition, maybe things are more similar than they are different in reality?

> Of course it turned out to be a local maxima

Not to pour salt into your wounds (sorry), suppose your daughters were born 1980-1990 sometime, you really managed to hit exactly the stagnation phase it seems, that sucks but probably true what you say, still had a lesson in there :) I got curious and maybe others are too, especially if you don't usually look at price of commodities so here: https://www.macrotrends.net/1470/historical-silver-prices-10...
Show HN: Kiplomatie – A framework for ethical AI governance
by Kiplomat-SouCmp | 2026-01-20 18:42:37+00:00
Watching recent discussions between AI industry leaders, I noticed a profound contrast between market-driven pressure and scientific calling. It feels as though we are at a crossroads where the technical pace might outrun our collective ethical grounding.

I propose the term "Kiplomatie" (AI-Diplomacy) as a peaceful, philosophical framework.

Kiplomatie is not about opposition, but about integration. It suggests that we should manage AGI as a shared human heritage, much like we do with our oceans or the atmosphere.

The pillars of this conceptual approach are:

1.Resonant Governance: Moving beyond purely rational
scaling metrics toward decisions that align with our
shared human intuition and values ("Hand on Heart").

2.Collaborative Connectivity: Recognizing that we are all
connected like neurons in a global network. Kiplomatie
seeks to foster international cooperation over
competitive escalation.

3.The North Star of Wonder: Ensuring that AI remains a
tool for curiosity and human flourishing, preserving the
"magic" of discovery.

I’m curious to hear from this community: How could we integrate such a "North Star" into our current frameworks to ensure that global AI development remains a collaborative and safe journey for everyone?
by Esophagus4 | 2026-01-20 18:43:03+00:00
In the short run, I agree.

But what I do worry about are the long term consequences of US behavior. Even the largest empires aren't on top forever (even before Trump, China was investing heavily in tech and has made significant inroads. India is developing, too. Who knows?). There may be no country as economically powerful today, but tomorrow is a new day. These shifts don't happen in the short term, but over decades, this could be a big problem for the US if our approach continues this way.

A business goes bankrupt slowly, then all at once. I worry that we are speed running the "slowly" part of our journey.
by mgrat | 2026-01-20 18:44:02+00:00
Take a sabbatical if you can afford it and do random things. I'm in the US, so some of the things I've done - spent months through-hiking the Appalachian Trail, cave diving, camping, whitewater kayaking up and down the east coast. I needed another output and to put something besides work first. Work will always be there, and when I returned I found just working with other people more pleasant/rewarding.
by tracker1 | 2026-01-20 18:44:05+00:00
I absolutely HATED the first time I had to deal with it... at least now it works a little better.. but the first version didn't actually tell you that you needed to go into security settings right after to enable the install.

Still not a big fan of it... though admittedly mostly just install stuff via brew/cask more than direct downloads as a result.
by nickff | 2026-01-20 18:45:00+00:00
>"Lol, are you a Meta lawyer or something? This is the most bad-faith interpretation imaginable. Not a single one of your bullet points is an accurate representation of anything in the OP.

>"Seriously, if you are not a Meta lawyer, what tribe or political group do you feel you're defending with this? I can't imagine anyone except maybe Zuckerberg himself who would defend the things Meta and their lawyers have done and are currently doing to America's children."

Please review the HN Guidelines:

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>"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

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>"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
by Terr_ | 2026-01-20 18:45:01+00:00
Who the heck are you trying to fool? Nobody ever considered those ships to overlap with "the militia" in the first place!

Hell, I don't even need to cite something new for that, it's already obvious in the same Articles of Confederation, how come you won't just RTFA already?

This was the law "uniting the states" for an entire decade before they decided they needed to upgrade and write something new:

> NO VESSELS OF WAR shall be kept up in time of peace, by any state, except such number only, as shall be deemed necessary by the united states, in congress assembled, for the defence of such state, or its trade;

> nor shall any body of forces be kept up, by any state, in time of peace, except such number only as, in the judgment of the united states, in congress assembled, shall be deemed requisite to garrison the forts necessary for the defence of such state;

> but every state shall always keep up A WELL REGULATED AND DISCIPLINED MILITIA, sufficiently armed and accoutred, and shall provide and constantly have ready for use, in public stores, a due number of field pieces and tents, and a proper quantity of arms, ammunition, and camp equipage.

See how those capitalized parts are two entirely separate categories!? Sheesh.
by MarkusWandel | 2026-01-20 18:45:09+00:00
That, and the stuff on Facebook. All those AI-written articles which usually make a big ado about a minor event, but if you google the name of the protagonist or do a Google Lens on the picture, you can get the original story in 1/100 as many words. But sometimes the thing is completely made up. Does anyone even care any more? The flood of words is made to be reasonably engaging, but after you fall for them a few dozen times you just can't be bothered to read them any more, so who or what is it really for? These are not "meant to outrage" articles, just... filler.
by cortesoft | 2026-01-20 18:45:32+00:00
> The problem I have with this argument is that it's simply unsustainable to be spending that much every 2-3 years

Isn’t this entirely dependent on the economic value of the AI workloads? It all depends on whether AI work is more valuable than that cost. I can easily see arguments why it won’t be that valuable, but if it is, then that cost will be sustainable.
by StephenHerlihyy | 2026-01-20 18:45:38+00:00
I left technology about a decade ago to join the Military. It was an adjustment, but honestly was the greatest job I've ever had. Compared to tech where everything seemed high stress and had terrible work life balance, my military career was like playing on easy mode. Failure was impossible, no one wanted to stay a minute longer than they had to and everything was already on fire so putting it out was never really that urgent. It sounds crazy but I loved it. Now I am refreshed and pivoting back to tech with a fully funded Master's degree.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-20 18:45:42+00:00
That's your opinion, which you are of course welcome to.

People buy treasuries because they expect a return. If a party is threatening to get into a shooting war with you your expectations of a return drop significantly. This then causes that party to protect their investment, the last one to defect will hold the bag. The US is signalling on all wavelengths that it is no longer the safest place to stash money, long term or otherwise.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-20 18:45:52+00:00
Look for IT positions in small/medium-sized companies doing other things than creating products for other startups,or similar. You'll be solving real problems for people who are experiencing them, and most important thing to look out for is what the IT culture is beforehand, and how the rest of the company treats them. If you manage to find something where all of those are OK, they're a dream for a programmer, as you can solve problems the way you see fit, as long as you actually solve the real problems.
by ianburrell | 2026-01-20 18:46:02+00:00
The US government is pushing IPv6 for government sites and contractors.

I think there needs to be a push for IPv6-first networks for companies. ISPs in the US are pretty good about IPv6. But network engineers learned IPv4, and don't want to change what works, so companies lag behind. Changing existing networks is hard, but IPv6 is good candidate for new networks. This includes writing docs and eventually the education so IPv6 is the default.
by wiremine | 2026-01-20 18:46:24+00:00
I like the creativity, but I'm not sure it's needed. I've been building a large-scale database system using Opus 4.5, and targeting Rust. It's not perfect, but the Rust compiler is so helpful that Opus has solved a lot of problems on its own. I have around 100,000 lines of code, and have completed some major refactoring.

I am using a variation of spec-driven development.