MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ilaksh | 2026-01-17 19:03:37+00:00
I think that programming as a job has already changed. Because it is hard for most people to tell the difference between someone who actually has programming skills and experience versus someone who has some technical ingenuity but has only ever used AI to program for them.

Now the expectation from some executives or high level managers is that managers and employees will create custom software for their own departments with minimal software development costs. They can do this using AI tools, often with minimal or no help from software engineers.

Its not quite the equivalent of having software developed entirely by software engineers, but it can be a significant step up from what you typically get from Excel.

I have a pretty radical view that the leading edge of this stuff has been moving much faster than most people realize:

2024: AI-enhanced workflows automating specific tasks

2025: manually designed/instructed tool calling agents completing complex tasks

2026: the AI Employee emerges -- robust memory, voice interface, multiple tasks, computer and browser use. They manage their own instructions, tools and context

2027: Autonomous AI Companies become viable. AI CEO creates and manages objectives and AI employees

Note that we have had the AI Employee and AI Organization for awhile in different somewhat weak forms. But in the next 18 months or so as the model and tooling abilities continue to improve, they will probably be viable for a growing number of business roles and businesses.
by yencabulator | 2026-01-17 19:03:39+00:00
https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/overview#get-s... reads to me like you have to use the public API for the Claude Agent SDK, not a Claude Code plan:

> Unless previously approved, we do not allow third party developers to offer Claude.ai login or rate limits for their products, including agents built on the Claude Agent SDK. Please use the API key authentication methods described in this document instead.
by interloxia | 2026-01-17 19:03:44+00:00
related: I like to scare myself with the nice graphics of daily global sea surface temperature from the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine.

https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/?dm_id=world2

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/optimum-interpolation-sst
by bluescrn | 2026-01-17 19:04:32+00:00
A lot of it isn't 'climate change denial', it's more a realisation that we don't have realistic solutions, especially while humans continue to do what they always do - fight wars over territory/resources/religion.

May people on HN might have home solar, a heat pump, and a shiny new EV, but expensive green tech that's limited to the middle-class and up in the wealthiest countries isn't going to make much of dent in global emissions.
by reset0684 | 2026-01-17 19:05:15+00:00
I think you're right. I think that what ICE is doing is clearly a problem and speaking about it clearly and plainly is useful here.

Here are two good sources for the incident at the school (Roosevelt High School). [1] [2]

The first is from our local NPR affiliate: MPR. It has interviews with school staff members and describes their account of the day. The second is from our local NBC affiliate: KARE 11. It's a more recent article which describes the account of the day based on statements from Customs and Border Patrol. You can see some of the parallels between the two.

>“The guy, I’m telling him like, ‘Please step off the school grounds,’ and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he’s trying to push me, and he knocked me down,” a school official, who spoke to MPR News on condition of anonymity said.

versus

>[CBP Deputy Incident Commander Kyle Harvick] said a crowd began to gather as they were arresting the driver for impeding the operation. As agents investigated the area, the statement says a crowd gathered and some individuals responded with "combative shoves and pushes." Harvick says agents then attempted to arrest one of the individuals when a school staff member allegedly began pushing agents. The staff member was placed under arrest.

When you're weighing who to believe in this situation, it's worth calling out that CBP has lied before [3] and doesn't always operate within the law here [4]. That last link is particularly notable since it's a very straightforward constitutional violation where they broke into the house with a battering ram (on video, if you want to watch) to make the arrest--all without a judicial warrant. The provided an _administrative_ warrant instead, which doesn't allow forced search of private residences. The agents presumably know that and thought they could get away with it anyway.

[1] https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/08/after-border-patrol...

[2] https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/ice-in-minnesota/c...

[3] https://apnews.com/article/chicago-immigration-crackdown-wom...

[4] https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-arrest-judge-orders-rel...
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2026-01-17 19:05:46+00:00
2050 is not meaningless. Its close enough to feel like its achievable but far enough away that you can put off immediate action and still feel there is time to get it done. Reminds of the lyrics of the spirit of the west song:

It's a ways outside of town

But the distance has its uses

Close enough to make the effort

Far enough to make excuses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZXgl5KxUQY
by card_zero | 2026-01-17 19:05:55+00:00
My apologies. But are you really saying that we're not even able to try to be rational, or to improve? "Perfect rationality" sounds like "perfect knowledge", it's a mind-boggling concept belonging to a such a far distant future that we'll probably revise the concept away before we get anywhere near it. So why present it as a goal? Being slightly more rational is a practical goal, unless you're saying human nature won't allow even that much.
by superkuh | 2026-01-17 19:06:22+00:00
Pretty simple. These are federal government employees and county sherrifs. People in public positions. It's whistleblowing. This isn't any information about the people except in the context of their public employement status. Very clear cut.

If it was their home phone numbers and addresses it might be slightly less clear. But it isn't. Take a look yourself before asking an obvious question next time.
by ndshrubs | 2026-01-17 19:06:41+00:00
It's a peer-to-peer agreement (both are agreeing to a contract to swap seats for some form of consideration). I post that my seat is available. Someone offers consideration for that seat (and their own seat on the same flight). We agree to swap. We board normally but sit in the other person's seat. The platform exchanges the consideration.

As for how airlines could try to prevent it, yes, we've considered it and have a few different approaches. Worst case, the contract can be voided by agreement of the parties and everyone sits in their originally assigned seats.
by Kye | 2026-01-17 19:07:36+00:00
Occasionally I have to help someone find something through Google. The hardest part is getting them to not impulsively click the first link, which is invariably an ad instead of the right thing. The second hardest is helping then navigate back to the search results. The third, of course, is stopping them from clicking the second link. Also an ad for the wrong thing.

I stopped trying to help people with computer stuff unless I can take over and trust them to not blame me when some random, unrelated thing breaks down the line.
Show HN: Zig parser in ~70 lines of JavaScript
by cztomsik | 2026-01-17 19:08:03+00:00
I wanted something lighter than zig autodoc so I've implemented (and golfed a bit) a custom parser using parser combinators in JS. It's not 100% correct and it's also not meant to be, all I care about is if it can parse my own Zig code, not any valid Zig code.

There are also some bugs, and I don't intend to support, nor develop this much further, consider it vaporware which you are free to fork and use it for something, or just have some fun reading the code and figuring out how it works (I certainly had a lot of fun implementing it - no LLMs, so it was a nice exercise too).

BTW: I know it's probably very inefficient, and I don't care - it goes through 67 files in 0.19s and I don't expect it to be ever a bottleneck for this use-case, so I've spent exactly 0 minutes trying to optimize it.
by PunchyHamster | 2026-01-17 19:08:19+00:00
Interacting with complex systems produces complex side-effects.

And ecosystem is complex enough that we can't really predict those side-effects before they happen and they can make other things worse.

Just spraying random stuff that happens to work on paper is equivalent in subtlety to electroshocking patient to fix their mental issues.

That is not to say it is not possible, but on top of being expensive it would require a lot of care to not make stuff get worse in other ways.
by nickff | 2026-01-17 19:08:25+00:00
I am not a supporter of the broad powers given to Federal agents, and it seems likely to me that ICE is overstepping (what I see as) the absurd scope they've been granted by the legislature and judiciary. That said, they don't seem to be "actual, literal Nazis", and I have not seen them "murdering civilians in broad daylight", though ICE do seem to be using the very broad definition of personal protection which has become commonplace (for most police forces).
Show HN: RandomForestGenerator – CSV to ML in the browser, but local
by jonaraphael | 2026-01-17 19:08:45+00:00
Hi HN — this is my first share-out here, so please be kind!

I built RandomForestGenerator, a single-page tool to train a Random Forest on a CSV entirely in the browser, inspect results/diagnostics, and export a portable artifact you can reuse elsewhere.

Repo: https://github.com/jonaraphael/RandomForestGenerator

I've uploaded the titanic dataset for you to try as a quick demo, or drop in your own CSV.

I used Jeremy Howard's guidance on tabular ML to try to make it as useful as possible and provide best practices baked in for you.

I often want a quick “drop a CSV → get a baseline + sanity-check signals → export something reusable” loop, without needing to spin up a Python environment. So now that I've built this for myself, I find that even my non-ML colleagues are excited to try it on their own spreadsheets!

Everything happens locally in the browser tab--you could even disconnect from Wi-Fi after loading the HTML itself!

Just a head's up that large datasets can be slow/heavy in-browser (there’s a maxRows subsample knob) to try to mitigate.

Feedback I’d love:
• Is this useful?
• How could it be better?
• A star if you think you might use it someday!

Thank you for checking out my little project!!!
Have a great weekend
by reanimus | 2026-01-17 19:09:11+00:00
The ruling itself even says that every case has to be taken in context, and that particular one was a known felon who has been accused of a crime fleeing in a vehicle. As a matter of fact, if you look at the decision [1] you won't find the word "defense" once, only "fleeing".

1: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-1261.ZPC.html
by gspr | 2026-01-17 19:09:14+00:00
You seem to want a world in which gangs of untrained, unvetted thugs wearing facemasks and no identification can exit unmarked vehicles with guns drawn and demand that you do certain things or answer their questions on pain of being shot in the face. All while opaquely protected by the state.

I hope you get that world. I hope no innocent person has to live it with you.

You're exactly the reason free societies can successfully go down the path to dystopian authoritarianism. I hate you.
by alephnerd | 2026-01-17 19:09:40+00:00
> some billionaire who makes fancy handbags saying he's going to support a different political party will have zero impact on election results

Arnault already has. He's the reason Élisabeth Borne is no longer the PM [0] and why the billionaire tax failed [1]. And his rival Bolloré is the reason why the RN is at the cusp of power [2]

> we don't have the cancer that is fox news

Instead you have Vivendi and Canal+ who are now owned by Bolloré [3], who has been using the Murdoch/Fox News strategy as well [4].

[0] - https://www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/article/2024/12/18/emmanu...

[1] - https://www.reuters.com/world/frances-richest-man-lvmhs-arna...

[2] - https://www.france24.com/en/france/20240627-how-the-french-m...

[3] - https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/culture-et-idees/dossier/la...

[4] - https://rsf.org/fr/derri%C3%A8re-la-campagne-de-d%C3%A9sinfo...
by dahart | 2026-01-17 19:09:46+00:00
You’re arguing something different than @latexr did, and picking a VC as your example makes sense here but fails to counter the fact that most startups aren’t VC funded. Still, you’re also like GP confusing VC motivation with founder motivation. It’s possible for founders to care deeply about the problems they’re solving, and for the company’s primary goal to be an exit, at the same time. Both can be true, contrary to what GP claimed.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-01-17 19:09:49+00:00
2005 you could do these things. Heck by 2005 I had moved to the remote mountains and still had high speed internet. 30 years ago these things weren't coming from big tech, they were coming from small scrapy startups that were going to replace evil entrenched institutions with something better.

Today, these things are actually LESS accessible due to enshitification from entrenched big tech companies.
by anurzhynskyy | 2026-01-17 19:10:03+00:00
I subscribe to ~50 educational YouTube channels but rarely have time to watch videos. I wanted a way to quickly scan what's new and read the content instead.
TubeReader pulls your YouTube subscriptions and gives you transcripts + AI summaries. Think of it like an RSS reader but for video content as text.
Built with FastAPI + React. Transcription runs on my homelab GPU via Whisper. Currently free to use.
Would love feedback on the UX and what features would make this more useful for you.
by FloorEgg | 2026-01-17 19:11:08+00:00
I'm no expert in this subject and I don't have any strong opinions on it. The point of this comment isn't to debate one side or the other.

That said, your comment stands out to me to be self-contradictory and unscientific (by way of being alarmist and not backing up an extraordinary claim ).

> Unknown second order effects

This sounds right.

> Nearest real world success is continuous low volume maritime dispersal which has completely different dispersal dynamics than high-altitude bursts, and the continuous low volume maritime dispersal is non-viable

Since I don't know a lot about this topic I'll take your word for it.

> No way to undo it once done

This doesn't sound quite right, my intuition says more likely "no known way to undo it once done".

> If humans can’t perpetually release aerosols — and I mean perpetually, for the next millions of years — then the global climate “snaps back” violently within weeks

Wait... So, to undo it all we have to do is stop doing it? Doesn't this contradict the statement right before it?

> almost certainly eradicates all known life in the entire universe

This statement makes me suspicious of the credibility of the rest. This is an extraordinary claim and I think deserves way more explanation if you want to convince anyone who doesn't already agree with you. It would be a lot easier to accept "decimates human civilization" than "eradicate all life on earth". Life is extremely resilient.

How exactly would it eradicate all life on earth?
by daveguy | 2026-01-17 19:11:12+00:00
Glad to see this getting another round of discussion. It was barely discussed when it was released ~2+ months ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46163347

Simon Willison is a cosigner, and posted on his blog the day it was released:

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/5/resonant-computing/

Something has to change from the advertising centric, attention hijacking drain that current technology is circling. I agree with one of the other posts here that some examples of software that adhere to these principles would be a welcome addition. I think that list would include a lot of open source software and not a lot of social media software.
by matthewdgreen | 2026-01-17 19:11:27+00:00
PV solar is between $.97 and $1.16 per watt, so that's going to be the front line. With storage you can get from $1.60 to $2. This is already the bulk of the power generation in Europe and is only going to increase. The idea that you're going to run nuclear plants at 95% capacity factor economically is also very suspect in a continent saturated with cheap PV solar.
by asdff | 2026-01-17 19:11:42+00:00
I know someone who gets through the winter off their fireplace. Really old timber house with riverrock chimney. Their fireplace looks nothing like what you think of a fire place looking. You can’t see the fire, there is like this big iron door in front of it. They go through a huge pile of wood every winter, along with a couple electric heaters for rooms or office.

I assume most decorative fireplaces on the other hand are not built to heat the house.
by seattle_spring | 2026-01-17 19:11:55+00:00
From a now dead comment, but still worth addressing since I've been seeing this as a dismissal for climate change a whole lot more lately:

> Even Bill Gates has admitted that it's not that concerning.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/bill-gates-memo-climate-chan...

https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/5585562-bill-...

Tl;dr: Gates still thinks climate warming is a major threat, just not to the extent of using it as a doomsday threat of "guaranteed destruction for all of humanity."

I find it fascinating that climate change deniers will often say absolutely anything to discredit Bill Gates, but the second he says something that could even be misconstrued as support for their side, all of the sudden he's a trustworthy authority for their beliefs.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-01-17 19:12:28+00:00
Ah the magic 'jobs always come' thinking.

The post industrial revolution jobs market from 1880-1940s was pretty crappy for labor, and we have no idea how things turned out for the average displaced workers. We do know that there were whole sections of towns called skid rows, we know that there were flop houses. We know huge sections of men lived in boarding homes, and women stayed living with their parents. We've read things like Steinbeck and get a glimpse of the life of desperation at the time.

Don't let people fool you that the labor market will look like post WW2 America. It will look like 1880-1940s, during which there were huge labor fights and things were so bad there were 2 world wars.
by geremiiah | 2026-01-17 19:13:07+00:00
Americans wanted change so they didn't want establishment politicians. When this usually happens the far-right and far-left come into view and typically what happens is that the far-right get first dibs because they always promise the impossible so their proposals are at first glance more attractive to the electorate. In the case of this election, the Democrats didn't even allow the progressives to contest the election so there wasn't really a choice at all.
by tietjens | 2026-01-17 19:13:52+00:00
Rocket Internet is often engaged in arbitrage where they bring an existing company’s idea to a different country or context. This is very different from the flood-the-zone astroturfing discussed above. Zalando is its own company employing ~5k engineers. This isn’t a copycat I would claim.

But maybe you’re referring to practices I am not aware of.
by devsda | 2026-01-17 19:14:23+00:00
> As an American I will argue against my government's unilateral global adventurism all day long

I'm sure there are many Americans who would oppose this adventurism. I'm not sure whether that's because they believe its just a bad strategy to continue the status quo or because its just plainly a wrong way to treat other nations by force.

> That certainly doesn't mean that expanding the behavior is progress.

I don't mean it as progress. Its a regression but I hope there's a silver-lining at the end of all this for everyone.
by risyachka | 2026-01-17 19:14:27+00:00
Its not like tree at all because tree is one and done.

Code is a project that has to be updated, fixed, etc.

So when something breaks - you have to ask the contractor again. It may not find an issue, or mess things up when it tries to fix it making project useless, etc.

Its more like a car. Every time something goes wrong you will pay for it - sometimes it will get back in even worse shape (no refunds though), sometimes it will cost you x100 because there is nothing you can do, you need it and you can't manage it on your own.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-01-17 19:14:32+00:00
Even if we credit the idea that it's unsafe to transmit, there are reasons to do it anyway, e.g. you have a holy text and a mission to share it with the universe.

Sounds like a great sci-fi premise. "Hey, there aren't enough knock-down, drag-out religious wars on Earth. Let's start beef with the nuclear-armed, FTL-capable sky wizard cult on Epsilon Eridani 4."
by constantcrying | 2026-01-17 19:14:47+00:00
>You want to support Hitler, Stalin, or Mao? Yeah, that's a tougher sell here. You're probably going to get downvoted to oblivion for it.

This is not true, which is the worst moderation decision about the site. This site would be greatly improved, if this actually was how it worked.

If you post any actually extremely anti-consensus opinion here you get one or two down votes, your post gets flagged and everyone ignores it. This is obviously an anti-trolling measure, but obviously people will just abusively flag anything they really do not like.
by instig007 | 2026-01-17 19:15:06+00:00
> ASML relies on the United States for several of its components, and it’s this very reliance that has allowed the United States to use the Foreign Direct Product Rule and impose export controls on ASML products. However, there are signs of a shift. ASML has already started to reduce its dependence on American technology, aligning with the EU’s goal of strategic autonomy. Earlier this month, ASML announced a major investment in Mistral, France’s flagship AI startup. The Dutch firm invested $1.5 billion in Mistral, becoming the company’s largest shareholder. The deal was widely seen by policymakers as a move that strengthens European ‘digital sovereignty.’ In a sector dominated by American tech giants, ASML’s Mistral investment represents a growing realization from Europe: cooperation within the bloc is necessary for the EU to stay competitive in the AI race.

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I don't follow, how exactly does the investment into a French AI startup reduce ASML's "dependence on American technology"? Is it a supply-chain dependence, or a revenue-making dependence?
by EA-3167 | 2026-01-17 19:15:07+00:00
The amount of aerosol you need to I next is enormous, it needs to be sprayed at an altitude higher than realistic means of injection are feasible, and it has to be done in a way that doesn’t produce so much CO2 that it defeats the point.

Can you imagine an extant tech that can come close to doing that at the required scale? I can’t.
by jedberg | 2026-01-17 19:15:52+00:00
You can be a super productive Python coder without any clue how assembly works. Vibe coding is just one more level of abstraction.

Just like how we still need assembly and C programmers for the most critical use cases, we'll still need Python and Golang programmers for things that need to be more efficient than what was vibe coded.

But do you really need your $whatever to be super efficient, or is it good enough if it just works?
by yencabulator | 2026-01-17 19:15:53+00:00
I believe Furiosa hardware is a variant of TPU, and that's pretty much why they can beat Nvidia on LLM inference. GPUs are more general purpose, which means Furiosa can cut some of the overhead with designs dedicated for matrix multiplication only.

https://furiosa.ai/blog/tensor-contraction-processor-ai-chip...