MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-23 10:26:50+00:00
Not sure if the birthright castes are any more stably stratified: according to https://www3.weforum.org/docs/Global_Social_Mobility_Report.... , the US actually ranked worse in 2020 than the UK for social mobility?

(for 2025, see https://www.suttontrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Degre... )
by dumb1224 | 2026-01-23 10:27:02+00:00
Well depending on your taste of TV shows and the general culture.

When I moved to the UK early 2000s I could understand but can't appreciate that type of humour. I think its rooted in culture. Luckily that was the golden era of British comedies and there were great diversities so you can pick and choose what flavour you like.
by defrost | 2026-01-23 10:27:08+00:00
I'll take that onboard should I ever transit USofA again, thanks for your advice re: contempory US usage of english.

Gammon's another phrase that's a function of location:

* UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gammon_(insult)

* On country (as over analysed by Kartiya): https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/publications/on-gammon-glob...

Mots pressés, mots sensés, mots qui disent la vérité, mots maudits, mots mentis, mots qui manquent le fruit d'esprit
by 01jonny01 | 2026-01-23 10:27:09+00:00
The beauty about Google Programmable Search across the entire web is that it's free and users can make money by linking it their Adsense account.

Bing charge per query for the average user. Ecosia and Qwant use Bing to power their results, probably under some type of license, which results in them paying much less per query than a normal user.
by Amezarak | 2026-01-23 10:29:09+00:00
Uh-huh. Here's the problem. Here's the way this almost always works: "Author X would have been BIASED because he belonged to Culture X that fought these people - so this is all fictional propaganda!"

Nearly all the time this is the entirety of the evidence. That is, there is no actual evidence, just people churning out papers because we live in a publish-or-perish world that well, maybe he would have been hypothetically motivated to lie or embellish. So therefore, he totally did. It's all fake!

The most notorious examples of this sort of pointlessness are claims that the Phoenicians and Carthaginians did not practice human sacrifice and it was all made up by Roman propaganda, nevermind the third-party information we have and now the archeological evidence. Rarely, in ancient examples, are they exhibiting much outrage over it.

Same for the Aztecs, another frequent target - we have non-Spanish evidence, and we never had any reason to doubt them in the first place. Part of the problem is exactly that YOU think it is particularly horrifying when most of the time (as in the Roman example) the cultural tenor was probably something much closer to the US abortion or gun control debate, or at least from peoples who saw this happening regularly enough they were substantially number to it than you or me.
by happymellon | 2026-01-23 10:29:20+00:00
It hasn't with AI.

But it's exactly what the executives say, and why they are interested in AI.

There is a post currently right next to this one on the front page about Autodesk showing a desire to use AI to fire workers.

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/autodesk-lay-...
by bovermyer | 2026-01-23 10:30:09+00:00
Mm. Part of GW's modern success is that roughly a decade ago they decided to push third parties to create a ton of Warhammer-branded experiences. There's even a Warhammer movie in the works, if I remember right. That would never have been possible before that "please use our IP" shift.

For me, over the last thirty years I've amassed and then sold a big Warhammer collection multiple times. It finally dawned on me a few years ago that I don't actually like playing the game (I'm really bad at it), but I loved the miniatures. No one else really made the same style of minis. About when we hit the "you can just 3D print an entire army" time period is when I stopped liking even that part of the hobby, and exited for good.
by Tarq0n | 2026-01-23 10:30:12+00:00
In large organizations motivated reasoning trumps ethics. Behavior starts working along incentive gradients like an ant heap. Spend enough time in an environment like that and you learn to frame every selfish decision as good for the customer.

I think maintaining ethics in large organizations is one of the main challenges of our time, now that mega corps dominate our time and attention.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2026-01-23 10:30:16+00:00
> I’m happy to spend on supporting the poor worldwide; I’m just tired of the US playing team America world police. I also want Americans to get the same deal Europeans and Canadians get on prescription drugs.

Then you should fix your laws. Like, until a year or two ago Medicare was forbidden from negotiating drug prices. Coupled with the absurdity of direct to consumer advertising of drugs (only allowed in the US and New Zealand), plus your massively complicated health care system, it's a recipe for disaster.

On the world police thing, I'm definitely sympathetic, but this was something your government did for a mix of selfish and altruistic reasons, and the consequences of not doing it will be bad in some ways for Americans. I do think that Europe/EU need to step up here, and it looks like we're finally doing this. I'd also note that of the current potential world police (US, Russia, China) you guys are the least worst.
by retsibsi | 2026-01-23 10:30:39+00:00
Which is your choice, obviously, but you can see why people would find it strange -- it seems like you're potentially just leaving value on the table for an arbitrary reason. The price of Fastmail doesn't affect the value you would get from some unrelated product, so surely that other product is either worth the asking price or not worth it regardless of how much Fastmail is charging.
by Pooge | 2026-01-23 10:31:13+00:00
> but basing your social interactions and how you see others and yourself on this stuff might not be the best thing to do!

Why not? Just knowing that there is such different ways of thinking is useful especially when interacting with people.

I was a guesser until maybe 2 of 3 years ago until I talked about it with friends and family and I learned just today that it was called "asker" and "guesser".

If you spend time with people from different cultures, there clearly is a stark divide in behavior. Even inside said culture there might be situations in which someone becomes an asker.

Therefore this framework is good to understand how people think socially and have a better understanding towards one another. Some people may think you are rude to ask–or an idiot not to–and you will probably lose relationships if you don't realize it.
by jaynamburi | 2026-01-23 10:33:52+00:00
Desktop Kubernetes tooling like this is an interesting counterpoint to the “everything is CLI” philosophy. For teams managing multiple clusters and contexts, a well designed desktop app can surface state, resource relationships, and misconfigurations much faster than stitching together kubectl, plugins, and ad-hoc scripts. The value isn’t replacing the CLI, but reducing cognitive load for common workflows like context switching, inspecting workloads, and debugging cluster health. The key questions are how well it integrates with existing auth flows (RBAC, cloud IAM), whether it stays performant on large clusters, and how transparent it is about the underlying API operations. If it avoids becoming a leaky abstraction, this could be genuinely useful for day to day cluster management.
by jijijijij | 2026-01-23 10:33:52+00:00
Sorry, in face of OP’s tone I allowed myself some sarcasm. Obviously there needs to be additional energy. You’d have some equilibrium with those reactions and OP didn’t make any argument why that can’t be controlled in favor of reducing Fe2O3.

It’s also borderline unbelievable OP never heard of hydrogen in future steelmaking, if they are at all invested in the topic. You’d need a special kind of ignorance to think people are hugely throwing money at this, when the basic chemistry is infeasible.
by FrostViper8 | 2026-01-23 10:34:05+00:00
I actually didn't see that era as a Golden era and actually much prefer the sketch shows in the 80s and 90s such has the Fast Show.

I don't like any Mitchell and Webb stuff and don't particularly find either of them very funny.

David Mitchell's (at least on panel shows) brand of comedy is just doing a stupid face and making sardonic/cynical remark which is often some thinly veiled political jab, that the target audience often already agrees with. That isn't comedy. It is activism. Once you can see it, you can't un-see it and I find nauseating.
by hinkley | 2026-01-23 10:34:24+00:00
I thought this was going to go the other way.

Worked on a project that wanted to make everything a different grayscale color. It was out of control already when someone one day complained that two pieces of text were a different color.

They weren’t. They were identical. But they were on two different background colors which make the optical illusion that they weren’t. And I reminded them for the twentieth time that we were using too goddamned much gray.
by ssl-3 | 2026-01-23 10:34:29+00:00
That requires either an online connection to a datacenter somewhere or something that (at present time) is a fairly substantial on-board computing system, and those are things that I think are worth trying to avoid for tasks like adjusting the HVAC in a Honda.

Maybe some day.

Right now, when we do have substantial on-board computing systems, they're trying to drive the car -- not change the temperature. Adding in an additional computational timeslot for LLM voice commands seems both foolhardy and expensive.

Meanwhile: Broader dictionaries and static flows with greater breadth for voice recognition? We can do that right now.

(We can even use LLMs to help generate the static flows, along with people to evaluate and test them. Once implemented, they become cheap to run.

This is in-keeping with a fairly common theme here on HN: Don't use the bot to process the data. Instead, use the bot to write the data processor.)
by weird-eye-issue | 2026-01-23 10:34:30+00:00
In your moral dilemma your assertion is that the credit card companies are only making money off of people who aren't paying off their cards each month which must mean that people like me are costing them money by paying off each month. Since I'm costing these evil companies money then don't I have a moral obligation to continue using my credit card?

As for saying that the argument that using credit cards because they have more fraud and security measures is not a good argument because the world should be different is also quite silly and naive since arguments should be made based on how the world currently operates not how you wish it might operate in the future. Life is much easier when you live in reality
by michelb | 2026-01-23 10:35:05+00:00
I think most popular OS's these days have >5000 open bugs and some may get attention if they actually break something serious enough. Others may get plastered over in a new major OS update, which opens another 1000 bugs or so. I have no problem with a rolling number of bugs, but this is a tiny list of age-old bugs. I'd like to be in the room when Apple's people decide what to work on, but I bet I would get depressed instantly since they obviously don't use their products.
Show HN: OPC Skills – 9 AI agent skills for solopreneurs (Claude Code, Cursor)
by Zephyr0x | 2026-01-23 10:36:16+00:00
I built a collection of AI agent skills for one-person companies. Skills are markdown files that AI coding assistants can load and execute.

What it does:
- domain-hunter: Compare registrar prices, find promo codes
- requesthunt: Scrape Reddit/Twitter for product validation
- logo-creator: Generate logos with AI, export to SVG
- seo-geo: Optimize for AI search engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity)

Install: npx skills add ReScienceLab/opc-skills

Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Droid, and others.

100% free, MIT license. No API keys needed for most skills.

Site: https://opc.dev
GitHub: https://github.com/ReScienceLab/opc-skills

Would love feedback on the skill format and which skills would be most useful for indie hackers.
by solarkraft | 2026-01-23 10:36:38+00:00
This will significantly impact (quite possibly kill) Startpage and Ecosia, who are effectively white-label Google, right?

What alternatives are there besides Bing? Is it really so hard that it’s not considered worth doing? Some of the AI companies (Perplexity, Anthropic) seem to have managed to get their own indexing up and running.
by YokoZar | 2026-01-23 10:36:43+00:00
It was definitely not just balancing rules patches for gameplay purposes - there was a clear deliberate intent to force people to buy new models. Complete with arbitrary changes to the game lore itself that accompany those updates: when I first started playing Warhammer Fantasy only the smaller lizardmen could ride the dinosaurs, and in the next edition only the larger ones (with entirely different new models) could.

By way of comparison, Games Workshop updates their Warhammer rules about twice as often as Wizards of the Coast updates Dungeons and Dragons.
by salawat | 2026-01-23 10:37:23+00:00
It's been clear for the last decade that we have to wean ourselves off of centralized search indexes if only to innoculate the Net against censorship/politically motivated black holing.

I can only weep at this point, as the heroes that were the Silent and Greatest generations (in the U.S.), who fought hard to pass on as much institutional knowledge as possible through hardcore organization and distribution via public and University library, have had that legacy shit on by these ad obsessed cretins. The entirety of human published understanding; and we make it nigh impossible for all but the most determined to actually avail themselves of it.
by andy12_ | 2026-01-23 10:38:22+00:00
> However: we do not know if these are the only errors, they are merely a signature that the paper was submitted without being thoroughly checked for hallucinations

Given how stupidly tedious and error-prone citations are, I have no trouble believing that the citation error could be the only major problem with the paper, and that it's not a sign of low quality by itself. It would be another matter entirely if we were talking about something actually important to the ideas presented in the paper, but it isn't.
by vercaemert | 2026-01-23 10:38:23+00:00
You just need a robust benchmark. As long as you understand your benchmark, you can trust the results.

We have a hard OCR problem.

It's very easy to make high-confidence benchmarks for OCR problems (just type out the ground truth by hand), so it's easy to trust the benchmark. Think accuracy and token F1. I'm talking about highly complex OCR that requires a heavyweight model.

Scout (Meta), a very small/weak model, is outperforming Gemini Flash. This is highly unexpected and a huge cost savings.

Some problems aren't so easily benchmarked.
by myself248 | 2026-01-23 10:38:35+00:00
The computer includes an RF modulator, so you need a TV that can tune NTSC channel 3 or 4.

Or, buy a DIN plug and make a cable that brings out the composite signal: https://99er.net/TIvideoadapter.htm

I haven't bought a new TV recently, but there seems to be no shortage of composite inputs on the sets I've been using.
by thienzz | 2026-01-23 10:38:37+00:00
I've been trying to build some agent stuff for my own projects lately, mostly running locally on my laptop with Ollama because I don't want everything in the cloud. For production deployments and local runs, I've found popular frameworks tend to be on the heavy side – slower startups, higher resource usage, more complex offline RAG/memory setup, and fewer built-in safeguards for reliability issues like loops or failures.
So I've been hacking on something much simpler for myself: focuses on Ollama/local embeddings, the usual reasoning patterns (ReAct, Plan-and-Execute, etc.), vector + graph RAG, session memory, plus some basic reliability things like circuit breakers and retries. Cold starts are quick, works in Docker, etc.

I'm really curious what others are running into:

Anyone else hitting similar issues with frameworks like LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen in production?
For local/offline agents, what features matter most to you for reliability?
How do you handle stability in real deployments?

Would love to hear your experiences – thanks!
by eigenspace | 2026-01-23 10:41:34+00:00
I think there's a lot of question marks hanging over a lot of these things. I don't want to sound more confident in hydrogen than I actually am, and I don't want to sound more dismissive of syngas and other long term storage options than I really am. I'm really just not sure at the end of the day.

Another option that I think is under-discussed is just seasonal storage of biogas. Germany currently derives around 10% of total electricity production on any given day from the burning of biogas. If we could replace all of that daily usage with renewables + batteries, then we could potentially just save up all that biogas in reservoirs and burn it during periods of low renewable output. No new technology, and very minor new infrastructure needed.

It's hopeless to scale biogas production up to a point where it provides for the whole grid, but it might just be enough to deal with week-to-month scale renewable shortfalls.
by damnitbuilds | 2026-01-23 10:42:05+00:00
My parcel was marked as Delivered by DHL, but it was not - I was home, they did not come.

Contacted Alibaba - they say they need info from DHL before proceeding with a refund.
Contacted DHL - they say they will only communicate about getting that info with the sender, Alibaba.

Bastards.
by ben_w | 2026-01-23 10:43:23+00:00
Previously, perhaps.

I'm saying the only limit to damaging them now is the optics.

Radar is pointless here. Both for crude and precise positioning. For crude, we already know roughly where the satellites themselves are because those are well-advertised.

For precise, you still wouldn't use radar, physics prevents high enough resolution ever. Even for tracking, angular resolution is k(λ/D), i.e. you care about aperture size in wavelengths, and radar uses wavelengths much much larger than visible or IR laser light. But even with arbitrarily large equipment, you get a spot size ~= wavelength, which wastes a lot of power as the wavelength is much larger than the necessary spot size for a critical component on a satellite.

So you'd use optical targeting and tracking, i.e. you'd look through the exact same system that the laser also fires through, with the exact same adaptive optics, and say "this specific point on this satellite".

The hard part is focussing a spot size order of cm scale. This requires adaptive optics (and also a wide telescope). Adaptive optics is the really hard part here.

Getting a 12 kW industrial laser is relatively easy, and putting that power into a spot on the joint between the PV and the main body, that has a decent chance[0] of severing it while also causing catastrophic loss of control, even with just a few minutes over the horizon. The prices I see for 12 kW industrial lasers are significantly lower than the estimated cost per missile for most of what the Houthis used to attack shipping last year, and they fired quite a lot of those missiles.

[0] can't say for sure without detailed plans that it would be genuinely insane[1] for me to have access to

[1] the world is currently going insane, so if it turns out they are available, either deliberately or via a leak, this is just more evidence of insanity rather than a contradiction
by lopis | 2026-01-23 10:44:44+00:00
> Autocorrect Won't Take No For An Answer

Oh god. I don't use an iOS device regularly, so when I encountered this issue I had to control myself not to throw the device. Absolutely horrible experience. Worse part is that it autocorrects when pressing "send", not just when adding a space or a period. So the correct word gets corrected wrong and immediately sent.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-23 10:44:48+00:00
That is indeed maddening. Are you using that computer for professional work? That'd drive me bonkers if I was working on a project and had bugs in the OS bothering me "regularly". I myself drank the cool-aid back in 2012 and think it took me 2-3 years before I realized "Apple is the best at UX and stability" is so far away from reality it starts being funny, and finally migrated to a stable environment that works the same as when I began using it.
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by torginus | 2026-01-23 10:45:44+00:00
Isn't painting one of the most hazardous hobbies? You're working with questionable chemicals all the time. Even the official Citadel stuff (which I think is reasonably OK most of the time) needs to be treated with a healthy dose of respect, but it's so expensive youre constatly tempted to shop around.

Even then, there were cases of a certain hue disappearing from the lineup (much to the frustration of painters), due it it being banned, because it was too toxic.

There a handful of high-profile 40k and GW people who died in their 30s-40s with illnesses probably related to exposure to this stuff.
by nemosaltat | 2026-01-23 10:46:07+00:00
> Kagi
This seems to be true, but more indirectly. From Kagi’s blog [0] which is a follow up to a Kagi blog post from last year [1].

[0]> Google: Google does not offer a public search API. The only available path is an ad-syndication bundle with no changes to result presentation - the model Startpage uses. Ad syndication is a non-starter for Kagi’s ad-free subscription model.[^1]

[0]> The current interim approach
(current as of Jan 21, 2026)

[0]> Because direct licensing isn’t available to us on compatible terms, we - like many others - use third-party API providers for SERP-style results (SERP meaning search engine results page). These providers serve major enterprises (according to their websites) including Nvidia, Adobe, Samsung, Stanford, DeepMind, Uber, and the United Nations.

I’m an avid Kagi user, and it seems like Kagi and some other notable interested parties have _already_ been unable to do get what they want/need with Google’s index.

[0]> The fact that we - and companies like Stanford, Nvidia, Adobe, and the United Nations - have had to rely on third-party vendors is a symptom of the closed ecosystem, not a preference.

Hopefully someone here can clarify for me, or enumerate some of these “third-party vendors” who seem like they will/might/could be directly affected by this.

[0] antibabelic > relevant https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-search
[1] https://blog.kagi.com/dawn-new-era-search
> [^1]: A note on Google’s existing APIs: Google offers PSE, designed for adding search boxes to websites. It can return web results, but with reduced scope and terms tailored for that narrow use case. More recently, Google offers Grounding with Google Search through Vertex AI, intended for grounding LLM responses. Neither is general-purpose index access. Programmable Search Engine is not designed for building competitive search. Grounding with Google Search is priced at $35 per 1,000 requests - economically unviable for search at scale, and structured as an AI add-on rather than standalone index syndication. These are not the FRAND terms the market needs
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-01-23 10:46:38+00:00
The question is, is it just a word, or is there an emotion underneath? Your last sentence sounds "just" cynical / condescending on its own, but when you add "fucking", it comes across like you're actually angry. And emotional language is the easiest way to make an online discussion go from reasonable, rational and constructive to a digital shouting match. It's no longer about the subject matter, it's about how they make someone feel.