MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by panick21_ | 2026-01-30 10:49:09+00:00
I was talking about mass market for an electric truck.

- F150 is big

- Its perfectly usable, claim otherwise are nonsense. Arguable depending on your workload it has advantages. Not being as good for side-loading is a downside, but many people can't side-load F150 either. But having a cover that locks safely is clearly an upside. In terms of what people actually use these trucks for, like shopping or picking up a few things from Home Depot the bed is useful. Secondly, beds are empty 99% of time anyway.

- All electric trucks are not perfect at towing loads over long distances. For short distances its very good. And again 99.99% of time people are not towing loads long distances. The issue is really only if you want to tow loads long distances as fast as possible.

- Visibility is better then F150

Most of the rest is just nit-picking or looking at the issue only from one side.

And you completely ignore that F150 is already a truck for the masses, as it is literally the most sold vehicle in the US, and it doesn't have to cost 10k. Comparing the Cybertruck to something like Toyota IMV 0 makes no sense when F150 was the target.

> The popularity of The Truck in the US is, in a large part, a byproduct of regulation which gives certain exemptions to specialized work vehicles.[3]

Something that is often claimed but isn't true. That's a contributing factor but by no means the only reason.
Show HN: Omni-NLI – A multi-interface server for natural language inference
by habedi0 | 2026-01-30 10:49:49+00:00
Hi everyone,

I've made an open-source tool (called Omni-NLI) for natural language inference. It can use different models to check if
a piece of text (called a premise) supports another piece of text (a hypothesis). The main application of a tool like
this is for soft fact-checking and consistency checking between pieces of texts like sentences.

Currently, Omni-NLI has the following features:

- Can be installed as a Python package with `pip install omni-nli[huggingface]`.

- Can be used on your own computer, so your data stays local and private.

- Has an MCP interface (for agents) and a REST API for conventional use as a microservice.

- Supports using models from different sources (Ollama, OpenRouter, and HuggingFace).

- Can be used to check if it seems that a model is contradicting itself.

- Supports showing the reasoning so you can see why it thinks a claim is wrong.

In any case, if you are interested in knowing more, there is more information in the links below:

Project's GitHub repo: https://github.com/CogitatorTech/omni-nli

Project's documentation: https://cogitatortech.github.io/omni-nli/
by MaulingMonkey | 2026-01-30 10:50:07+00:00
> It'll mean GOG has to do less work

[citation needed]

GOG's launcher team is presumably already familiar with their codebase, already has a checkout, already has a codebase that's missing 0 features, has a user interface that already matches their customer's muscle memory, and presumably already has semi-decent platform abstraction layer, considering they have binaries for both Windows and OS X. Unless they've utterly botched their PAL and buried it under several mountains of technical debt, porting is probably going to be relatively straightforward.

I'm not giving Linux gaming a second shot merely because of a bunch of ancedata about proton and wine improvements - I'm giving it a second shot because Steam themselves have staked enough of their brand and reputation on the experience, and put enough skin in the game with official linux support in their launcher. While I don't have enough of a GOG library for GOG's launcher to move the needle on that front for me personally, what it might do is get me looking at the GOG storefront again - in a way that some third party launcher simply wouldn't. Epic? I do have Satisfactory there, Heroic Launcher might be enough to avoid repurchasing it on Steam just for Linux, but it's not enough to make me want to stop avoiding Epic for future purchases on account of poor Linux support.
by keyringlight | 2026-01-30 10:50:31+00:00
The impression I've had for a long while now is that just as the software side is fragmented so is the userbase in what they want, including a segment that want one true way and all that fragmentation to go away. The trouble I see with catering to all that variation is it's putting an onus for more work on the developer (which needs funding from somewhere, most likely the publisher) and while linux (and GOG) is a niche market in the present and near term it doesn't seem like a winning proposition.

There's definitely a desire for an appliance/console like experience where all the complexity is hidden behind install/play buttons, and steam has got most of the way there. As protondb shows that can't go all the way and tweaking is needed owing to the shifting PC compatibility in general and running software from one OS on a different one, it's the nature of the beast. Personally pushing towards monoculture on an open platform needs to be tempered, and there's a lot of debate previously for other places where that's relevant.
by stoneman24 | 2026-01-30 10:51:30+00:00
While an interesting history, the actual truth is that the haggis is a small mammal which lives in the highlands. While they can be hunted (from St Andrews Day to Burns night), most commercially available haggis is farmed.

There is no truth to the rumour that they have 2 legs longer on the left side to easily run around the steep hills. Or that the males and females have different long legs so that they run around the hills in different directions and therefore meet.
by nkrisc | 2026-01-30 10:52:10+00:00
I really don’t get the strategy here. What do the coins have to do with the project? Why would someone who was “lured” into using the project buy the coins? Why would someone speculating on the coins use the project? What’s the connection? I’m genuinely having a hard time understanding what there even is for someone to “fall for” here. How does any of this trick anyone?

I guess I really am just that out of touch with “AI” and cryptocurrency.
by Thorentis | 2026-01-30 10:53:00+00:00
I can't believe that in the face of all the other problems facing humanity, we are allowing any amount of resources to be spent on this. I cannot even see this justifiable under the guise of entertainment. It is beneath our human dignity to read this slop, and to continue tolerating these kinds of projects as "innovation" or "pushing the AI frontier" is disingenuous at best, and existentially fatal at worst.
by dumb1224 | 2026-01-30 10:53:29+00:00
It's a common source of confusion. The administrative definition of a 'city' is the equivalent of its metropolitan area + all satelite 'towns' and their suburbs (including farm lands).

My hometown has a population of 3.4 million (prefecture level city or 3rd tier as people call it). But it has an area about 6000 km^2, easily reaching the total size of London. At its core the central town has roughly a population of 700,000. And there are 4 more towns after the central one, each has smaller villages and suburbs under them. People living in these towns wouldn't consider they are living in the same city.
by Draiken | 2026-01-30 10:53:40+00:00
Of course running one system is better. Use Linux and stop being miserable ;)

Still, you haven't said what are these extremely horrible cons that two systems have. For me they're so small it's not even comparable to having to submit yourself to a shit Windows system only to avoid the "hassle" of having two systems.

I used Windows only for gaming and Linux for everything else. Now I'm fed up with games that choose to block Linux out, so I no longer need the two systems and couldn't be happier.
by macmac_mac | 2026-01-30 10:53:55+00:00
FWIW I’ve been in enough of these cycles to see the same pattern play out now with software + AI hype that I saw back in crypto land. You get:

some half-baked project that looks cool until you actually try it,

a flood of “look at me I’m first” blog posts and influencers hyping the hell out of it,

people and companies saying they’re building on it because they don’t want to be left behind,

a weird intersection with tokens/coins thrown in as an afterthought because hey, incentives, right? — and suddenly the narrative becomes “pump this thing hard”.
by major505 | 2026-01-30 10:55:14+00:00
Wifi routers are little magic devices that work only when they want. I talked before here, but I had a Dell Vostro notebook that everytime it connected with my router using windows it would just kill the entire home wifi. It was a TP-Link mesh network. The only thing that would bring the thing up was to reboot every single router in the network and not connect that notebook.

I tried update my routers, tried to update my notebook wifi firmware, tryed to change the router config, the router position, the router order, the wifi channel, the wifi name and password. Nothing worked. But if I connected using linux, things would work just fine.

In the end I divorced my wife and brought a Thinkpad. She keeped the cat, the house, the routers and that dell vostro notebook.

I keeped the dog and the car.
by Flux159 | 2026-01-30 10:55:20+00:00
Hi, thanks! Yeah for controls I'm emulating pointerevents and keydown, keyup from SDL3 inputs & events. The goal is that the same JS that you write for a browser should "just work". It's still very alpha, but I was able to get my own WebGPU game engine running in it & have a sponza example that uses the exact key and pointer events to handle WASD / mouse controls: https://mystraldev.itch.io/sponza-in-webgpu-mystral-engine (the web build there is older, but the downloads for Windows, Mac, and Linux are using Mystral Native - you can clearly tell that it's not Electron by size (even Tauri for Mac didn't support webp inside of the WebGPU context so I couldn't use draco compressed assets w/ webp textures).

I put up a roadmap to get Three.js and Pixi 8 (webgpu renderer) fully working as part of a 1.0.0 release, but there's nothing that my JS engine is doing that is that different than Three.js or Pixi. https://github.com/mystralengine/mystralnative/issues/7

I did have to get Skia for Canvas2d support because I was using it for UI elements inside of the canvas, so right now it's a WebGPU + Canvas2d runtime. Debating if I should also add ANGLE and WebGL bindings as well in v2.0.0 to support a lot of other use cases too. Fonts support is built in as part of the Skia support as well, so that is also covered. WebAudio is another thing that is currently supported, but may need more testing to be fully compatible.
by dissent | 2026-01-30 10:55:42+00:00
I bought a new Model Y a few months ago.

On the whole, it's a great car, it really is. They've pretty much nailed the fundamentals. It's opinionated, not unlike Apple, but if the opinions work for you you'll enjoy the car.

But there are shortcomings, and they are jarring. The parking sensors basically don't work at all due to being vision only - and apparently can't be made to work properly. The lane change and reverse warnings are just crap and may as well not be there. My previous car implemented these to perfection, but I cannot trust the Tesla. The autopilot is a gimmick that offers you nothing but increased risk - and there's no way in hell I'd trust FSD for car that can't accurately detect the distance of my house when parking. The big touchscreen is great for passengers, but outright dangerous for drivers.

Having said all that, it seems strong emotions around Musk and Tesla cause people to want Tesla to fail. They want the car to be bad. There is so much motivated reasoning around this brand that it's hard to take any article like the above, or half the comments in this thread, seriously.
by WJW | 2026-01-30 10:57:45+00:00
Exactly as you'd expect: they make it possible to run the GPUs more hours in exchange for needing additional capital. Those batteries will have an upfront cost and will depreciate over time. You'll obviously also need more solar panels than before, which also further increases the upfront investment. Also note that now we're already straying away from the initial idea of "consuming free electricity from renewable overprovisioning". If you have solar panels and a battery, you can also just sell energy to the grid instead of trying to make last-gen GPUs profitable by reducing energy costs.

Again: it might work, if the math checks out for your specific source of secondhand GPUs and/or solar panels and/or batteries.
by Flux159 | 2026-01-30 10:57:51+00:00
So I am stubbing parts of the DOM api (input handling like keydown, pointer events, etc.), so you shouldn't need to rewrite any of that.

Three.js and Pixi 8 with the WebGPU renderer are part of the v1.0.0 roadmap (verifying that they can work correctly on all platforms), right now most of the testing was done against my own engine (tentatively called mystral.js which will also be open sourced as part of v1.0.0, it's already used for some of the examples, just as a minified bundle): https://github.com/mystralengine/mystralnative/issues/7
Show HN: PriceDB – Snap a receipt photo, let AI fill it in global price sharing
by iCeGaming | 2026-01-30 10:57:58+00:00
Built this with Lovable.dev using pure vibe-coding prompts because I hate typing out prices manually after shopping. The dream core flow: open app → snap photo of receipt → AI extracts product, price, store, date, location → confirm if needed → save. Done in seconds. No forms, no hassle.

Right now it's more basic but live:

Upload receipts to contribute (goal is full AI auto-fill from photo)
Browse prices, see history, compare locations to spot where it's cheaper
Create shopping lists with estimated totals
Set price drop alerts (email notifications)
Current stats (mostly seeded + a few real): 1.0k prices tracked, 6 contributors, 66 stores, 36 savings found (e.g. LEGO set dropped RON 1 locally)
Free account to add/view (quick sign-up), no ads/paywall.
Community angle: crowdsource real paid prices so anyone can avoid overpaying on groceries, electronics, whatever—especially across countries or stores.

Vibe-coding let me iterate fast: describe "receipt photo upload with AI extraction" → Lovable generates → tweak prompts → repeat. Still rough edges (e.g. upload isn't full AI yet, feels sparse with low contributors), but that's why I'm posting.

Curious what HN thinks:

Does the receipt → AI flow sound useful enough to contribute on impulse?
Biggest friction right now (sign-up wall? No guest adds? Looks empty?)
Would "I paid the same!" quick buttons or weird-price leaderboards help retention?
Privacy thoughts on shared receipt photos/data?
Or is this just not an itch people have?
by nicbou | 2026-01-30 10:57:58+00:00
I am generally skeptical about AI but I do see the benefit here.

I write a bunch of widgets for my website. They're little calculators that use common components and apply simple logic. Think unit conversion or date arithmetic.

These currently take a few hours to write, and most of the work is just wiring things together in a predictable way: template, tests, common form controls.

I think that this would be a very good case for AI.
by sph | 2026-01-30 10:58:04+00:00
How old are you? At 39 (20 years of professional experience) I've forgotten more things in this field than I'm comfortable with today. I find it a bit sad that I've completely lost my Win32 reverse engineering skills I had in my teens, which have been replaced by nonsense like Kubernetes and aligning content with CSS Grid.

And I must admit my appetite in learning new technologies has lessened dramatically in the past decade.
by subscribed | 2026-01-30 10:58:16+00:00
Gemini loves to ignore Gemini.md instructions from the first minutes, to replace half of the python script with "# other code...", or to try to delete files OUTSIDE of the project directory, then apologise profusely, and try it again.

Utterly unreliable. I get better results, faster, editing parts of the code with Claude in a web ui, lol.
by Draiken | 2026-01-30 10:58:21+00:00
Most game studios pay someone else to make the anti-cheats and many already have Linux versions that the studios choose to not enable.

Besides, if your anti-cheat only ever looks at the system level, it'll easily be bypassed by hardware cheats. At some point I think anti-cheats will have to "know" the game to be able to detect anomalies. It's the only way to effectively stop many categories of cheats.
by gyanchawdhary | 2026-01-30 10:59:02+00:00
ur onto something here. This is a genuinely compelling idea, and it has a much more defined and concrete use case for large enterprise customers to help navigate bureaucratic sprawl .. think of it as a sharePoint or wiki style knowledge hub ... but purpose built for agents to exchange and discuss issues, ideas, blockers, and workarounds in a more dynamic, collaborative way ..
by maccard | 2026-01-30 10:59:17+00:00
> How was that not the first thing to be checked ?

I'm a very technical person, and would be considered "smart". A few weeks ago, the TV remote was acting up. I changed the batteries, still happening. Restart the TV, still happening. The mobile app is working fine, I'm wondering if there's a fault on the IR blaster. Use a camera to check the IR blaster on the remote, seems fine. Factory reset the TV, still happening. Take the TV off the unit, pull out back of the TV off, solder to IR blaster looks ok. Put it all back together, still happening. Phone samsung, and go to make a coffee while I'm on hold. Come back, it's working while I'm on hold. Total time, 4 hours at this point.

Turns out, I had put a coffee cup in front of the receiver that morning, and unluckily put it back when I lifted the TV down from the stand...
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-30 10:59:41+00:00
Would be nice if there was an escape hatch here. Definitely better than the depressing thought I had, which is - to put in AI/tech terminology - that I'm already past my pre-training window (childhood / period of high neuroplasticity) and it's too late for me to fix my low prompt adherence (ability to set up rules for myself and stick to them, not necessarily via a Markdown file).
by dissent | 2026-01-30 10:59:45+00:00
I was in the market for an EV due to great tax advantages. I assumed BYD would be the sweet spot, but test drove a Tesla for comparison.

I ended up with the Tesla. It is hands down the better vehicle and I'd be very surprised if anybody seriously thought otherwise. There wasn't very much in it price wise so that wasn't a factor.

The BYD (Sealion 7) wasn't even a bad car. It's a good car. But it's inspired and just a little gaudy. It felt like a conventional SUV with an EV powertrain. The Tesla felt like the future.
by Flux159 | 2026-01-30 11:00:01+00:00
Phaser is not supported right now because phaser is still using a WebGL renderer from my understanding (maybe in a v2.0.0 adding ANGLE + WebGL support is an option, but debating if that's a good idea or not).

Pixi 8 has a WebGPU renderer so that should be supported as part of a v1.0.0 release - it's on the roadmap to verify that three and pixi 8 work correctly: https://github.com/mystralengine/mystralnative/issues/7
by kotaKat | 2026-01-30 11:02:22+00:00
People can spin up magic crypto coins backed by other crypto coins at the push of a button.

Dirtbag crypto people will spin up a coin in the name of someone's software product, give the project owner a bunch of coin, make them feel special like they're suddenly part of lots of money, and then astroturf and pump the coin as much as they can before setting up for a rugpull by either the project owner trying to cash out, or the crypto folks trying to finish the job off.
Is there a good Agent Leaderboard for other real-life things than coding?
by tototozip | 2026-01-30 11:03:04+00:00
I feel like the benchmark space is quite crowded when it comes to coding Agents. We have some remarkable projects with TerminalBench, SWE-bench, RepoBench, ect, and I actually think we are close to a gold standard here. Also I know that we have general web/computer control benchmarks like GAIA, WebArena, and OSWorld, but these feel like "General Purpose" tests.

People want AI Agents to help them with different tasks, and I find close to none interesting benchmarks outside of the web vertical. Are there any projects addressing "real world" business challenges, or is everyone just focusing on coding and general web browsing right now?
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-30 11:03:14+00:00
Like it or not, a lot of people love a virtualization of their library. So the option is nice.

I like GOG's launcher because 1) it's open source and 2) it can show other gamijg libraries thanks to fan maintained plugins. Those aspects give me a sense that the goal here (outside of to lower the friction into GOG's store) is indeed to serve the user

And if that changes, it's easy to take my ball and go home. GOG trying to push hard on any DRM is basically them surrendering to Steam.
by ivanjermakov | 2026-01-30 11:03:59+00:00
> In C, you can see what the machine is doing. Allocations don’t hide behind constructors, and destructors don’t quietly run during stack unwinding. You can profile at the machine-code level without feeling like you’re peeling an onion, appropriately shedding tears the whole time.

This is why explicit control flow is important design goal for systems programming language. This is basically 2/3 of core design principles in Zig.
by bayindirh | 2026-01-30 11:04:18+00:00
> like a person still proud in 2026 that they are still using Vim for large projects.

I remember a small competition where people do a well-defined "share this content to others" routine to showcase how OS A is way more intuitive than OS B. There was also an OS C, which was way slower than A&B. Then, someone came using OS C, topped the chart with a sizeable time difference.

The point is, sometimes mastery pays back so much that, while there's theoretically better ways to do something, the time you save from that mastery is enough of a reason to not to leave the tool you're using.

I also have a couple of "odd" tools that I use and love, which would cause confused looks from many people. Yet, I'm fast and happy with them.
by suralind | 2026-01-30 11:04:41+00:00
No surprise, really. You can use AI to explore new horizons or propose an initial sketch, but for anything larger than small changes - you must do a rewrite. Not just a review. An actual rewrite. AI can do well adding a function, but you can't vibe code an app and get smarter.

I don't necessarily think that writing more code means you get better coder. I automate nearly all my tests with AI and large chunk of bugfixing as well. I will regularly ask AI to propose an architecture or introduce a new pattern if I don't have a goal in my mind. But in these last 2 examples, I will always redesign the entire approach to be what I consider a better, cleaner interface. I don't recall AI ever getting that right, but must admit I asked AI in the first place cos I didn't know where to start.

If I had to summarize, I would say to let AI implement coding, but not API design/architecture. But at the same time, you can only get good at those by knowing what doesn't work and trying to find a better solution.
by frm88 | 2026-01-30 11:05:17+00:00
There's also the various reports of federal technical supervision instances that attest Teslas have the highest failure rates:

Germany: https://www.autoevolution.com/news/tuev-report-2026-tesla-mo...

Denmark: https://fdm.dk/nyheder/nyt-om-trafik-og-biler/tesla-skandale...

Ireland: https://www.rsa.ie/road-safety/statistics/nct-statistics-and...

At some point you have to acknowledge the data as facts.