MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pixl97 | 2026-01-29 15:29:47+00:00
I hate to be a smartass, but do you read the stuff you type out?

>Grok doesn't generate nude pictures of women because it wants to,

I don't generate chunks of code because I want to. I do it because that's how I get paid and like to eat.

What's interesting with LLMs is they are more like human behaviors than any other software. First you can't tell non-AI (not just genAI)software to generate a picture of a naked women, it doesn't have that capability. So after that you have models that are trained on content such as naked people. I mean, that's something humans are trained on, unless we're blind I guess. If you take a data set encompassing all human behaviors, which we do, then the model will have human like behaviors.

It's in post training that we add instructions to the contrary. Much like if you live in American you're taught that seeing naked people is worse than murdering someone and that if someone creates a naked picture of you, your soul has been stolen. With those cultural biases programmed into you, you will find it hard to do things like paint a picture of a naked person as art. This would be openAI's models. And if you're a person that wanted to rebel, or lived in a culture that accepted nudity, then you wouldn't have a problem with it.

How many things do you do because society programmed you that way, and you're unable to think outside that programming?
by Roark66 | 2026-01-29 15:29:52+00:00
>A good rule of thumb in biology and particular any kind of hormone production and balance is "use it or lose it" - if you start regularly receiving something externally, internal production will scale back and atrophy in response, in many cases permanently.

There are ways to "hack it".

For example, ~6 months ago I started trt (testosterone replacement). It was the best decision health wise ever. I feel way better psychologically, first time in my life I managed to stick with cardio training for so long (before 3 months was the most). There are other benefits too.

So what about the "loose it" part? Well there is a hormone called HCG one can take a twice a week to trick one's balls into producing some natural testosterone. Its use prevents atrophy and infertility.
by jkrejcha | 2026-01-29 15:29:54+00:00
Others in this subthread discussed the comparison of the complexity of different ways of achieving flight itself, but I think there is an interesting discussion in that... well... we do add senses we don't technically need to achieve stable flight (but are very useful for safe flight and have reduced the incidence of aviation incidents and accidents dramatically).

Whether it be altimeters based on radio[1] or air pressure[2], avoidance and surveillance systems that use radio waves to avoid collisions with other aircraft[3][4], airborne weather radars[5], sensors that measure angle of attack (AoA), GNSS location, attitude, etc, many aircraft (even unpowered gliders!) have some combination of special sensing systems that aren't strictly necessary to take off, fly to a destination, and land, even if some are required for what many would consider safe flight in some scenarios.

Many of these systems have redundancies built in in some form or another and many of these systems are even built into unmanned aerial systems (UASes) big and small.

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

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure_altimeter

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision_avoidance_sy...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Dependent_Surveillan...

[5]: https://skybrary.aero/articles/weather-radar
by chrisjj | 2026-01-29 15:30:08+00:00
> We focus on situational disempowerment potential, which occurs when AI assistant interactions risk leading users to form distorted perceptions of reality, make inauthentic value judgments, or act in ways misaligned with their values.

Let's be clear that the disempowerment here occurs only when the user allows him/herself to be influenced by bad advice, regardless of whether the source is a chatbot v. social media, web etc.

The only specific relevance of these chatbots is that the stochastic parrots behind them are particulary productive at bad advice.
by cedws | 2026-01-29 15:31:29+00:00
Seems I was wrong. However, the Robotaxi fleet is still tiny compared to Waymo's. Jalopnik said the fleet was only 34 cars as of EOY 2025[0]. Waymo had over 2,000 as of September 2025[1].

[0]: https://www.jalopnik.com/2063124/tesla-austin-robotaxi-fleet...

[1]: https://www.automotiveworld.com/articles/waymo-confirms-flee...
by RetroTechie | 2026-01-29 15:31:31+00:00
Nothing new in the article imho. But it's a nice overview of what content creators are facing, and what to look for when carving out a niche.

The #1 point really: have access to data / experiences / expert knowledge that's unique & can't be distilled from public sources and/or scraped from the internet. This has always been the case. It just holds more weight when AI agents are everywhere.
by maeln | 2026-01-29 15:32:50+00:00
Lebanon has had no official census since ... 1932. Since the constitution distribute the power based on religion, any census that would mention religion might put into question the current distribution. In a country already plagued with religious conflict, this is less than ideal. You could make a secular census, but that might also reveal the extent of the population who is leaving Lebanon.
So the Lebanese governments and political elites have done what they do best : Absolutely nothing (while stealing as much money as possible).

It is both funny and sad that we have more accurate number of the size of the Lebanese diaspora than the actual number of people living in Lebanon.
by thehacknews | 2026-01-29 15:33:13+00:00
Threat intelligence teams recently disrupted one of the largest residential proxy networks ever identified. The operation, tracked as IPIDEA, relied on silently infecting consumer devices and converting them into proxy nodes for malicious traffic. According to findings published by Google Cloud, the network spanned millions of devices across multiple regions and supported a wide range of cybercrime activity.

The takedown highlights how residential proxy services have become a foundational layer for modern threat operations.
by random3 | 2026-01-29 15:33:52+00:00
The author describes hiring strategy relative to Fed policy as one assumption that presumably motivates the current context in the market, but completely fails to make a point about AI, or to generally back their claims. In fact, even the main claim seems to be pulled out of the hat wrt to Europe where there’s no Fed. No hiring/layoff numbers, etc. I get it that it’s just a guy with a blog, but it’s on top of HN now, and IMO vacuous, describing one motivation that’s been floating around for quite some time. Perhaps as long as they wanted to write about it until this “last straw”
by hearsathought | 2026-01-29 15:34:05+00:00
> There is a strange pro-China faction on HN

There's an even stranger anti-China faction on HN.

> However you can ask any honest economist, etc and they will betray at least some suspicion themselves.

Those same "honest" "economists" have been saying china was lying the other way. Did you know that people like you were saying "the ccp" was intentionally UNDERCOUNTING their population not so long ago? That china couldn't be trusted and china's real population was near 2 billion.

Strange people like you say shit like china is buying up all our real estate and then turn around and say china's economy is a fraud and they are about to go bankrupt? China's military is about to expand around the world and then say china's corrupt and they are a paper tiger?

Sometimes strange people like you contradict yourselves within the same thread. Strange.
by verytrivial | 2026-01-29 15:34:09+00:00
I binged ST:NG before it went away again on Netflix. The more I heard from Data, the more he sounded like where Ai should be heading: Quick, thorough reasoning but followed by explicit, tagged verification from external ground truth.

There needs to be a more meta, layered approach to reason. Different personalities viewing the output with different hats on: "That's a bold claim, champ. Search required." But I guess the current real-time, interactive nature of these systems makes it difficult to justify.
by dec0dedab0de | 2026-01-29 15:34:25+00:00
I think the general idea is that the stats labs use to decide what is normal is not necessarily ideal, and like everything else will vary per person.

Too much Vitamin D3 can be toxic, so doctors are reluctant to tell you to go over published guidelines. but if you don't have other issues, and stick to what you can get OTC from a normal vitamin brand and follow the instructions, you're probably safe. There was a story a while ago about a woman who died from too much D3, but it turned out she was taking a whole bottle's worth every day for years.
Show HN: Webhook testing with instant URLs and real-time viewer
by dbhariprakash | 2026-01-29 15:34:37+00:00
I built this after spending too much time debugging Stripe and GitHub webhook integrations.

The problem: You set up a webhook, trigger an event, and... nothing. Did it send? What did it send? Is my endpoint even receiving it?

So I built a simple tool:
- Click once → get a unique HTTPS URL instantly
- Point any service at it (Stripe, GitHub, Shopify, whatever)
- See requests arrive in real-time with full headers and body
- JSON auto-formats so you can actually read it
- Copy as cURL to replay locally

No signup required to start. Free tier is 1 URL, 50 requests, 24hr retention — enough to actually test things.

Tech stack: React frontend, Cloudflare Workers for the webhook receiver (global edge, fast), Supabase for storage and real-time subscriptions, Stripe for payments.

Happy to answer questions about the product or the tech.
by eitally | 2026-01-29 15:34:40+00:00
I spent a lot of time working in Brazil between 2004-2015 and in the first five years or so of that, it was very similar to what you describe (though not the onsite weaponry in offices). Most expats lived in secure walled compounds and execs usually used bulletproof transportation. And this was in Sao Paulo state, not even an out of the way part of the country.
by another_twist | 2026-01-29 15:34:47+00:00
Russia never had a functional democracy. The US has had one since 200+ years. It has had its problems no doubt, but democracy has flourished in the US and so has the rule of law. Honestly to an outsider that is US's real super power. Lets not forget that this is the country that collected a large corpus of income tax data upon which several economic theories (particularly Kuznets) were based on. Point is US invests in enforcing its laws. Something that's missing from Russia and also the former Soviet Union.

So I am hopeful that this stupidity will be solved as well.
by fishtacos | 2026-01-29 15:34:57+00:00
I recently reset a Dell laptop for a friend. Dual core, 8gb RAM, HDD (not SSD), can run Windows 11, so I ran the built-in recovery feature and it took almost 2 days to just get Windows 10 updated.

When I saw it was still absolutely crap and unusable, I considered putting Linux on it, but didn't want to end up as support, so...

Long story short, a clean install of Windws 11 was functional. Updates took forever and a day. The computer itself takes about 6-8 minutes to become usable on boot, but once everything is cached into RAM, it's usable.

More usable initially than my work issued Dell (when I actually worked at Dell) that within a week I cloned and installed an SSD on, probably breaking all kinds of terminable policies. So,story time:

I did some silly things in those 4 years there to bypass bureaucracy: Cloned my entire laptop into a VM to have a secondary method of accessing work stuff. Created an entire test lab using unauthorized disk cloning into VMs for remote access. Disabled auto updates by management software so PCs wouldn't be kicked off the network. Probably set off all kinds of alarms. Would occasionally reenable to keep VM authorized.

The kicker is that I was recognized company-wide for creating something useful out of basically nothing but my time and curiosity. Got a bonus for it, on top of it.

To your point, my 96GB DDR5 24-core desktop-replacement "gaming" laptop, when used regularly, with a decent amount of startup apps, still struggles to be responsive on boot. There is a lot of bloat I don't want to get rid of because they provide updates and performance features. At startup, I'm usually at 14 GB RAM used, which is nuts. Not sure how to fix this trend.
by Realman78 | 2026-01-29 15:35:05+00:00
I’m planning to build something like this over the next few months. Think Nintendo 3DS-sized, but as a tiny laptop. The goal is extreme portability while still being able to program on it reasonably well.

I travel a lot and manage servers, so I’ve been wanting a dedicated “SSH machine” that I can always carry with me. With how good AI tooling has gotten, doing real work on a tiny device is suddenly very viable. The other day I SSH’d into a box from my phone while I was at the gym and just told Claude Code to fix a Kubernetes manifest issue. It was fixed and deployed in under two minutes.

I mentioned this idea at work and a few coworkers immediately said they’d buy one if it existed. Curious what others think.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-01-29 15:35:08+00:00
I think it's more of a curve from my point of view.

Beginner: I know nothing and this topic seems impossible to grasp.

Advanced beginner: I get it now. It's pretty simple.

Intermedite: Hmm, this thing is actually very complicated.

Expert: It's not that complicated. I can explain a simple core covering 80% of it. The other 20% is an ocean of complexity.
by sapiogram | 2026-01-29 15:35:27+00:00
> Officially before the one child policy they were at 800 million. After 30 years of 1 child policy somehow they were at 1.2 billion. The math isn't mathing.

Even if I take your numbers at face value, it is absolutely possible for this math to math. To simplify massively, if the average person dies at 80 years old, the population growth today depends on the number of births 80 years ago, compared to today. Not 30 years ago. The population may have grown massively between 30 and 80 years ago, so that the absolute number of births remains high, despite a low birth rate.
by turnsout | 2026-01-29 15:35:42+00:00
Good-faith answer: I can't be certain. But I've been using CC since its release, and Cursor before that (and actually going all the way back to GPT3 to do codegen in the Playground). After getting used to the CC workflow, the way that I use it has been pretty consistent. To be specific, I use basically the same AGENTS.md with small modifications for each project, and I live almost exclusively in Plan mode and the best model (currently Opus 4.5).

My initial prompting is boilerplate at this point, and looks like this:

(Explain overall objective / problem without jumping to a solution)

(Provide all the detail / file references / past work I can think of)

(Ask it "what questions do you have for me before we build a plan?")

And then go back and forth until we have a plan.

Compared to my work with CC six months ago, it's just much more capable, able to solve more nuanced bugs, and less likely to generate spaghetti code.
by rationalist | 2026-01-29 15:35:47+00:00
> blaming the victims for their fate

I don't blame them for getting shot. From what I can tell, they should not have been shot.

Since when is victim-blaming binary?

I can't say that victims should be aware that their actions or choices have consequences?

> masked men with guns

Did they not know they were going to protest ICE? That they were masked? (And that they're masked because people are harassing them and others?)

If I don't want to risk being shot, I don't go around to other people who I know have guns and are being harassed and assaulted. Neither group should be assaulted - the protestors or the officers.

If I assault someone with a gun, I should be prepared that they might use that gun, especially when they can't think straight because I'm yelling in their faces, blowing whistles at them, kicking the lights off their cars, etc.

If I choose to be a part of a group that's doing those things, I should be prepared to be treated as a member of that group.

> be prepared to change your mind

What should I change my mind about? 'They should not have been shot' - do I change that?

> Edit: I didn't downvote you because I wanted to answer with dialog instead.

I upvoted you as a thank you for taking the time to write and be apart of this dialogue.
by kjs3 | 2026-01-29 15:35:57+00:00
What if, instead of having to reach out to the big players, the economics of having a software developer or 2 on staff make it such that you could build custom-tailored, bespoke software to work "with" your company and not against?

Because the hospitals those practices want to associate with say "we're on Epic and expect you to be as well"?

Wife in healthcare management...overhear this conversation once or twice a week.
by ncasenmare | 2026-01-29 15:36:02+00:00
> You’re cherry picking papers.

I just picked the most recent meta-analysis I could find, which also specifically estimates the dose-response curve. (Since averaging the effect at 400 IU and 4000 IU doesn't make sense.)

> Others have already shared other studies showing no significant effects of Vitamin D intervention.

Yes, and the Ghaemi et al 2024 meta-analysis addresses the methodological problems in those earlier meta-analyses. (For example, they average the effects at vastly varying doses from 400 IU and 4000 IU)

> According your numbers, taking Tylenol would be worse than placebo alone! 0.4 vs 0.7

No, I understand this fine. Taking Tylenol would give you active medication + placebo + time, which is 0.4 + 0.7 + X > *1.1.* Taking open-label placebo is just placebo + time = *0.7* + X.

(Edit: Also, these aren't "my" numbers. They're from a major peer-reviewed study published in Nature, the highest-impact journal. I don't like "hey look at the credentials here", but I bring it up to note I'm not anti-science, see below paragraph)

===

Stepping back, I suspect the broader concern you have is you (correctly!) see that supplement/nutrition research is sketchy & full of grifters. And at the current moment, it seems to play into the hands of anti-establishment anti-science types. I agree, and I'll try to edit the tone of the article to avoid that.

That said, there still is some good science (among the crap), and I think the better evidence is accumulating (at least for Vitamin D) that it's on par with traditional antidepressants, possibly more. I agree that much larger trials are required.
by rob | 2026-01-29 15:36:25+00:00
I agree with you, it's personally hard to tell.

For me I've noticed it getting nothing but better over the past couple months, but I've been working on my workflows and tooling.

For example, I used to use plan mode and would put everything in a single file and then ask it to implement it in a new session.

Switching to the 'superpowers' plugin with its own skills to brainstorm and write plans and execute plans with batches and tasks seems to have made a big improvement and help catch things I wouldn't have before. There's a "get shit done" plugin that's similar that I want to explore as well.

The code output always looks good to me for the most part though and I've never thought that it's getting dumber anything, so I feel like a lot of the improvements I see are because of a skill issue on my part trying to use everything. Obviously it doesn't help there's a new way to do things every two weeks though.
by bobdvb | 2026-01-29 15:36:27+00:00
It depends on which vendor they're using.

It generally occurs as patterns which are slightly in the noise. Good systems pick locations where its easier to hide and turn it off when the scene would expose it. Usually when badly done increasing sharpness in a scene can help reveal it.

Basically, if you can damage the watermark the picture quality is bad enough that it's harming your viewing. You need to compress into crap SD quality to make it hard to detect and even then you'll get something.

You don't even need a complete pattern, if you can get enough fragments you can narrow down the possible identities until you have a high match probability. I.e. partial fingerprints or DNA match.
by jfyi | 2026-01-29 15:36:28+00:00
Don't kid you'reself, people LOVE grammatical and spelling errors. It's low entry, and by far the easiest way to get someone to interact with what you have written.

AI deprives them of this.

Why even read something with no mistakes? Just scan on to the next comment, you might get a juicy "your/you're" to point out if you don't waste time reading.
by rekabis | 2026-01-29 15:36:30+00:00
> It's the same amount of effort to install Linux and never have to question who the owner of your computer is again.

In many ways, Linux is a complete paradigm change away from what is familiar and known in Windows, requiring a complete re-training from top to bottom.

Modifying the OOBE to bypass Microsoft Account requirement and permit a local account is a pebble in the road compared to the alpine pass that is switching to Linux.

And just installing Linux isn’t the issue. Learning from scratch an entire OS that behaves and is structurally very differently than Windows, and requires hundreds of hours to get equally as comfortable and knowledgeable in, is the issue.

Don’t get me wrong. I love Linux. But to say it’s “the same amount” is deeply disingenuous and borderline anti-reality.
by alterom | 2026-01-29 15:36:34+00:00
OK, not a flop.

An failure that didn't live up to the hype that generated the initial sales volume in pre-orders.

The idea of the Cybertruck sold well — at a time before Musk's Roman salutes, shadowing Trump, running DOGE, and further enshittifying what remains of Twitter.

The actual Cybertruck, once the pre-orders ran out... did not.

Nearly half of all Cybertrucks sold (about 75% of those sold in 2024) were pre-orders.

That's to say, people stopped buying once they saw the Cybertruck for what it actually was (ditto for Elon).
by hearsathought | 2026-01-29 15:37:09+00:00
> Obviously, Germany had the concentration camps and Japan brutally tortured prisoners of war

And the "good guys" firebombed tens of millions innocent civilians and nuked cities. Not to mention the mass rapes, starvation, etc.

> However, the U.S. did round up Japanese people, but it hardly compares to the atrocities of the Nazis.

You are right. The nazis never nuked anyone.