MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dylan604 | 2026-01-08 22:18:45+00:00
Not really sure how this has anything to do with space based platforms like Chandra (which is x-ray) and Hubble which is well above Starlink. Also, Starlink is only a couple of years old to be problematic, but the ground based observatories have had clean skies for decades before.

This just really feels like someone trying to interject a pet peeve. Whether the peeve is valid or not, it's not the problem here.
by geocar | 2026-01-08 22:18:47+00:00
> This is why I think you're confused.

I think you're confused.

> I am not understanding what you're saying at all.

And that is why; You seem to have a very strong opinion about something that you don't understand "at all" and frankly I cannot understand how that can work.

> This is the thing you are supposed to never do as a peer

So you say, but that's what I did when back in the early 2000s, and that's what the parties in the news were doing, and if you're not totally lying to me, you know this because it's the default in BGP, that's why you would say you need to:

> I have a whole bunch of filtering to prevent my peers from inadvertently doing.

because that's how BGP works. Duh.

> It's hard to talk about BGP without using these words correctly.

and I am flabbergasted you continue to persist at it, when I have even offered you "introductory lab documentation" to help.
by travisjungroth | 2026-01-08 22:19:04+00:00
> anecdotally based on their own subjective experience

So the “subjective” part counts against them. It’s better to make things objective. At least they should be reproducible examples.

When it comes to the “anecdotally” part, that doesn’t matter. Anecdotes are sufficient for demonstrating capabilities. If you can get a race car around a track in three minutes and it takes me four minutes, that’s a three minute race car.
by JohnFen | 2026-01-08 22:19:12+00:00
Also, interestingly enough, "use" and "utilize" are not exactly synonyms, even though they're usually used as if they were.

Technically, "use" means to use something for its given purpose, and "utilize" is a specific kind of using. It means "making the most effective use of something, often in a manner not initially intended."
by woodson | 2026-01-08 22:19:26+00:00
This generic answer from Wikipedia is not very helpful in this context. Zero-shot voice cloning in TTS usually means that data of the target speaker you want the generated speech to sound like does not need to be included in the training data used to train the TTS models. In other words, you can provide an audio sample of the target speaker together with the text to be spoken to generate the audio that sounds like it was spoken by that speaker.
by btown | 2026-01-08 22:19:26+00:00
I'm unsure of its accuracy/provenance/outdatedness, but this purportedly extracted system prompt for Claude Code provides a lot more detail about TODO iteration and how powerful it can be:

https://gist.github.com/wong2/e0f34aac66caf890a332f7b6f9e2ba...

https://gist.github.com/wong2/e0f34aac66caf890a332f7b6f9e2ba...

I find it fascinating that while in theory one could just append these as reasoning tokens to the context, and trust the attention algorithm to find the most recent TODO list and attend actively to it... in practice, creating explicit tools that essentially do a single-key storage are far more effective and predictable. It makes me wonder how much other low-hanging fruit there is with tool creation for storing language that requires emphasis and structure.
by belorn | 2026-01-08 22:20:13+00:00
My interpretation of /active is that it is a strict activity based feed where the number of comments in recent time determine the position. The front page uses upvotes, flags, comment to upvote ratio, flame war detection and likely more stuff to determine the algorithmic position.

Looking at /active I can also see articles listed high with very small number of upvotes but with high number of comments.
by SamInTheShell | 2026-01-08 22:20:13+00:00
Thought about this during the morning. I'm run the posts through ministral3:3b, mistral-small3.2:24b, and gpt-oss:20b this weekend to build a sentiment mapping and see what I get. I'm optimistic about ministral3:3b, but the other two are pretty good at this type of stuff.
by bawolff | 2026-01-08 22:20:41+00:00
You know what else fuels unrest - potentially not having basic needs met by society. There is a major economic crisis in Iran. There is an impending water crisis.

Social media is a new thing, but protests are old. People protested in despotic regimes prior to social media, and the triggering factors were basically the same as what is happening in Iran right now.
by FunnyUsername | 2026-01-08 22:21:01+00:00
There are a couple problems with this view:

- You could say that antisemites are a cause of Zionism, but that doesn't mean they intentionally support it. Not all antisemites are of the "go back to the Levant" type.

- Just as "antisemitism" doesn't actually mean hate of Semetic people, "antizionism" doesn't actually mean opposition to Zionism. Instead it developed into a rather separate hate movement. Many antizionism ostensibly support a 2SS, which would mean they actually support rather than oppose Zionism, but are nonetheless part of the antizionism movement.
by KaiserPro | 2026-01-08 22:21:13+00:00
> not say Steve Jobs received only praise

Jobs was idolised during his later life. (reality distortion field a-la the register) lots of founders and CEOs adopted his mannerisms, and cosplayed his stories, because they thought that was what made him _good_

Obviously there were dissenters, either people who were personally shat on by him, or didn't buy the "Jobs is better than jesus" stuff.

But, they made a fucking movie about him, thats how much he was idolised.
by Ameo | 2026-01-08 22:21:14+00:00
My perspective on this is that maybe Tailwind Labs shouldn't have been a for-profit business, or at least not one of the size that it grew to be.

I was reading a writeup on this history of Tailwind[1] made by Adam Wathan (who created Tailwind).

It seems like he was working on a variety of different business ideas including "Reddit meets Pinterest meets Twitter" and "a developer-focused, webhook-driven checkout platform". He created the basis of Tailwind just to help him build these projects, but it kept getting attention when he would post about his progress building them online.

Here's an important quote from the doc:

"Now at this point I had zero intention of maintaining any sort of open-source CSS framework. It didn’t even occur to me that what I had been building would even be interesting to anyone. But stream after stream, people were always asking about the CSS"

It seems like Adam's main goal was to start a software business, and Tailwind just happened to get popular and became what he pivoted his efforts into. There's obviously nothing wrong with wanting to start a business, but trying to take an open-source CSS framework and turn it into a multi-million dollar business feels unnatural and very difficult to maintain long-term.

To his credit, he did pull it off. He built a seemingly quite successful business and hired a sizable team, and apparently made a decent amount of revenue along the way.

But now, for AI reasons or otherwise, that business is struggling and failing to sustain the scale it was before. To me, it seems like the business is more or less completely separate from the open-source Tailwind project itself. It's, as far as I can understand, a business that sells templates and components built with Tailwind, and it uses Tailwind's popularity to bootstrap customers and sales.

If it were me who ended up building Tailwind, there's no way I would have pursued turning it into a big business. Maybe I would have tried some kind of consulting style, where I'd offer my time to companies evaluating or integrating Tailwind.

Now that Tailwind is getting hundreds of thousands (millions?) of dollars a year in sponsorships, it feels weird to have this for-profit business on the side at the same time.

Maybe it's just my own sensibilities and worldview, but I feel like Tailwind should just be what it is: an extremely popular and successful open-source CSS framework.

[1] https://adamwathan.me/tailwindcss-from-side-project-byproduc...
by Etheryte | 2026-01-08 22:21:20+00:00
Use Hammerspoon [0][1], it comes with a lot of macOS integrations out of the box and you write Lua, which takes zero effort to pick up and use. For me a big benefit is that you don't need to touch Xcode at all.

[0] https://www.hammerspoon.org

[1] https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.menubar.html
by toast0 | 2026-01-08 22:21:49+00:00
> without losing track of which way north is.

I blame my childhood. Everyone always said the Pacific Ocean is to the west. So naturally the direction I went to go to the beach on the pacific ocean should be West. Especially when the north/south freeway crosses the street I take to the beach at a pretty good angle (well it's more like 45 degrees). Turns out I actually go south to go to the beach, the freeway is roughly parallel to the coast and north/south freeways sometimes travel due east/west and I have a real hard time with cardinal directions, and even if I understand where the directions are when outside, when I enter a building, especially if I go up stairs or an elevator, my sense of where the cardinal directions from inside the building is likely to be way off.

Thankfully, there's not a big impact from not knowing where room walls are relative to each other. :P
by ddaras | 2026-01-08 22:22:18+00:00
Thanks for your feedback! Appreciated!
This is just a first version we've launched with 4 type of templates only.
It can generate 1-5 slides in one generation.
Basically, the idea is that you describe your story topic and it can generate beautiful "carousel" style slides for you.

We can discuss more in details how we've built and what tech we used if you are interested.
by GeekyBear | 2026-01-08 22:22:36+00:00
Were you aware that all the BIOS implementations used in PC compatible computers (Compaq, AMI, Phoenix, etc.) were not identical and were compatible to a greater or lesser extent with the original IBM BIOS, yet Linux somehow supported PC compatible computers?

> Someone saying "it is TSO" is not documentation.

Trying to re-implement what IBM's BIOS did was not documentation either.

The original sets the standard, whether a given implementation is perfectly equivalent or not.
by yndoendo | 2026-01-08 22:22:54+00:00
How does having a religious base state prevent bigotry and discrimination? Both are mutually exclusive.

In the world, Jews discriminate against Jews, Christians discriminate against Christians, Muslims discriminate Muslims, ... A religious state can only have one variant of religion that is deemed the right variation even though multiple variations exist.

The closest thing to a non bigot and discriminating state is one that is not built on religion but accepts other people and allows them to exercise their variation of religion.

Earth is the home land of humans not a politically divided territory.
by dfabulich | 2026-01-08 22:22:55+00:00
This looks really cool, but I'm not going to use it today, because it only supports SQLite, with Postgres and SQL Server "coming soon." This seems like a very odd starting point, especially for a paid tool. I don't have any SQLite databases I'd want to explore, and certainly none with "massive tables." I'd want to use it for Postgres and MySQL/MariaDB first.

Also, if autocomplete is what we care about, PRQL support seems like it will offer the best experience. https://prql-lang.org/ PRQL queries transpile to SQL. Just having the `FROM` clause first does wonders for autocomplete.
by mapontosevenths | 2026-01-08 22:23:02+00:00
> each jurisdiction adopts its own actual rules for these things.

Sure, but because the schools must be ABA approved that means the ABA gets to decide that schools omitting those codes don't get approved... doesn't it? That was my assumption anyhow.

> which may also apply to the apprenticeship/reading—two different names for the same thing, not two different options

I never realized that. Thanks!
by cheald | 2026-01-08 22:23:28+00:00
I suppose I'm showing my age here, but Stingrays/IMSI-catchers have been around and in use for decades by both federal and local governments, and the problem of mass surveillance is not particularly an ICE problem. In my lifetime, the level of surveillance of the population has increased so dramatically that I'm not sure that younger people actually understand what it was like to live in a world where your every move wasn't monitored, recorded, and archived.

Privacy advocates have been fighting this battle for decades, but they have been utterly defeated because, by and large, people don't and can't be made to care about privacy until they learn the hard way (and when it's too late) why it's so important.
by bredren | 2026-01-08 22:24:08+00:00
I haven't written the entry yet but it is pretty incredible what you can get when letting a frontier model RAG your complete CLI convo history.

You can find out not just what you did and did not do but why. It is possible to identify unexpectedly incomplete work streams, build a histogram of the times of day you get most irritated with the AI, etc.

I think it is very cool and I have a major release coming. I'd be very appreciative of any feedback.
by FloorEgg | 2026-01-08 22:25:06+00:00
> without much rancor which you refuse to confront

I was responding to the "why is this post flagged?", and you changed scope to "justify all moderator decisions across the platform". Consider that you may have a sensitivity to certain topics that I do not. It seems like you see something I don't.

I'm not condoning all moderator decisions. I'm not remotely familiar with all posts on HN. I'm only considering this one post and acknowledging how this topic is clearly trampling curiosity and that it seems reasonable to me that it's been flagged given the spirit and word of the HN guidelines.

Of the posts I am familiar with, there have been several cases when a thread was flagged that at first seemed on-topic but after reflecting I realized the comments had gone off the rails and that's why it was flagged. This decision seems very much in line with other cases I've seen, but I can't justify all decisions nor am I position to even judge them.

> But anyway, all I was saying is that that specific line item is a non-sequitur.

It actually wasn't, though I could have been more clear about why it was relevant. Where people get information and what tribe they feel they belong to changes how they interpret new information. The reason I brought it up is because I was getting the sense from multiple replies to my comments that some people were assuming I (and the moderators) wanted to censor the underlying concern about Grok as if I was a part of the American culture/political war. I was just trying to clarify I am not a part of that and want nothing to do with it.
by palmotea | 2026-01-08 22:25:26+00:00
> Without Chinese production, we'd simply still be producing stuff here.

No, the US can't anymore. The supply chains have moved to China now, and needed capital equipment and know-how has mostly been lost in the US. It would take a massive investment to get back to "simply ... producing stuff here."

And if anyone tries, the chorus of "muh iPhone expensive!" would be deafening, the politicians would retreat and go back to bickering about the culture war and plotting their next attack ad, and the businessmen would go back to counting their money.
by jjtheblunt | 2026-01-08 22:25:46+00:00
I did work for Apple while he was there, and he was entirely decent.

I came to believe that there was a bratty entitled personality from his 20s that gave rise to most the jerk stories people reference, and that he wised up after being ousted (probably for being that jerk). He was essentially exiled for the better part of a decade.
by platevoltage | 2026-01-08 22:25:57+00:00
Bose products seem like they are most popular with older, non-technical people who see it as a luxury brand. This is the same reaction that I would have with this news because I like modifying hardware/firmware, but I was never in the market to buy Bose products in the first place. My parents on the other hand have at least 3 wave radios in the house.
by cadamsdotcom | 2026-01-08 22:26:00+00:00
Imagine you bought a van for your business and one day you unlock it to find the interior has been repainted with rainbows.

This is really annoying!

The van still works though, so on you go.

Later that day, you look into who else sells similar vans, and find out all the other van makers will only sell you a chassis, byo wheels.
by derefr | 2026-01-08 22:26:01+00:00
Is there yet any model like this, but which works as a "speech plus speech to speech" voice modulator — i.e. taking a fixed audio sample (the prompt), plus a continuous audio stream (the input), and transforming any speech component of the input to have the tone and timbre of the voice in the prompt, resulting in a continuous audio output stream? (Ideally, while passing through non-speech parts of the input audio stream; but those could also be handled other ways, with traditional source separation techniques, microphone arrays, etc.)

Though I suppose, for the use-case I'm thinking of (v-tubers), you don't really need the ability to dynamically change the prompt; so you could also simplify this to a continuous single-stream "speech to speech" model, which gets its target vocal timbre burned into it during an expensive (but one-time) fine-tuning step.
by sleepless02 | 2026-01-08 22:26:02+00:00
Software testing is moving away from the manual "record and playback" sessions popularized by tools like Mabl. While low-code was a huge step up from Selenium, we're seeing a shift in 2026 toward agentic AI platforms that reason through user journeys rather than just replaying clicks.

I put together this comparison to look at the evolution of the stack:

The Shift: Moving from brittle, session-based recordings to natural language agents.

The Goal: Reducing the "maintenance trap" where engineers spend 40% of their time fixing broken tests.

The Tech: How reasoning-based agents (Mechasm) differ from DOM-traversal scripts (Mabl).

Where do you think E2E testing is headed in 2026? Are we finally at the point where we can trust autonomous agents in the deployment pipeline, or is the "recorded script" still the safer bet for reliability?
by floppyd | 2026-01-08 22:26:04+00:00
> This is the key insight: we’re just telling the LLM “here are your tools, here’s the format to call them.” The LLM figures out when and how to use them.

This really blew my mind back then in the ancient times of 2024-ish. I remember the idea of agents just reached me and I started reading various "here I built an agent that does this" articles, and I was really frustrated at not understanding how the hell LLM "knows" how to call a tool, it's a program, but LLMs just produce text! Yes I see you are telling LLM about tools, but what's next? And then when I finally understood that there's no next, no need to do anything other than explaining — it felt pretty magical, not gonna lie.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2026-01-08 22:27:10+00:00
Hm, as with taxes, do we get to choose which federal enforcement agency we are willing to submit to? Not going to lie man, it is a fascinating frame of mind to me and I am absolutely willing to talk to you about it if you wanna go that route.

<< but they're murderers and you're supporting murderers until they prove

This is not exactly how any of it works, at all. I am not being difficult man, but I don't get to, say, block FBI caravan, because I don't think they deserve 'that' presumption ( quotation, because I am not certain what it refers to ).

I similarly don't get to tell DEA, ATF, and multiple other agencies to just fuck off, especially if I encounter them in the wild.. doubly so, if I was attempting to track them that day..

The real question then becomes:

Why do you think you get to pick and choose, who can enforce the laws of the land upon you?

More importantly, whose authority would you accept?
by zdragnar | 2026-01-08 22:27:12+00:00
This was a problem at my last job. Boss kept suggesting shoving AI into features, and I kept pointing out we could make the features better with less effort using simple heuristics in a few lines of code, and skip adding AI altogether.

So much of it nowadays is like the blockchain craze, trying to use it as a solution for every problem until it sticks.
by FridgeSeal | 2026-01-08 22:27:28+00:00
> siri please add milk and eggs to my Target order.

Woah woah woah, surely you’re not suggesting that you, a user, should have some agency over how you interact with a store?

No, no, you’re not getting off that easy. They’ll want you to use Terry, the Target-AI, through the target app.
by metadata | 2026-01-08 22:27:43+00:00
I have recently asked my LinkedIn audience if my company should build a great PostgreSQL IDE. That's my wish for many years, and I know exactly where we can provide significant value over existing solutions. Yet basically everyone said not to do it.

Too many free options, hard to get people to change habits, you can't charge enough because devs just don't want to pay if they can help it.

I decided we will build something else. That said, good luck to this developer, I hope their product takes off.
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-01-08 22:28:31+00:00
> the Charmbracelet people have as much of a shot at building something truly exception as Anthropic does.

Yes and no. OpenCode is a great example of yes. But at the same time Anthropic gets to develop both client and model together. THey get to use the signals from the client, and "bake in" some of the things into the model. So their model will work best with their client. And somewhat less competent with other clients (you can kinda sorta see that today with opus in cc vs. in cursor).

For example, cc was (to my knowledge) the first client to add <system_reminder> tags from time to time. How often, how the model used them and so on? That's basically "signals", and they work together. And it works beautifully, as cc seems to stay on task better than OpenCode while using the same model.
by dmitrygr | 2026-01-08 22:28:32+00:00
I see no further point for this discussion. Either you truly do not understand or are pretending to not understand the difference between memory models (affect literally every memory access as long as the system is powered up) and BIOS (not used once the OS is up, and thus one-time at-boot quirks handling code can work around most issues). Either way, g'day.

Oh, and to answer your question, yes, quite aware, actually. I've done quite a bit of low level work over the decades, including, curiously, working in the Apple platform kernel team at the time when this TSO bit appeared.
by cyberax | 2026-01-08 22:28:45+00:00
> Or, because they want to live in NYC

Do they? Or do they just rationalize having to live in NYC?

Depending on the question, most people HATE living in cities: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1l1ryyq/ci... - and it's not even a close competition.

> socialization and meetups and camaraderie around every conceivable interest, innumerable dining options within a matter of blocks, some of the best live entertainment options in the world, friends within walking distance, etc. Case in point

Well, sure. Everything has trade-offs and people decide which ones are more acceptable for them. When given a choice, I moved out of dense areas. Because I don't actually care about drinking every day, and all other activities are not materially affected by having a 1-hour commute to the downtown.

> 1 hour each-way of driving is a lot, and by then you're usually in a different city. 3-4 hours puts you in a different state, and in some places, it puts you in an entirely different country!

Sure. But we're talking about the US in particular.