MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mitchellh | 2026-01-10 21:55:04+00:00
Static HTML/CSS generated by Opus 4.5.

I like using AI for visualizations because it is one-time use throwaway code, so the quality doesn't matter at all (above not being TOTALLY stupid), it doesn't need to be maintained. I review the end result carefully for correctness because it's on a topic I'm an expert of.

I produce non-reusable diagrams namespaced by blog post (so they're never used by any other post). I just sanity check that the implementation isn't like... mining bitcoin or leaking secrets (my personal site has no secrets to build) or something. After that, I don't care at all about that quality.

The information is conveys is the critical part, and diagrams like this make it so much more consumable for people.
by randycupertino | 2026-01-10 21:55:47+00:00
Gawker had some crazy coverage of Schmidt back in the day: https://www.gawkerarchives.com/5497193/exclusive-how-googles...

https://www.gawkerarchives.com/296074/eric-schmidts-girlfrie...

also page 6
https://pagesix.com/2019/08/03/ex-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-ma...
by christophilus | 2026-01-10 21:56:35+00:00
I’ve been building web sites and applications since 2000. I’ve done just about everything you can imagine SCSS, BEM, whatever. Tailwind is the best thing I’ve seen in that time.

We can agree to disagree about that, and that’s OK.

I should note that other than Clojure, I absolutely hate dynamically typed languages. I suspect (though dunno how to prove it) that folks who like Tailwind probably like statically typed systems and maybe functional programming- it seems to fit into that philosophical niche. And probably people who like vanilla CSS are in a different category.

I’d love to hear from both camps to find out whether or not that tracks.
by bstar77 | 2026-01-10 21:57:48+00:00
I have been primarily in the tiling window manager space for the past 5 years… that said I’ve been driving Cosmic on my NixOS workstation and I’m really impressed… it looks great, is simple, performs well and does tiling quite well. It’s not going to take me away from Niri, but it’s my goto suggestion now for any one getting into Linux.
by somerandomqaguy | 2026-01-10 21:57:49+00:00
>Honestly I can't comprehend Americans thinking their constitution is some holy grail. It's old and has been written centuries ago without all the experience we have in modern democracies. Eastern Europe too has made very bad choices with similar setups and democratically elected presidents.

I don't think it's the Constitution in of itself that's a holy grail. Just look at how hotly debated the 2nd Amendment is, especially among Americans.

I think the true holy grail is the process to amend it, because that requires a relatively clear majority of Americans to agree to change it; well beyond 50% if I remember American civics correctly. It's a living document, changed as needed. It just hasn't as of late because the process is arduous on purpose to prevent heated decisions from being rushed through.
by petermcneeley | 2026-01-10 21:58:49+00:00
In terms of textures you could already do pseudo-bindless using texture arrays. However there were quite a few limitations but I think the two bigs ones are that this was consider to be conceptually one resource and the textures had to be the same (format size etc). I recall some engines did this kind of bindless for particle effects.

That being said the non indexable feature feature that remains is the pipeline itself. Some engines have 10s of thousands of shaders.
by grog454 | 2026-01-10 21:58:56+00:00
> I reboot, log into Epic and GOG, and start downloading The Outer Worlds, a game from 2019 I’ve been playing a bit lately. It runs fine with Proton, and I can even sync my saves from the cloud. I play it for a few minutes with my trackball, remember I hate gaming on a trackball, and plug my gaming mouse back in. It works fine as long as I’m in the game, but outside the game, mouse clicks stop working again. It makes sense — the bug is on the desktop, not in games — but it’s very funny to have a gaming mouse that only works for gaming.

What is it with mice and OSes?

Windows is the only OS I can seem to configure to get low latency, high accuracy, linear movement with, and it's not for lack of effort.

I struggled for several years to do SWE work on a Mac and no 3rd party program could get it working the way it does on Windows. I tried Linear Mouse and many others. I eventually gave up, went against the prevailing (90%) culture where I work, and exchanged my mac for a windows laptop. I haven't measured it, but I feel more productive simply because I can click what I want to click marginally faster.

Is something in Mac drivers performing non-linear mapping? Why?

Based on the quote above it seems like Linux hasn't even gotten up to par with Mac for mice.

The best litmus test for an OS for me is whether I could play an RTS or FPS competitively with it, even though I haven't played either for years.
by alphazard | 2026-01-10 21:59:56+00:00
> I want regulators to keep an eye on this and make smart laws.

Unfortunately any regulation should be expected to further the interests of the entrenched medical companies.
The regulation track record includes: a cartel controlling the supply of doctors, impossible barriers to entry for pharmaceuticals, and high insurance premiums, which often don't result in material coverage.

The reason ChatGPT has been such a boon for medical issues is that it is just acting as a general purpose research assistant.
It wasn't designed for medicine, it wasn't designed as a medical product or device.
It doesn't conform to the conventional wisdom that medical information is a different kind of thing.
It acts as if good medical outcomes are just engineering problems (which they are) and is happy to present information to help solve them.
It's not worried about accidentally giving out "medical advice" or stepping on a doctor's toes.
Once it is programmed to start worrying about those things (as a result of regulation), you can bet it will become less useful.
by detourdog | 2026-01-10 22:00:40+00:00
When Acrobat came out cross platform was not nearly as common so being able to publish a document that could be opened on multiple platforms was a big advanctage. I was using it to distribute technical specifications in the mid 90's. Different pages of these specifications came from, Filemaker, Excel, Word, Mini-Cad, Photoshop, Illustrator, and probably other applications as well. We would combine these into a single PDF file. This simplified version control. This also meant that bidders could not edit the specifications.

None of that could be accomplished with Word alone. I think you are underestimating the qualities of PDF for distribution of complex documents.
by qnleigh | 2026-01-10 22:01:19+00:00
These kinds of issues can be incredibly disruptive and distressing for non tech-savy users. You update your OS and suddenly it looks like a lot of your data are corrupted, with no explanation of how to get it back.

Forcing saving to OneDrive causes this issue a lot too. I was stunned to find that saving changes to an existing document will often try to save a new file in OneDrive instead. So if you don't notice this and go back to your original file, it will look like your changes weren't saved.
by tarokun33 | 2026-01-10 22:02:43+00:00
Even setting aside ethics and faith, from the perspective of the norm of reciprocity, being kind to travelers (or those who appear to be) is effective in winning them over as allies. In my personal experience, the more aggressive a person is, the more likely they are to be hyper-vigilant or starved for kindness, meaning they tend to be deeply moved by even a small gesture. Of course, genuine psychopaths in confined environments are the exception.
This is an extreme case, but a certain murderer (from a real incident in Japan) stated : "I just wanted to kill anyone. So, I stabbed the person who ignored me when I greeted them."
by hising | 2026-01-10 22:03:46+00:00
Yeah, I had a similar idea, I used Open AI API to break down movies into the 3 act structure, narrative, pacing, character arcs etc and then trying to find movies that are similar using PostgreSQL with pgvector. The idea was to have another way to find movies I would like to watch next based on more than "similar movies" in IMDb. Threw some hours at it, but I guess it is a system that needs a lot of data, a lot of tokens and enormous amount of tweaking to be useful. I love your idea! I agree with you on that we could use LLM:s for this kind of stuff that we as humans are quite bad at.
by MikeNotThePope | 2026-01-10 22:04:20+00:00
The way to be chill when you’re not working is to save up enough money so you can live without working, or take your time finding the next thing. The next best thing is to take the first job that pays enough, chill or not, and keep hunting u til you find a chill job. The next best thing is to learn to make any job chill.
by jeffbee | 2026-01-10 22:04:59+00:00
This seems like a solution looking for a problem. If the power companies were satisfied about the safety issues of this idea, which are obviously many and severe, then they would also be satisfied with simply mounting a charging platform for the drone atop the tower or pole where the HV line runs, which cuts out a lot of the uncertainty regarding the drone's autonomous guidance.

Also, the whole idea triggers my reflexive skepticism about any technology that seeks to remove the last human from the system. Usually there are exponentially increasing costs to removing the next human, and at some point it's not worth it. People want (wanted) to make sealed, autonomous data centers maintained by robots and it just isn't worth it. Even in manufacturing where robotic automation is ubiquitous and advanced there are still tons of humans.
by TuringTest | 2026-01-10 22:05:07+00:00
> If your training data is sufficiently moral, the outputs will be as well.

Correction: if your training data and the input prompts are sufficiently moral. Under malicious queries, or given the randomness introduced by sufficiently long chains of input/output, it's relatively easy to extract content from the model that the designers didn't want their users to get.

In any case, the elephant in the room is that the models have not been trained with "sufficiently moral" content, whatever that means. Large Language Models need to be trained on humongous amounts of text, which means that the builders need to use a lot of different, very large corpuses of content. It's impossible to filter all that diverse content to ensure that only 'moral content' is used; yet if it was possible, the model would be extremely less useful for the general case, as it would have large gaps of knowledge.
by grumio | 2026-01-10 22:05:45+00:00
> they didn’t arrest the co-conspirator that egged the decedent on

Glad to see you've abandoned trying to defend your lie that shooting at a vehicle is self-defence and moved on to another nonsense argument. But co-conspirator in what crime?

> save that for BlueSky where you can have a safe space.

I don't need a safe space from you. Your trolling doesn't affect me.
by noAnswer | 2026-01-10 22:05:56+00:00
I don't doubt you had that problem. But it, and the solution you want, sound a bit strange. You want a button that gives your user access to everything despite its access settings... Than login and work as root.

I mean it's hard to tell what really happened. But a different user could have created this files with access rights only for himself on purpose. Something one can do with NTFS on Windows too. It also could have been a distro bug.

> but sometimes these problems still pop up.

I'm a 90% Windows- 9.5% Linux- 0.5% Mac-Admin at day job: Don't tell me Windows has no problems poping up. ;-)
by azangru | 2026-01-10 22:06:18+00:00
> I suspect ... that folks who like Tailwind probably like statically typed systems and maybe functional programming- it seems to fit into that philosophical niche. And probably people who like vanilla CSS are in a different category.

I love vanilla CSS, love typescript, have a huge respect for functional programming, but also don't mind OOP ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
by tptacek | 2026-01-10 22:06:32+00:00
It's actually really easy in Claude Code. Get a TUI to the point where it renders something, and get Claude to the point where it knows what you want to render (draw it in ASCII like this post proposes, for instance).

Then just prompt Claude to "use tmux to interact with and test the TUI rendering", prompt it through anything it gets hung up on (for instance, you might remind Claude that it can create a tmux pane with fixed size, or that tmux has a capture-pane feature to dump the contents of a view). Claude already knows a bunch about tmux.

Once it gets anything useful done, ask it to "write a subagent definition for a TUI tester that uses tmux to exercise a TUI and test its rendering, layout, and interaction behavior".

Save that subagent definition, and now Claude can do closed-loop visual and interactive testing of its own TUI development.
by DELTA-X | 2026-01-10 22:07:16+00:00
This report evaluates the structural impact of integrating a governance protocol (PRS-A) into an existing 741-page corpus, under a constant perimeter.

No content was added, modified, or rewritten. The integration operates exclusively at the level of structure, governance, auditability, legal robustness, and usage safety.

Measured result: +31% global structural gain.

The work documents a co-architecture process between a human operator (formalization, legal responsibility) and an artificial cognitive entity (structural design and systemic integration).

PDF, methodology, and audit-ready description available via Zenodo.
by qwerpy | 2026-01-10 22:07:55+00:00
I understand that point and I still disagree with it. There are objective, direct measurements of strength (standardized tests, performance at state/nation-wide academic competitions, admissions essays), and we don't need to resort to this more flimsy chain of subjective comparisons that use "relative strength of student within school" and "relative strength of school across all schools".
by dminik | 2026-01-10 22:07:56+00:00
There's this reply in the comments from the author.

> Nah, it’s a problem with this particular mouse in X and Wayland and it’s been seen on Fedora and OpenSuse almost since the mouse came out. Not a Cachy issue, a nonstandard USB HID implementation by the vendor

Tbh, I don't even know what a distro would have to do to break this.
by UltraMagnus | 2026-01-10 22:08:22+00:00
Ditch the snipping tool, and try my favorite screen capture tool, FastStone Capture: https://www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htm

I am not associated with this software, just a very happy user. You get a lifetime license for $20, it's constantly updated with new features, and is a joy to use.
by Leftium | 2026-01-10 22:08:22+00:00
https://weather-sense.leftium.com shows both mm/hr and percentage chance.

I've noticed there is a correlation, but having both is useful:

- Often there is a percentage chance, but the mm/hr is 0. At these times, it could rain but will probably be very light.

- Less common, but sometimes there is 0% chance, but a non-zero mm/hr.
by Devasta | 2026-01-10 22:08:29+00:00
Thats honestly the reason why most stuff is a web app these days. For desktop software you need to deal with IT security losers who recoil in horror at the idea of computers running software, and god help you if you need a port opened.

Far better to shove everything through port 443 and redownload the software over and over until the end of time.
by sciences44 | 2026-01-10 22:08:34+00:00
Really interesting workflow, Addy! Two questions about your approach:

1. *Spec → Implementation process:* How do you ensure Claude actually completes everything in the spec and finds the optimal path? Do you:
- Document every step in extreme detail upfront (spec as single source of truth)?
- Use an agentic framework that lets Claude self-guide through implementation?
- Iteratively validate each step with human checkpoints?

2. *Tool comparison:* Have you experimented with GitHub Copilot vs Claude Code vs Cursor? What made you settle on your current stack?

I'm working on multi-step AI pipelines (3D mesh generation with validation stages), and I find that LLMs often skip edge cases or take suboptimal paths when given too much autonomy.

Curious if you've built any scaffolding/guardrails to keep the LLM on track, or if your spec writing has evolved to be more "agent-friendly"?

The balance between human specification vs. agent autonomy seems like the key challenge going into 2026 especially to allow code in production from agents.
by adrianmonk | 2026-01-10 22:09:23+00:00
The simplest might be for the drone company to act as an intermediary. They'd bill drone users for charging and have contracts with utilities. The drone company could do some authentication / DRM / etc. so that you'd basically have to jailbreak your drone to charge without paying.

Yes, I'm sure the markup would be large as a percentage, but for most customers the convenience would be worth it. Most of the customers are probably commercial and don't want to risk getting banned or sued.
Show HN: EB3F A framework to turn LLM audits into a legal-grade
by seesea | 2026-01-10 22:09:40+00:00
We’ve been working with auditors and compliance teams in regulated sectors (finance, healthcare) and hit a wall: LLM risk assessments are subjective, non-reproducible, and don't satisfy growing regulatory demands for evidence, not just opinions.

So we built EB3F (Evidence-Based Framework for Foundational Models). It's a packaged methodology that transforms an audit from a consultant's report into a standardized process for producing reproducible, legally-admissible exhibits.

The twist: We're not selling consulting services. We're structuring it as a transferable asset (like a franchise model). We sell the complete framework – methodology, tools, templates – so that consultancies, RegTech firms, or in-house teams can run their own certified audits.

We're looking for:

1. Feedback from experts in AI governance, compliance, and ML security. Is this approach useful? What's missing?
2. First partners (especially in consulting or RegTech) who want to implement this as their own service line. We're ready to discuss details under NDA.

Why would you buy this? Our estimate (based on building similar frameworks in corps): it saves 18-24 months and $750K-$1M+ in R&D, legal reviews, and piloting that you'd spend to build this in-house.

What does the community think? Can a "framework as an asset" model work in the AI governance space?
by iLemming | 2026-01-10 22:09:41+00:00
> it is adequate for a wide variety of tasks

Is it though? Like for example, I often deal with Org-mode documents of several thousand lines of text and I honestly don't know any piece of software that can acceptably handle multi-thousand lines of markdown.

Emacs/Org-mode has tons of different ways to navigate and search through these large bodies - the outline nature of the structure is perfect for that - there's narrowing, collapsing/expanding, sparse-tree search, flexible sorting, indirect buffers, imenu, overlays and text properties that can render the text conditionally, etc.

I read HN and Reddit threads in Org-mode format¹; I browse my Jira board and tickets in Org-mode², I have Wiktionary lookup³ and Thesaurus⁴ - all in Org-mode.

¹ https://youtu.be/ud3Gmxg5UZg

² https://github.com/agzam/go-jira.el

³ https://github.com/agzam/wiktionary-bro.el

⁴ https://github.com/agzam/mw-thesaurus.el

Comparing Org-mode and Markdown and saying "Markdown is widely used [and thus it's better]" is wildly immature - popularity doesn't determine fitness for purpose - PHP is more widely used than Rust or Zig, but that doesn't make it "better" for systems programming.

I can agree, Markdown is adequate for relatively small documents like README files, but it's nowhere close to even try to compete with Org-mode in so many different aspects far beyond just the markdown format structure.
by IanCal | 2026-01-10 22:10:13+00:00
> Insurance that is maximally responsive to patient health changes in terms of cost (ie making healthier people pay less) ends up being an inefficient way of just having people pay for their healthcare directly.

That's true for predictable costs, but not true for unpredictable ones - which is the point of most insurance (housing, car, etc). The point and use of insurance is to move risk to entities that can bear it.

Utility is non-linear with money, and so you easily have situations where spending X times more on something "costs" you more than X times if measured in how useful the money is to you.

Typically, as you have more money, each further dollar doesn't provide as much benefit as the last (sometimes things are lumpy, the difference between "not quite enough to pay rent" and "just enough to pay rent" is huge, but broadly this is true). Going from $1000 to $10000 is more impactful than $1001000 to $1010000.

That means that moving the other way, each additional dollar spent has a greater personal cost to you.

Therefore, sharing unlikely but high expenses can mean that your expected cost is the same (if there's no profit/middleman) or a bit higher, but your expected personal cost is lower.
Show HN: Human or AI-made song detector and 100% Private Audio Mastering
by aswinsilvadasan | 2026-01-10 22:10:30+00:00
Main tools on Kliga.com:

1) AI Music Detector

- Detects with 99.9% accuracy with smart models attuned to latest AI models.
- You can upload an audio file or paste a Spotify track URL and Kliga analyzes whether the music is likely AI-generated or human-made.
- It uses spectral + temporal analysis and gives a probability breakdown instead of a simple yes/no.

2) Audio Mastering

- 100% private, your songs never hit our servers
- Preview with 12 Studio-grade presets designed by industry experts.
- Download in HD-WAV 24 bit, MP3 320kbps for FREE.
- No audio engineering required.

There are other useful tools like video compressor, audio cutter, etc. Do check them out.

Why I built this:

- AI-generated music is everywhere now, but it’s hard to quickly verify authenticity accurately.

- Most artists want to master their songs privately before releasing. They want one-click processing happening in their own device without having to download an expensive software.

Direct Links to main tools:

- AI Detector: https://kliga.com/ai-music-detector

- Audio Mastering: https://kliga.com/mastering

Happy to answer any questions. Thanks for checking it out!
by anthk | 2026-01-10 22:11:32+00:00
With GNU/Linux and BSD I just recompile. I can run old C stuff from the 90's with few flags.

Under GNU/Linux, the VB6 counterpart would be TCL/Tk+SQlite, which would run nearly the same over almost 25-30 years.

As a plus, I can run my code with any editor and the TCL/Tk dependencies will straightly run on both XP, Mac, BSD and GNU/Linux with no propietary chains ever, or worse, that Visual Studio monstruosity. A simple editor will suffice and IronTCL weights less than 100MB and that even bundled with some tool, as BFG:

https://codeberg.org/luxferre/BFG

IronTCL:

https://www.irontcl.com/index.html

Good luck finding some VB5/6 runtime libraries out there without being a virii nest.