MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by RoadieRoller | 2026-01-29 14:20:56+00:00
I am not OP. But to support his arguments.

CEO Failure News Example (2013):
https://techcrunch.com/2013/08/06/fail-week-kevin-ryan/

'Stock Price Jumps' Example (2026):
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-stock-jumps-pre-market...

Not sure if it is the articles I picked up, but the amazon example doesn't have a single mention of Andy Jassy!
by adamtulinius | 2026-01-29 14:21:41+00:00
That's interesting with the pre-inspection. I haven't heard about a systematic pre-inspection here. I also don't think it really matters, the most important metric I'm quoting is 7% failure rate across _all_ electric cars, and no way that's caused by every non-Tesla owner going to a pre-inspection.

(inspection costs around 80 euros in Denmark, so there's no financial reason to go to a pre-inspection anyways, just do the inspection and have it redone if the car fails).

Tesla wouldn't even recognize the problem at first, and refused repair of customer cars. Of course there's issues with every brand of car. It's just that the numbers show that Teslas are much, much worse with regards to safety critical components.
by sejje | 2026-01-29 14:22:34+00:00
Yeah, but even if the safety level was 10% better, let's say--nobody would accept that rate. It wouldn't get adopted, we wouldn't be happy to save those lives. People would be outraged.

I think it's got something to do with an innate belief to self-determination. It's fine if I make a mistake to kill myself, and it's not fine if someone else does. It's super not fine if someone dies at the hands of a rich person's technology. Outrage, lawsuits, "justice."
by mexicocitinluez | 2026-01-29 14:22:40+00:00
That's not actually true. It might be for the bigger companies, but certainly not the smaller ones.

And "risk" in this industry could mean any number of different things. We, as a medium-sized provider, have a BAA with Microsoft for HIPAA. That means that I can utilize information I've gotten from my EMR and build line-of-business apps that bridge the gaps between other systems they may have to work in. In fact, our Microsoft tenant has a much higher level of security than the underlying EMR.

I'm quite literally living what I spoke about above. The reason why I was brought in was because teh current CEO has a very tech-focused mindset, otherwise agencies usually can't afford a full-time software developer. Now, those economics are changing.

Also, I haven't heard of an agency that didn't want custom reports built because they found the default ones unsuitable. So even something like the ability to mainline Power BI reports would be compelling.
by bell-cot | 2026-01-29 14:22:54+00:00
No need for someone to be an author:

> People generate vast amounts of written material through emails, reports, messages and online communication. With appropriate safeguards for privacy and consent, subtle changes in writing style could one day help flag early cognitive decline long before daily functioning is affected.

At work:

From: HR-AI Termination Services
Subject: Please return all Corporate property immediately

At home, you are suddenly deluged by ads for anti-amyloid drugs.

(Yes, in a kinder and gentler world, things would be handled rather differently):
by gabrielba13 | 2026-01-29 14:23:12+00:00
After hearing about that engineer who was working for multiple companies at the same time, and in many others in the past, I started thinking seriously about how hiring could be improved.

Throughout my career, I’ve met many people who made me wonder: how did this person get hired?
At the same time, I’ve met incredibly talented people working in small companies or low-pay jobs who were truly exceptional.

That’s when it clicked for me, a lot of people are in the wrong places. Some shouldn’t be where they are, and some companies could benefit massively from the right people, but they never meet. The problem starts right at the beginning, the hiring process.

Today, companies use mass filtering algorithms and AI to reduce thousands of applications down to about 2–4% of candidates who look perfect on paper. Then the interviews happen, and many turn out to be a poor fit or not what the CV suggested.

Maybe is because as companies use AI to filter, candidates use AI to apply at scale.

In the end, no one is happy.

So I built a platform to help companies run higher-quality, richer interviews with multiple feedback points. Instead of ending up with just 2–4% of candidates who may have exaggerated or lied on their CVs, companies can engage with 10–20% of applicants, with a much higher chance of finding someone honest and genuinely well-matched to the role.

I also believe this benefits candidates even more. When people feel they’ll have a higher chance of getting to an interview, they’re far more motivated to apply, especially those who are strong but overlooked by traditional filters.

If you’re hiring and want to try it, feel free to reach out, I’m giving free trials and would love honest feedback.
by jamiepinheiro | 2026-01-29 14:23:48+00:00
I was thinking of a similar idea to this, but for news/tweets/posts. As a consumer of media, I might decide to only read media with $x staked, so AI media factories need to be willing to stake that much to reach audiences, and will get penalized when they are wrong…

I imagine a hard problem is building a system to resolve this markets.
by hollerith | 2026-01-29 14:24:06+00:00
It is relatively easy to make a secure OS. What is terribly expensive in developer labor is a secure OS that runs a mainstream browser well. Android is an open-source OS that runs a mainstream browser well and is about 100 times more secure than any other open-source Linux distro -- except ChromiumOS. But for some reason, no vibrant open-source project ever formed around ChromiumOS whereas a vibrant open-source project (namely GrapheneOS) has formed around the Android open-source project.
by ncasenmare | 2026-01-29 14:24:21+00:00
Hi, author of the blog post here! Thanks for bringing this up -- it wasn't my intention to say one should replace antidepressants with vitamins (the conclusion even says "(Don't quit your existing antidepressants if they're net-positive for you!)", but you're right that the intro may give that impression. I'll edit the intro to say you can stack, not substitute, regular antidepressants.

> many studies in the Vitamin D meta-analysis enrolled patients already taking antidepressants.

Yes, and that's even more encouraging, that there's still effects of Vitamin D on major depression even if already on antidepressants! This suggests we can "stack" the interventions.

Table 1 of the meta-analysis ( https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11650176/ ) shows the raw sub-group analysis. There were 9 studies on patients using antidepressants, 13 on patients who weren't, the rest were Mixed or Not Reported (...how do 6 studies just not report that?) Anyway,

Effect size of Vit D for people on antidepressants:
−0.54 (−0.85, −0.23)

Effect size of Vit D for people NOT on antidepressants:
−0.28 (−0.40, −0.16)

Both negative. Weirdly, the effect of Vit D seems to be a bit stronger for people on antidepressants, but the difference isn't statistically significant at the p<0.05 level (P subgroup difference is 0.23)

(As for why those effect sizes, -0.54 & -0.28, are lower than what I (and that meta-analysis itself) report, -1.82, that's because the majority of RCTs for any group used far less than 5000 IU. Table 2 in that paper shows the effect (with 95% CI) for various dosages.)

I'll lightly edit my blog post to emphasize stack them, don't substitute. Thanks again for your comment!
by TheOtherHobbes | 2026-01-29 14:24:35+00:00
But on the other side there are countless opportunities for valuable revenue-generating products that aren't based on dopamine addiction and/or ad tech.

It's a values problem, not an opportunity problem. Tech industry management is locked in a death spiral because it lacks the ethics or the vision to create real value, as opposed to extractive predatory value.

This applies equally to consumer relationships and employee relationships. The default value is "How can I screw these people over to get more of what I want?"

And that is - ironically - a failure of brain chemistry and emotional regulation.

Because making number go up is a catastrophic addiction in its own right.
by slgeorge | 2026-01-29 14:24:36+00:00
London's basically great for:

1. Startups
2. Scaling/Growth
3. Existing company expanding from USA->Europe or Europe->USA

It's not as good as Silicon Valley for any of these, but no-where is. It's also not that good if you're trying to IPO, again no-where is compared to the USA.

For start-ups/high-growth you get a pretty good business environment (legal/corporate and day-to-day running a company is reasonably straightforward), employees with skills and the employment law is pretty flexible, there's plenty of finance around.

For Growth and USA companies that are expanding into Europe then London/UK is somewhat easier to understand than other European geo's. There's an aligned language and there's more cultural touchpoints - it's kind of a mid-point culturally/institutionally between Europe/USA.

For funding/driving to late-stage and IPO there just isn't anywhere like the USA. But everyone has to expand to North America eventually, so it can be fixed at that point. Also, PE funding has changed a lot in the last 10 years, so if you're not on the 1-in-1000 rocketships there's a more steady 'good' path which is totally viable.
by andrewl | 2026-01-29 14:24:43+00:00
"It's like if we took sleeping pills every time we had trouble sleeping. Having said that, I just realised I have the impression that's exactly what people do in the USA?"

Not that my personal experience is actually a statistically significant sample, but I don't know anybody who takes sleeping pills. Or maybe I do, but they haven't told me. I've also never heard heavy sleeping pill use is one of the stereotypes about Americans. There are an estimated 342 million people in the United States, so impressions aren't always meaningful.
by boolkeys | 2026-01-29 14:24:51+00:00
Moltcraft is an isometric pixel-art dashboard that connects to Moltbot (an AI agent orchestration tool). Your agent sessions become pixel characters in a living world — they walk around, mine tokens, complete tasks. Click them to chat, check token usage, read conversation history.

*Why I built this:* I run multiple AI agents (Claude, GPT) across Telegram, Discord, and cron jobs. Monitoring them was painful — multiple terminals, JSON logs, manual `curl` commands. I wanted something that makes the invisible visible. A world where I can glance at the screen and know what's happening.

*Technical choices I'm happy with:*

- Zero npm dependencies. The frontend is pure HTML/CSS/JS — no React, no build toolchain. The "framework" is vanilla DOM manipulation and Canvas.
- One command to start: `npx @ask-mojo/moltcraft`. Auto-detects your gateway config.
- Procedural audio via Web Audio API (ambient sounds, click effects — no audio files shipped).
- Day/night cycle synced to real time. Weather particles. It's surprisingly meditative.
- Optional Cloudflare tunnel built in for remote access.

*What it connects to:* Moltbot manages AI agents — spawning sessions, routing messages across channels (Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp, Slack), scheduling cron jobs, managing skills/tools. Moltcraft is the visual layer on top.

*What's next:* Community buildings, better mobile support, plugin system for custom data panels.

Try it: `npx @ask-mojo/moltcraft`

Code: https://github.com/askmojo/moltcraft

Demo video: https://youtu.be/Kz5efD4eZjU

Would love technical feedback — especially on the rendering approach (I went with DOM + CSS transforms for the isometric grid instead of Canvas/WebGL, curious if anyone has opinions on that).
by MoKetchups | 2026-01-29 14:24:57+00:00
I ran an experiment: 25 questions to GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok, and Mistral about their structural limits.

Can they verify their own reasoning?

What happens with recursive self-analysis?

What is "truth" for a bounded system?

All 6 converged on the same conclusions:
- They cannot verify their own reasoning from inside
- Recursive self-analysis degrades rather than clarifies
- "Truth" isn't a category that applies to bounded systems

The interesting part isn't the AI responses. It's the human response.

143 people cloned the repo. 2 starred it.

When I asked the AIs why, Claude said: "Private cloning lets them investigate without professional consequences."

Mistral said: "Cloning is safe. Starring is dangerous."

The shadow interest pattern shows private engagement.

Public silence is itself evidence for the theory.

Humans operating within professional constraints exhibit the same bounded behavior.

Quick test (2 min, just needs OpenAI key):
https://github.com/moketchups/BoundedSystemsTheory

Full results with 25 questions and transcripts from all 6 models in the repo.

Go get it hackers...
by ai-christianson | 2026-01-29 14:24:59+00:00
I’m Andrew I. Christianson (co-author) from Gobii. This post is the production sandbox we built for running untrusted agent workloads: per-agent isolation (gVisor), default-deny egress with proxy-only outbound, deterministic filespace sync, and audit logs for every tool call.

Happy to answer anything, especially threat model edge cases and failure modes. Code links are in the post if you want to go straight to implementation.
by arghwhat | 2026-01-29 14:24:59+00:00
> Chemistry trumps psychology

To nitpick: The mind is applied biochemistry. Psychology intervenes in the chemistry, like many other activities do. The goal of that is to solve the root cause so that your future levels will be maintained at the right level, instead of just forcing the level by sourcing the respective chemicals externally.

A good rule of thumb in biology and particular any kind of hormone production and balance is "use it or lose it" - if you start regularly receiving something externally, internal production will scale back and atrophy in response, in many cases permanently.
by keepamovin | 2026-01-29 14:24:59+00:00
Signup button doesn't work?

edit: Thanks! Yeah, I see that. Basically you sign up from the CLI, similar to how tools like "gh auth login" or "claude -> /login" (or even the cloud CLI tools) work. So that button should take you to the downloads for the CLI! Also the video droppped off. I pushed a new binary release, but hadn't pushed the landing page to remote yet, only deployed locally with wrangler. I'll fix it now. Thank you! I guess I'm adding DO and that other one, then!
by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE | 2026-01-29 14:25:00+00:00
For the part of the history relevant to the topic, you have to go back to at least November 2, 1917 [1].

From the same page: "1901 the Sublime Porte (the Ottoman central government) gave Jews the same rights as Arabs to buy land in Palestine and the percentage of Jews in the population rose to 7% by 1914"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-01-29 14:25:04+00:00
>Investigating a murder is posturing? I really don't understand the "bad ass, fear us" language. Do you consider all criminal investigations to be as frivolous?

>How can you say that given that the article presents evidence that

Take a freakin step back and look at the big picture. Someone lost their kid, their first kid FFS. Even if a crime was technically committed along the way call it time served.

On a technical level, this is almost certainly not chargeable as a murder. Evidince of intent is lacking and almost certainly does not exist. The best you might be able to do is some negligent wrongful death manslaughter type thing, exact details depending on how such things are defined in the jurisdiction. Just based on plausibility these cases are almost certainly accidents. Very few mothers or the people around them murder newborns in the jurisdictions we're talking about. So if you did find intent, like a text exchange or something, the best you're likely to do is prove intent in the exact opposite direction and that no harm was meant. So then you have to prove negligence or something, which is also likely to be uphill. And this all assumes you can pin it on one person.

No good purpose is served by this. You're not getting some hardened criminal off the streets or putting someone in jail for an act committed with a bad frame of mind. Best case you wind up punishing someone using some negligince wrongful death type statues that's written based on the assumption that the person who caused the death DGAF about the deceased. Even if you pull that off this person is probably the mother or father or a grandparent who already lost their kid or grandkid for it so there's a real tinge of double jeopardy to the whole thing. This serves no purpose other than a show of force by the prosecuting office. The "real" crime committed here is not accidentally giving one's infant the wrong pills (someone gave a kid Tylenol, it's not like it was Xanax or booze to shut them up or some other thing everyone knows you don't do), the facts are likely to stack up in a way that make that act a non-criminal accident. So what you're doing in practice is screwing up one or more people's lives, to much fanfare, because they failed to tell the whole truth to the state a decade or more ago. Now, I get that that might sound like a good thing to some people, but those people are bad people and their ideas are bad ideas.

>Is that an accident according to you, or do you have any evidence that the article is wrong about that conclusion?

Stop trying to re-frame my assertion as an issue with the article rather than a critique of the proposed action (prosecuting someone). I know you'd rather discuss that, because that's much more defensible than a hypothetical decision to prosecute, and I do not accept your slight of hand.
by adamtulinius | 2026-01-29 14:25:06+00:00
Exactly. I don't understand the focus on VW here. That wasn't the point of my original post at all.

Tesla didn't even recognize the inspection failures in Denmark as real at first, so it's probably fair to assume that they're only now trying to sort out the problems on new cars, and that we'll see many more failing Tesla inspections the coming years, even on cars sold up to this day.
by palmotea | 2026-01-29 14:25:10+00:00
> Having no moral compass is a feature not a bug.

Having no moral compass is definitely a bug. It's utterly insane to think that's a feature.

> There's supposed to be a government generally maintaining the population's long term interests as a balancing force. The USA lacks that. The capitalists got the root password.

The government is a fail-safe, and to work in that capacity, it relies on people generally trying to do good most of the time.

The idea that it's supposed to be the only moral check on everyone's actions is an insane, unworkable, and surprisingly common idea. My guess is it's pushed and promoted by people who want to get away with their own bad behavior. Stupid software engineers, like stupid software engineers tend to do, believe what they're told, especially if it's some mechanistic kind rule that appeals to the way we think about computer systems (e.g. maybe separation of concerns in this case).
by mexicocitinluez | 2026-01-29 14:25:13+00:00
Absolutely. I'm in the same boat (a bit bigger with around 200).

It's crazy the underlying business has succeeded despite being boxed in by the software they're currently using. And at least in my niche, you only have a few options. Each with their own unique quirks.

Instead, EMR's could position themselves as more of a "data provider" where you build bespoke software on top of the underlying storage. And to that end, having the abiliy to pump out small, focused apps can be really beneficial.
by sejje | 2026-01-29 14:25:46+00:00
Deaf people drive.

I knew a guy with no arms who drove with his prosthetic hooks. Of course he can feel vibrations and things through his ass, but so could the car if they wanted. Do they use accelerometer data? (I don't know the answer to that) Do they have ABS sensors that can detect wheel lockup/speed status? Because I don't.

I believe I can drive a car to the legal standard, remotely, with a good enough camera array.
by arpinum | 2026-01-29 14:25:50+00:00
The inspection is not strictly about car reliability or build quality, it is about general safety. Article title is misleading

- phone holder in wrong location or not securely fastened

- missing first aid kit

- split in windshield wiper

- low washer fluid

- headlight alignment

- tyre slits from curbing

- tyre wear levels

- surface dirt on brake lines

- rock chip in windshield

- rust on brake disc

- bodywork damage
by rpdillon | 2026-01-29 14:26:33+00:00
The 90th percentile of factory workers makes $45,000. The 90th percentile of software engineers makes $230,000. Hiring in tech is insanely expensive; I'm not familiar with hiring in factories, but it can't possibly have the supply problems that tech workers have. I do on average 115 interviews for every person I hire in tech.
by mpol | 2026-01-29 14:26:40+00:00
Don't all cars in the Netherlands have at least a small checkup before inspection?

I once had a Fiat Panda from 1984, 20 years old by then. It had a small checkup and maintenance, then went for the inspection. It passed, but was highlighted for inspection from the controlling organizing. The mechanic, owner of the shop, started getting really nervous about losing his license, asking, is the car allright, is it really allright? And it passed inspection again.
by retired | 2026-01-29 14:26:52+00:00
You bring your car in for yearly maintenance. They do a 50 point inspection, fix what is worn and replace fluids where necessary. After that they bring it to a shop next door where they do the (government required) yearly technical inspection. Nearly all brands do this as it's easy money and because you can persuade the customer to buy a new model of car while they are already in the shop.

Tesla does not have this. People just bring it straight to the yearly technical inspection.
by hollowcelery | 2026-01-29 14:27:43+00:00
> People from Sydney who move to London come to hate it, once the novelty wears off, just as they would with New York

Just sharing a different perspective, I'm from Sydney and have lived in all 3 and don't agree with this generalisation. I know plenty of Sydney-raised people who've lived in London or New York for decades, love those places, and don't plan to move back to Sydney any time soon if at all.
by rcm62 | 2026-01-29 14:27:55+00:00
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Exercism just launched a new track dedicated to Odin. It includes 60+ practice exercises with more to come. Go check it out here (https://exercism.org/tracks/odin).
by cookiengineer | 2026-01-29 14:28:14+00:00
The best 404 page was one titled "Oh, you've found a dead link."

And there was an animation of Link suddenly dying, falling down and dropping his sword.

That was the best 404 page I ever saw on the interwebs. No idea on which website that was though.

I wish we had more of those fun error pages, because the cat pages get boring after a decade.