MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jsty | 2026-01-23 14:11:18+00:00
Indeed, one of my favourite things about coding assistants is that I can now get an easy code review on my personal projects, or once I've thought through my approach have it think up alternatives I may not have stumbled on.

I've found it very unsatisfactory (both experience and results) to use them to replace code production. But in terms of augmenting the process - used to critique, explore alternatives, surface information - they're getting really quite handy.
by Sparkyte | 2026-01-23 14:11:32+00:00
We need a collapse in AI to right the ships of AI like the the dotcom bubble burst. If we do it now, it will hurt less. Novel ideas in AI will succeed and materials costs will lower. Memory being so bought up till 2029 is not a good thing for anyone especially if we need to see a successful future in AI. More efficient systems and so on.
by slfreference | 2026-01-23 14:11:54+00:00
>> In Guess Culture, you avoid putting a request into words unless you're pretty sure the answer will be yes. Guess Culture depends on a tight net of shared expectations. A key skill is putting out delicate feelers. If you do this with enough subtlety, you won't even have to make the request directly; you'll get an offer. Even then, the offer may be genuine or pro forma; it takes yet more skill and delicacy to discern whether you should accept.

delicate feelers is like octopus arms
by littlecranky67 | 2026-01-23 14:12:02+00:00
Of course it is a tradeoff between security and usability. Not putting your passwords online forces you to either remember all passwords (which will lead to re-use) or you will be only available to access your accounts (and thus most of the internet) from your home. Or you will have to come up with elaborate system how to carry your passwords on some kind of secured device etc. A password manager (alongside 2FA) is a very good security/usability compromise for a lot of people. YMMV.
by ProllyInfamous | 2026-01-23 14:12:07+00:00
I am author Unise's age, and also ran my own construction startup for about fifteen years. Covid, bitcoin, and spite helped me fire all but one of my clients.

In hindsight, I do wish my own venture had always remained "side work" — as it was during my IBEW apprenticeship. As a full-time endeavor, this article absolutely speaks Truth ["that manager is YOU — and they're a terrible boss"].

Entrepreneurship isn't for most people, and although I've made most of dollars on 1099... I wouldn't choose so again. I've taken several years "re-grouping" as I try to determine what next... and fortunately still have one client that pays my bills (and enough savings from decade-old investments) and am not too worried financially.

I haven't had health insurance since leaving the union (a decade ago), and am definitely not getting any younger. The things I have done to keep an ungrateful client happy... aren't worth discussing (but I have learned so much).

Hopeful that when this administration ends our economy can pick back up and I can find a decent master/employer. I will be more grateful than most.

Good article, Mr. Unise.
by agentultra | 2026-01-23 14:12:20+00:00
I prefer Doctorow's observation that they make us into reverse-centaurs [0]. We're not leading the LLM around like some faithful companion that doesn't always do what we want it to. We're the last-mile delivery driver of an algorithm running in a data-center that can't take responsibility for and ship the code to production on its own. We're the horse.

[0] https://locusmag.com/feature/commentary-cory-doctorow-revers...
by physicsguy | 2026-01-23 14:12:31+00:00
This is a great way of framing it that I'd never thought of before.

I worked in engineering software for a long time and because of who we sell to, there's always been a very hard cost-benefit analysis for customers of SaaS in that space. If customers didn't see a saving equal to more than the cost of the software in Y1 they could and would typically cancel.
Show HN: A Better Interface for Nano Banana Pro
by iqen93 | 2026-01-23 14:12:35+00:00
Hey HN ,

This started as a weekend project after using Nano Banana Pro a lot and getting frustrated with Gemini's UI (no folder organization, a sluggish UI, etc.).

So I built Nani (https://getnani.com/). Still powered by Nano Banana Pro, but it focuses on the workflow Gemini is missing:

- Folders to organize generations
- Image-sets and prompt-sets to save styles and references once and reuse them
- A fast UI
- Drag-and-drop so you can pull previous results back in as references for quick iteration

I'm genuinely looking for feedback from people who actually use Gemini and Nano Banana Pro regularly. To make that easier, I made the app free to try with 5 credits and no credit card required. Some questions that come to mind:

- Does this match your experience?
- Anything else in your workflow that feels unnecessarily painful that can be improved upon?

Happy to answer any other questions as well. If anyone's interested in the tech stack and how this was built, happy to share more details.
by jannesblobel | 2026-01-23 14:12:45+00:00
It’s surprising how fast you can design real interfaces with Pencil.dev already. The workflow feels closer to writing code than pushing pixels, quick iterations, clear diffs, and no heavy UI getting in the way.

What really stands out is that everything lives in Git. Designs sit next to the code they relate to, with versioning, history, and collaboration handled by tools developers already use. This avoids a lot of the friction Figma had for years, where design history, branching, and reviews were either missing or awkwardly bolted on later.

If Sketch -> Figma was about moving design to the browser, Pencil feels like the next step: treating design as a first-class, versioned artifact in the developer workflow.

Curious how designers and engineers here think about Git-based design workflows, and where this approach might fall short compared to Figma.
by zarzavat | 2026-01-23 14:12:58+00:00
Perfectly sure. XML is eXtensible Markup Language, the generalized counterpart to Hypertext Markup Language.

XML, HTML, SGML are all designed to be written by hand.

You can generate XML, just like you can generate HTML, but the language wasn't designed to make that easy.

Computers don't need comments, matching </end> tags, or whitespace stripping.

There was a time, in the early-mid 2000s when XML was the hammer for every screw. But then JSON was invented and it took over most of those use cases. Perhaps those XML gurus are stuck in a time warp.

XML remains a good way to represent tree structures that need to be human editable.
by slfreference | 2026-01-23 14:13:00+00:00
https://x.com/JDHamkins/status/2014085911110131987

I am seeing the doomed future of AI math: just received another set theory paper by a set theory amateur with an AI workflow and an interest in the continuum hypothesis.

At first glance, the paper looks polished and advanced. It is beautifully typeset and contains many correct definitions and theorems, many of which I recognize from my own published work and in work by people I know to be expert. Between those correct bits, however, are sprinkled whole passages of claims and results with new technical jargon. One can't really tell at first, but upon looking into it, it seems to be meaningless nonsense. The author has evidently hoodwinked himself.

We are all going to be suffering under this kind of garbage, which is not easily recognizable for the slop it is without effort. It is our regrettable fate.
by Agentlien | 2026-01-23 14:13:39+00:00
Right, which is why I wrote "It wouldn't work well in our specific games."

There's an obvious appeal to sim racing for those who want realism and My Summer Car for those who... Well, it's an interesting project which I respect, at least.

The thing to think about is always how well something fits in the specific game you are making. If it completely warps the focus and disrupts the intended moment to moment gameplay loop, then it probably isn't a good inclusion. But it might still be a great idea for another game. In some cases, and this happens often in early development, it can even mean that other game is what you should be making instead. But that rarely happens when working on a big established franchise.
by pjmlp | 2026-01-23 14:15:01+00:00
Not really, the major one has been Leopard, which made Snow Leopard famous for being a bug fix release.

Apple always has teams quite small sometimes split across multiple projects, but like in the games industry, folks endure it because it is Apple on the CV.

However the whole redo the UI from scratch in one year, with such resource constrained teams could only lead to something like this.
by Tor3 | 2026-01-23 14:15:15+00:00
In Japan, where we're currently getting rooftop solar (like nearly every single house everywhere) there are indeed some large solar installations, but the point of rooftop solar (which the government is encouraging) is that it reduces the pressure on the grid itself, and upgrading the grid in Japan to where it should ideally be is a huge, no, astronomical undertaking. For various reasons.
Did I encounter a glitch or a potential scam bot on co-founder matching?
by alisonyeung | 2026-01-23 14:15:16+00:00
I just saw the same co-founder profile on the matching platform 6 times in a row.

I initially thought it was a glitch, but felt it may be something else after seeing on repeat with different photos. I then went back to check the urls and confirmed I have been seeing distinct profiles of the same content:

- Different candidate profile id/prefix
- Occasionally different profile photo
- Identical name and description (The once I encountered has the initial KH)

I recalled seeing an invite from a profile of the same name several weeks ago asking for paid co-founding trial , connecting the dots here thinking it can be a scam.
by hulitu | 2026-01-23 14:15:18+00:00
> Graphics isn't everything, gameplay is.

And they both suck.
Geaphics is either too realstic or too of "small child" variety. Nothing in between.

And gameplay: There is a lot of interference with the player: i want a shooter, not an RPG (wolfenstein). I want to build cities, not fight to collect stupid items (Anno 2205).
And wait hours for the game to download and then, one per week, the same to update.
by happytoexplain | 2026-01-23 14:15:25+00:00
The world of software is absolutely enormous. Don't make assumptions about what the "everybody knows" subset is.

I've interacted with these as an end user dozens of times, but in 20 years I never heard the term "captive portal". I tend to use the Apple URL to trigger them, and I never understood why the word "captive" was in that URL. Now I know!

And I still don't really know how they work (I guess I should read this article...).
by 84634E1A607A | 2026-01-23 14:15:25+00:00
Overall good work. I'd request an `-i` command-line parameter to specify the interface to scan (and I'd prefer ALL params being able to be read from command line params). I think it just performs a full scan initially on my laptop, following scans either didn't success or didn't involve TCP connect scan (I don't see ARP requests after the initial scan).
by kranner | 2026-01-23 14:15:30+00:00
> The “creating” part of coding has very little to do with the code, in fact my perspective is that it’s the most insignificant part of creating software.
At the end of the day, how code gets into a pr doesn’t matter. A human should be responsible to review, correct, and validate the code.

FWIW I find these statements trivializing of the craft and the passion. Some of us do like the craft of creating a massive structure that we understand from the pylons to the nuts and bolts. Reviewing AI-generated code doesn't bring us close to the understanding of the problem that comes from having solved the problem ourselves.

If this level of detail-orientation doesn't interest you, that's fine, and it perhaps shouldn't bother you to have someone say that? We can agree these are subjective values.
by officialchicken | 2026-01-23 14:15:33+00:00
It works fine for webapps and other slop-adjacent projects.

If you try to do anything outside of typical n-tiered apps (e.g. implement a well documented wire protocol with several reference implementations on a microcontroller) it all falls apart very very quickly.

If the protocol is even slightly complex then the docs/reqs won't fit in the context with the code. Bootstrapping / initial bring-up of a protocol should be really easy but Claude struggles immensely.
by QuiEgo | 2026-01-23 14:15:36+00:00
If you hold $100k in Bank of America (or a linked Merrill Edge account), they will give you up to 5.25% cash back for their credit cards in certain categories, and 2.62% unlimited.

https://frugalprofessor.com/bank-of-america-customized-cash-...

To your point, it's not free money at all: the credit card companies are collecting fees, and the merchants are passing them on to you. This is a way to claw a part of that back - if you don't use a rewards card, you're paying _even more_.
Show HN: OpenHiggs, Create controllable long form Generative AI content
by jaskirat05 | 2026-01-23 14:16:54+00:00
Over the last few months, open-source image and video models have gotten really good. The part that still feels unsolved (at least for me) is creating long-form generative content with real control, without everything collapsing into a single giant prompt or a VRAM-melting pipeline.

ComfyUI workflows are already a great abstraction, but once you start doing things like first/last frame control, LoRAs, WAN, or multi-stage generation, you quickly end up juggling lots of separate workflows and manual hand-offs. That’s manageable for a couple runs, but it doesn’t scale if you’re trying to build longer sequences or iterate systematically.

So I built a small orchestration layer that treats ComfyUI workflows as the atomic unit. The idea is:

workflows stay simple and composable

you can register multiple ComfyUI backends (local or remote)

the orchestrator handles sequencing and parallel execution

everything runs locally/offline, no hosted services

In practice, this makes it much easier to generate long-form content by chaining controlled steps (e.g. generate → refine → constrain → extend) instead of pushing everything through one monolithic graph.
by netdevphoenix | 2026-01-23 14:17:51+00:00
> Ultimately, I don’t want my computer’s OS to be vibe-coded, nor my bank’s systems, nor my car software.

The reality is that the vast majority of software is nowhere near those levels of priority aside from the big social media apps. Like many jobs, many apps out there are helpful because they increase the money flow in the economy not because they are critical
by ndriscoll | 2026-01-23 14:18:06+00:00
Haven't they been telling people to do that since before it became reserved? If so, the problem is more that you can't "reserve" something that's already in wide use, and mdns should've used something like .mdns.

It's like when .dev became a gTLD, knowingly breaking a bunch of setups for a mix of vanity and a cash grab. Obviously dropped the ball on the engineering side.
by mg794613 | 2026-01-23 14:18:13+00:00
It's because a lot of people that werent skilful werent on your path before.
Now that pandora's box has been re-opened, those people feel "they get a second chance at life". It's not that they have no shame, they have no perspective to put that shame.

You on the other hand, have for many years honed your craft. The more you learn, the more you discover to learn aka , you realize how little you know.
They don't have this. _At all_.
They see this as a "free ticket to the front row" and when we politely push back (we should be way harsher in this, its the only language they understand) all they hear is "he doesn't like _me_." which is an escape.

You know how much work you ask of me, when you open a PR on my project, they don't. They will just see it as "why don't you let me join, since I have AI I should have the same skill as you".... unironically.

In other words, these "other people" that we talk about haven't worked a day in the field in their life, so they simply don't understand much of it, however they feel they understand everything of it.
by cowboylowrez | 2026-01-23 14:18:58+00:00
My first home linux was from a book with a cd lol

Heck I think the MOST sensible way to go about things is to let the parents decide but no, apparently parents (in the US anyways) need to make the entire internet safe for you little snot nosed brats. I think your dad needed to take you out to the woodshed when you jailbroke your phone, I know I would have but I probably wouldn't have bought you one anyways, lest you turn into some sort of freakshow adolescent gooner with a room full of tissue paper sculptures of your animes or whatever you guys are into nowadays.
by benjymo | 2026-01-23 14:19:11+00:00
> No one has even proposed that they have maybe even possibly have perhaps thought of an idea to address transport and agriculture related emissions.

That's weird. In europe trains, trucks, light trucks busses and cars are bascially solved with EVs. There are even some early beginnings for heavy construction and agriculture machinery but it doesn't seem to be mass market yet. Electric ferries also start to pop up for smaller distances.

The biggest issues seem to be ships and planes. Not sure there are any good solutions there.
by pjmlp | 2026-01-23 14:19:26+00:00
You are so eager to reply that you haven't even read the whole comment.

> So normal people have stores with other people that they can talk to when they have problems, or just drag their computer into the store.

Which of those online stores have a physical address for the normal people to do as per my comment?

Linux forums have enough complaints about those fairly prominent Linux-only vendors, even though they are suppose to control the whole stack.

And they also fall into each having their own <favourite distro>, the other part of the comment that you missed as well.

Normal people aren't using SteamDecks for their daily computing activities.

I use Linux in various forms since 1995, and yet I am tired from trying out such alternatives, the only things that makes me consider it again is breaking the dependency on US tech, and even that isn't really happening, given how much from Linux contributions are on the pockets from US Big Tech.
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-23 14:20:00+00:00
I hear people report the opposite.

The sloppier a web app is, the more CSS frameworks are fighting for control of every pixel, and simply deleting 500,000 files to clear out your node_modules brings Windows to its knees.

On the other hand, anything you can fit in a small AVR-8 isn't very big.

Whatever you do, your mileage may vary.
by pharaohgeek | 2026-01-23 14:20:05+00:00
I absolutely love Swift. I find it to be such an elegant language. I've done a few macOS/iOS apps with it over the years, but have really come to love it on the server. There are a couple of areas I feel could use some improvement with respect to cross-platform support, but overall the use of frameworks like Vapor have been a breeze to work with.

More support for language interoperability like this will just enhance the cross-platform experience. The Java ecosystem is what makes it so attractive to enterprises. Swift being able to easily take advantage of open-source C/C++ libraries will help with the migration.
by szszrk | 2026-01-23 14:20:17+00:00
How do you manage your containers in podman declaratively?

I tried to substitute docker-compose with Podman and Quadlets on a test server the other day, but was shocked how badly described the overall concept is. Most materials I found glimpsed through ability to run it as root/user and how different that is in configuration, and repeated the same 4-6 commands mantra.

Spent a few hours on it and just... failed to run a single container. systemctl never noticed my qualdet definitions, even if podman considered my .container file registered.

A bit.. frustrating, I expected smoother sailing.
by nasmorn | 2026-01-23 14:20:24+00:00
I started eating Brian Johnson’s superveggie about 4 times a week (it is about a pound of Brokkoli and cauliflower plus lentils and mushrooms) and can only say that my digestions thrives on it after a few days. So at least in my gut something needs to change so it can deal with the huge amount of dietary fiber but once it is settled it makes me feel much better overall
by zozbot234 | 2026-01-23 14:20:51+00:00
> It understands what an ABI is!

Rust understands the C ABI, and that's plenty good enough for now. It's hard to guarantee safety anyway when you're linking to what's effectively outside code (not part of the same build) because we don't really have a fully typed equivalent for raw assembly or binary output (unlike your "safe" VM's, where the bytecode always undergoes sanity checks prior to execution) - hence why the raw C ABI often suffices in a practical sense.
by Tor3 | 2026-01-23 14:21:56+00:00
It's actually hydro+wind in Norway, not just hydro. Hydro has been able to cover nearly 100% of household needs, and most of industry, up till now. The wind, controversial as it is in some places, has managed to offset some of the problems with hydro (nowadays the inter-European deals in practice forces Norway to sell off electricity from hydro in the summer, where in the past that would be saved for the upcoming winter)
by stokedbits | 2026-01-23 14:22:22+00:00
That’s fair and I do enjoy that part of it as well. It’s just that I think it’s trivial and I’ve been coding since about 7-8 years old and been in the industry professionally for over 20 years. My underlying point I left out is that I already understand most of the problems I’m trying to solve from a coding perspective.

I’d much rather get into the intricacies of the business use cases, game mechanics, architectural paradigms, than to focus on typing something I’ve done dozens of times before. I think that’s where I’m at with it.
by pmarreck | 2026-01-23 14:22:56+00:00
I am ENTIRELY fine with faith providing moral support or justification to tangible human benefits. One of my favorite (and possibly world-famous) hospitals is St. Francis Heart Center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Francis_Hospital_(Flower_H...

I am not fine with government funds being used to support "prayer" as a means to a more healthy end. In fact I think this arguably violates the 1st Amendment to the Constitution.
by netdevphoenix | 2026-01-23 14:23:16+00:00
> we're paid to solve problems as efficiently as possible and these tools, used wisely, can massively help with that.

They can also help reduce the number of devs a company needs to operate and arguably reduce the skill level needed to generate software changes that provide business value. While it is true that these tools could lead to companies keeping the staff count and increasing productivity, the reality is that the productivity increase from these tools isn't big enough to offset the big dev team expense while the tools are argubly increasing productivity high enough that you can do more with less.

And yes, companies laying off folks because AI might suffer in the next decade or two. But that won't save _you_ from being unemployed _now_ and struggling to find a role until the tide shifts. The market can afford to remain irrational far longer than your average dev can afford to remain unemployed.
by torginus | 2026-01-23 14:23:31+00:00
Apologies, I'm kind of basing this on half-remembered forum posts from a decade ago.

For the first, there was a certain color that was discontinued due to issues with the pigment (I'm fairly certain it was Citadel and acrylic) and when it came back the consensus was the old one was much better.

As for the person who died, I'm certain I remember Alan Bligh, who was the chief writer behind Horus Heresy. Poor guy died from a fast acting form of cancer at 43, and he was known to spend a lot of time painting minis. This is just a rumor, but he wouldn't be the only one who developed health issues.