MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hmry | 2026-01-06 14:11:13+00:00
Yeah, results are what matters. SQLite's process seems to produce solid bug-free results.

My only complaint would be that there's many SQL features I want to use which aren't supported. Surely some part of that is deliberately restricted scope, but some might also be dev velocity issues.

DuckDB (C++) can be used like an SQLite with more SQL features, but it's also a lot buggier. Segfaults from your database are not what you want.

So still hoping for some alternative to come along (or maybe I'll need to write it myself)
by Verdex | 2026-01-06 14:11:23+00:00
I'm afraid I don't have the details. I was reading about certain lung issues the AI was doing a good job on and thought, "oh well that's it for radiology." But the radiologist chimed in with, "yeah that's the easiest thing we do and the rates are still not acceptable, meanwhile we keep trying to get it to do anything harder and the success rates are completely unworkable."
by burnt-resistor | 2026-01-06 14:11:31+00:00
It's a quality-of-life issue (noise pollution), more than anything.

I recall that Palo Alto had this 10-15 years ago and it was somewhat enforced. Although I did see someone put a Honda gas generator on a furniture dolly connected to an electric blower with a 50 or 100 foot extension cord to blow their yard.
by pc86 | 2026-01-06 14:11:45+00:00
Noise enforcement is a normal thing in areas that want to enforce it. It happens exactly the same way speed enforcement happens, the officer has a device that measures it and can present that information in court if the other party disputes it.

The problem for both noise and speed enforcement is entirely a problem of will. Some jurisdictions simply don't care, or just do targeted enforcement to drive revenue but not actually change driving habits. Do any driving around the country and you'll see areas where people regularly drive 20mph over the speed limit and areas where people barely go 5 over.
by defrost | 2026-01-06 14:12:07+00:00
No drama, my time is mine to waste as I choose :-)

I worked in STEM instrumentation, multi channel data aquisition, merging, interpretation, and analysis - geophysics, engineering (civil / mechanical kind), astrophysics practical support work (timing, gears, gadgets), etc

When I wrote an epoch tool it was many years ago, fully CLI with a neat ASCII table layout less than 80 chars wide, compared multiple selectable epochs against each other and came with a .config file to name and define various epochs.

Pretty much every data aquisition run for various reasond had it's own "epoch" as multiple instruments were all zero'd against a calibration start ... and we're not even going down the rabbit hole of instruments on opposite sides of the planet each heading in an opposite direction and having to account for propogation time through the width of the planet.
by pbmonster | 2026-01-06 14:12:18+00:00
German police have a what amounts to a dyno mounted on a truck bed, and they pull over suspicious cars and sound check them while an officer goes through the gears on the dyno.

Failing that test is expensive, and you don't see your car again for a few weeks. They revoke your permission to operate the vehicle on public roads, so in addition to the fine, you face fees (towing, storage of car in evidence locker, towing your car to a shop after getting it back in order to make it street legal, then redoing the road-worthiness certification).
by jrjeksjd8d | 2026-01-06 14:12:40+00:00
> Are we looking at a future where home computers are replaced by thin clients and all the power lies in subscription services?

Always have been. Ever since the SaaS revolution of the early 2000s high-growth software businesses have been motivated to chase subscription revenue over one-time sales because you get a better multiple.

From an economic perspective The Market would like the average person to spend all their money on rents, and the only option is how you allocate your spending to different rentals. Transportation, housing, food, entertainment (which is most of computing) are just different fiefs to be carved up by industry monopolists.
by TazeTSchnitzel | 2026-01-06 14:12:40+00:00
> You can't render MOD songs to MIDI.

Sure you can, both are sequenced music formats, and if you can control the set of samples used to play back the MIDI (which Windows provides APIs for!) you can get it to sound right.

You've gotten yourself into a silly argument here. You're correct that one obvious way to play back a tracker module would be to embed a library that synthesises PCM. But Windows does ship with a MIDI playback engine that allows loading custom sounds. There is nothing unreasonable about converting a tracker module into a combination of a MIDI sequence and a custom DLS bank and then using DirectMusic to play it back.
by talkingtab | 2026-01-06 14:12:56+00:00
Oh look. Something works. Lets not break it? How crazy is that?

I sometimes wonder if what happens is like this:

1. Have problem. Need higher level computer language.
2. Think about problem.
3. Solve problem - 'C'
4. Think about problems with 'C'
5. Attempt to fix problems with 'C' - get C++
6. Think about problems with C & C++
7. Get: Go, F#, Rust, Java, JavaScript, Python, PHP, ...other
etc.

I tend to do this. The problem is obvious, that I do not repeat step #2.
So then I move to the next step.

8. Thinking about how to fix C, C++, Go, F#, Rust, Java, JavaScript, Python, PHP, ...other is too hard.
9. Stop thinking.
by int32max | 2026-01-06 14:13:01+00:00
Hey HN, I built this because I was juggling too many Claude Code sessions across different branches and kept losing track.

Claude Quick gives you a single dashboard to manage devcontainers, each with its own Claude Code agent. The killer feature for me is git worktree integration spin up a new branch in an isolated container, have Claude work on it, and switch between them without context pollution.

It also handles credential injection (API keys from files, env vars, or 1Password/etc.) so you're not copy-pasting tokens around.

Bonus: because it's a TUI, it works surprisingly well over SSH from mobile. I've been doing a lot of "vibe engineering" from my phone kick off a task, check back later, review the diff. Feels like the future.

Written in Go, uses Bubble Tea for the TUI. Would love feedback on the UX and what else would be useful.

Repo: https://github.com/christophergyman/claude-quick
by dgroshev | 2026-01-06 14:13:18+00:00
The original Roombas were also a joy to repair. I had one for a decade, and the only thing that eventually broke was the IR sensor at the top, which left the robot unable to park. I bought a replacement, opened the robot up, and it wasn't just easy to work on, it even had captive nuts everywhere! Thank you for your work on the roombas, they were an incredible feat of consumer product engineering.
by 59nadir | 2026-01-06 14:13:45+00:00
My bigger point was that not everyone who is skeptical about supposed productivity gains and their veracity is in competition with you. I think any inference you made beyond that is a mistake on your part.

(I did do web development and distributed systems for quite some time, though, and I suspect while LLMs are probably good at tutorial-level stuff for those areas it falls apart quite fast once you leave the kiddy pool.)
by eggplantiny | 2026-01-06 14:13:51+00:00
I’ve been a frontend developer for 6 years, and when I first tried to hand my apps over to AI agents, they kept breaking everything.

I realized the problem wasn't the LLM's intelligence—it was our UI "physics." We build UIs for humans who fill in the context themselves. For AI, a button is just a meaningless callback.

I’m proposing a shift from imperative event handling to a Deterministic Coordinate Space. By treating state changes as vectors in a domain space, I managed to:

1. Get consistent O(1) performance (2 LLM calls regardless of task complexity).

2. Stop "Context Drift" where agents forget the original intent.

I've open-sourced the core architecture (Manifesto) and would love to hear what you think about building "AI-native" software environments.
by nberkman | 2026-01-06 14:14:24+00:00
I built a tool that stores your full Claude Code history to let you easily find and resume sessions. It has TUI, CLI and MCP interfaces. It's a single Go binary, and the session history is synced to SQLite each time you use it.

Default mode is the TUI with a session browser and full-text search. Once a session is selected you can browse and search within it, resume it or export to markdown.

The MCP server provides tools to let Claude search back through the session for pre-compact context or pull from prior sessions. I use this constantly.

I've seen elaborate continuity systems to give Claude Code access to history but this simple approach has been very effective.

Installation:

macOS: brew install neilberkman/tap/ccrider

Linux/other: git clone https://github.com/neilberkman/ccrider && cd ccrider && go build

MCP server: claude mcp add --scope user ccrider $(which ccrider) serve-mcp

Source: https://github.com/neilberkman/ccrider
by JDegesys | 2026-01-06 14:14:37+00:00
I agree that the author has the right to self express. But in this case, I think the point being made is that it's less about what the author cares about, and more about the author's topic. They're writing about usability and design, while using (arguably) poor judgment and taste for both. It would be a little bit like an extremely out-of-shape person criticizing a marathon running program as being too hard on someone's body, or a homeless person writing that active investing is better than Vanguard's low-fee indexing model. The person's context doesn't make their arguments right or wrong, it just lowers their authority and believability.
by DidierB2F | 2026-01-06 14:14:38+00:00
Location: Europe, France / Spain, remote: YES
Résumé: https://www.linkedin.com/in/didier-boff-ba6683118/
CV: Available on request on Linkedin
Willing to relocate: opened to opportunities

Technologies: Drupal 7,8,9,10,11, PHP7,8, ReactJS/NextJS, MySQL, Python, VsCode + Cline (any local or remote LLM)

Hello, I'm Didier, an experienced developer with 10+ years of experience. Starting from 2012, I worked for top open source players in France, mostly Drupal, Symfony, NextJS. I am specialized in facetted searches (from ApacheSolr to MongoDB) and data migration (working with any sources GraphQL, XML, Json...).

As a IBS sufferer, I took a carreer break to research scientific papers about the symbiotic relationship (prebiotic + probiotic) and plant based supplements, from this I wrote two ebooks in french and created a coaching program.

I am now actively searching for web development work contracts, full time or part time, if you're looking for an experienced web dev contact me on Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/didier-boff-ba6683118/).

PS:

Recently I updated my skills to best practices of using LLM in VS Code, no BS, enterprise grade, with respect to confidentiality, clarity on model usage, specifications (spec driven development). From this deep dive, I created a Udemy course which you can access for free with my coupon code below:

> https://www.udemy.com/course/no-vibe-coding-professional-ai-...
by jermberj | 2026-01-06 14:15:04+00:00
Howdy, fellow east Portlander, you might be interested in this: https://www.eptl.toollibrarian.net/TL/ourtools.php.

They have 5 electric leaf blowers available right now. You mentioned you already bought one, but perhaps you could share this info with some of your friends or neighbors to save them the cost. :)
by lproven | 2026-01-06 14:15:17+00:00
I agree. I wrote an article saying so about 9 months ago.

As a little Yule gift, one of the creators wrote me a hatemail at Xmas telling me he still remembered and it still burned and what a bad person I was.

Well, he got his own back. I was hurt, too. Perhaps he thinks that makes us even.
Share the pain.
by DidierB2F | 2026-01-06 14:15:29+00:00
Location: Europe, France / Spain, remote: YES
Résumé: https://www.linkedin.com/in/didier-boff-ba6683118/
CV: Available on request on Linkedin
Willing to relocate: opened to opportunities

Technologies: PHP7,8, ReactJS/NextJS, MySQL, Python, VsCode + Cline (any local or remote LLM), Drupal 7,8,9,10,11 (since 2012).

Hello, I'm Didier, an experienced developer with 10+ years of experience.

Starting from 2012, I worked for top open source players in France, mostly Drupal, Symfony, NextJS. I am specialized in facetted searches (from ApacheSolr to MongoDB) and data migration (working with any sources GraphQL, XML, Json...).

As a IBS sufferer, I took a carreer break to research scientific papers about the symbiotic relationship (prebiotic + probiotic) and plant based supplements, from this I wrote two ebooks in french and created a coaching program.

I am now actively searching for web development work contracts, full time or part time, if you're looking for an experienced web dev contact me on Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/didier-boff-ba6683118/).

PS:

Recently I updated my skills to best practices of using LLM in VS Code, no BS, enterprise grade, with respect to confidentiality, clarity on model usage, specifications (spec driven development). From this deep dive, I created a Udemy course which you can access for free with my coupon code below:

> https://www.udemy.com/course/no-vibe-coding-professional-ai-...
by boringg | 2026-01-06 14:15:44+00:00
What I find interesting about this ban: probably mostly makes sense in the for city for low workloads however the electric blowers (even the good ones that I am sure the city isn't paying for) are underpowered for real work leaf workloads. They operate as a midlevel gas powered blower.

As someone who is on board with electrify as much as possible - I still see where there are limitations and chokepoints.

Though for noise pollution makes a lot of sense.
by anshima__saini | 2026-01-06 14:15:45+00:00
SEEKING REMOTE UI/UX DESIGN OPPORTUNITIES Location: India Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Open to discuss

Technologies: Figma, Canva, Figjam, Notion, Miro, Visily, Maze, Jitter, Asana, AI, Framer, Wireframing, Prototyping, Mockups, Microinteractions, User Research, Competitive Analysis, User Flows, UI Design, UX Research, Product Management, Jira, Lottie Animations

Portfolio: https://anshimasainiproduct.framer.website/

Email: sainianshima@gmail.com

I'm a Product designer and manager looking for remote opportunities anywhere. Feel free to check my portfolio website.
by fzeroracer | 2026-01-06 14:15:52+00:00
Let me be clear here: I do not own a car and I live in a city that doesn't require car ownership.

There is a difference between choosing not to own something because it is personally more efficient or reasonable to do so, and being priced out of owning something. I don't own a car because I don't need it, I rent because I cannot afford a home.
by SaaSDesigner | 2026-01-06 14:16:25+00:00
Location: Toronto (but currently digital nomading in Asia)

Remote: Only

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies/Skills: Product Design, UX Design, UI Design, Figma, SaaS Design, Design Systems, Variables, Tokens, SaaS Design, Dashboard Design, Landing Page Design, User Experience, User Interface, UX Design, Web Design, UX Designer

Résumé/CV: https://SaaSDesigner.com/

Email: bren@saasdesigner.com

I’m Brendan, a dedicated UX/UI & SaaS Product Designer (B.A. Interaction Design from Canada). For 9+ years, I’ve delivered high-converting UI/UX solutions for ambitious startups and founders across web and mobile applications.

Need continuous, dedicated design support to keep up with competition and scale your development pipeline? I provide an ongoing UX / UI designer partnership. You'll receive development-ready, high-fidelity design deliverables every single week to immediately ship more value to your users and keep up with your competition.
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-06 14:16:49+00:00
The CEO pay for Wikipedia doesn't bother me, I mean, Wikipedia is singularly successful. Those donation nags are annoying and I am sure you can find all sorts of things wrong in a big project like that, but Wikipedia works. (I only wish we had fewer deletionists and more detailed pages on subjects like [1])

Mozilla is a different story, that really is an organization that is drifting, bleeding market share, and indifferent to the 99% of web users and developers outside the bay area. On the other hand, if they moved their headquarters to Dublin or Denver or even Bakersfield or San Luis Obispo I'd be happy if the CEO got 10x the pay. So long as they are an hour's drive away from Facebook and Google they just won't listen to "the rest of us"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asuka_Langley_Soryu
by jrjeksjd8d | 2026-01-06 14:17:46+00:00
Subscriptions have a "boiling frog" phenomenon where a marginal price increase isn't noticable to most people. Our payment rails are so effective many people don't even read their credit card statements, they just have vampires draining their accounts monthly.

Starting with a low subscription price also has the effect of atrophying people's ability to self-serve. The alternative to a subscription is usually capital-intensive - if you want to cancel Netflix you need to have a DVD collection. If you want to cancel your thin client you have to build a PC. Most modern consumers live on a knife edge where $20/month isn't perceptible but $1000 is a major expense.

The classic VC-backed model is to subsidize the subscription until people become complacent, and then increase the price once they're dependent. People who self-host are nutjobs because the cloud alternative is "cheaper and better" until it stops being cheaper.
by matthewdgreen | 2026-01-06 14:17:54+00:00
It’s not a weird edge case at all. For many specific areas like building codes, states have long delegated publication and “annotation” (essentially, writing down critical elements of the law that must be known to folks who want to obey the law) to private publishers. This isn’t literally “Georgia tried to copyright its laws” but it’s close enough to be morally the same. I remember being incensed about this in the late 1990s and I’m glad the wheel of justice (finally) turned.

ETA: A critical tell here are the words “The State of Georgia sued.” Georgia essentially tried to copyright its laws by having a private firm do the copyrighting, and they didn’t even make much effort to hide behind this fiction, since they were the plaintiff. Kudos to the courts for seeing past this low-effort obfuscation.
by MeetingsBrowser | 2026-01-06 14:18:08+00:00
> It's quite easy given some thought into the API to invoke C++ code in basically any language which can invoke C code, since you can wrap a C++ implementation in a C interface

Is it easy to write a nice C interface for C++ that makes heavy use of templates, smart pointers, and move semantics?

I've only seen it done for C++ that is more C than C++, or for libraries that were designed to "bail out" to a C interface.
Show HN: ScrollMind – A visual engineering guide to AI that fits in your feed
by bkraszewski | 2026-01-06 14:18:22+00:00
Hello HN,
I’m the solo developer behind ScrollMind. I built this because I was frustrated with the two extremes of learning AI:
Academic Textbooks: 50 pages of Greek notation before you write a single line of code.
Hype Twitter/YouTube: "Build an LLM in 5 minutes" tutorials that skip all the engineering fundamentals.
I wanted something in the middle: Engineering intuition.
What is it?
ScrollMind is an interactive guide to Neural Networks that works like a social media feed. Instead of 2-hour lectures, the content is broken down into bite-sized "posts"—diagrams, interactive quizzes, and short explainers.
The goal is to turn "doom-scrolling" muscle memory into learning time. You can finish a concept (like Embeddings or Backpropagation) in the 5 minutes you have between meetings.
What’s under the hood?
The Content: It covers the full "Intro to AI" stack: Vectors, Layers, Non-Linearity, Loss Functions, and Optimization.
The Approach: Visuals first, notation second. We visualize high-dimensional concepts so you understand what the math is doing before you memorize the formula.
The Stack: React/Vite frontend with Firebase for the backend. Content is structured as a DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) of micro-concepts rather than linear chapters.
The "Business Model"
The entire "Intro to AI" course (12 concepts, 100+ posts) is free. I plan to release advanced, paid courses later (e.g., "Building LLMs from Scratch"), but the foundational knowledge should be accessible to everyone.
I’d love your feedback on:
Does the "feed" format actually help you retain info, or is it too fragmented?
Are the visual explanations for concepts like "Vectors" and "Embeddings" intuitive enough?
Check it out here: [Link to your deployed app]
Thanks!
by ACV001 | 2026-01-06 14:18:37+00:00
Quite a dumb application of quantum physics. Cooling something to near zero, which takes energy, and is complex, and big, in order to obtain precisions which are magnitudes higher than what is necessary. As if one would use CPUs to prop up an uneven table and would boast that they use microelectronics.

"Instead of relying on conventional sensors, these devices use clouds of atoms cooled to near absolute zero. At those temperatures, atoms start to behave strangely — acting as both particles and waves. As the atoms “fall” through a sensor, their wave patterns shift in response to acceleration. Using what’s effectively an ultra-precise optical ruler, the system can read these changes with extraordinary accuracy, without needing satellites at all."
by faidit | 2026-01-06 14:18:44+00:00
Good. I don't mind the noise since it happens during daytime. Put on headphones and lock in or something. But it's impossible to get good air quality during the day with them running nearby constantly. Always smelling the gas and thinking about the CO content and other toxins you're inhaling. Thus having to shut the windows and watch your CO2 levels rise, knowing it's degrading your mental acuity while you're trying to code..
by causal | 2026-01-06 14:19:13+00:00
Hmm so I can't really tell if this falls under "Ahead of the game" or "AI psychosis". The latter is usually accompanied by impact to quality of life, with hints of that where he talks about coding on his phone around friends (which thankfully he recognized is unhealthy).

Working with startups, I meet a LOT of people who obsessively cannot stop using LLMs. People who jump on MAX plans to produce as much as possible- and in the startup scene it's often for the worst ideas.

LLMs are slot machines- it's fun to pull the lever and see what you get. But the hard problem of knowing what is actually needed gets harder as we sift through ten-thousand almost-useful outputs.
by CivBase | 2026-01-06 14:19:18+00:00
Is this true? I'm trying to think of a solid example and I'm drawing blanks.

Apartments aren't really comparable to houses. They're relatively small units which are part of a larger building. The better comparison would be to condominiums, but good luck even finding a reasonably priced condo in most parts of the US. I'd guess supply is low because there's a housing shortage and it's more profitable to rent out a unit as an apartment than to sell it as a condo.

It seems to me that most people rent because 1) they only need the thing temporarily or 2) there are no reasonable alternatives for sale.
by BenoitEssiambre | 2026-01-06 14:19:24+00:00
Do you have a link? What I've seen in most discussions is obscuring of the fact that the majority of "capital" is directly or indirectly retirees or people saving for retirement. Those in the top 5% wealthiest often need to survive on that wealth for decades so it's not as if they have per year spending power that is that high. You too will be at your top percentile wealthiest of your life when you are nearing retirement.