MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dpark | 2026-01-12 17:55:28+00:00
You are framing this as an AI problem, but from what I’m hearing, this is just an engineering culture problem.

You should not bet on the ability to ping humans on Slack long-term. Not because AI is going to replace human engineers, but because humans have fallible memories and leave jobs. To the extent that your processes require the ability to regularly ask other engineers “why the hell did you do this“, your processes are holding you back.

If anything, AI potentially makes this easier. Because it’s really easy to prompt the AI to record why the hell things are done the way they are, whether recording its own “thoughts” or recording the “why” it was given by an engineer.
by csemple | 2026-01-12 17:55:30+00:00
You’re totally right—it's ultimately just probabilistic tokens.
I’m thinking that by physically removing the tool definition from the context window, we avoid state desynchronization. If the tool exists in the context, the model plans to use it. When it hits a "stub" error, it can enter a retry loop or hallucinate success.
By removing the definition entirely, we align the model's World Model with its Permissions. It doesn't try to call a phone that doesn't exist.
by NikolaNovak | 2026-01-12 17:55:42+00:00
For me it's also the style of animation.

For some reason, if I don't think about it, instinctual I would always describe Overwatch (to take a gaming example) and Zootopia as "simple" graphics. My mind recalls big swathes of primary colours in relatively flat yet cheerful lighting, rounded/smoothed shapes, relatively little complex texturing or surface detail.

It's when I pause overwatch that I start realizing 1. how much detail there is, and 2. How quickly and flawlessly it's rendered on relatively slow computers. And then I start truly appreciating the relentless optimizing work to make it "seem simple and fast" :).

Same thing with Zootopia - I've enjoyed the movies (doesn't hurt that I have two young kids), but they would not come to mind if I were asked to name breakthrough or particularly well animated movies. Yet the detail and work is clearly there once you pause and examine :)
by habinero | 2026-01-12 17:56:02+00:00
That's not what a strawman is lol. Me saying the analogy sucks is just criticism.

If you feel judged about using AI, then your choices are (1) don't use it or (2) don't tell people you use it or (3) stop caring what other people think.

Have the courage of your own convictions and own your own actions.
Show HN: Conut.ai – We rebranded our AI creative tool
by heavenlxj | 2026-01-12 17:56:05+00:00
Hi HN,

We recently made a deliberate decision to rebrand our AI product from Kinkora to Conut.

This wasn’t about marketing or aesthetics. It came from a shift in how we understood the real problem creators face.

When we first launched, we focused heavily on prompting — helping users get better results from a specific model. Over time, we noticed a pattern:

Most friction didn’t come from starting a generation, but from what happens after.

People wanted to:

Compare outputs across models

Enhance or extend generated images

Turn results into videos or new variations

Iterate without starting from scratch

Prompting alone didn’t solve that.

So alongside the rebrand, we:

Redesigned parts of the UI around iteration, not one-shot generation

Added support for more models and creative modes

Started building toward an editor-style workflow, where post-generation control is first-class

Conut is still early, but the direction is now clearer:
AI as a creative workspace, not a prompt box.

Happy to answer questions or hear critiques — especially from anyone building tools in the creative or AI space.
by eudamoniac | 2026-01-12 17:56:05+00:00
I mean, everyone knows that D widely supports abortion. It's been shouted from the rooftops for decades. It wouldn't be very believable in one cycle even if they tried, which they didn't; neglecting to bring up the topic is not close to publicly dropping support. Part of why it's so bad for them is because it will be very difficult to get disentangled from it.

From a pro-life perspective, "well they didn't make it easier to murder babies or bring it up much" is not compelling.
by pupppet | 2026-01-12 17:56:15+00:00
>Oh yes—there are many such protections.

Oh! Well that certainly helps, I shouldn't have assumed they didn't exist.

>flag without recourse

I'm just referring to posts of a certain subject matter that tend to get flagged. If I'm anti-XYZ, is there anything stopping someone from flagging all things XYZ so they don't make the front page?
by open-meteo | 2026-01-12 17:56:35+00:00
Hi, creator of Open-Meteo here. The limits are 600 calls / min, 5.000 calls / hour and 10.000 calls / day. Limits are applied on an IP basis.

This is not ideal for shared hosting services like cloudflare workers, but is the easiest and privacy-friendly way to limit access to fair-use.

Additionally, weather data is uploaded to a AWS S3 open-data sponsorship and you can run your own API instances (even commercially). The only draw back is, that a lot of data needs to transferred. I am working on a S3 cloud-native approach, but it is still in testing.

The free tier is cross-financed by commercial customers that use the service for energy forecasting, agriculture planing or wild fire prevention. There is no external funding, VCs, or whatsoever, the code is build in public on GitHub and I intent to continue running the free API service as is.
by abetusk | 2026-01-12 17:56:43+00:00
Agreed. I think the source code is open and I think the data is open. The by-line is just a bit confusing.

I think what they're trying to say is "Our service is completely open source. Our code is open source and our data is open source. We provide reasonable rate limits to our API access for non-paying customers. See our pricing plan if you'd like to become a commercial user and increase your rate limits".
by Sesse__ | 2026-01-12 17:57:06+00:00
This is all true, but it is also true for most _other_ filters and effects, too; you always get some added delay. You generally don't have a lot of conversions in your chain, and they are more on the order of 16 samples and such, so the extra delay from chunking/buffering (you never really process sample-by-sample from the sound card, the overhead would be immense) tends to be more significant.
by Tanoc | 2026-01-12 17:57:14+00:00
I had a Soundblaster Live! Gold card back in the day, and I would route my record player or stereo through it so I could use a visualizer on my computer. You could hear the digital noise that was introduced on the highhats. And the source for the sound was a late '70s era Realistic system where everything was analogue. I never knew it was because of the soundcard. I'd always just chalked it up to either Windows XP or VLC doing something.
by jb3689 | 2026-01-12 17:57:18+00:00
The problem is that a lot of what is happening is within the executive branch's power and/or democratic. A nontrivial number of Americans support everything that has been happening. The expectation at a time like this would be that you have checks and balances working, but all other branches have yielded their power. I find that jaw dropping personally, but it's where we are. Midterms are happening soon and are the right place to disrupt congress.
by throwaway920102 | 2026-01-12 17:57:31+00:00
I think what we're missing is certainty, not hope. You used to have more certainty that if you checked all the correct boxes your financial future would be guaranteed. Hope for the future is sort of separate and the most optimistic person could hold on to hope even now, and the most pessimistic person could lack hope even graduating with a CS degree in 2015.

You can have hope even if a positive outcome isn't guaranteed. In fact that is when hope is the most valuable (and maybe also difficult to find).
by Melatonic | 2026-01-12 17:57:47+00:00
For those that really need to lose weight I think these drugs are likely hugely beneficial. Obesity has so many downsides and is a huge net drain on healthcare systems.

In terms of long term effects the only medical study I saw that concerned me was done on rats and showed a decrease specifically in the muscles of the heart. This was taking into account general weight loss and appetite suppression (which might more generally affect muscle mass). Not hugely concerning for the obese that might see massive benefits but for those who are already a healthy weight and taking it to get 6 pack abs it might be something to consider.
by hilbert42 | 2026-01-12 17:57:56+00:00
Have you ever seen that triangular chart comparing concentrations, impurities , etc? It's generally presented on log scales and very effectively demonstrates the often enormous number of trace-level compounds in otherwise substances deemed pure. It's the absolute pinnacle when it comes to teaching chem students about purity.

No doubt you're correct but it only takes one compound in trace amounts whose odor can be detected in parts per million to throw out a seemingly identical comparison done with spectroscopy.

Right, calibration is everything but sometimes that's damn hard to achieve. Also, here we're dealing with natural substances (at least some are like cola leaves). It's not hard to imagine there'd be thousands of organic molecules involved albeit most of them in minute amounts.
by its_ethan | 2026-01-12 17:57:59+00:00
So if it mirrors something they were already accused of (like you're saying), my questioning should be pretty easy to map onto that issue as well?

It's the line of thinking that I'm trying to dig into more, not the specifics of this case. Now it feels like you're saying "this is anti-trust because someone accused them of anti-trust before".

If that case was prosecuted and Apple was found guilty, I suppose you can point to it as precedent. But again, does it only serve as precedent when it's a deal between Apple and Google? Is it only a precedent when there's a case between two "large" companies?

Again this is all really squishy, if companies aren't allowed to outsource development of another feature once they pass some sense of "large", when does it apply? What about the $1T pharmaceutical company that wants to use AI modeling? They're a large technically component company, if Eli Lily partnered with Gemini would you be sitting here saying that they also are abusing a monopolistic position that prevents competition in the AI model space?
by kayo_20211030 | 2026-01-12 17:58:01+00:00
Maybe. I'd propose that Louis XVI is more or less historically irrelevant. He just happened to be the king on the throne when the real historical figures came for him - Robespierre, St. Just, Danton etc., and they then were followed by Napoleon, who, no matter how you look at it, must be high on the HPI scale. Louis XIV, and even Louis XIII, seem to me more fundamentally "historical" than poor old sixteen.
by bregma | 2026-01-12 17:58:38+00:00
I still watch OTA DTV. Tuning is instant. Maybe it's slower if you are on cable and there's a few round-trip handshakes to authenticate your subscriber account.

I'm pretty sure there's a lot of round-tripping going on with the streaming services I use through my dongle. They're always slow to both start the app and to start any actual streaming.
by ChicagoDave | 2026-01-12 17:58:40+00:00
Anyone that sees the value in Claude Code will never leave.

This will be completely forgotten in like a week.

And if you leave because of this, more support for those that abide by the TOS and stay.

This is akin to someone selling/operating a cloud platform named Blazure and it’s just a front for Azure.

My view to everyone is to stop trying to control the ecosystem and just build shit. Fast.
by palata | 2026-01-12 17:58:42+00:00
> but it's unfair to characterize the US as having a moral failure for not doing so unless you're going to apply those standards to everyone else

Who says we aren't? There is always criticism against countries that invade other countries. Be it the US, Russia, China, you name it.

But it's not as if Greenland (or the EU, or Canada) was threatening to invade the US, is it?

> Was bombing Iraq good? Idk, maybe over the long term, but Americans including the poorest sure do like cheap gas prices.

I think this is an interesting point: people in many countries would not be grateful if their military invaded other countries. So they wouldn't "thank the military for their service". That the Americans do it may sound weird to non-Americans, given that the US are generally more invading than defending their own territory. "Thanks for destroying an entire country and disrupting millions of life, because I like cheap gas".
by UltraSane | 2026-01-12 17:59:05+00:00
Hamas's official position, expressed in its original 1988 charter and repeatedly affirmed by many of its leaders' statements and actions (including the October 7, 2023 attack), is to
destroy the state of Israel and establish an Islamic state in its place "from the river to the sea". The 1988 charter explicitly called for the killing of Jews as a religious duty.
by hypercube33 | 2026-01-12 17:59:14+00:00
My first experience with it was I couldn't figure out how to shut down my pc (the stupid side charm bar) on Beta 1 of Windows 8.

It was last seen perhaps in the Windows 11 Beta 1 release, confined within the start menu and I think this is where it peaked. It was removed shortly after to the yuck we have now, perhaps slightly coming back in 25H2 with the New Windows 11 start menu experience app groups (I have not personally used it)
by isk517 | 2026-01-12 17:59:22+00:00
The most common issue anyone around were I work has when their computer is running slow is available memory. Windows 10 -> 11 has seen 16GB go from more than enough for anything other than power user tasks to barely enough to use the full array of standard office software, all with no actual improvement or meaningful change to the standard user experience. Going from 7 -> 10 at least made it so that you did not need to download your entire OneDrive and attached SharePoint libraries.
by sethev | 2026-01-12 17:59:41+00:00
If you're going to be nitpicky about definitions it helps to be correct. In this case, the person you're replying to is absolutely correct.

The government site you linked says the same thing:

> If the House adopts the articles by a simple majority vote, the official has been impeached.

Trump has been impeached twice. I think the confusion comes in when people misuse these terms, often when they want to say things like "Trump was never impeached!". He definitely was by the only definition that actually matters, which is that the House passed articles of impeachment. He was not found guilty.
by hmokiguess | 2026-01-12 17:59:48+00:00
I always think about this, can someone with more knowledge than me help me understand the fragility of these operations?

It sounds like the value of these very time-consuming, resource-intensive, and large scale operations is entirely self-contained in the weights produced at the end, right?

Given that we have a lot of other players enabling this in other ways, like Open Sourcing weights (West vs East AI race), and even leaks, this play by Apple sounds really smart and the only opportunity window they are giving away here is "first to market" right?

Is it safe to assume that eventually the weights will be out in the open for everyone?
by WillNickols | 2026-01-12 17:59:56+00:00
Thanks for the input! Haven't done much with Altium but it seems like you get at least somewhat of a boost for it being slightly more about the logic and less about the spatial reasoning.

2 things related to what you said I hadn't put in the original post:

1. In our experience, the LLMs were awful at taking actions directly with any of the SolidWorks API scripting formats (C#, VBA, etc.). Probably 75% of what they wrote just failed to run, and even when they had access to browse the documentation it wasn't much better. If you're getting Opus or anything else to interact with SolidWorks from the CLI, can you say more about how you're getting it to interface effectively?

2. The LLMs are indeed surprisingly bad at spatial reasoning unless prompted specifically and individually. The most notable case of this is when they need to choose the right plane to sketch on. When creating revolve features, they'll often choose the face that would've only worked if they were going to extrude rather than revolve, and when creating sweeps they'll often try to put the sketch that's going to be swept on the same plane as the path that's being swept. If you go back and ask them why they did that and point out that it's wrong they can fix it pretty fast but when left to their own devices they often get quite stuck on this.
by scottlamb | 2026-01-12 17:59:56+00:00
What's the bar here? Does anyone say "we don't know if Einstein could do this because we were really close or because he was really smart?"

I by no means believe LLMs are general-purpose AI, and I've seen them produce a lot of garbage, but if they could produce these revolutionary theories from only <= year 1900 information and a prompt that is not ridiculously leading, that would be a really compelling demonstration of their power.
by ActorNightly | 2026-01-12 18:00:35+00:00
You are missing the bigger picture.

The stock market (which determines overall hiring) is propped up by large cap Tech, which is currently riding on AI, which is currently riding on TSMC.

US politically is going down the drain. Its a fuse that can only be extinguished by Trumps health issues. China knows this, and is already doing preparations to invade Taiwan should US significantly weaken.

Every other metric that you are see is secondary to this. Big tech hired like crazy during pandemic to grow for cheap cost, and then fired a whole bunch of people later. Companies dgaf about standards, they can essentially brute force stuff with enough headcount and higher salaries.

And now, everyone is watching and waiting to see what will happen.
by hadlock | 2026-01-12 18:00:44+00:00
Seems like the LLM landscape is still evolving, and training your own model provides no technical benefit as you can simply buy/lease one, without the overhead of additional eng staffing/datacenter build-out.

I can see a future where LLM research stalls and stagnates, at which point the ROI on building/maintaining their own commodity LLM might become tolerable. Apple has had Siri as a product/feature and they've proven for the better part of a decade that voice assistants are not something they're willing to build a proficiency in. My wife still has an apple iPhone for at least a decade now, and I've heard her use Siri perhaps twice in that time.
by shellac | 2026-01-12 18:00:56+00:00
Not exactly true, but they deprecated absolutely everything that made it a date. It expresses deep regret in the medium of annotations:

https://javaalmanac.io/jdk/1.2/api/java/util/Date.html

(I can't find the 1.1 docs, but they were the same)

It's one of my favourite examples of how languages pretty much always get date and time hopelessly wrong initially. Java now has one of the best temporal APIs.
by circuit10 | 2026-01-12 18:01:39+00:00
A few months ago someone wrote a much faster -O0 backend for LLVM, though it seems it didn't get much attention upstream: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/tpde-llvm-10-20x-faster-llvm-o0...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45072481

There are also codegen projects that don't use LLVM IR that are faster like Cranelift: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/tree/main/crane...
by WorldMaker | 2026-01-12 18:01:41+00:00
There's an old, semi-retired YouTube video essay channel called "Every Frame a Painting". I disagreed with several of its essays, enjoyed many of them, but the biggest takeaway/agreement I got from that channel was that core spirit in the title itself. It is something I still find very useful reminder when thinking about films and/or criticizing them. The medium of a movie (or a TV show) is 12 or 24 (or more rarely 60) frames per second. We don't always reflect on how everyone of them in (even a "bad" movie) is essentially a painting. Art was involved to get that shot, that frame of the shot. Often art by lots of people, very few of them are the people you see on that screen, yet their fingerprints and hard work still shows through. "Every frame a painting" is a good sentiment to remember, I think. Especially for animation, but for any movie.
by metalman | 2026-01-12 18:01:42+00:00
I have it on good authority from my American cousins living in Pennsylvania, that it is the "American Language", the use of the word "dialect" unknow or foriegn in and of itself, useing the word would cause any estimated cost for anything bieng discussed further to double, and or be the point at which a conversation would faulter in confusion as to who you were trying to call
by alephnerd | 2026-01-12 18:01:43+00:00
As I mentioned, I am one of those people who makes asset management decisions.

Political instability is annoying, but most funds are well diversified beyond mega-cap tech and our LPs don't have anywhere else to park capital. There is some opportunistic geopolitical hedging, but it isn't enough to tip the scales.

For example, in my specific segment of the industry (cybersecurity/DefenseTech), we continued to operate as normal in Israel despite having missiles rain down from across the Middle East, a couple attempted suicide bombings near our TLV office, and employees of our portfolio companies and in some cases our founders being deployed.

> Companies dgaf about standards, they can essentially brute force stuff with enough headcount and higher salaries

We did back when I was in BigTech before I entered PE/VC a couple years ago, and it still matters at the companies that I'm a board member or advisor for.

> And now, everyone is watching and waiting to see what will happen

Partially. A lot of diversification was already done.

> US politically is going down the drain. Its a fuse that can only be extinguished by Trumps health issues. China knows this, and is already doing preparations to invade Taiwan should US significantly weaken

In that hypothetical, where else do we go? In such a world, the EU+UK is likely to see a military confrontation with Russia in the 2028-30 timeframe, India is likely to see a military confrontation with Pakistan or China by 2035, China would obviously be out of the picture, and the Gulf would re-ignite.
by gnosis67 | 2026-01-12 18:02:03+00:00
I am a white American, white supremacy waging a secret war for Power is real, and white American Thought Control is a significant evil in the world.

When synagogues, mosques, and other places of worship are shot up, remember they are one upping each other, and their communities in the thousands who remain silent and hidden are emboldened and walk all over the unsuspecting and vulnerable who do not know how their extortion racket of psychoterror works.
by agentultra | 2026-01-12 18:02:46+00:00
Right, my bad... it's not directly the CO2 but the effects of CO2 on climate that is restricting plant growth overall [0].

The net effect is the same. We're not going to see Northern Canada turn into a lush farmland. It's much more complicated than that.

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/co2-trees-1.5000709
by MaysonL | 2026-01-12 18:03:05+00:00
If you pay attention to the cursor, instead of aiming at the corner of the window, the UI gives you great feedback of where you should click: when the cursor changes to 2 arrowheads pointing diagonally or orthagonally to the window, resizing is available. Why aim for inside the window? I do think the expanded corner radius of Tahoe sucks badly.
by bravura | 2026-01-12 18:03:50+00:00
A rigorous approach to predicting the future of text was proposed by Li et al 2024, "Evaluating Large Language Models for Generalization and Robustness via Data Compression" (https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html//2402.00861) and I think that work should get more recognition.

They measure compression (perplexity) on future Wikipedia, news articles, code, arXiv papers, and multi-modal data. Data compression is intimately connected with robustness and generalization.