MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nicholasjbs | 2026-01-22 20:26:49+00:00
I've had the pleasure of following Peter's progress on this project over the past 18 months or so, and it's been incredible to see how far he's taken it.

When he first described it to me, I didn't really "get" it (is it a game? a simulation? some other sort of environment?), and it wasn't until seeing an actual demo and hearing Peter explain his thinking more deeply that it clicked.

It's basically a giant simulation environment that is 1) visually stunning (and all visual aspects are meaningful / carry semantic information and aren't just glitter), 2) technically quite impressive, and 3) built for rapid exploration and experimentation. If that sounds at all interesting, you should watch the video to hear Peter's talk!

(Writing this as someone who generally doesn't like to watch videos online; this is one of the rare cases where I think it's worth it, and a video is a better format than text in explaining the thing.)
by behzadhaghgoo | 2026-01-22 20:26:57+00:00
I think the main thing is UI and being on the cloud. I used to have all my todos and notes on claude code. But it's much nicer to have a UI that can directly interact with them (e.g. mark something as done or click to view more details). With CC you'd need to spin up a server and frontend and host them etc. Here we abstract those steps away without really reducing capability. You can create a frontend and it can talk to the file system or external APIs very easily.
by Lerc | 2026-01-22 20:27:34+00:00
There is a discord, but I have not found it to be the friendliest of places.

At one point I observed a conversation which, to me, seemed to be a user attempting to communicate in a good faith manner who was given instructions that they clearly did not understand, and then were subsequently banned for not following the rules.

It seems now they have a policy of

Warning on First Offense → Ban on Second Offense
The following behaviors will result in a warning.
Continued violations will result in a permanent ban:

Disrespectful or dismissive comments toward other members
Personal attacks or heated arguments that cross the line
Minor rule violations (off-topic posting, light self-promotion)
Behavior that derails productive conversation
Unnecessary @-mentions of moderators or Anthropic staff

I'm not sure how many groups moderate in a manner that a second offence off-topic comment is worthy of a ban. It seems a little harsh. I'm not a fan of obviously subjective banable offences.

I'm a little surprised that Anthropic hasn't fostered a more welcoming community. Everyone is learning this stuff new, together or not. There is plenty of opportunity for people to help each other.
by ddp26 | 2026-01-22 20:27:42+00:00
Yep! We have lots of examples like that where two vendors, or two customers, are completely non-matching. With LLMs and LLM web agents, you also can associate things that are not the same entity.

One example we have is merging a table of companies to a table of company websites. You get things like "Acme Corp" matching "my-logicistics.com" that no LLM has memorized, so you have to look them up using the web. ReAct web agents work really well here, but it can be very expensive, so it's all about doing this cost efficiently.
by felarof | 2026-01-22 20:27:57+00:00
Thanks!

> how is it reliably enforced?

At the chromium level, you have access to every single DOM element and coordinate space around it. So, when a click happens either user or agent, we have a neat way of enforcing required action (either allow it or nullify the click).

We are still at early version. And mostly targeting enterprise sites (like SAP) which don't change that often.

What use case did you have in mind?
by falcor84 | 2026-01-22 20:28:11+00:00
> As intelligence moves into scientific research, drug discovery, energy systems, and financial modeling, new economic models will emerge. Licensing, IP-based agreements, and outcome-based pricing will share in the value created. That is how the internet evolved. Intelligence will follow the same path.

With only that brief mention buried there, I think there's just not enough info there to comment on. If you have specific thoughts on it, maybe write up a post and submit that?
by duskwuff | 2026-01-22 20:28:20+00:00
Maybe. It's certainly the case that there are areas of the human brain which are specifically associated with recognizing faces, like the fusiform face area - it's an intrinsic capability of the brain, not one that's learned. But I'm not certain that's sufficient to explain what's happening here. Increasing the activation of that area would most likely result in a person perceiving faces everywhere (e.g. an extreme form of pareidolia), not entire humanoid figures.
by KronisLV | 2026-01-22 20:28:20+00:00
> I have not purchased a (new) license for my commercial work, because I haven't been getting as much value as it since my flow has switched to primarily agentic.

I still buy a personal Ultimate license because I want to see them succeed even if like 80% of my time is spent either in a CLI or Visual Studio Code (for quicker startup and edits), a bit unfortunate that Fleet never got to be really good but oh well.
by pseudony | 2026-01-22 20:29:07+00:00
It's not either-or, necessarily.

Yes, we have a pays-as-you-go pension system in Denmark (sigh). But regulations were also changed a while back such that employees must pay into a pension scheme of their own.
In our case, that's handled via your employer and there's a minimum contribution limit and often incentives to pay a higher level.

((not my area of expertise))
by alt187 | 2026-01-22 20:29:30+00:00
If you don't buy into the acquired, existing knowledge of neuroscience and the role of lymph nodes in learning, you can do whatever you want in your free time, but don't call it my theory, because it's neither mine nor a theory.

For the rest, maybe you're the chosen one, who doesn't need to expend any cognitive load to learn a subject, and just glide on your curiosity. Good for you. There are, to a degree of approximation, zero other people who work this way.
by Trifectorium | 2026-01-22 20:30:14+00:00
There comes a moment in every soul’s journey when pain ceases to be punishment and begins to take the shape of a teacher. That moment, imperceptible to the senses but seismic within the psyche, marks the first spark of transformation. It is here that karma, long misunderstood as a cold ledger of cosmic debt, can be seen for what it truly is: raw material for transmutation. The lead of suffering, shame, repetition, and confusion can, through conscious inner work, be turned into the gold of wisdom, freedom, and peace. This is the path of alchemizing karma.
Show HN: I'm writing an alternative to Lutris
by death_eternal | 2026-01-22 20:30:23+00:00
It's free and open source. The aim is to have more transparent access to wine prefixes and the surrounding tooling (winetricks, proton configuration, etc...) per game in comparison to Lutris. Same features like statistics (time played, times launched, times crashed, and so on) per game is available in the app.
by simion314 | 2026-01-22 20:30:39+00:00
Public transport uses the roads too.
In my country Romania there are road taxes included in the fuel prices and there are vehicle tax that is proportionalw itht eh engine size and vehicle age and how mych it pollutes. So people that drive more use more fuel and pay more tax. If you use your bike then you will not pay that taxes, now what should we tax for the bike lanes ? And how should we convert he fuel road tax for electric cars ?
by jacquesm | 2026-01-22 20:30:44+00:00
I'll pay attention to where the puck is because that is something I can observe, where it is going to be is anybody's guess. Lots of original ideas are coming out of Chinese AI research but there is also lots of junk. I think in the longer term they will have the advantage but right now that simply isn't the case.

Your 'cope' accusation has no place here, I have no dog in the race and do not need to cope with anything.
by godelski | 2026-01-22 20:31:04+00:00
C++ is common, but game programming definitely isn't the norm.

And 5 min is very different from 40 mins. Don't pretend a factor of 8 isn't insignificant

I've also worked on systems which are entirely written with template metaprogramming. This is definitely not the norm. Though that code was highly focused on optimization, as we were writing for HPC environments (extremely heterogeneous hardware). Sure, a full compile could take quite some time but doing a full compile, or even compiling a decent portion, when developing would be insane. A partial compile of a few minutes usually meant my time was better spent mucking about with the cmake and build files because incremental testing sped up development and your PRs aren't going to be merged quickly if they take an hour to verify if they even compile.
by magicalist | 2026-01-22 20:31:07+00:00
Yeah, this looks more fun than it is because the bot is named "gemini-cli".

This is just two github actions conflicting with each other, one that auto-labels with "status/need-triage" and the other that incorrectly sees gemini-cli as lacking the permission to do that.

The fix looks like it was https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/16762 because the bot adding labels wasn't passing the org-level ownership check they used at first.
by phil21 | 2026-01-22 20:31:57+00:00
I think the inverse has proven to be largely true. If a home that uses effectively net-zero power is still connected the grid, it becomes a liability to grid stablity and expense.

There still needs to be enough power to supply to all those homes in the event of a protracted time where solar is unavailable. It gets less applicable as homes start to get multi-day battery banks installed, but those are incredibly rare since they are too expensive.

The whole "wealthy homeowners get subsidized solar and then effectively free backup power paid for by everyone else" needs to end.
by walterbell | 2026-01-22 20:33:33+00:00
Matt Levine (Dec 2025), https://archive.is/S3MPq

> Your business model might end up being sort of a … startup incubator or private equity firm; you’d spend your time starting or acquiring companies on which the robot could work its magic. Your business model would be “general business, but with AI”.. Either it will sell AI at high margins to lots of businesses, or it will sell AI at lower margins to lucrative businesses that it owns.
by nikkwong | 2026-01-22 20:33:47+00:00
Original source:

https://news.uq.edu.au/2026-01-not-all-sitting-same-when-it-...

> "...Passive activities such as watching television have been linked to worse memory and cognitive skills, while ‘active sitting’ like playing cards or reading correlate with better brain health, researchers have found."

...Do these researchers even read this to themselves aloud before hitting publish? It's confounding that they would find "sitting" to be the active ingredient pushing the outcome differential. Obviously, if you remove the bodily posture from the action that the user is engaging in, you would observe the same outcome the researchers did—meaning sitting was not operative here (..duh).

Breaking news at 11: the brain works best when it’s actually used.
by starttoaster | 2026-01-22 20:34:26+00:00
There's a good chance you have other options. Regardless of how you feel about the company's head, Starlink would probably be one of them, with likely better performance than you're dealing with on ADSL.

But you cannot just sue a company because their network connected software doesn't work well on slow networks. Let alone a project like OpenSSH. It would be like me suing a game studio because my PC doesn't meet their listed minimum requirements to play the game.
by yesb | 2026-01-22 20:34:53+00:00
> The good engineers in india know their value and get it.

The job market is not that efficient anywhere, especially India. Lots of people work their way up from crappy jobs to good ones, just like in the US.

>My company has offices in india because you have to manage them yourself not use middlemen. You can train the locals to be great managers (at least some).

"some members of this primitive tribe can be taught our sophisticated ways"

The issue with middlemen is they are basically labor arbitrageurs and have an incentive to hire the cheapest people possible and inflate their credentials/abilities. Same thing happens with onshore consulting firms.

>wages for good people in india are worse similar people in the us, but often high than in europe.

"Often higher than Europe" is a stretch. Typical big co with an India office pays maybe 20-30k USD per year for an engineer. And that is a good job relatively speaking. Top tech companies pay more but they also pay more in Europe
by Tommkruix123 | 2026-01-22 20:35:18+00:00
I built an AI agent that behaves like a junior engineer instead of a senior one.

It executes workflow deterministically: picks exactly one eligible ticket, enforces rules, routes work across repos, drafts a small PR, then hands review and judgment back to humans.

The whole system runs on GitHub Actions + APIs (no workflow SaaS). It often produces partial implementations or TODOs rather than “solutions,” by design.

This is not about replacing engineers — it’s about removing workflow friction and cognitive tax. Happy to answer questions or hear where people think this would break down.
by mrguyorama | 2026-01-22 20:35:31+00:00
If you beat your child to "teach them how to be", you will find people disagree on whether that is being kind to your kin or not.

Natural human language just doesn't support objective truths easily. It takes massive work to constrain it enough to match only the singular meaning you are trying to convey.

How do you build an axiom for "Kind"?
by csoups14 | 2026-01-22 20:35:48+00:00
So let me get this straight, I save hundreds of dollars a month, I drive my cars "for free", I get paid at the end of my net-metering year, and somehow this is a bad deal because I've wanted (not needed) to wash my panels once? It sounds like you optimize your life around not maintaining the things around you which is fine, but I'd much rather save thousands of dollars.
by SilentM68 | 2026-01-22 20:35:52+00:00
Hmm, I remember seeing something like this mentioned in the show The Good Doctor. I forget the episode, but it deals with a patient who suffers severe burns in a bus crash and receives an experimental treatment using fish skin to aid in healing and minimize scarring. I never really felt comfortable with animal tissue being grafted to human skin. I don't believe animal tissue can be totally cleansed of contaminants. I'd rather feel more confortable with synthetic skin grafting. The movie, Darkman (1990) comes to mind.
Ask HN: I'm sure more than just Microsoft is down rn
by koconder | 2026-01-22 20:36:16+00:00
Am i going crazy, all day i have seen ngnix errors from cloud services, github action failures and huggingface unable to download data.

Downdetector saying outages everywhere from Microsoft to Cloudflare but only Microsoft has said they have an outage?

X was down this morning for a few hours too. Anyone else have intel, X is coming up blank.
by vektor888 | 2026-01-22 20:36:19+00:00
Nobody wants to compete. I just shared something I use myself, hoping it could help someone else. Of course, to keep it running, I need to make a profit, since the Amazon API alone won't let me discover so many products, and I need to get product info

If users won't find anything useful, I will simply put it offline and run it on demand whenever I need a new drive.

As many users pointed out, neither DiskPrices' idea nor mine is unique; there are many alternatives with different product listings.

It is only a benefit for the users if they have more choice
by unsnap_biceps | 2026-01-22 20:36:50+00:00
In my experience, most companies solve this via a bastion model. One bastion host has a public ip address and is configured to only allow access using ProxyJump and then the user would access the target via `ssh -J bastion.exe.xyz undefined-behavior.exe.xyz`

Was this something that was considered and rejected? If so, why was it rejected for the more complicated dynamic proxy described?
Show HN: TalkCAD – AI agent to generate CAD models using OpenSCAD code
by alex_maz | 2026-01-22 20:36:50+00:00
I built an open-source tool that uses multi-agent orchestration to generate parametric CAD models via OpenSCAD.

The system has three modes: Guided (collaborative building), Researched (agent searches for datasheets/specs automatically), and Verified (research + visual/code verification with auto-repair loops).

It runs locally via Electron and supports OpenRouter, Ollama, or LM Studio. Files are exportable to STL.
by shoo | 2026-01-22 20:37:32+00:00
Fun to see a write up applying multi-armed bandits.

I had a bit of trouble following the article as I don't understand the problem space well enough. When framing this problem, the authors wrote:

Answering "Can user X access resource Y?" requires traversing relationship graphs. In this context, traversal performance isn't just a feature; it is the fundamental constraint of the system's architecture.

Concretely, in an OpenFGA / Auth0 FGA deployment where graph traversal becomes enough of a bottleneck that introducing a planner like this becomes compelling, how is the graph and the traversal manifested? What's actually going on?

Would the relationship graph be represented as a bunch of relations stored in a single SQL DB? Or does querying and traversing the graph require making a bunch of API calls to various downstream services over the customer's network?
by miduil | 2026-01-22 20:37:49+00:00
Previous discussion on ?a similar? vulnerability. That means there is yet another critical vulnerability from the same vendors, given the reporting date around ~August I hope this was addressed by Sony and Jabra around the same time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46453204

> Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video]
> 551 points
> 223 comments
> 21 days ago

I wonder if some people could find more affected versions or whether there is some tool to detect more models, as I would doubt this is being nearly complete given how many vendors rely on this supplier.
by hwj | 2026-01-22 20:38:14+00:00
Thx. Am I taxable in my country of residence even when the money is kept on the LLC's bank account in the US?

Let's say a small side hustle earns me $200/month. The money is kept on the LLC's bank account. Later on, when I visit the US, the LLC is paying for traveling and hotel. Would I still need to pay taxes in my country of residence?

(Even though you probably aren't a lawyer, I'd still appreciate your thoughts on this).
by userulluipeste | 2026-01-22 20:38:27+00:00
"And in the case of ReactOS, the secondary «whole system» goal is also irrelevant now because dozens of modern Linux distributions provide a better desktop experience than Windows 2000. Hell, Haiku is a better desktop experience."

Yet, there are still too many desktop users that, despite the wishful thinking or blaming, still haven't switched to neither Linux, nor Haiku. No mater how good Haiku or Linux distributions are, their incompatibility with the existing Windows simply disqualifies them as options for those desktop users. I bet we'll see people switching to ReactOS when it will get just stable enough, yet long before it will get as polished as either Haiku or any given quality Linux distribution.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-22 20:38:33+00:00
As someone who does support I think the end result looks a lot different.

AI, for a lot of support questions works quite well and does solve lots of problems in almost every field that needs support. The issue is this commonly removes the roadblocks from your users being cautious to doing something incredibly stupid that needs support to understand what they hell they've actually done. Kind of a Jeavons Paradox of support resources.

AI/LLMs also seem to be very good at pulling out information on trends in support and what needs to be sent for devs to work on. There are practical tests you can perform on datasets to see if it would be effective for your workloads.

The company I work at did an experiment on looking at past tickets in a quarterly range and predicting which issues would generate the most tickets in the next quarter and which issues should be addressed. In testing the AI did as well or better than the predictions we had made that the time and called out a number of things we deemed less important that had large impacts in the future.
by KronisLV | 2026-01-22 20:38:35+00:00
> I've often dreamed of a system where normal users, give money as a promotion for a certain issue to be fixed or even created, if the user wants feature X then he should be able to give an incentive towards that feature to be added into the software that they use, developers do bounties instead, the user doesn't have to give much only a dollar, but if many users want feature X, then the money/donations pool creating higher incentives until the task itself matches the level of work to be performed to achieve it until merged.

Have a bot on GitHub that nags people about the pool of committed money towards each feature, to show that they care about it - with the money being placed into an escrow and being released once the feature is implemented and merged, or until a date is reached with no merge and it's given back to everyone / or when the request is closed with no changes. Ofc no idea how you'd validate each individual issue well enough to prevent someone from misusing it, but one could feasibly create such a system, even if it'd probably get a lot of opposition from everyone.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-01-22 20:38:41+00:00
This doesn't seem fantastically different from the various soap operas that have been going on for ages.

It really is kind of sad, seeing what's happened to the industry I loved, but I guess that there's no helping it.

When you have money and ego, mixed with folks that never really finished growing up, you get this kind of stuff.
by geophph | 2026-01-22 20:39:11+00:00
Funny timing. I’ve been building an LSP for a niche DSL I use at work. I’ve been using tree-sitter to build out the AST of sorts for the LSP functions, but just yesterday it dawned on me that the syntax highlighting my LSP does is all just TS queries and encoding them properly for the protocol. So I was looking into if that can be done in the vscode extension that provides the LSP hookup instead. Kinda nice that the same tree-sitter grammar can be used across the extension and LSP, even tho they’re in different languages.
by nadis | 2026-01-22 20:39:52+00:00
Super curious to see how AMI progresses and wouldn't bet against Yann!

A lot of interesting snippets in this interview; I personally thought this was quite compelling:

> "They [the future models] should be able to be fine-tuned by anyone and produce a very high diversity of AI assistance, with different linguistic abilities and value systems and political biases and centers of interests. You need high diversity of assistance for the same reason that you need high diversity of press. "
by jjk166 | 2026-01-22 20:40:01+00:00
> No, not against. One is a subset of the other. but you are free to prove me wrong.

So what do you mean by "Design Thinking does with its sole existence what Systems Thinking tried to avoid"?

> Are you sure about the meaning of epistemological?

Yes, but I'm not sure why you think it's relevant here.