MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by protimewaster | 2026-01-19 14:32:14+00:00
I thought one of the issues for Fairphone is that their security update schedule / security practices are a bit lax? Their phones are regularly requested by users to be targeted by GrapheneOS, but GOS developers contend that the security practices for the Fairphone are problematic. They apparently get security updates late and don't properly implement verified boot and attestation.

I like the devices, but I've stuck with Pixel devices for the better security practices. Honestly, I'm a little surprised that a university wouldn't be concerned about late security updates and the like.
by JulianHart | 2026-01-19 14:32:26+00:00
That's a Cloudflare IP — 173.245.x.x is their range. You're seeing Cloudflare's edge servers, not actual visitor IPs.

The multiple locations are just showing which Cloudflare POP handled each request (ORD, SJC, LAX = their data centers). That's expected behavior when you're proxied through CF.

Check the CF-Connecting-IP header to get the real visitor IP. What you're logging right now is basically "which Cloudflare server talked to your origin," not "where the bot actually is."
by bigpeopleareold | 2026-01-19 14:32:45+00:00
While my projects have not touched agentic AI yet and the type of code I have been writing is produced like back in the day (read documentation, write code, read documentation, write code ...) I expect that my next project will tether me to agentic AI systems more. I still have my hobby projects, which I code the old-fashioned way. Hey! at least it costs me much less that $100/month to tinker on projects ... more like the cost and wear on running my laptop!

There are people here "I can finally get all my ideas done!" Sure, if they are really important enough, I guess. But high technology is much, much less important to me than my employer or probably others here on HN. I can only be concerned with the paycheck at this point. And at this point, they are happy that I can read documentation, write code, read documentation, write code, and don't care how it gets done. (For what I am working in though, I'd just skip the AI training step.)

With that in mind, I like to use PLs as tools to clarify thinking. There are others that think using PLs and their accompanying tools as friction to their goals, but my friction is understanding the problems I am trying to solve. So, while taking the adventure into automated tooling might be interesting, it doesn't replace the friction (just the feeling I have to read more potential garbage code.)
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-19 14:32:46+00:00
> and now my review there warns other consumers that those are only for DIY use

Actually make sure with a incognito window that this review is actually visible. I've noticed that some reviews of mine have been "shadow-banned" and while it looks like they're still there when I'm logged in, once I try in a incognito window the review doesn't show up publicly anymore. My reviews were just basically facts about the products themselves, and received no word from Amazon about breaking any rules.
by boxed | 2026-01-19 14:33:00+00:00
You can just look at the total emissions from France and compare with Germany. It's quite amazing the difference.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?c...

Imagine having HALF the CO2 emissions. HALF. That would be amazing. If we had that in most of Europe and the US instead of listening to the anti-nuclear lobby we would have a ton more runway to fix the issue than we have now.
by Tade0 | 2026-01-19 14:33:04+00:00
Regarding that last question, the other day we were playing the Frozen-branded edition of Snakes&Ladders with my family:

https://www.straight2you.co.uk/products/disney-frozen-2-6-in...

Basically you throw the included coloured die and move your pawn to the next field that is of the colour the die indicates OR, and here's where it becomes a hellish nightmare, the previous such field if there's no way to advance.

You have to roll yellow and NOT purple if you're anywhere at the last five positions.

The probability of finishing this game is of course not 1, but it's sufficiently far from 1 that my preschooler was at her wit's end moving back and forth, so we had to finish early.
by wickedsight | 2026-01-19 14:33:10+00:00
> How confident is the OP that every single one of these 60 calculators work all the time, with all edge cases?

The compound interest calculator, which is their 'favorite page', already shows an incorrect value in the graph. So my faith in the other calculators isn't great. I also kinda doubt OP's story of them using that page all the time, since it took me about 20 seconds to find this issue.
by nickdothutton | 2026-01-19 14:33:19+00:00
You know, over several decades I've come to the conclusion that you will never be able to explain radioactivity, radioactive contamination, background, isotopes, decay, and the relative probabilities, cumulative effects, etc to the general public and have them reach sane conclusions based on understanding. It's easier (I think) to explain time travel, or telepathy, or (insert whatever black-magic you prefer).
by GuB-42 | 2026-01-19 14:33:40+00:00
While it is a "massive endeavor", it is not impossible, it essentially amounts to writing portable code. A computer is a computer, and most of the tech stack in US cloud providers is based on open source projects.

Not depending on Chinese manufacturing is borderline impossible even if you are starting from scratch. Not only it will be way more expensive, with potentially longer delays and lesser capacities, but just finding some company that can and wants to do the job can be a nightmare. From what I have seen, many local manufacturers in the US and Europe are really there to fulfill government contracts that requires local production.

Most hardware kickstarter-like projects rely on Chinese manufacturing as if it was obvious. It is not "find a manufacturer", it is "go to China". Projects that instead rely on local (US/Europe) manufacturing in order to make a political statement have to to though a lot of trouble, and the result is often an overpriced product that may still have some parts made in China.
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by tzs | 2026-01-19 14:34:07+00:00
I've made that decision before without LLMs too. If I had been Googling to find possibly relevant material instead of using LLMs to find possibly relevant material, I probably would have bought from Amazon.

With Googling the "figure out what is going wrong" part of solving the problem is more decoupled from the "figure out where to buy this thing" part. The first part involves Googling, looking at a bunch of results, finding a lot are not relevant, trying to refine the search, and repeating probably many times. After that time consuming process when I have finally decided that I needed a new cable I'd probably just go to Amazon without thinking about it.

I always have a little doubt when buying from Amazon because of commingling, but usually not enough to look deeper into it unless the product is something with a high risk of it.

With the LLM instead of Google I upfront described to it a lot of details of my equipment, how I was using it, what symptoms I was seeing, what diagnostic steps I'd taken and the results of those, and why I believe certain things that could cause such problems would not be applicable in my case.

It then finds all the stuff I would have found by Googling, but because it also has way more information from what I told it at the start it can eliminate a whole bunch of the irrelevant results, so I'm starting out way ahead of where I would be after a first Google. A little back and forth and I know what I need to buy.

At that point I'm still at the LLM screen. Since it is right there tossing in a final question about buying from Amazon vs Best Buy is trivial.

I'm not a frequent LLM user. I have yet to pay for any LLM. (I did have a year of free Perplexity Pro that Xfinity gave to its customers a little over a year ago, but when that expired I did not subscribe.

(There's a funny story there--when it expired and they tried to convince me to subscribe, I asked Perplexity if a subscription would be worth it. It told me that considering my usage patterns the free plan was perfectly fine for me and I should stick with that).

A lot of people now are using LLMs instead of or before traditional Google-style searches when they want information. Not just techies or early adopters. The are or are quickly becoming mainstream.

If they are recommending not buying from Amazon that might be something Amazon would want to address.
by yetihehe | 2026-01-19 14:34:07+00:00
> Steve Yegge is not an idiot or a bad programmer.

I don't think he's an idiot, there are almost no actual idiots here on HN in my opinion and they don't write such articles or make systems like Steve Yegge. I'm only commenting about giving more tools to idiots. Even tools made by geniuses will give you idiotic results when used by actual idiots, but a lot of smart people want to lower barriers of entry so that idiots can use more tools. And there are a lot of idiots who were inactive just because they didn't have the tools. Famous quote from a famous Polish essayist/futurist Stanisław Lem: "I didn't know there are so many idiots in this world until I got internet".
by vlovich123 | 2026-01-19 14:34:11+00:00
I don’t buy at all that you’ve coded in a language like C++ and thread safety has never been a concern. Either:

1. You work on esoterically simple problems where nothing is worth threading (implied by you questioning whether it bought any meaningful performance).

2. You code in languages like Rust where it’s not a problem or significantly less of one (Go, Java, c#, Haskell, Ocaml, etc).

You’re being awfully dismissive of people who’s experiences don’t match yours, especially when it seems like your experience isn’t the norm.
by netsharc | 2026-01-19 14:34:24+00:00
I've been talking to a friend that maybe his way to world domination is to give everyone with a brain an aneurysm.

Also, it's pathetic how his envy of a particular younger, charismatic, well-loved Black man is so apparent. Obama has at least two things Trump is envious about, one is the Nobel Peace Prize, and the other is something Michelle Obama needs to compare notes with Stormy Daniels about.
by andy99 | 2026-01-19 14:34:28+00:00
There was a COBOL LLM eval benchmark published a few years ago, looks like it hasn’t been maintained: https://github.com/zorse-project/COBOLEval

At least I think that’s the repo, there was an HN discussion at the time but the link is broken now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39873793
by OutOfHere | 2026-01-19 14:34:43+00:00
Anthropic website always has been user hostile, for years now. They promised a free trial but never delivered it. They keep logging users out. They locked you out. No one in their sane mind should be using it for anything, certainly never for any vital research. For medical topics, I consult both ChatGPT and Gemini, and both work very well.

The fact is that no one at Anthropic actually cares about systematically resolving all user-hostile actions, and no one will.

You have spent an unbelievable amount of your precious time fighting crap, and this doesn't make any sense. Deleting your data isn't going to save you, so spend time on what will. Surely you have a copy of your data that you can use elsewhere.
by sarchertech | 2026-01-19 14:34:54+00:00
You 100% can use it this way. But it takes a lot of discipline to keep the slop out of the code base. The same way it took discipline to keep human slop out.

There has always been a class of devs who throw things at the wall and see what sticks. They copy paste from other parts of the application, or from stack overflow. They write half assed tests or no tests at all and they try their best to push it thought the review process with pleas about how urgent it is (there are developers on the opposite side of this spectrum who are also bad).

The new problem is that this class of developer is the exact kind of developer who AI speeds up the most, and they are the most experienced at getting shit code through review.
by culebron21 | 2026-01-19 14:34:55+00:00
The author of that show hn post wrote that it's a project that grew to "production ready". Reading her source code, I see a bunch of wrappers that, upon any error, will panic and crash the whole process.

This is equal to projects where guys from high school took Ubuntu, changed the logo in couple of places, and then made statements that they'd make a new OS.

Anybody minimally competent can see the childish exaggeration in both cases.

The most logical request is to grow up and be transparent of what you did, and stop lying.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-19 14:35:04+00:00
> Worked with a guy that used this to his advantage. He sold CD's and DVD's through FBA. He would get them "new enough" looking via buffing them out (often making them unplayable), shrinkwrapping them, and then hope whomever got them wasn't him that got the commission for that sale

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46679106
by deaddodo | 2026-01-19 14:35:38+00:00
AI isn’t particularly great with C, Zig, or Rust either in my experience. It can certainly help with snippets of code and elucidate complex bitwise mathematics, and I’ll use it for those tedious tasks. And it’s a great research assistant, helping with referencing documentation. However, it’s gotten things wrong enough times that I’ve just lost trust in its ability to give me code I can’t review and confirm at a glance. Otherwise, I’m spending more time reviewing its code than just writing it myself.
by eclipsetheworld | 2026-01-19 14:36:11+00:00
As a European founder building startups since 2015, I’ve spent a massive chunk of my career navigating the "alphabet soup" of EU regulation: GDPR, DSA, DMA, AI Act, CSRD, SFDR, CBAM... the list is exhausting.

While the goals are usually noble, I’m increasingly convinced we’re regulating ourselves into irrelevance. I’m not a Big Tech company yet my interests align with theirs. We desperately need an EU that prioritizes actual growth over well-intentioned paperwork. To me, the AI Act and the GDPR are the worst offenders here, representing the largest possible gap between "good intentions" and the actual effect they have on the ground.

Consider frontier LLM labs. We have the talent, the Nordic data centers, and access to the GPUs. But why would any investor drop $100B on a frontier LLM lab here when the legislative environment is fundamentally more hostile than the US? It feels like we’ve already watched Mistral and Aleph Alpha get left in the dust.

To give you an idea of the "compliance vs. reality" GDPR gap: I worked on a project processing healthcare data for millions of people. We had a clear, easy-to-find privacy policy and a responsive DPO. Total GDPR requests for info or deletion? Exactly 53. Out of millions. We spent thousands of hours building systems for rights that only 0.001% of our users cared to use.

If you look at the courts, the "damage" being prevented is equally vague. Since EU courts don't really do punitive damages, most awards are tiny unless there’s actual identity theft. Most of what GDPR protects is "mental distress" or "loss of control"-concepts so ambiguous that courts rarely award anything for them unless something else went wrong.

The result of all this "protection"? No FAANG-equivalent, no frontier AI leader, and no homegrown ad-tech. It turns out the most perfectly regulated company is the one that never exists in the first place.
by armchairhacker | 2026-01-19 14:36:33+00:00
The 5-year old counts with an algorithm: they remember the current number (working memory, roughly analogous to context), scan the page and move their finger to the next letter. They were taught this.

It's not much different than ChatGPT being trained write a to Python script.

A notable difference is that it's much more efficient to teach something new to a 5-year old than fine-tune or retrain an LLM.
by orangekame3 | 2026-01-19 14:37:09+00:00
I built a voice-first AI assistant that runs behind a half mirror.
It’s fully self-hosted (local LLM supported) and designed to feel ambient rather than chat-based.

I’m experimenting with what “voice-native interfaces” look like outside phones and speakers.
Source code: https://github.com/orangekame3/mirrormate
by torginus | 2026-01-19 14:37:18+00:00
I haven't done Android dev in a while, but I remember the Android SDK offered a 'backwards compatibility pack' - you selected which version you wanted to target, and how old a version you wanted to support (you could go back to like android 5) and it gave you all the polyfills necessary. The only downside was that your app size would balloon to crazy levels.
by frogperson | 2026-01-19 14:37:30+00:00
I can agree with the clinically ill, but when you consider the disproportionately high conviction rate of people of color, then the felony restriction becomes a racist stance.

You didnt mention this, but I am also against restricting service members with a dishonorable discharge. For many people, gun ownership is a large part of thier community and thier lives. These folks would have to choose between following every order (legal or not), or going home and being left out of their community and culture for the rest of thier lives. It's a huge amount of leverage to make soldiers shut up and comply.
by latexr | 2026-01-19 14:37:55+00:00
> Sites like HackerOne have a triage team that's supposed to filter through the garbage, before it gets to program management.

Daniel Stenberg, leader and BDFL of the cURL project, has been in contact with HackerOne for at least several months to resolve the situation. It was fruitless. Daniel’s social media posts and blog make that clear.

> Companies will do everything in their power to not pay you, including changing the back-end code or just stating it doesn't have any impact on business.

That doesn’t apply to cURL at all.
by kibwen | 2026-01-19 14:37:56+00:00
Flight changed everything when it comes to warfare. But as far as individuals are concerned, the average human on the planet will take a handful of flights in their lifetime, at best, and nearly all flights that are taken are for recreation which is ultimately fungible with other forms of recreation that don't involve taking flights, and of the flights that aren't for recreation most could be replaced by things like video calls, and the vast and overwhelming majority of the goods that make up the lifeblood of the global economy are still shipped by ship, not shipped by air.

Which is to say, the commercial aviation industry could permanently collapse tomorrow and it would have only a marginal impact on most people's lives, who would just replace planes with train, car, or boat travel. The lesson here is that even if normal people experience some tangential beneficial effects from LLMs, their most enduring legacy will likely be to entrench authority and cement the existing power structures.
by clydethefrog | 2026-01-19 14:38:00+00:00
Nonsense since the 2024 European Parliament that has a big far-right wing. The EPP has already broken down a lot of progressive green policies with help of the far right [1], the "cordon sanitaire" is now broken.

https://www.politico.eu/article/epp-votes-with-far-right-to-...
by crote | 2026-01-19 14:38:06+00:00
There's a huge spectrum between "nobody should ever own any gun" and "your local corner store should have an 'assault rifle and two sixpacks of beer' combo special".

I completely your point, but unless you're willing to actually start a civil war they aren't going to be very helpful. They are, at best, a mild deterrent against indiscriminate use of lethal force.

At the same time the US is still the only country in the world which regularly sees school shootings. This was the case before Trump, and I see no reason to believe it'll be any different after Trump.

I agree that the timing probably isn't the best right now, but after fixing the completely broken democratic system gun control should probably be placed somewhere near the top of the agenda.
by gizajob | 2026-01-19 14:38:13+00:00
They wanted access to a faster pipe to slurp 500 terabytes, and that access comes at a cost. It wasn’t about permission.

And yeah they should be sued into the next century for copyright infringement. $4Trillion company illegally downloading the entire corpus of published literature for reuse is clearly infringement, its an absurdity to say that it’s fair use just to look for statistical correlations when training LLMs that will be used to render human authors worthless. One or two books is fair use. Every single book published is not.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-01-19 14:38:14+00:00
It’s best not to be honest at all and have a good story to tell - never say anything negative about your previous employer is the general rule. I broke that rule, but only because Amazon has such a bad reputation in the industry, I knew my story would be believable.

When I interviewed after being Amazoned (PIPed) in 2023, I said “I resigned because the stress of working at Amazon got to be overwhelming and I figured someone would hire me before my money ran out”.

Other excuses people use is the old “spend time with family”, “I needed a mental break”, etc.
Show HN: Visualizing LLM Price vs. Performance
by foke82 | 2026-01-19 14:38:23+00:00
Over the holidays I worked on a few small AI projects and got frustrated with the hassle of choosing a model that's good enough for the job without massively overpaying.

So I built a visualization for the models’ performance vs price:

- Performance comes from LM Arena's ELO, by category (overall, coding, etc.).

- Pricing comes from OpenRouter (USD per 1M tokens).

- The chart highlights the Pareto frontier, so you can see which models are optimal at each price point.

Feedback welcome
Ask HN: Anyone using Claude Agent SDK in production?
by galsapir | 2026-01-19 14:38:31+00:00
We're evaluating agent frameworks for a health AI product and leaning toward Anthropic's Claude Agent SDK. Did a quick POC and liked the simplicity: clean @tool decorator, native MCP support, flat mental model.
But I'm finding fewer production case studies compared to LangGraph or similar. Curious about:

Multi-turn conversation handling, does it manage state well or do you thread history manually?
Long-running tasks (minutes/hours), any gotchas with timeouts or checkpointing?
The latency overhead people mention (~12s per query per one github issue). is this still an issue or has it improved?
General production rough edges we should know about?

For context: most of our context is pre-computed, occasional JIT tool calls. Comparing against Pydantic AI and LangGraph but trying to avoid over-engineering.
Appreciate any war stories.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-19 14:38:31+00:00
> I heard somewhere that most Americans live paycheck to paycheck or at most have a few thousand dollars in savings

Wealth versus liquidity. I'm saying you sell everything you own, pay off your debts, and then take what's left to retire on. Someone with $10mm in home equity may still be strapped for cash on account of the mortgage.