MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cryptica | 2026-01-04 05:43:08+00:00
> The more I think about it, the happier I am that AI is transforming the world of writing. In a way, I think it’ll make it even easier to stand out

I think this may be a form of denial. The reality is likely the opposite: AI will commoditize the act of writing entirely, shifting the value solely to insight.

For too long, we’ve confused "good writing" with "good thinking." We assumed that if someone wrote beautifully, they had something smart to say. Conversely, we ignored brilliant people simply because they couldn't articulate their complex ideas effectively.

AI fixes this market inefficiency. It allows experts who are too busy actually doing things to finally compete with professional writers. They provide the raw brilliance (the substance), and the AI provides the polish (the form).
by ranger207 | 2026-01-04 05:43:59+00:00
You don't change people's minds by telling them the truth. You change people's minds by letting them discover the truth on their own. People want to believe what they already believe, so a direct argument that goes against their belief is more likely to harden them against the argument than change their mind. "Elegance", or an indirect approach, softens the argument. The parts ancillary to the argument itself creep into the person's mind, make connections there among other things they already know (including of course the concept that "elegance is truth"), and prime the other person's belief system to accept the argument when it's finally presented. By making connections with flowery language and things-that-aren't-the-argument, the argument settles in as a highly-connected vertex in the belief system instead of a brick thrown in through the window.
by znpy | 2026-01-04 05:44:23+00:00
> But losing SO means that we're getting an idiot friendly guy with a lot of credible but wrong answers in place of a grumpy and possibly toxic guy which, however, actually answered our questions.

Which by the way is incredibly ironic to read on the internet after like fifteen years of annoying people left and right about toxic this and toxic that.

Extreme example: Linus Torvalds used to be notoriously toxic.

Would you still defend your position if the “grumpy” guy answered in Linus’ style?
by chvid | 2026-01-04 05:45:06+00:00
The allies of the US all banned Huawei because the US asked them (quite forcefully) to do so.

CXMT is already under a full set of US long arm sanctions so probably only very little of their products will ever reach western markets.

However some Chinese demand will definitely be met by CXMTs product displacing western suppliers - so maybe there is a tiny bit of relief for western consumers there.
by KetoManx64 | 2026-01-04 05:45:07+00:00
The first result when you Google Canada's healthcare waiting lists:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7292524/

Yes it is. The system has some very deep issues due to government involvement/meddling with both healthcare and insurance, but at least you can still receive life saving treatment in a timely manner.

They can be in disbelief all the want, but when people in countries with socialized healthcare get cancer or other life threatening medical conditions they come to the US and a private healthcare to get treated.
by js8 | 2026-01-04 05:45:08+00:00
> Am I the weird one here?

Yes. I think it depends on one's goals.

You can ask, in the same vein, why use Python instead of C? Isn't the real joy of programming in writing effective code with manual memory management and pointers? Isn't the real joy in exploring 10 different libraries for JSON parsing? Or in learning how to write a makefile? Or figuring out a mysterious failure of your algorithm due to an integer overflow?

TBH I am not sure AI is better either (see https://youtube.com/shorts/QZCHax14ImA), but it's probably gonna get figured out.
by _ache_ | 2026-01-04 05:46:58+00:00
The algorithm behind it is very basic.

Chose the most aggressive move (in term of pieces value and check-mate), if none is aggressive, it takes on of the move equally non aggressive.

Didn't remember the depth of the algorithm but it was very simple C code, could check quickly. It should be able to find a mate in 2 or 3 if it was in position of having one.

I didn't check the correctness of the algorithm, just the intention.
by lutusp | 2026-01-04 05:47:11+00:00
To some extent this misses the distinction between style and substance. People who read a lot, and/or who evolved at a time when critical reading was an essential skill, can be relied on to distinguish between conveying an idea versus seducing a reader through one's style of expression.

Both Ernest Hemingway and Mark Twain began their careers at print newspapers, where every word counted. They learned how to say much with few words. No amount of clever prose can substitute for this ability to set aside style in favor of substance.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-04 05:47:26+00:00
To be blunt, I simply don't have much more than the default respect for Venezuela as a country and fellow human beings. I have no special sentiment to provide in that regard. This is destructive, I hate that more innocent lives are lost over this, etc. I can't speak intimately to its culture, norms, attitudes, nor economics. So I won't talk on ignorant grounds.

Meanwhile, I hold disdain for my country's actions and have some minimal pull to at least protest and complain to my reps about it. So the focus of my discussion will be around those actions.
by nntwozz | 2026-01-04 05:48:04+00:00
I still listen to the soundtracks of Myst and Riven by Robyn Miller as background music, it takes me back to the wonderful comfort zone of my 486 DX4 Compaq Presario.

Seeing those game boxes on the store shelves, picking them up and looking at the artwork…

The Cyan intro is pure nostalgia:

https://youtu.be/RY_JCfPlNqk

"It’s like THX’s estranged brother"

I have the remastered version as my alarm sound:

https://youtu.be/WmaC0NjVZV4
by rolymath | 2026-01-04 05:49:56+00:00
Critical thinking comes later, not before. So religion doesn't erode them, but delays them.

Secondly, tribal behavior is strengthened through sports teams, college allegiances, rep vs dem party lines and many other things, with the latter of those being the main reason.

Thirdly, the dems were very pro zionist while Trump was able to maintain deniability. This swung a lot of dem voters.

Lastly, Kamala got something like 0 votes in the primary. Wishing she would win the general election was delusional. Dems should themselves in the foot twice vs Trump with Kamala and when they betrayed Bernie to help Hillary.

You should engage in some critical thinking yourself instead of blasting your insecurities over the internet. Your media diet (bet $1000 that reddit is a big part) needs a do-over.
by Propelloni | 2026-01-04 05:50:14+00:00
Hmh, I'm running Tumbleweed on a Ryzen 5 7600 and an AMD Rx 7800. Like you I don't fiddle with the defaults and this is my gaming rig (I'm working on starting just into Steam). I just have default KDE Plasma to launch Steam and play my games, I do my work on a Debian Trixie laptop. I have set up TW two years ago and only DUP-ed it since then. Actually, it is more stable then the Debian machine :o

I know, this is not helping you in any way. I only encountered weird instability with Linux when my RAM was not OK. Maybe check your RAM?
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-04 05:50:19+00:00
1) the method the US performed is irrespective of popular sentiment. If we were to buck the rules, I'm not sure if Venezuela would make the top 10 targets.

3) Trump pardoned the Honduras president. The drug smuggling excuse is moot. This is a power grab, as usual. And it came from Trump's mouth. We're no better than Russia if we choose to go with this narrative.
by rakejake | 2026-01-04 05:50:53+00:00
Excellent comment that really gets to the crux of the matter. Countries like China and India see themselves as civilizational, America sees itself as a perfect marketplace - it exists to feed its customers's wants and whims as efficiently as possible. I don't necessarily mean this in a demeaning way, it is what it is. In some sense, America is a state-level example of hedonic adaptation with its positives being improvements in quality of life and development of new tech, negatives being a bully in world politics, endless wars and bloodshed.

In general, hedonic adaption ends either with internal retrospection (shifting from pleasure to purpose) or an external disruption. In America's case, the former is extremely unlikely IMHO - the American people will not put their money where their mouth is because they enjoy the wealth generated this way. It will be upto external disruptors to check on Uncle Sam's endless thirst.
by tayo42 | 2026-01-04 05:51:39+00:00
I feel like the stakes are never low becasue when you ship crap your getting paged. You'll work weekends or overnights to fix your shoddy code and choices. Yeah the stakes are low like no one really cares if the b2b SaaS is down. But I care because I value my own time. I feel like no one thinks that way.

Also on the topic of the rant, I think to many people just don't give a shit. Idk how they're like that? To many people develop software that aren't computer people.
by al_borland | 2026-01-04 05:51:43+00:00
If the LLM is also writing the documentation, because the developers surely don’t want to, I’m not sure how well this will work out.

I have some co-workers who have tried to use Copilot for their documentation (because they never write any and I’m constantly asking them questions as a result), and the results were so bad they actually spent the time to write proper documentation. It failed successfully, I suppose.
by Kim_Bruning | 2026-01-04 05:52:02+00:00
Kluger/Clever Hans? [1]

The funny thing is: the abilities that people thought of as clever at the time (doing maths) can be done with a $1 component these days. The thing Clever Hans actually did (reading the audience) is something we spend billions on, and in some circles it's still up for debate whether anything can do it.

see also: Moravec's Paradox [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox
by ryandobby | 2026-01-04 05:52:13+00:00
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by snet0 | 2026-01-04 05:52:41+00:00
I hate this sentiment. The book isn't "about" a thing in particular, neither does it "mean" any specific thing. It may have been written with some ideas in mind, and there may even be overt indications as to those ideas. Everyone has their own relationship with each and every piece of art, and may sometimes choose to include the artist and/or their intentions, but may also choose to exclude them.

The article even discusses certain readers' developing relationship over time! The book hasn't changed, the text is static. Even within a person, the understanding of the text is fluid. To say it could possibly be misunderstood is to say that there is a wrong way of understanding, but clearly there are at least multiple correct - or at least not incorrect - understandings!

A certain subculture of online males have fallen in love with Patrick Bateman. Now some of them might not have read or watched American Psycho, so to say they misunderstand the art is nonsense as they haven't actually seen it. For those that have and still choose to worship the obviously awful character, I see a lot of people say they haven't "understood" the film/book. They have! They just disagree with author's own interpretation!
by oefrha | 2026-01-04 05:53:08+00:00
Yes, these cross platform frameworks speed up developing easy and boring things but actively gets in the way the moment you venture out for more esoteric platform-specific features. Overall time savings is questionable, especially in the AI age where you get a lot more speedup for the easy and boring things with better documentation and more training corpus. Not recommended (from someone who made the switch back to separate native codebases), unless your app can basically be a web app anyway.
by cryptica | 2026-01-04 05:53:14+00:00
My previous setup with Kubuntu was quite developer friendly with workspaces but Omarchy takes it to the next level. I'm very happy with it. I actually like most of the default tools that come with it. For example,.I was using a lot of vim before but actually neovim is a big improvement.

It has a lot of nice-to-haves which I wouldn't have bothered setting up individually but having them altogether out of the box does improve the overall developer experience significantly.
by robomartin | 2026-01-04 05:54:23+00:00
Your comment is completely and utterly disconnected from reality. Venezuelans WANT THIS and have been wanting this for decades.

I lived in Argentina at the time when the military were making people disappear by the thousands, never to be found again. Most commenters on HN have no clue what they are talking about and no context whatsoever.

Give it a few weeks. Maybe a few months, hard to say. You will see people joyfully demonstrating on every street in Venezuela flying both Venezuelan and American flags. Just hold your thoughts and opinions if you can for a a bit of time and you'll see. And, of course, don't get your news from leftist outfits who are angry about a socialist/communist/dictator losing power. You'll be able to watch news directly from Venezuela.

Important point: Venezuela is NOT Iraq or Afghanistan. I've seen people equate events. Again, ignorant. Venezuelans WANT democracy. Latin Americans are culturally and religiously aligned with the west. They want this and they want the socialist-dictatorial nightmare to be over.

As is always the case, most are not thinking past the headlines. Venezuela, once the transition to sanity, rule of law and democracy is completed, is likely to become a major player both in the region and globally.

How?

Well, most go for the obvious: Oil.

That's not it though. Expand beyond that: Energy.

And expand beyond that yet again: Manufacturing.

And yet one more time: AI data centers (which need energy, manufacturing and a stable environment).

Venezuela could become a magnet for investment and development we cannot possibly imagine. This one move by Trump, if executed well, will change the face of the American continent --for the better-- in ways that are hard to imagine today. This is a good moment in history. I hope other nations understand the reign of terror is over and join a coalition to truly make Latin America not only great again, but part of what could become the most powerful association in the world, a new, powerful, integrated and developed American continent. I hope to see this in my lifetime. It would be amazing.
by zahlman | 2026-01-04 05:55:01+00:00
> I disagree with most comments that the brusque moderation is the cause of SO's problems, though it certainly didn't help. SO has had poor moderation from the beginning.

Overwhelmingly, people consider the moderation poor because they expect to be able to come to the site and ask things that are well outside of the site's mission. (It's also common to attribute community actions to "moderators" who in reality have historically done hardly any of it; the site simply didn't scale like that. There have been tens of millions of questions, versus a couple dozen moderators.)

The kinds of questions that people are getting quick, accurate answers for from an LLM are, overwhelmingly, the sort of thing that SO never wanted. Generally because they are specific to the person asking: either that person's issue won't be relevant to other people, or the work hasn't been done to make it recognizable by others.

And then of course you have the duplicates. You would not believe the logic some people put forward to insist that their questions are not duplicate; that they wouldn't be able, in other words, to get a suitable answer (note: the purpose is to answer a question, not solve a problem) from the existing Q&A. It is as though people think they are being insulted when they are immediately given a link to where they can get the necessary answer, by volunteers.

I agree that Reddit played a big role in this. But not just by answering questions; by forming a place where people who objected to the SO content model could congregate.

Insulting other users is and always has been against Stack Overflow Code of Conduct. The large majority of insults, in my experience, come from new users who are upset at being politely asked to follow procedures or told that they aren't actually allowed to use the site the way they're trying to. There have been many duplicate threads on the meta site about why community members (with enough reputation) are permitted to cast close votes on questions without commenting on what is wrong. The consensus: close reasons are usually fairly obvious; there is an established process for people to come to the meta site to ask for more detailed reasoning; and comments aren't anonymous, so it makes oneself a target.
by krfantasy | 2026-01-04 05:55:14+00:00
I've been vibe-coding a diff tool[1] for Ableton Live project files in my spare time, though the project is still far from complete. It's meant to generate human-readable, meaningful summary text that shows the differences between two versions of a project file (.als). With this diff tool, I can then use Git to properly version-control Ableton Live project files.

So far I've completed roughly 70% of the Ableton Live project-file XML parsing, though some parts like Session View and the Groove Pool are not finished yet.

As for using Claude or other agents to parse Ableton Live's XML, my original plan was to build an automated workflow with ableton-mcp: have Claude use ableton-mcp to make edits in a blank project (for example, add an EQ8 or modify some automation), save the project file, then have Claude compare the modified project file with the original blank project and write the corresponding parsing code. But ableton-mcp still lacks many features[2], and the XML schema of .als files is inconsistent, so I ended up doing most of the review and verification manually.

[1]: https://github.com/krfantasy/alsdiff
[2]: https://github.com/ahujasid/ableton-mcp/pulls
by solidsnack9000 | 2026-01-04 05:55:59+00:00
Is sounds like you're saying something that "...was technically possible but not practical..." is no longer impractical, or at least is "...now quickly becoming technically possible and practical...", because of these additional facts that should be considered:

(A) "...bullets move slow, can miss causing obvious damage to surrounding infra..." -- In other words, the precision I say is possible with small arms isn't realistic. This has two consequences:

(A1) The bullets can miss. Consider a bullet on its way to a target 500m way -- it may be in the air for more than half a second. Maybe the target was walking forward at 1m/s and just stops walking forward -- then the bullet will pass 50cm in front of them. This kind of miss is unacceptable can prevents technology like the kind you imagine from being deployed.

(A2) If the bullet misses, it will put a whole in a wall, &c, &c, whereas a laser either (A2A) will not miss or (A2B) won't cause a problem if it misses?

Regarding (A2A) and (A2B), are either or both of them something you had in mind?

(B) "...they are loud..." -- Firearms are loud but it's hard for me to say what you think the contrast or relevance is here. The lasers are silent or nearly so? Or the firearm's sound creates a problem for some other reason?

(C) "...minaturization is important to making this a real trend..." -- Firearms are not small enough. You said earlier that "...I think this is taking a miniaturization turn..." but how small do you think these lasers need to be, for the reality that you're concerned about to come into play?
by csomar | 2026-01-04 05:56:00+00:00
I don't really agree. Programming on our endless tech stack is meandering. And people come in all shapes, forms and level of expertise. I mean, sure, it's their platform, they can do whatever with it. But as an experience developer now, I still rather prefer an open/loose platform to a one that sets me to certain very strict guidelines. Also once you had negative experiences in SoF as a beginner, would you come back later? I didn't.
by al_borland | 2026-01-04 05:56:10+00:00
> Like you go to some question and the accepted answer with the most votes is for a ten-year-old version of the technology.

This is still a problem with LLMs as a result. The bigger problem is that now the LLM doesn’t show you it was a 10 year old solution, you have to try it, watch it fail, then find out it’s old, and ask for a more up to date example, then watch it flounder around. I’ve experienced this more times than I can count.
Show HN: I built an AI optimized for venting, not working
by fengyiqicoder | 2026-01-04 05:56:28+00:00
Hi HN,

I built AnnaAi.App because I was tired of AI "copilots" always trying to make me more productive or efficient.

Sometimes, you don't need a solution, a to-do list, or a lecture on emotional management. You just need to vent.

Most current LLMs are guardrailed to be overly objective or polite. If you complain about a bad boss or a terrible day, they tend to say "I understand, but have you tried looking at it from their perspective?" which is often the last thing you want to hear at 2 AM.

I designed Anna to be strictly non-judgmental and supportive. Think of it as a digital "Tree Hole" (a safe space to shout into the void). She is prompted to take your side, validate your feelings, and even "roast" the things that annoy you, rather than trying to fix them.

It's an experiment in "Anti-productivity" AI. Would love to hear your thoughts on this approach to emotional alignment.
by lvspiff | 2026-01-04 05:57:40+00:00
I hear over and over from the staff engineers where i work that ai churns nothing but slop. When they know its ai they refuse to approve PRs even when it works cause its not the way they would do it.

Prime example was a quick set of scripts to run some tasks that were commonly performed. The ai version took a couple days to get the patterns right but worked and i was ready to not have to think of it anymore. A solid POC i thought. Well along comes the old hat saying its not the way he wouldve done it. Says he’s going to take a crack at it over the weekend. A month later and he still wont approve my pr, still not done with his better version and the code he has checked in is wayyyy more complicated using self-coded routines rather than preexisting libraries or even forked versions of them cause they are “security risks”. Then theres the things he straight up replicated what i produced with new file and variable names. Im still using what i put together aince his is still not done but in the mean time talking with powers that be about how we balance time, cost and quality.