MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by NegativeK | 2026-01-14 00:30:48+00:00
There are some really good suggestions in this thread: sleep, exercise, medication. Therapy also helps some.

Externalizing my brain helped massively before I was diagnosed. Pages and pages of notes -- both to write an idea down to move away from it and as a way to make sure I do a task. It's way easier for me to accomplish something if I can obsessively plan it out in advance, and it's way easier to stop rolling an idea around in my head if I jot it down (potentially to be never entertained again.)

It's a later step after diagnosis, but my doctor told me I'd be surprised at how effective medication can be. They were 100% right. It's not a cure all and it's not without potential side effects, but it makes me sad that it took me so long to approach my primary doctor about the issues.

But as a side note, the medical info I've read makes a pretty firm statement that there is no late developing ADHD. One if the diagnostic criteria is that the symptoms occurred during childhood. Coping and your environment may affect the disorder's effect on your life, but it's with you for your life. _However_, adult diagnosis is very real. Your environment changes so much as you age, and it may or may not make ADHD worse. I'd talk to your primary doctor with an open mind, both for what may be going on and for how to deal with it.
Show HN: Vibe scrape with AI Web Agents, prompt => get data [video]
by arjunchint | 2026-01-14 00:30:54+00:00
Most of us have a list of URLs we need data from (government listings, local business info, pdf directories). Usually, that means hiring a freelancer or paying for an expensive, rigid SaaS.

We built an AI Web Agent platform, rtrvr.ai to make "Vibe Scraping" a thing.

How it works:

1. Upload a Google Sheet with your URLs.

2. Prompt: "Find the email, phone number, and their top 3 services."

3. Watch the AI agents open 50+ browsers at once and fill your sheet in real-time.

It’s powered by a multi-agent system that can take actions, upload files, and crawl through paginations.

Web Agent technology built from the ground up:

End to End Agent: we built a resilient agentic harness with 20+ specialized sub-agents that transforms a single prompt into a complete end-to-end workflow. Turn any prompt into an end to end workflow, and on any site changes the agent adapts.

Dom Intelligence: we perfected a DOM-only web agent approach that represents any webpage as semantic trees guaranteeing zero hallucinations and leveraging the underlying semantic reasoning capabilities of LLMs.

Native Chrome APIs: we built a Chrome Extension to control cloud browsers that runs in the same process as the browser to avoid the bot detection and failure rates of CDP. We further solved the hard problems of interacting with the Shadow DOM and other DOM edge cases.

Cost: We engineered the cost down to $10/mo but you can bring your own Gemini key and proxies to use for nearly FREE. Compare that to the $200+/mo some other lead gen tools like Clay charge.

Use the free browser extension for login walled sites like LinkedIn locally, or the cloud platform for scale on the public web.

We are thinking it can be a great upstream tool to your CRM to generate lists and enrich data.

Curious to hear if this would make your lead generation, scraping, or automation easier or is it missing the mark?
by porkloin | 2026-01-14 00:31:17+00:00
I fucking hate responses like the one you're responding to. I'm someone who writes long comments, and I've always been that way. The last few years have been awful because it doesn't take long for someone who disagrees with me to just accuse my writing of being an LLM because it's longer than a few sentences and reasonably well written.

I don't ultimately really care if the person they were accusing of using an LLM was actually using an LLM to write it. But people who accuse any comment longer than a paragraph of being LLM content are asses.
by gregsadetsky | 2026-01-14 00:31:37+00:00
One great example/case for this would be Aura Frames (recommended to me by a few folks here when I posted an Ask HN) [0]

If the company disappears... what happens to the devices and the cloud storage?

I've been really enjoying the product (it's really well done, the mobile app works perfectly well) but it's a scary thought.

I also found this Reddit thread [1] with some language from the company supposedly saying they would do their best to launch alternative tooling if they disappeared, but I can't find this language anywhere else online.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45341781

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/homeautomation/comments/1b8vei3/wha...
by tombert | 2026-01-14 00:32:06+00:00
I think that even if it never improves, its current state is already pretty useful. I do think it's going to improve though I don't think AGI is going to happen any time soon.

I have no idea what this is called, but it feels like a lot of people assume that progress will continue at a linear pace for forever for things, when I think that generally progress is closer to a "staircase" shape. A new invention or discovery will lead to a lot of really cool new inventions and discoveries in a very short period of time, eventually people will exhaust the low-to-middle-hanging fruit, and progress kind of levels out.

I suspect it will be the same way with AI; I don't now if we've reached the top of our current plateau, but if not I think we're getting fairly close.
by CjHuber | 2026-01-14 00:32:20+00:00
My point was not that those video to text models are good like they are used for example in that case, but more generally I was referring to that list of indicators. Like surely when analysing a movie it is alright if some things are misunderstood by it, especially as the amount of misunderstanding can be decreased a lot. That AI body camera surely is optimized on speed and inference cost. but if you give an agent 10 1s images along with the transcript of that period and the full prior transcript, and give it reasoning capabilities, it would take almost endlessy for that movie to process but the result surely will be much better than the body cameras. After all the indicator talks about "AI" in general so judge a model not optimized for capability but something else to measure on that indicator
by g-b-r | 2026-01-14 00:32:21+00:00
It's dangerous to think that nothing can ever happen to your repository, corruptions or weird states you don't know how to recover from are not even rare.

So do take backups, of the whole local repository.

At the beginning of using git I used to keep dozens of copies around, if the repository is not huge it's trivial (and compressed they typically don't take up much more space than a single copy).

That saved my ass several times
by rambojohnson | 2026-01-14 00:32:45+00:00
you're dodging the point by retreating into silly abstractions. I’m talking about cultural and economic displacement of artists, not a pedantic debate about latent spaces. "Training isn’t copying" is the cynical AI shill statement that doesn’t address the fact that systems trained on artists are then packaged and monetized to outsell them. why is this part so complicated for you? or are you just being obnoxious...

dropping wiki links and math jargon avoids the ethical / market reality here.
by leptons | 2026-01-14 00:33:02+00:00
>We are just moving from making music as a rote activity similar to code

From this statement, I doubt you've written any music worth listening to, or any code that's not trivial.

Don't confuse music with muzak. What you get from an "AI" is muzak. It will never, ever have the same depth, warmth, or meaning as a human translating human emotions and experience into music and lyrics.
by 9JollyOtter | 2026-01-14 00:33:04+00:00
Your best option in your area was a protest vote, but you still believe there are good options. To me that sounds like cognitive dissonance.

I don't vote. There are many reasons I don't vote. However the biggest reason I don't vote is that the whole premise or at least how it is presented to you is false. The way it is presented to you both in school, media etc. is that you are supposed to read the manifesto, consider the candidates arguments and history etc. etc.

People don't do that, they vote for their team. People have their political teams, much like Premiership Football it often comes down to the "Reds vs the Blues" (literally Man U vs Man City).
by borroka | 2026-01-14 00:33:12+00:00
Couldn't the same be said of all professions in which some people earn a lot, such as acting, sports, singing, entertainment in general, and which are considered less “serious” than the professions of medical doctor and engineer?

One might say that, in theory, the well-earning actor or actress has to show some craft at least, but there are plenty of actors whose popularity comes only from their looks--my dog would act better than them.

A lot of the youngsters who'd decide to make money undressing themselves on OF will soon realize they might have the will, but they lack the market power.
by akuyou | 2026-01-14 00:34:02+00:00
AI is destroying the free internet along with everything else

My web host suspended my website account last week due to a sudden large volume of requests to it - effectively punishing me for being scraped by bots.

I've had to move to a new host to get back up, but what hope does the little guy have? it's like GPU and ram prices, it doesn't matter if I pay 10x 100x or 1000x more than I did, the AI companies have infinite resources, and they don't care what damage they do in the rush to become the no 1 in the industry

The cynic in me would say it's intentional, destroy all the free sites so you have to get your info from their ai models, price home users out of high end hardware so they have to lease the functions from big companies
by GoatInGrey | 2026-01-14 00:34:19+00:00
The tells in music are there. The most common being: vocals have a subtle constant hiss to them, voices and instruments sound different in the second half than they did in the first, the hiss filter gets more prominent and affects all instruments towards the end of the song, auditory artifacts like volume jumps or random notes/noises near transitions.

More subjective tells: drums are hissy and weak, lyrics are generic or weird like "Went to the grocery store to buy coffee beans for my sadness", weirdly uniform loudness and density from start to finish, drops/climaxes are underwhelming, and (if you've listened to enough of them) a general uncanny feel to them.

I've generated about 70 hours of AI music and have listened to all of the songs at least once, so it's become intuitive for me to pick them out.

Some examples for listening for the hiss filter:

https://suno.com/s/qvUKLxVV6HDifknq (Easiest to hear at 0:00 with the inhale)

https://suno.com/s/QZx1t0aii0HVZYGx (Really strong at 0:09)

Some examples for more hiss and other (subjective) tells like weak drums:

https://suno.com/s/tTYygsVFo88SX6OV

https://suno.com/s/CzFgC6dxSQLWyGSn
by wincy | 2026-01-14 00:34:28+00:00
Lisdexamfetamine, it’s very similar to Adderall but more expensive as it comes in capsules instead of tablets, but the upside is it lasts all day instead of a few hours. It recently became generic in the US, but is still around $60-120 a month’s supply (at least at my dosage), vs $25 or so for a month of Adderall.
by ta9000 | 2026-01-14 00:34:29+00:00
Here’s a paragraph summary of the story, written by Sonnet 4.5:

The Yarn Spinner team explains they don’t use AI in their game development tool despite having academic and professional backgrounds in machine learning—they’ve written books on it and gave talks about ML in games. Their position shifted around 2020 when they observed AI companies pivoting from interesting technical applications toward generative tools explicitly designed to replace workers or extract more output without additional hiring. They argue that firing people has become AI’s primary value proposition, with any other benefits being incidental. Rather than adopt technology for its own sake (“tool-driven development”), they focus on whether features genuinely help developers make better games. While they acknowledge numerous other AI problems exist and may revisit ML techniques if the industry changes, they currently refuse to use, integrate, or normalize AI tools because doing so would financially and socially support companies whose business model centers on eliminating jobs during a period when unemployment can be life-threatening.
by sarchertech | 2026-01-14 00:34:42+00:00
If lack of physicians is leading to an increase in costs, you’d expect to see physicians capturing a large part of that increase. There are situations where that wouldn’t hold, but it requires moving away from the simplest explanation that fits the data.

We don’t have to extrapolate from physician compensation though. We know that providers per capita have increased, but costs have continued to skyrocket. Therefore a lack of providers is not the immediate cause of the increase.

In addition to increasing the number of providers, the scope of practice for non-physician providers has almost universally increased.

All of this doesn’t prove that increasing the number of physicians wouldn’t lower costs some amount, but it does show that the increases over the last 20-30 years requires some other explanation.
by neom | 2026-01-14 00:35:19+00:00
I was there in the beginning getting it off the ground, I've not looked in a very long time but dA is owned by WiX now so I'm not surprised. A lot of people left when we started to highlight vector art/pop art, a big wave left when we started to support suzi9mm and co, this wave will be AI. Here is the idea we built it on: https://x.com/dissenter_hi/status/2011183228154188111
by abcininin | 2026-01-14 00:35:56+00:00
1/ Chose a career as a Data Scientist, which benefits from intense focus.
2/ All the thoughts and tasks that i get in my head, if tasks are small, i try to do some of them immediately. Otherwise, i write it down, and keep a sticky which i close at the end of the day.
3/ Am 40, I have a partner, who has slowly realized that i am different, and since the past few years she coaches me to do tasks i dont like (submit expense reports). I happily give her pocket shopping money in exchange.
4/ I take notes at every meeting, Notion is my tool.
5/ Switching off, what's that? I realize my teams think that i am a maniac, and my wife thinks am too obsessed. I help my team do things, and tell them i can come across as too hot, and they need to let me to know to backoff. I like to watch movies, and do take a break from time to time.
by godelski | 2026-01-14 00:36:01+00:00
One of the most popular ones is Anubis. It uses a proof of work and can even do poisoning: https://anubis.techaro.lol/

They even mention iocaine. I know, inconceivable!: https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/

There's also tons of HN posts on the topic with varying solutions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45935729

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45711094

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44142761

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44378127
by aeonik | 2026-01-14 00:36:05+00:00
This is the opposite of what works for me.

Leaning a little into the the distractions, and building processes to quickly search and hop between things had made it better for me.

At the very least opening tabs with Ctrl+T, tab search with Ctrl+Shift+A, quickly closing them with Ctrl+W is my main workflow in Chrome-based browsers.

Once I get my speed up, I find distractions don't occur as often.

Emacs, org-mode, magit, and AI, combined with good sleep, weight lifting, stimulants, have almost completey nullified my ADHD problems.

It's been a hard slog to get here though.
by cardanome | 2026-01-14 00:36:22+00:00
First of all if you have the money get an official diagnosis. While self diagnosis is often right, ADHD symptoms can have overlap with many other things so it is better to be sure.

Now want a quick fix? If you can, get medication. It doesn't work for all people with ADHD but for those that it does it will give you the most bang for the buck.

Now there is coping strategies. Therapists can help a lot. There is also people offering ADHD coaching. This is great because the coaches tend to have ADHD themselves and understand you. It helped me personally a lot but be warned that everyone can offer coaching so quality may wary.

Last part is lifestyle. Sport. It is not optional. Running is amazing and will help you a lot but if you are not fit enough yet, walk. Walk every day for at least 30min. You need to. Also personally for me reading a physical book for at least 30min a day makes a huge, huge difference. Diet is important but what works varies from ADHD person to person. For me cutting out processed sugar was a good step.

Also no caffeine. This may also vary but completely cutting it helped me personally a lot. Yes, it helps somewhat with executive function but only in the short term and does more harm than good in the long term. Generally any form form of self medication be it alcohol, weed and so on, cut it out. Again get proper medication if you can.

Honestly accepting that you have ADHD or well at least some form of neurodivergency is already the biggest step. It gets so much easier once you learn how to properly manage it.
by maxbond | 2026-01-14 00:36:33+00:00
I'm disappointed to acknowledge you have a point. Shame on the FAA for pushing people into the closet with this.

If one did want to become a pilot, I do think it would be critical to determine whether or not they were prone to manic episodes. That really could be very dangerous to a pilot and their crew, passengers, etc.

Also, from my 15 minutes of preliminary research, I don't think that applies to pilots of ultralights. So if your dream is simply to fly, it's still achievable.
by munificent | 2026-01-14 00:37:17+00:00
> Or are you also extracting other artist’s work and using it as inspiration for what you do?

Yes, when I make music, I am taking inspiration from all of the other artists I've listened to and using that in my music. If someone listens to my music, they are getting some value from my contribution, but also indirectly from the musicians that inspired me.

The difference between that and AI is that I am a human being who deserves to live a life of dignity and artistic expression in a world that supports that while AI-generated music is the product of a mindless automaton that enriches billionaires who are actively building a world that makes it harder to live a life of stability, comfort, and dignity.

These are not the same thing any more than fucking a fleshlight is the same as being in a romantic relationship. The physical act may appear roughly the same, but the human experience, meaning behind it, and societal externalities are certainly not.
by Spooky23 | 2026-01-14 00:37:37+00:00
I’m not diagnosed but have a high correlation condition (APD) which explains my inattentive ADHD ways that only my closest people basically knew were there the whole time.

After reading a book about APD, I felt like I was reading reports written about my life. I told my late wife’s best friend and she was like “she knew the whole time, you drove her crazy sometimes”. I was blissfully ignorant.

I drink a lot of coffee as a baseline and have since high school. I’m afraid of stimulant drugs and won’t pursue them.

The one thing that I love that truly changed my life for the better is running. I started at 45 after a series of really awful events. I’ve never felt such a clarity of mind and feeling.

I wish I had known about it in my teens. I went through alot of shitty times without understanding why. Life moved on, but I wasted alot of opportunity and missed some things that I regret a bit.

Run (or bike or whatever gets you) and get to know yourself. Know what you want, and when you embark on a side quest, stop and see if you are going where you want to be.
by ymyms | 2026-01-14 00:37:49+00:00
A human SWE can use an LLM to refactor and reduce some of the debt just as easily too. I think fundamentally, the possible rate of new code and new technical debt introduced by LLMs is much higher than a human SWE. Left unchecked, a human still needs sleep and more humans can't be added with more compute.

There's an interesting aspect to the LLM debt being taken on though in that I'm sure some are taking it on now in the bet/hopes that further advancements in LLMs will make it more easily addressable in the future before it is a real problem.
by brailsafe | 2026-01-14 00:37:57+00:00
It's hard. I take concerta and have been laid off or fired more times than most people I know in long-term employment have had jobs. I take Concerta and drink Coffee, but I mostly just enjoy the coffee. It's really hard to stay on track sometimes, it's really hard to go too long without working on something inherently interesting to me. I'm constantly late and prefer late nights, I tend to always have a bad sleep cycle.

Really basic things that other people seem good at, I struggle. Taxes, finances, anything that requires ambient awareness of systems that have no clear feedback loops. Sometimes penalties for trivial things accumulate and it costs a lot of money. Goals, unless they're something like literally climbing a mountain, don't really motivate me. I don't have any financial or life goals at all, they seem artificial and silly.

Without stimulants, and a thankfully somewhat lenient company/client atm, I'd be screwed.

The positive is that I seem to be much better at making friends than most other people I know, and enjoy a variety of interesting hobbies. I'm also not that fearful or anxious about trying new things.

In terms of who I listen to about the topic, it's certainly not any entrepreneur types, it's mostly friends. Though Trevor Noah has a great podcast on the topic last April

https://pca.st/episode/19d903d2-bb2b-4213-837e-89a1af706ea0

Additionally, I cope by exclusion. I don't obligate myself to many things or events, and refuse to participate in group chats. I keep almost no notifications on, and people know that if they need my attention, they can just call me, otherwise I won't respond until I get around to it. I only buy gifts when I find inspiration to, and try not to spread myself too thin.

I also try to avoid easy things as much as possible. I failed at easy assignments, easy exams in school, why bother going through the rote motions for no other purpose than to be measured on my performance in doing them?
by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE | 2026-01-14 00:38:08+00:00
> It's kind of wild how the middle east has been at some kind of war with each other for more than half a century, possibly longer.

> Will there ever be a Middle-east union unification like EU in our lifetime?

A reminder that Britain and France carved up the Ottoman empire and created mini states along ethnic and tribal lines, and then also planted Israel in the middle of it all, specifically in order to PREVENT a reunification of the Middle East (and eastern North Africa). Before that, there was the Ottoman Empire.

Why would external dominant forces WANT a united middle east, with a state that would control such vast resources and so many geographic choke points? Might does not want competition. Might wants vassals. Similarly, Western Might wants a collapse and fragmentation of Iran since it does not align with them geopolitically.