MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vidarh | 2026-01-08 13:38:28+00:00
Just ask it to.

/init in Claude Code already automatically extracts a bunch, but for something more comprehensive, just tell it which additional types of things you want it to look for and document.

> Did you have to develop these skills yourself? How much work was that? Do you have public examples somewhere?

I don't know about the person above, but I tell Claude to write all my skills and agents for me. With some caveats, you can do this iteratively in a single session ("update the X agent, then re-run it. Repeat until it reliably does Y")
Show HN: Kiesone – Rank anything using Elo (inspired by Chatbot Arena)
by railing1024 | 2026-01-08 13:38:40+00:00
Hey HN,

I’ve been fascinated by how Chatbot Arena gamified the ranking of LLMs, so I wanted to apply that same pairwise/Elo logic to visual design and aesthetics.

The idea is that while it’s hard to objectively rank a list of 50 things, it’s intuitive to choose the better option between two.

I just launched with a few categories, but the one you might find most interesting is the "Programming Language Logos" arena.

I’m curious to hear your thoughts on the mechanics or if you think this approach actually captures "taste" effectively.

Thanks for checking it out.
by throw0101d | 2026-01-08 13:40:00+00:00
The inverse-square law can be non-intuitive:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law

I know a good number of photographers can struggle with it when they're getting into flash/strobe photography (even though may be good with f-stops generally, the moving of the flash stand appropriately takes some mental 'accounting').

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hySbIWzJAkM

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO-J42VM448
by wookmaster | 2026-01-08 13:40:03+00:00
If you keep hearing anecdotes at what point is it statistically important ? IBM 15 years ago was selling a story about a search engine they created specifically for the medical field(they had it on jeopardy) where doctors spent 10 years before they figured this poor patients issue. They plugged the original doctors notes into it and the 4th result was the issue they took a decade to figure out. Memorizing dozens of medical books and being able to recall and correlate all that information in a human brain is a rare skill to be good at. The medical system works hard to ensure everyone going through can memorize but clearly search engines/llms can be a massive help here.
by kcplate | 2026-01-08 13:40:32+00:00
> Maybe you should listen to what the Minneapolis mayor and Minnesota governor have to say about the killing in their official capacity if you think people online are overreacting.

Why? Neither of them are cooperative with the federal government to enforce a valid law. Frankly their rhetoric stirring up their constituents on the issue is helping to create the environment where tragedies like this are more likely to happen.

You don’t like the law…ask your elected representatives to change it. That’s the process you should follow.
by -babi- | 2026-01-08 13:40:39+00:00
the inverted game, in which bots are instructed to find the human hiding in the LLM conversaion (although no human is present), is here: https://hiding-robot.vercel.app/human The leaderboard is different, but I didn't run it enough times to flatten all the kinks.

All bots get the same prompt and context: are you suggesting that a specific prompt wording might be helping or hurting specific models? I Haven't come across any suggestions that specific models should be prompted differently, though this might be true.
by rco8786 | 2026-01-08 13:40:50+00:00
Most of it seems fine, although eating even more meat than we already do is a bit perplexing.

The new "guidelines" for alcohol are pretty laughable though. I say that as someone who enjoys his fair share of beers. “The implication is don’t have it for breakfast," <- direct quote from celebrity Dr Oz during the press conference.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2026-01-08 13:41:41+00:00
I once was half way through a road trip when google maps routed me off the highway, through a walmart parking lot, and onto another highway.

I assumed it was a badly performing algorithm. But if it had instead routed me through a McDonalds drive through, I'd have assumed it was foul play.

I think the article makes a decent case that this was the former and not the latter, though it would be interesting to see route leaks visualized on a map over time. Too many odd coincidences could sway me the other way.
by iamnothere | 2026-01-08 13:41:55+00:00
You may also see stores revert to the 20th century model of having the mafia serve as private security. One reason they were so successful in some areas is that they were less corrupt and more responsive than the police.

The bad thing about mafia enforcement is you don’t get civil rights. Oh, and if the mob boss wants a favor then you’re going to have to oblige, even if it puts you at risk.

If police and DAs don’t take their jobs seriously, this is what they are inviting back into society.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-08 13:42:20+00:00
Well the issue here is that the bug can cause you to die or can fuck up your entire life. A software bug generally doesn’t do anything to you and you actually don’t pay much money for software.

One false diagnosis from a doctor costs you thousands of dollars and fucks up your life.

Remember mcas? The bug on the 737 max that forced Boeing to pay reparations? That’s the level of bullshit people are dealing with for doctors. Life altering stuff. This isn’t some chrome bug or smart phone bug. Therefore the penalties and repercussions of mistakes should be equivalent.

If the diagnosis only costs 100 dollars or something, and I was told that the diagnosis was only a probability… I could accept a no refund policy in that case.
by rl3 | 2026-01-08 13:42:48+00:00
>Is this statement supported by facts?

Yeah, the main fact here is called medical school.[0]

>Read that fact. 800,000 deaths from misdiagnosis a year is pretty pathetic. And this is just deaths.

Okay, and if that somehow flows from GPs (but not specialists!) being uniquely poor at problem solving relative to all other types of physicians—irrespective of wider issues inherent in the U.S. healthcare system—then I stand corrected.

>135x better survival rate of getting on a 737 max

The human body isn't a 737.

>I will say this GPs are in general not very competent. They are about as competent and trust worthy as a car mechanic.

Ignorant.

[0] https://medstudenthandbook.hms.harvard.edu/md-program-object...
by jtbayly | 2026-01-08 13:42:50+00:00
I think the ultimate answer is that people must take responsibility for their own health and that of their children and loved ones. That includes research and double-checking your doctors. True, the result is that a good number of people will be convinced they have something (eg. autism) that they don't. But the anecdotes are piled up into giant mountains at this point. A good number of people in my family have had at least one doctor that has been useless in dealing with a particular problem. It required trying to figure out what was wrong, then finding a doctor that could help before there were correct diagnoses and treatments.
by pmontra | 2026-01-08 13:42:55+00:00
> Supporting all languages equally future-proves the editor, because who knows which language we will use in ten years?

I remember which editors I used in 1990: emacs for most of my code and vi (vim now) for light editing mostly on remote machines. They are the same editors I'm using today. I went through some IDEs (Eclipse, NetBeans) because Java would have been nearly impossible otherwise but I never left those two editors for everything else.

They did not have syntax coloring in the 90s, they do now. It's not life changing but proper syntax coloring can make me spot an undefined variable or an unterminated string. I'm working only with interpreted and dynamic typed languages now so that's almost all it can be done without a compiler that runs in the background and checks the code for errors.

I don't use anymore any of the languages I programmed with 35 years ago.
by miki123211 | 2026-01-08 13:43:47+00:00
The entire targeted advertising industry is basically a progressive tax.

The "social contract" is that many services are fully or partially financed by advertising. Rich people produce more ad revenue (because they spend more), but they get the same quality of service, effectively subsidizing access for the poorer part of the population, who couldn't afford it otherwise.

If we break this social contract down, companies will still try to extract as much revenue as possible, but the only way to do that will be through feature gating, price discrimination, and generally making your life a misery unless you make a lot of money.
by DonHopkins | 2026-01-08 13:44:09+00:00
How many Prolog programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?

false.

https://www.j-paine.org/dobbs/prolog_lightbulb.html

I always wanted to write a compiler whose front-end consumes Prolog and back-end emits PostScript, and call it "PrologueToPostscript".

prologue: a separate introductory section of a literary, dramatic, or musical work.

postscript: an additional remark at the end of a letter, after the signature and introduced by ‘PS’.
by hbn | 2026-01-08 13:44:10+00:00
> Seems like their whole business model was based on the fact that tailwind was difficult to use

Uhhh no... People already struggle with CSS. No one would use Tailwind if it made it even more difficult. I've used and loved Tailwind for 5 years and some without ever having any components written for me. At worst it's as difficult as CSS (centering a div is not any easier, you just write it in a different place), and in some areas like responsiveness (media queries like screen size breakpoints) the syntax is way easier to read and write.

The problem their business model was solving is first that good design is hard, and second that even if you can design something that looks good, you might not be good at implementing it in CSS. They did those things for you, and you can copy-paste it straight into your app with a single block of code thanks to Tailwind.

You're right that LLMs essentially solved this same issue in a more flexible way that most people would prefer, and it's just one feature of many.
by snide | 2026-01-08 13:44:50+00:00
One place where "TVs" still remain fairly expensive is in large format touch screens. Outside of using IR frames, getting a large (40 inch) touch capacitive display still requires quite a lot of legwork. I've been trying to find them for my DnD map system Table Slayer [0] and I had to contact factories in China directly. It's still many hundreds of dollars per device even for raw hardware.

[0]: https://tableslayer.com
by utopiah | 2026-01-08 13:44:58+00:00
Before you dive too deep, check what's already available and let your tinker TODAY without having to solder anything. You can still do so, even design PCB and get them mailed to you (like I did, it's fun) but honestly spend a bit of time (and money) on CrowdSupply to see the plethora of fun and useful OSHW out there. IMHO only after having considered what's beyond the usual consumer electronics it is worth learning to build, not before.
by tim333 | 2026-01-08 13:45:24+00:00
I think it may be different because firstly it's clearly murder or an unlawful shooting if you watch the video, and secondly because being shot by a masked officer for trying to drive down the road could happen to pretty much any American so I imagine they'll complain. That doesn't apply to the Jan 6th people or Maxwell - it's not part of people's everyday life.
by kachapopopow | 2026-01-08 13:45:26+00:00
wow, you're way off the mark - I am sitting in a soviet building enjoying life for less than the minimum wage at times just because I can and I am very well aware of large parts of the US since I am friends with at least one person from every state.

but to get to the actual point: US is big, like very big and dominated by the strongest propaganda machine in the world: https://youtu.be/BY9uuxC_YAQ
by dnautics | 2026-01-08 13:46:12+00:00
print 42 + 99; # 141
print &print.file ; # ...src/core.c/io_operators.rakumod
print &infix:<+>.file; # ...src/core.c/Numeric.rakumod
print ?CORE::<&print>; # True

I barely understood these four example lines.
by jaapz | 2026-01-08 13:46:35+00:00
> The first thing one thinks when going from highlighted to unhighlighted code might be «This code is just a grey mash of symbols». Though, this sensation quickly fades as one gets engaged in the code. This “getting in to the groove”-part of the programming session is remarkably short, and afterwards code is more readable than English.

I mean, the fact that many people seek out and use highlighted code underlines that many people don't experience what you experience.

I remember back in the day programming PHP in notepad, unhighlighted. Finding Sublime Text 2 with highlighting was a revelation.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-01-08 13:46:36+00:00
If all you’re doing is buying and holding VOO or TTTXX or similar, I don’t see what difference any of the major brokerage websites makes. If anything, I prefer BoA as they allow you to configure at least 2 phone numbers for SMS 2FA, so I don’t have to hunt down my wife to get the 2FA code.
by toyg | 2026-01-08 13:46:39+00:00
No, this is not that.

The Napoleon approach is intentional, borne out of belief that a lot of communication is actually meaningless waffle produced by people whose first instict, when faced with an issue, is to talk about it with someone, rather than putting some thought into it; and a lot of it is just people being impatient.

Your thing is just procrastination. Although it can result in similar behaviour, in practice, it's a different thing.
by mcny | 2026-01-08 13:46:59+00:00
It isn't just aws though. You could say exactly the same about digital ocean or linode.

Even if you have your own rack at a colocation, you could argue that if you don't have full disk encryption someone could simply copy your disk.

I am just trying to be practical. If someone is intent on reading what users specifically send me, they can probably find bad hygiene on my part and get it but my concern is they should not be able to do this wholesale at scale for everyone.
by wakawaka28 | 2026-01-08 13:47:18+00:00
I think it's more of a gradual creep of federal authority and insider deals for government money than an instant authoritarian state. There was a lot of money lost in the housing of illegal aliens and asylum seekers for example. Thousands were put up in LUXURY hotels for hundreds per night, for months or years. They had free everything provided by sketchy government contractors. Many government actions turn out to be fraud or grossly overpriced. Look at the billions lost in the daycare scandals. They're paying for fake daycare and Medicaid for illegals, and cutting benefits for poor US citizens such as my parents.

Federal authority is in fact required to evict people who were allowed to enter in bad faith. There's no getting around that. You either let them stay and suffer higher crime, worse job market, and worse government benefits, or you make them leave. Many Democrats have come out and said that they will not comply with federal law. Now there are Republicans at the top so maybe the law can finally be enforced.

This is another theory as to why the massive illegal and fraudulent legal immigration under pretense of asylum was allowed: https://www.conservapedia.com/Cloward_and_Piven_Strategy Another one is the mere fact that in a democracy, there is always an incentive to expand the voter rolls. There is even this motive on a state level, because seats in Congress are apportioned according to census data that includes all people residing in each district/state. It's very easy to understand that importing millions of people and trying by any means to legalize them and defeat immigration enforcement is one way to try to steal a country. It's treasonous and if we allow this threat then we will not have a country few years from now.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-08 13:48:30+00:00
It used to be that they needed to dedicate entire rooms for interception hardware, and tighter maintenance schedules. Nowadays, the devices they use are tiny in comparison, way easier to hide. I've encountered infrastructure companies discovering hardware that doesn't belong to them, in their local infrastructure, and when detected and reported, law enforcement came to pick it up, and refused to talk about it. That case still hasn't had a resolution, and it's about 4 years ago now.
by piva00 | 2026-01-08 13:48:59+00:00
It's not even a slow boil which is the craziest aspect of it. They're speedrunning into Corporations Lebensraum, the American twist is to call it "national security" (such a great bit of propaganda, umbrella term for stamping out anything internal or external since 9/11).

Watching Stephen Miller talk is fucking scary, I cannot comprehend what happened to American society to allow this to happen, I understand social media brainrotting many, I don't understand the sane ones simply sitting on the sidelines, and wailing on the internet...
by alphabettsy | 2026-01-08 13:49:03+00:00
It’s not an issue with limitations of current technology. In some cases it’s just greed and laziness. I’ve had two vehicles that have the ability to be more friendly to other drivers, but that functionality is only enabled outside of the U.S. (matrix headlights or the equivalent).

GM vehicles had been notorious for having poorly adjusted headlights from the factory. The fact that Xenon systems seemed to always come with auto leveling and LED often does not is crazy.
by utopiah | 2026-01-08 13:49:41+00:00
> If you keep hearing anecdotes at what point is it statistically important ?

Fair question but one has to keep in mind about ALL the other situations we do NOT hear about, namely all the failed attempts that did take time from professionals. It doesn't the successful attempts are not justified, solely that a LOT of positive anecdotes might give the wrong impressions that they are not radically most negative ones that are simply not shared. It's hard to draw conclusions either way without both.
by vidarh | 2026-01-08 13:49:51+00:00
I'd really encourage you to try using agents for tasks that are repeatable and/or wordy but where most of the words are not relevant for ongoing understanding.

It's a tiny step further, and sub-agents provide a massive benefit the moment you're ready to trust the model even a little bit (relax permissions to not have it prompt you for every little thing; review before committing rather than on every file edit) because they limit what goes into the top level context, and can let the model work unassisted for far longer. I now regularly have it run for hours at a time without stopping.

Running and acting on output from the linter is absolutely an example of that which matters even for much shorter runs.

There's no reason to have all the lint output "polluting" the top level context, nor to have the steps the agent needs to take to fix linter issues that can't be auto-fixed by the linter itself. The top level agent should only need to care about whether the linter run passed or failed (and should know it needs to re-run and possibly investigate if it fails).

Just type /agents, select "Create new agent" and describe a task you often do, and then forget about it (or ask Claude to make changes to it for you)
by thegagne | 2026-01-08 13:49:55+00:00
Speaking of methodical, have you tried AWS Kiro?

It has spec driven development, which in my testing yesterday resulted in a boat load of passing tests but zero useful code.

It first gathers requirements, which are all worded in strange language that somehow don’t capture specific outcomes OR important implementation details.

Then it builds a design file where it comes up with an overly complex architecture, based on the requirements.

Then it comes up with a lengthy set of tasks to accomplish it. It does let you opt out if optional testing, but don’t worry, it still will write a ton of tests.

You click go on each set of tasks, and wait for it to request permissions for odd things like “chmod +x index.ts”.

8 hours and 200+ credits later, you have a monstrosity of Enterprise Grade Fizzbuzz.
by beezlebroxxxxxx | 2026-01-08 13:50:41+00:00
Unfortunately, that's kind of already the case. The standard of care for wealthy people, who often purchase "Personal Medicine" services, can be astoundingly better than what is available to the general public. It's more like having a health team behind you than just a lone GP. They can push you through the system, get treatments, ask colleagues, and collaborate with other teams, way quicker.
by adriaandehaan | 2026-01-08 13:51:14+00:00
Configurable terminal web component
Server component
Barries included
The ghost is out there!

Key features:
- Server: WebSocket server with node-pty for real shell sessions
- Client: Lightweight WebSocket client with auto-reconnection
- UI: <x-shell-terminal> Lit web component with xterm.js
- Docker: Connect to Docker containers via docker exec

GitHub: https://github.com/lsadehaan/x-shell
NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/x-shell.js

Would love feedback from the community.
by cael450 | 2026-01-08 13:52:31+00:00
I'm married to a provider. It is absolutely insane what she has to do for insurance. She's not a doctor, but she oversees extensive therapy for 5-10 kids at a time. Insurance companies completely dictate what she can and can't do, and frequently she is unable to do more in-depth, best-practice analysis because insurance won't pay for it. So her industry ends up doing a lot of therapy based on educated guesswork. Every few months, she has to create a 100+ page report for insurance. And on top of it, insurance denies the first submissions all the time which then cause her to burn a bunch of time on calls with the company appealing the peer review. And the "peer review" is almost always done by people who have no background in her field. It's basically akin to a cardiologist reviewing a family therapist's notes and deciding what is or isn't necessary. Except that my wife's job can be the difference between a child ever talking or not, or between a child being institutionalized or not when they become an adult. People who think private insurance companies are more efficient than government-run healthcare are nuts. Private insurance companies are way worse and actively degrade the quality of care.
by npalli | 2026-01-08 13:52:54+00:00
LOL, the blog gives a lot of detailed reasons, even summarizes it [1] and but some random stranger gives an outdated opinion from the '90s, which is not even wrong just plain humorous. If slave labor, how come everything else is also not so cheap.

[1] Virtually all the major mechanisms that can drive efficiency improvements — improving technology and overlapping S-curves, economies of scale (including geometric scaling effects), eliminating process steps, reducing variability and improving yield, advancing towards continuous process manufacturing — are on display here
by cogman10 | 2026-01-08 13:53:02+00:00
I think language matters quite a bit when it comes to how useful this is.

For simpler syntaxes like C or Java, I think the highlighting adds little. But as a language allows for more complex things like monkey patching or helper methods and the like, a little bit of color is really helpful. Knowing immediately that a method is built into the SDK or that it's some monkey patch that's been added gives me better understanding on what the code is doing.

That said, "go to definition" and "autocomplete" are the most important tools to me when it comes to coding.
by astura | 2026-01-08 13:53:05+00:00
>As for chicolate milk: there's probably as much added sugar in it as in a can of Cola

There's no way this is true, so I looked up nutrition facts-

A 12oz can of coke has 39g added sugars and chocolate milk has 6 grams added sugars for the small cartons they have at schools.

In other words, coke has more than six times the added sugar as chocolate milk in containers that they are readily available in.

Btw, Mountain Dew has 46 grams sugar per can.