MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ManuelKiessling | 2026-01-03 23:46:36+00:00
Over the holidays, I played with the concept of a two-player online browser game with webcam-based gestures controls:

https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/comments/1puptdm/my_vibe...

https://gestures-apps.dx-tooling.org

Turns out, there isn’t a framework for these kinds of things that covers all aspects (hand tracking, UI, networking, game state), so I built it:

https://github.com/manuelkiessling/gestures-apps
by brunooliv | 2026-01-03 23:47:28+00:00
I agree completely, I meant in terms of opensource ones only.
Opus 4.5 is the current SOTA and using it in Claude Code is an absolute amazing experience.
But, paying 0 to test GLM-4.7 with opencode, feels like an amazing deal! I don’t use it for work though. But to keep “gaining experience” with these agents and tools, it’s by far the best option out there from all I’ve tried.
by stavros | 2026-01-03 23:47:28+00:00
People ask me where I find the time to make so many things, and I like to say "we all have the same 24 hours in a day, I just like to spend many of them making things".

I guess what they're really have in their mind when they ask is "where do you find the extra hours to go so far down my priority list", but what they don't realize is that my priority list is simply different.
by gregdoesit | 2026-01-03 23:47:51+00:00
Interestingly, stagnation started around 2014 (in the number of questions asked no longer rising,) and a visible decline started in 2020 [1]: two years before ChatGPT launched!

It’s an interesting question if the decline would have happened regardless of LLMs, just slower?

[1] An annotated visualization of the same data I did: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/are-llms-making-stackover...
by g947o | 2026-01-03 23:47:59+00:00
They will, but model updates and competition help solve the problem. If people find that Claude consistently gives better/more relevant answers over GPT, for example, people will choose the better model.

The worst thing with Q/A sites isn't they don't work. It's that they there are no alternatives to stackoverflow. Some of the most upvoted answers on stackoverflow prove that it can work well in many cases, but too bad most other times it doesn't.
by mothballed | 2026-01-03 23:48:09+00:00
FDR was a violent extremist who thrust the US far more into WWII than necessary to defend against further Japanese incursion. He threatened to pack the courts when he started to not get his way on unconstitutional extremist progressive policies. His regime was responsible for one of the most abhorrent SCOTUS cases in history, defending Wickard v Filburn. He oversaw the passing of the NFA, one of the most dire and violent affronts to the second amendment ever instituted. He signed the bill for social security, a grossly unconstitutional method of mass violence of taxing unwilling parties in a 10th amendment violating quasi-pyramid scheme.

His administration helped implement income tax withholding, the single most destructive force in the USA as it tricks unwitting people into just seeing their income as what they're paid instead of seeing themselves in the reality of what's happened when they had to cut a big check. Milton Friedman spent years developing this under orders of the regime.

He interned the Japanese. Actual citizens. One of the most shameful things in US history. Every time I look at the poster ordering it (some Japanese restaurants around me display it) I get goose bumps, even though I've seen it 100 times the feeling never wears off, in fact I get angrier at FDR every time I look at it. That alone would have justified a civil war.

FDR was Satan incarnate. Anyone who would have resisted it, is an absolute saint.

Yes a civil war would have been 1000x better than Roosevelt's illegitimate execution of power. The amount of poverty and death due to Roosevelt, is stunning.
by LeafySeadragon | 2026-01-03 23:48:13+00:00
THERE IS A COLOSSAL AMOUNT OF SCRUTINIZED, INDEPENDENT, WORLD CLASS RESEARCH PROVING DEEP SEABED POLYMETALLIC NODULE "HARVESTING" IS THE OBVIOUS BEST WAY TO ACCUMULATE THESE MINERALS.

THROUGH CONTINUOUS R&D THERE WILL BE SMALL STEPS AND MOST LIKELY A FEW GIANT LEAPS ALONG THE 4+ DECADES EXPERTS ASSUME AREAS LIKE THE CCZ TO BE EXPLORED/EXTRACTED.

66 years from the Wright Brothers to The Moon landing. USA has been able to harvest these nodules since the 1970's. Imagine how fast this sector will advance to become even more efficient & eco-friendly than it already is after the most brilliant minds and government monies are able to be focused on it.

It's the 'lesser-of-two-evils' if you want to force yourself into that perspective.
I look at it as a revolutionary industry that couldn't happen at a better time.
by nickpsecurity | 2026-01-03 23:48:16+00:00
It repeats mixes of what people said and did in it's training data. What goes in is what its model says has the highest probability of filling in the blanks. There's even many lies and inaccurate data in the training data of most models.

"Garbage In, Garbage Out"

"You get out of it what you put into it."
by nutjob2 | 2026-01-03 23:48:41+00:00
That's because there has been rapid improvement by LLMs.

Their tendency to bullshit is still an issue, but if one maintains a healthy skepticism and uses a bit of logic it can be managed. The problematic uses are where they are used without any real supervision.

Enabling human learning is a natural strength for LLMs and works fine since learning tends to be multifaceted and the information received tends to be put to a test as a part of the process.
by urban_strike | 2026-01-03 23:49:23+00:00
Thanks, that does help to see it as good faith advice. I'd be totally on board with a framing like "If you're alone and unhappy or dissatisfied in life, social connection could likely be the missing piece." Though it seems even that often follows up with "If you _think_ you're content being alone, you just don't know what you're missing", similar to how parents talk about how their lives changed after having kids. Which is fine and could be true for pretty much everyone, I just hate that it's stated in a way that's unfalsifiable. That if you think differently you're just fooling yourself, and you'll change your mind once you do it.

I've found a lot of those assertions about how to live a "great" life (often based on societal averages about life expectancy) don't fit my actual subjective experience, and I had to spend years doing all the "right things" in life and wondering why it wasn't fulfilling for me. Similar to the sibling comment, it's been liberating to stop taking that type of advice as applicable to me, but that means it jumps out at me everywhere now, hah.

Oh, and for what it's worth, I'm approaching my 40's, have had partners, lived with them for years, good relationship with family, never been burned or damaged socially. Those things just still never seemed as central or necessary to me as they apparently are for others.
by culi | 2026-01-03 23:49:26+00:00
I guess I'm the only one that was a fan of SO's moderation. I never got too deep into it (answered some TypeScript questions). But the intention to reduce duped questions made a lot of sense to me. I like the idea of a "living document" where energy is focused on updating and improving answers to old versions of the same question. As a user looking for answers it means I can worry less about finding some other variation of the same question that has a more useful answer

I understand some eggs got cracked along the way to making this omelette but overall I'd say about 90% of the time I clicked on a SO link I was rewarded with the answer I was looking for.

Just my two cents
by make3 | 2026-01-03 23:50:08+00:00
What you're arguing about is the field completely changing over 3 years; it's nothing, as a time for everyone to change their minds.

LLMs were not productified in a meaningful way before ChatGPT in 2022 (companies had sufficiently strong LLMs, but RLHF didn't exist to make them "PR-safe"). Then we basically just had to wait for LLM companies to copy Perplexity and add search engines everywhere (RAG already existed, but I guess it was not realistic to RAG the whole internet), and they became useful enough to replace StackOverflow.
by gfhifd42 | 2026-01-03 23:50:12+00:00
We don't "get small glimpses of that on HN"

We get exactly the same thing on hn, because it's the same people, the same culture, the same incentive structure, the same codified toxicity.

And the exact same thing is going to happen to hn. Already is. Already has, frankly.

It's just how sellout culture works. There's no integrity.[1]

SO failed because the founders had no integrity and HN is going to fail because the founders have no integrity.

Lacking integrity has short term benefits that sacrifice the long term.

From Good to great to failure.

Anyone else tangent when Joel said he'd never sell SO and then this [1] happened? I remember.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/stack-overflow-sold-...
by Dathuil | 2026-01-03 23:50:52+00:00
I started the year by setting out to recreate the city building portion of an old sierra game (Zeus, master of Olympus) the first few days have been mostly reverse engineering the asset files from the original game.

I’m hoping to learn enough to start building my own game based on celtic and Norse history. But I’m also a dad with a full time job so it’s probably a pipe dream
by gerdesj | 2026-01-03 23:50:53+00:00
That beast must surely require an orangutan to play it properly! Six manuals and the rest means that you don't exactly play it, more like you dance on it. Whacking out something complicated, written by Bach, on that thing is going to raise a serious sweat and I hope no one has ever tried to play "The flight of the bumblebee" without getting into peak physical condition first.

Does it have a stop labeled "Vox Dei"?
by nness | 2026-01-03 23:52:16+00:00
I think the biggest issue, what lead to the toxicity, came down to the question/answer format not suiting the problem it was trying to solve — The answer could only be as good as the original question, and the platform gave little leeway to "get to the bottom" of the problem. Getting to a high-quality question/response required a back-and-forth that the platform made difficult by burying the discovery/definition work in comments and edits instead of a clear discussion mechanism.

All of this meant the learning-curve on how to participate was high, and this spurred gate-keeping and over-zealous moderation. High-quality but out-of-date information was preferred over lower-quality but more recent updates. When combined with the rapid shifts brought on with mobile development and web frameworks, the answers could easily get out-of-date months after being answered.

I remember a time when StackOverflow dominated every search query. Now we're seeing searches take you to a dedicated forum/discussion board, which feels more appropriate for the current state of the industry.
Books Should Update as Software
by fullstackragab | 2026-01-03 23:52:49+00:00
Most books — especially technical ones — are treated as finished artifacts.

But the reality is:
Knowledge changes
Tools evolve
Errors are discovered
Better explanations emerge

In software, we accept continuous improvement as normal.
In publishing, we still freeze books at “v1.0”.

I’m experimenting with this idea through a platform called Ulomira:
authors publish once, and keep improving their book while it stays live.

I’m curious how others here think about this:

Should books be immutable?
Or should they evolve like software?

Genuinely interested in feedback from authors and readers.
by iamlin | 2026-01-03 23:53:00+00:00
Hey HN!

I built til.re because I was tired of timer apps that require accounts, downloads, or complex setup.

*What is til.re?*
It's a minimalist countdown timer where the URL IS your state. Just type what you need directly in the address bar:

- til.re/25m → 25-minute countdown
- til.re/pomodoro → 25m work + 5m break loops
- til.re/17:00 → countdown to 5 PM
- til.re/2026-01-05 → countdown to a specific date

*Features:*
- No signup, no app, no accounts - just instant timers
- Beautiful themes: zen, neon, matrix, and more
- Shareable via URL - send a timer to anyone
- Semantic shortcuts for common durations
- Loop mode for productivity sessions
- Works on any device with a browser

*Tech:*
Built with vanilla JS, hosted on static CDN. The entire state lives in the URL, so there's nothing to store.

Screenshot: https://til.re (you can see it live!)

Would love to hear your feedback! What timer durations or features would be useful for your workflow?
by cpldcpu | 2026-01-03 23:54:19+00:00
All of them use ASML lithography, including CXMT, where did you get that idea?

They are, of course, a bit slower in EUV adoption. But its already there:

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/micron-sampl...

https://www.techinsights.com/blog/samsung-d1z-lpddr5-dram-eu...
by jawns | 2026-01-03 23:55:39+00:00
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Octane on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/octane-lending/posts/?feedV...

Note: I direct our data and platform teams, so you would report to me. Happy to answer questions.
by immibis | 2026-01-03 23:55:56+00:00
It used to be the case Reddit itself would run spambots, and if you reported them you'd be banned. Also they have a habit of, if a subreddit isn't moderated how they like, finding excuses to ban the moderators and then either ban the subreddit for being unmoderated or replace the moderators. There were also times they just replaced a moderator list because they didn't like how the subreddit was moderated if there was a financial or reputation incentive to do so. Are these things not still the case?
by g947o | 2026-01-03 23:56:23+00:00
I have around 2k points, not something to brag about, but probably more than most stackoverflow users. And I know what I am talking about given over a decade of experience in various tech stacks.

But it requires 3,000 points to be able to cast a vote to reopen a question, many of which incorrectly marked as duplicate.

I said to myself, let it die.
by andreyandrade | 2026-01-03 23:56:31+00:00
Interesting timing. I just analyzed TabNews (Brazilian dev community) and ~50% of 2025 posts mention AI/LLMs. The shift is real.
The 2014 peak is telling. That's before LLMs, before the worst toxicity complaints. Feels like natural saturation, most common questions were already answered. My bet, LLMs accelerated the decline but didn't cause it. They just made finding those existing answers frictionless.
by RossBencina | 2026-01-03 23:56:59+00:00
The part about task initiation induced stress -> flight or fight -> distraction/relief-seeking resonated with me. I hadn't noticed that before. The small steps bit reminds me of BJ Fogg's "brush one tooth."

One common failure mode of "do the smallest/easiest thing first" that the article didn't address was that sometimes it's so easy to "buy the running shoes" that you end up with a house full of "easy first steps." I think a better approach is to aim to eliminate unnecessary complexity in moving towards the goal. You can do this by aiming for the smallest, easiest, and simplest first step that simultaneously maximises progress towards the goal. e.g. "I want to make a stand to hold my XYZ." Bad first step: Buy a 3D printer. Good first step: Improvise something out of cardboard.
by specproc | 2026-01-03 23:57:40+00:00
What I always appreciate about SO is the dialogue between commenters. LLMs give one answer, or bullet points around a theme, or just dump a load of code in your IDE. SO gives a debate, in which the finer points of an issue are thrashed out, with the best answers (by and large) floating to the top.

SO, at its best, is numerous highly-experienced and intelligent humans trying to demonstrate how clever they are. A bit like HN, you learn from watching the back and forth. I don't think this is something that LLMs can ever replicate. They don't have the egos and they certainly don't have the experience.

Whatever people's gripes about the site, I learned a hell of a lot from it. I still find solutions there, and think a world without it would be worse.
by snowbantrobus | 2026-01-03 23:58:00+00:00
I would suggest that you take a look at the "Politics and the English Language" essay by Orwell. The person you are responding to is making a fair point that this is well trodden ground, albeit not in the most diplomatic terms. It would be helpful to engage with the arguments presented, otherwise we are just spinning our wheels here unconsciously relitigating issues from the 1930s.
by garganzol | 2026-01-03 23:58:11+00:00
Signs of over-moderation and increasing toxicity on Stack Overflow became particularly evident around 2016, as reflected by the visible plateau in activity.

Many legitimate questions were closed as duplicates or marked off-topic despite being neither. Numerous high-quality answers were heavily edited to sound more "neutral", often diluting their practical value and original intent.

Some high-profile users (with reputation scores > 10,000) were reportedly incentivized by commercial employers to systematically target and downvote or flag answers that favored competing products. As a result, answers from genuine users that recommended commercial solutions based on personal experience were frequently removed altogether.

Additionally, the platform suffers from a lack of centralized authentication: each Stack Exchange subdomain still operates with its own isolated login system, which creates unnecessary friction and discourages broader user participation.
by wat10000 | 2026-01-03 23:58:17+00:00
I think I see the disconnect. I thought you were saying that it’s ok for an entity to recover its own stolen property by force, and conflating the United States with US-based oil companies. But you actually meant that recovering anyone’s stolen property by force is right.

Suffice to say I don’t agree with this expanded version in all cases, especially when it’s the military doing it.
by properbrew | 2026-01-03 23:58:34+00:00
Was getting annoyed having to work out which video call platform to use for intro meetings, so I’m currently working on https://simplevc.blazingbanana.com.

It’s a private, simple browser video chat. No accounts. You can create a new chat or join via link/code. It also has in browser transcription using Whisper (using https://github.com/huggingface/candle/).

Currently fighting getting background blur to work smoothly on Chrome on Android, which is proving surprisingly harder than getting browser transcription working...

Also still working on small updates to Whistle, my completely free offline transcription app, available on Android, macOS, Windows and Linux (with CUDA builds for Windows/Linux) - https://blazingbanana.com/work/whistle
by johnsmith1840 | 2026-01-03 23:59:47+00:00
You still get the same thing though?

That grumpy guy is using an LLM and debugging with it. Solves the problem. AI provider fine tunes their model with this. You now have his input baked into it's response.

How you think these things work? It's either a human direct input it's remembering or a RL enviroment made by a human to solve the problem you are working on.

Nothing in it is "made up" it's just a resolution problem which will only get better over time.
by fabian2k | 2026-01-04 00:00:33+00:00
Stack Overflow moderation is very transparent compared to whatever Reddit considers moderation.

For programming my main problem with Reddit is that the quality of posts is very low compared to SO. It's not quite comparable because the more subjective questions are not allowed on SO, but there's a lot of advice on Reddit that I would consider harmful (often in the direction of adding many more libraries than most people should).
by scotty79 | 2026-01-04 00:00:44+00:00
> There's your problem: why continue to deny simple facts when you're shown them so clearly?

Who's in denial? You just completely skipped commenting on clearly visible twin external antenna sockets in gnss-compass version of the unit and didn't correct your wild assumption that smartphone sized brick is all that is needed for this gnss-compass to run.

And what's that stuff about size of all other sensors? Everybody knows those don't take any space at all and that every smartphone has them. My point was that having these additional sensors in a unit that boasts inertial navigational capabilities might mean that direction is also mostly innertially tracked since the last time the sensor moved or even mostly faked with magnetometer.

I can make better guess what (1m) is than AI. It tells us that this an accurancy is achieved when you put the two external antennas 1 meter apart.

Read Wikipedia page on GPS system and try to find any single feature unique to this system (or even just not common to all radio signals) that aids with determining orientation of the reciever (while stationary). You'll find none.
by coffeecoders | 2026-01-04 00:00:44+00:00
Nice, Linear is a perfect target for this mindset.

The REST client went surprisingly smoothly once I committed to keeping it boring.

I'm building Mac apps in Xcode, and I keep multiple small apps in a single Xcode project with a few shared libraries (basic UI components, buttons, layout helpers, etc. to keep all my apps similar).

The REST client is literally just another target + essentially one extra file on top of that. No workspaces, no collections, no sync, no plugins. Just method, URL, headers, body, hit send, show response.

What surprised me is how little code is actually required once you strip away "product features".
by MrGilbert | 2026-01-04 00:01:48+00:00
Would love to see them succeed and take on the pc builder market, aka hobbyist market. Honestly, the recent rise in RAM left me behind with a huge amount of disbelief and anger. Anger primarily, because big corporations are responsible for draining the market, while on the other hand a Satya Nadella states that they are sitting on a pile of GPUs they cannot use because of limited power.[1]

I simply cannot understand how that will ever be profitable. To me, it just looks like a huge waste of resources.

[1]: https://redmondmag.com/blogs/generationai/2025/12/microsoft-...
by echelon | 2026-01-04 00:02:11+00:00
Hardly.

- A huge number of developers will want to use such a tool. Many of them are already using AI in a "single player" experience mode.

- 80% of the answers will be correct when one-shot for questions of moderate difficulty.

- The long tail of "corrector" / "wiki gardening" / pedantic types fill fix the errors. Especially if you gamify it.

Just because someone doesn't like AI doesn't mean the majority share the same opinion. AI products are the fastest growing products in history. ChatGPT has over a billion MAUs. It's effectively won over all of humanity.

I'm not some vibe coder. I've been programming since the 90's, including on extremely critical multi-billion dollar daily transaction volume infra, yet I absolutely love AI. The models have lots of flaws and shortcomings, but they're incredibly useful and growing in capability and scope -- I'll stand up and serve as your counter example.