MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by insane_dreamer | 2026-01-11 20:05:02+00:00
The reason I am "anti-AI" is not because I think LLMs being bad at what they do, nor because I'm afraid they'll take my job. I use CC to accelerate my own work (it's improved by leaps and bounds though I still find I have to keep it on a short leash because it doesn't always think things through enough). It's also a great research tool (search on steroids). It's excellent at summarizing long documents, editing and proofreading, etc. I use it for all those things. It's useful.

The reason I am anti-AI is because I believe it poses a net-negative to society overall. Not because it is inherently bad, but because of the way it is being infused into society by large corps (and eventually governments). Yes, it makes me, and other developers, more productive. And it can more quickly solve certain problems that were time consuming or laborious to solve. And it might lead to new and greater scientific and technological advances.

But those gains do not outweigh all of the negatives: concentration of power and capital into an increasingly small group, the eventual loss of untold millions of jobs (with, as of yet, not even a shred of indication of what might be replace them), the loss of skills in the next generations who are delegating much of their critical thinking (or thinking period), to ChatGPT; the loss of trust in society now that any believable video can be easily generated; the concentration of power in the the control of information if everyone is getting their info from LLMs instead of the open internet (and ultimately, potentially the death of the open internet); the explosion in energy consumption by data centers which exacerbates rather than mitigates global warming; and plenty more.

AI might allow us to find better technological solutions to world hunger, poverty, mental health, water shortages, climate change, and war. But none of those problems are technological problems; technology only plays a small part. And the really important part is being negatively exacerbated by the "AI arms race". That's why I, who was my whole life a technological optimist, am no longer hopeful for the future. I wish I was.
by paulryanrogers | 2026-01-11 20:05:03+00:00
We in Ohio don't need more nuclear. The costs for maintaining what we have is already falling behind solar and wind (including batteries). Then there is the ecological costs that rarely get factored in.

And all these new datacenters are pushing up our electric bills. Maybe this deal could be competitive long term with newer reactor designs and if they are competently executed, but I'm very skeptical.

Maybe PA situation is different
by epistasis | 2026-01-11 20:05:22+00:00
Basically it sounds like what happens in failed countries:

> “It’s not like the NRC asks for an extraordinary amount of information,” said a former nuclear official who was involved in reviewing Oklo’s failed application and spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid jeopardizing their work in the industry. “The NRC asks three questions: What is the worst that can happen, what are the systems, structures and components in your reactor that prevents that from happening, and how do you know that?”

>“Oklo would only answer them at a very high level,” the person said. “They wanted to say nothing bad can happen to our reactor.”

>DeWitte said Oklo had planned a robust public rebuttal but claims that at the time, NRC officials “threatened us, in a retributional way, not to issue a response letter to correct the record.”

>“Well, they’re gone now,” he added.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/26/nuclear-e...
by otsaloma | 2026-01-11 20:05:28+00:00
I've been experimenting with using LLMs for a content recommender system. Specifically I've built a news reader app that fetches news articles from multiple RSS feeds, uses an LLM to first deduplicate and then score them. The user can then rate the articles and those ratings are used as few-shot examples in the LLM scoring prompt. Any resulting low score articles (uninteresting to the user) are hidden by default and visible ones scaled by their score on a dynamic CSS grid like on a traditional newspaper front page. Looking good so far, but still testing and tweaking.

https://github.com/otsaloma/news-rss
by witherk | 2026-01-11 20:05:51+00:00
It's a question of magnitude. Do you think that over-regulation of specific technologies is possible?

If the price of building stairs was growing each year in only the west to the point were we were opening one staircase 5 every years, it might be worth to ask some companies why. If they all say "the last guy who built stairs got bogged down for 25 years trying to meet all the safety standards". It might be time to relax some of them.
by abdibrokhim | 2026-01-11 20:05:54+00:00
We're at Open Community organizing an AI Vibe Coding Hackathon. As of now we got near to 500 builders, big Sponsors like ElevenLabs, Daytona, Nord Security brands and etc. Near to $200,000 in Prizes.
Everyone is welcome to the hackathon https://vibe.devpost.com, Technical or Non-technical. Since it's vibe coding hackathon.
Our discord btw - https://discord.gg/nUdcd9p8Ae
by opponent4 | 2026-01-11 20:06:31+00:00
This was, still is and for the foreseeable future it'll be bad advice. Stay on Windows 10 as long as you can. With LTSC IoT that's 2032. We will figure out something then.

It doesn't work. Right now the main issue is Wayland vs X where Wayland is not working and will never work because the underlying ideas and goals do not align with that of a desktop. Someone described X as ALSA, Wayland as PulseAudio and we are waiting for PipeWire to arrive. Maybe Phoenix will sweep in to save the day, maybe something else will.

Also, hardware and software issues will always be there because the incentives are not there.

I swear Linux on the desktop adherents sound like they have some sort of Stockholm Syndrome but of course in reality just cognitive dissonance explains it.
by xg15 | 2026-01-11 20:06:33+00:00
> However, this technology is far too important to be in the hands of a few companies.

I worry less about the model access and more about the hardwire required to run those models (i.e. do inference).

If a) the only way to compete in software development in the future is to outsource the entire implementation process to one of a few frontier models (Chinese, US or otherwise)

and b) only a few companies worldwide have the GPU power to run inference with those models in a reasonable time

then don't we already have a massive amount of centralization?

That is also something I keep wondering with agentic coding - being able to realize your epic fantasy hobby project you've on and off been thinking about for the last years in a couple of afternoons is absolutely amazing. But if you do the same with work projects, how do you solve the data protection issues? Will we all now just hand our entire production codebases to OpenAI or Anthropic etc and hope their pinky promises hold?

Or will there be a race for medium-sized companies to have their own GPU datacentets, not for production but solely for internal development and code generation?
by JazCE | 2026-01-11 20:06:39+00:00
I was working on an Arazzo[0] generator as a plugin for the Serverless Framework. This has now become a fully fledged runner. So far I have it using multiple OpenAPI source descriptions, and just about got retry rules working. Next steps will be for it to be able to reference Workflows in external Arazzo documents.

[0] https://www.openapis.org/arazzo-specification
by Fazebooking | 2026-01-11 20:07:02+00:00
The progress on 'nuclear' is so slow, that the same investment in Batterie and renewable would actually help a lot more around the globe.

We know how to build nuclear, we don't do it because its too expensive. Other forms are so far away from being useful, that the current Storage + Renewable pricing is so crazy good, that whatever you do with nuclear will just not be able to compete.

And the benefit? Every 3th world country and person can invest in small and big Storage + Renewable but they can't do the same with nuclear.
by HumanOstrich | 2026-01-11 20:07:02+00:00
You just repeated what I said in a different way. It is accessed differently, but it's still going to go through the same APIs at Anthropic. Maybe they have some differences or use different endpoints, but Anthropic didn't duplicate their entire business for CC vs official API users.

Edit: I appreciate the reply that we're probably on the same page.
by davidweatherall | 2026-01-11 20:07:21+00:00
https://replays.lol/clipper - A spin off from my main startup's product that lets Twitch streamers review their viewers' league of legend clips. Zero friction as we handle the recording of clips ourselves using bots that load up people's previous games using the League of Legends game client. Went live with my first medium-size streamer yesterday, excited to see how this goes!

Similar to Cameo but hyper specialised for league of legend streamers, if this shows some traction we'll expand to other games, and then to other industries (think a tennis star reviews one of your tennis points, beats out a generic happy birthday message?)
by yogirk1 | 2026-01-11 20:07:51+00:00
Will soon update the repo with screenshots. For now, you can check some screeshots here:

https://snipboard.io/RzNVBL.jpg

https://snipboard.io/6mAtwo.jpg

https://snipboard.io/fjANQd.jpg

https://snipboard.io/UgYt3b.jpg
by WhatIsDukkha | 2026-01-11 20:08:59+00:00
Sagan comes in with a great quote -

The problem is summed up by Carl Sagan: “Every time he [von Däniken] sees some­thing he can’t understand, he attri­butes it to extraterrestrial intelli­gence, and since he understands almost nothing, he sees evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence all over the planet” (Playboy 1974:151).

Unfortunately its true of so many people, and the information revolution we were all promised seems to have made it worse, not better.
by davorak | 2026-01-11 20:09:16+00:00
> This restriction is specifically about competitive use - you cannot use Claude to build products that compete with Anthropic's offerings.

I am not a lawyer, regardless of the list of examples below(I have been told examples in contracts and TOS are a mixed bag for enforceability), this text says that if anthropic decides to make a product like yours you have to stop using Claude for that product.

That is a pretty powerful argument against depending heavily on or solely on Claude.
by bopbopbop7 | 2026-01-11 20:09:34+00:00
I'm working on BacklogAI, an autopilot engineer for SaaS teams.

You connect GitHub, CI, Sentry, and Linear, and it takes tickets all the way to production. Claude writes the changes, BacklogAI handles tests, migrations, feature flags, staged rollouts, etc...

It’s clearing months of backlog work in hours, and a couple teams I’m working with have already stopped hiring because it’s cheaper than adding more developers. It's crystal clear that developers and designers won't be needed in a couple of months because claude increases productivity by at least 120x and one or two PMs can do pretty much everything.

My stack is Claude, v0, nextjs, shadcn, clerk, supabase, vercel.
by Arch-TK | 2026-01-11 20:09:57+00:00
The video explains how the gas based mass spectrometers he had (indirect) access to don't normally pick up nonvolatile compounds like tannins. It was a big breakthrough that since he didn't have cocoa leaf extract, and he basically nailed everything else, he couldn't really understand what he was missing until he realised the extract would likely contain tannins.

So there may be other nonvolatile compounds which nevertheless impact the flavour profile. While a lot of flavour is in your nose, not all of it is...
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-11 20:09:59+00:00
>I had a storage unit for a while until I realized that the monthly bill was more than the value of the contents.

For every one of you there's a few people using it as business storage and dozens of people who are dealing with living situation stuff (college housing vs apartment, house closing timing, job relocation, house renovation, etc, etc, etc) that trade in and out of units on like a 1-2mo timeline.

Source: Almost bought one.
by breppp | 2026-01-11 20:10:10+00:00
There's an alliance between the new left and islamism due to some ideological similarities.

Sure one side would march for pride and the other hangs gays on cranes.

However, in foreign policy both explain anything as some product of colonialism, a phenomena that essentially disappeared 60 years ago.

This is due to the effect Edward Said had on US humanities, which was in turn was influenced by Muslim Brotherhood thought in his home country of Egypt
by amichail | 2026-01-11 20:10:30+00:00
PluriSnake is a snake-based color matching daily puzzle game.

Color matching is used in two ways: (1) matching circles creates snakes, and (2) matching a snake’s color with the squares beneath it destroys them.

Snakes, but not individual circles, can be moved by snaking to squares of matching color.

The goal is to score as highly as you can. Destroying all the squares is not required for your score to count.

The more links there are currently in the grid, the more points you get when you destroy a square.

Of course, there is more to it than that as you will see.

Try it out: https://testflight.apple.com/join/mJXdJavG

Any feedback would be appreciated! Have fun!
by steve_gh | 2026-01-11 20:11:07+00:00
I experimented with using an LLM to code the same problem in Ruby (Rails) and Python (Flask) about 10 months back. The LLM performance with Rails was much better - it handled the increasing complexity as features were added much better.

My hypothesis was that the strong emphasis on coding conventions in the Rails ecosystem made it easier for the LLM to cope with scaling complexity.

I don't see any mention of the impact of convention and codebase organisation in the article. And I think it is important (or was 10 months ago!)
by edmundsauto | 2026-01-11 20:11:11+00:00
It shows that strategic investment matters and people are looking at more than a single cost metric. Nuclear is behind today, but that doesn't hold a promise it will remain true into the future unless you stop investing now.

One armed bandit says explore as well as exploit. This delta you cited indicates the pendulum currently is more exploit than explore, but its not a static equation.
by nmehner | 2026-01-11 20:11:12+00:00
I guess everyone dealing with legacy software sees code as a cost factor. Being able to delete code is harder, but often more important than writing code.

Owning code requires you to maintain it. Finding out what parts of the code actual implement features and what parts are not needed anymore (or were never needed in the first place) is really hard. Since most of the time the requirements have never been documented and the authors have left or cannot remember. But not understanding what the code does removed all possibility to improve or modify it. This is how software dies.

Churning out code fast is a huge future liability. Management wants solutions fast and doesn't understand these long term costs. It is the same with all code generators: Short term gains, but long term maintainability issues.
by mmh0000 | 2026-01-11 20:11:16+00:00
As others mentioned, Red Hat (and SUSE) has been amazing for the overall Linux community. They give back far more than what the GPL requires them to. Nearly every one of their paid "enterprise" products has a completely free and open source version.

For example:

- Red Hat Identity Management -> FreeIPA (i.e. Active Directory for Linux)
- Red Hat Satellite -> The Foreman + Katello
- Ansible ... Ansible.
- Red Hat OpenShift -> OKD
- And more I'm not going to list.
by keeda | 2026-01-11 20:11:27+00:00
What "domain expert" means is also changing however.

As I've mentioned often, I'm solving problems in a domain I had minimal background in before. However, that domain is computer vision. So I can literally "see" if the code works or not!

To expand, I've set up tests, benchmarks and tools that generate results as images. I chat with the LLM about a specific problem at hand, it presents various solutions, I pick a promising approach, it writes the code, I run the tests which almost always pass, but if they don't, I can hone in on the problem quickly with a visual check of the relevant images.

This has allowed me to make progress despite my lack of background. Interestingly, I've now built up some domain knowledge through learning by doing and experimenting (and soon, shipping)!

These days I think an agent could execute this whole loop by itself by "looking" at the test and result images itself. I've uploaded test images to the LLM and we had technical conversations about them as if it "saw" them like a human. However, there are ton of images and I don't want to burn the tokens at this point.

The upshot is, if you can set up a way of reliably testing and validating the LLM's output, you could still achieve things in an unfamiliar domain without prior expertise.

Taking your Postgres example, it's a heavily tested and benchmarked project. I would bet someone like Antirez would be able to jump in and do original, valid work using AI very quickly, because even if hasn't futzed with Postgres code, he HAS futzed with a LOT of other code and hence has a deep intuition about software architecture in general.

So this is what I meant by the meaning of "domain expert" changing. The required skills have become a lot more fundamental. Maybe the only required skills are intuition about software engineering, critical thinking, and basic knowledge of statistics and the scientific method.
by vanviegen | 2026-01-11 20:11:35+00:00
I've been a full-time Linux user since 1998, and over the years I've invested uncountable hours doing all kinds of tweaking and fixing. But with time that has gotten less and less (probably due to both Linux and me maturing), to the point that I now basically use my laptop as an appliance.

I run Aurora, an immutable Linux distro. It auto-updates the core OS without me even noticing (just remember to reboot your laptop every couple of weeks). It has a software center to install GUI apps (all Flatpak, I think) and comes with brew to install command line apps. Things pretty much just work, and for the occasional small issue, I generally manage to just shrug.

To be fair, one thing still lingers just above my annoyance threshold: connecting/disconnecting monitors while my laptop is suspended will sometimes lead to a black screen when resuming, requiring a reboot. A gentle wink from the bad/good old days. :-)
by possiblerobot | 2026-01-11 20:11:36+00:00
+1 to this method. After optimise storage is disabled on the Mac, wait for all photos to download. Then, open the photos library bundle and you'll see every photo there, full res. Copy them wherever you like.

Also, if you leave optimise storage disabled and continue to use Photos, every photo will be cloned in any local or cloud backups of your machine. This strategy creates additional photo redundancy separate from iCloud while still benefiting from library syncing.
by anishgupta | 2026-01-11 20:12:20+00:00
> AI isn’t replacing people here, it’s extending their reach into places they were never going to look in the first place.

Great to see the physical leverage AI has over a big coastline. Surely, this is a playbook to follow for Countries with long coastlines like Australia, Norway. Another pattern I observed, Canada might require more talent expertise in speech and audio training in near future
Show HN: I forced Apple to admit a "Product Issue" using AI and CIA principles
by ryuzaburo | 2026-01-11 20:12:28+00:00
I investigated a strange 27.2KB database corruption in iCloud that caused a DoS on other devices. Apple initially dismissed it as "Authorized Operation," but by leveraging AI to build a logical case based on Integrity and Availability, I got them to acknowledge it as a design flaw.
by Moldoteck | 2026-01-11 20:12:39+00:00
You don't need to prevent it. You just need to prevent a catastrophe and even Fukushima did it relatively well - nobody died or will die from radiation. Current benchmark for (future) gen4 designs is having consequences limited to the area of the plant, think of 3MI but as worst case. But imo it's still an overkill, nuclear is one of the safest sources in terms of human deaths/kwh and the stat only gets better with gen3/3+
Show HN: Karmic Tail Calculator – A Destiny Matrix Patterns
by lion__93332 | 2026-01-11 20:12:49+00:00
Project Name Karmic Tail Calculator

Project Link https://karmictail.net/

One-sentence description A specialized Next.js-based tool for decoding the "Karmic Tail" within the Destiny Matrix system, focusing on past-life patterns through 22 Arcana algorithmic logic.

Detailed Description Karmic Tail Calculator is an attempt to bridge the gap between esoteric numerology and modern web interaction. While the "Destiny Matrix" system is currently trending on platforms like TikTok and Instagram, most existing tools are either riddled with ads or lack technical depth. This project returns to the algorithmic roots of the system, focusing specifically on the most influential "Karmic Tail" section. We’ve stripped away the "woo-woo" clutter in favor of a high-precision Arcana reduction logic and a "Sacred Geometry" visual experience, providing users with a private, frictionless space to explore subconscious behavioral patterns.

Core Features

Precision Algorithmic Logic: Implements the strict 22 Major Arcana reduction rules (e.g., sums > 22 are reduced via digit summation), ensuring mathematical accuracy for every karmic coordinate across complex birth date combinations.

Immersive "Sacred Geometry" Aesthetic: Utilizes SVG vector rendering combined with a high-contrast dark mode to transform abstract numerical data into a visual matrix, creating a "decoding" experience that feels more like a terminal than a horoscope.

Privacy-First & Zero-Friction: No registration, no login, and no collection of biometric or personal data. We follow a strict "open-calculate-get" utility logic, keeping the user's journey entirely private.

SEO-Native Deep Content: The site serves as a comprehensive knowledge hub with over 1,500 words of technical guides and "My Karmic Tail" interpretations, ensuring that users don't just get numbers, but a full context of the underlying logic.

Tech Stack

Framework: Next.js 14 (App Router)

Styling: Tailwind CSS

Animation: Framer Motion

Graphics: SVG.js / Lucide React

Use Cases

Self-Discovery: For individuals interested in "Shadow Work" or identifying recurring behavioral bottlenecks.

Tech Community: For developers curious about how to implement complex numerological algorithms into a clean, modern SPA (Single Page Application).

Social Sharing: Generating a visually distinct "Soul Blueprint" chart for aesthetic identity sharing on privacy-aware social circles.
by CSDude | 2026-01-11 20:12:50+00:00
All my vertical videos in iCloud show up cropped horizontal for some reason. If I go to edit I see the whole video. I really do not want to trust any cloud provider to maintain my years of archives of family photos and videos. Glad things like this exist. I just need properly date-foldered files, without no duplciates. Is that so hard?
by edmundsauto | 2026-01-11 20:12:56+00:00
> A big reason I have heard for lack of nuclear build out is the lack of starting capital but after they are built they are generally stable and maintenance is predictable.

I have also heard this, but given Meta's announcement is mostly in funding and extending the useful lifespan, doesn't that indicate without an infusion of capital, the ongoing operations are not cost effective?