MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by techblueberry | 2026-01-10 15:24:42+00:00
Ok I have a question - and maybe I’m biased as an SRE. Has code generation really been the problem?

I feel like good engineers have always been able to write like 1000’s of line PR’s,

But I don’t outsource postgres to RDS because I can’t find enough devs to write a database.

It feels like we outsource a lot of stuff because of the mental load and overhead of running it in production.

But it seems like there’s this assumption in the thought leadership that says all software written by LLM’s will just work.

Maybe this makes sense more at small companies where like the limiting factor is the code? You have low usage of the service, don’t really need it to be HA(or can package it on the server in such a way that it’s tied to the lifecycle of the monolith)

Was there no open source ip geolocation they could self host before?
by lucianbr | 2026-01-10 15:24:43+00:00
What rules can you possibly have that distinguish the expert and the manipulator in all cases, without abuse?

I think free speech comes from the same base as universal vote: any selection mechanism would be corrupted and in the end cause more harm than good. That is why the solution is to let everyone speak / vote. If you have some uncorruptible people or mechanism for selection, just use that to make policy decisions directly.

I think the solution is to elevate critical thinking in the populations, so people can be less vulnerable to psychological warfare. Otherwise you're just picking a different manipulator - whoever writes or enforces the speech limits.
by criddell | 2026-01-10 15:24:59+00:00
When my kids were small, we bought a minivan and it was pretty awesome. I really hadn’t thought much about it until…

A couple of years ago, I rented one to help my kids move into college. It was a Chrysler of some kind and now I’m kind of tempted to buy one. The seats disappear into the floor and then you can carry full sheets of plywood. It’s front wheel drive and drives like a car. Super comfortable, super configurable, good visibility, lots of cup holders, climate controls, power outlets, and reasonably fuel efficient (for what it is). But it’s just sooooo dorky.
Show HN: GiftSong – turn a short story into a personalized gift song
by leo080825 | 2026-01-10 15:25:00+00:00
GiftSong turns a short story into a personalized “gift song” (lyrics + vocals). You can listen to a 30-second preview for free, then unlock/download if you want.

I’m optimizing for gifting UX (low friction + emotional hit), not professional music production.

Feedback I’d love:
- Which questions feel awkward/unnecessary?
- What controls are must-have (genre/voice/lyric edits)?
- What makes results feel personal vs generic?
by pfisherman | 2026-01-10 15:25:11+00:00
Thanks for the technical explanation! This is pretty fascinating.

So it works kind of like a soft delete — dereference instead of scrubbing the bits.

Is this behavior generally explicitly defined in PDF editors (i.e. an intended feature)? Is it defined in some standard or set of best practices? Or is it a hack (or half baked feature) someone implemented years ago that has just kind of stuck around and propagated?
by libroot | 2026-01-10 15:25:28+00:00
Thank you. The most recent completely new information from the Snowden files is found in Jacob Appelbaum's 2022 thesis[1], in which he revealed information that had not been previously public (not found on any previously published documents and so on). And AFAIK, the most recent new information from the published documents (along with this post) might actually be in our other posts[2], but there might be some others we aren't aware of.

[1]: https://www.electrospaces.net/2023/09/some-new-snippets-from...

[2]: Part 2: https://libroot.org/posts/going-through-snowden-documents-pa...

and part 3: https://libroot.org/posts/going-through-snowden-documents-pa...
by leo080825 | 2026-01-10 15:25:31+00:00
Maker here. I built this because I wanted a personal gift that isn’t another object, but most “personalized” gifts feel generic or take too much effort.

Current flow: pick occasion/relationship → add memories/inside jokes → choose vibe/genre → get a 30s free preview → unlock the full track + share via a gift page/QR.

Happy to take blunt feedback, especially on:
- drop-off points in the questionnaire
- minimum control needed before you’d actually send it
- edge cases to test (names, mixed languages, sensitive stories)
by md2020 | 2026-01-10 15:26:16+00:00
> they are just statistical machine outputing whatever they training set as most probable.

How is this sentiment still the top comment on an article about AI on HN in 2026? It's not true with today's models. They undergo vast amounts of reinforcement learning optimizing an objective that is NOT just predict the most likely next token given the training corpus. I would say even without the RL the "predict the next token" objective doesn't preclude thinking and reasoning, but that's a separate discussion. Generative sequence modeling learns to (approximately) model the process that produced the sequence. When you consider that text sequences are produced by human minds, which most would consider to be thinking and reasoning, well...
by BatteryMountain | 2026-01-10 15:26:48+00:00
Go through a file of 15000 lines of complex C# business logic + db code, and search for specific thing X and refactor it, while going up & down the code to make sure it is correct. Typically these kinds of tasks can take anywhere from 1 day to a week for a good human developer, depending on the mess and who wrote it (years ago under different conditions). With my workflow I can get a good analysis of what the code is doing, where to refactor (and which parts to leave alone), where some risks are, find other issues that I didn't even know about before - all within 10 minutes. Then to do my iteration above to fix it (planning & coding) takes about another 30 minutes. So 30 minutes vs 1 week of hair pulling and cursing (previous developers choices..)... And it is not vibe coding, I check every single change in git diff tool long before committing, I understand everything being done and why before I use it.
by hsin003 | 2026-01-10 15:27:45+00:00
That’s awesome — thanks for sharing!

If you don’t mind me asking:

- Did you use LXC containers, or full VMs for each sandbox?
- How did you handle SSH / network isolation?
- Any tips on making provisioning faster or keeping resources efficient?

We’re using unprivileged LXC + SSH jump hosts on a single VM for cost efficiency.
I’d love to hear what tradeoffs you found using the Proxmox API.
by 9dev | 2026-01-10 15:28:44+00:00
Even ignoring your flawed understanding of the UK's government, what is your glorious bill of rights worth at the end of the day? Your president just does whatever the hell he wants, ignoring any checks and balances as he sees fit. Freedom of speech? Well, as long as you don't criticise a certain deceased extremist, that is. Freedom of religion? Well, as long as you're a Christian. Freedom of the Press? As long as you're a right-wing influencer. Freedom of assembly? As long as you're not a Democrat. Right to petition the government? You might get shot by ICE agents for following their orders.
by api | 2026-01-10 15:28:45+00:00
I think there are other forces at work, but I have to admit that a ton of what's happening right now looks like the hangover from a large scale economic distortion.

ZIRP was also, along with under-building, a major force in pumping housing prices up to insane levels. All that free money had to go somewhere so it went into asset bubbles (real estate, precious metals, crypto), stock bubbles, and hypergrowth business plans fueled by "dumping" on the market at or under cost (the "Millennial lifestyle subsidy").

I've had this speculation (reminder: speculation) that a major motive for a chunk of tech backing Trump is to try to use him to bring back ZIRP, because there's a chunk of the industry that can't work without it. A large portion of the industry is optimized to attract ZIRP-fueled investment and channel that money into buying hypergrowth, and that doesn't work without nearly free money.

BTW -- China has done something similar in manufacturing, printing money to subsidize manufacturing to dump on the global market to become the "workshop of the world." IMHO they actually have more to show for it. We have slop and enshittification (inflation after the subsidy runs out), while they have real industry. We subsidized the wrong things with ZIRP.
by stickfigure | 2026-01-10 15:29:05+00:00
> If your C15 breaks down in a field, you can fix it with a wrench.

I could. My wife couldn't.

Also, let's not forget the creature comforts of modern cars... rear seats, airbags, sound insulation, power steering, automatic transmissions, 4wd.

Living in the country, tool-vehicles are very useful. This is typically a beat up old 2wd pickup truck (lower is easier to load) with an 8-ft bed (so you can load full sheets of plywood) and a single cab (so you can get an 8-ft bed). My buddy down the street has one and I borrow it all the time. But you'd never take the family anywhere with this thing. It basically spends its entire life going back and forth to Lowes.
by sbondaryev | 2026-01-10 15:29:17+00:00
It really depends on your level - this kind of graphics work is usually learned over many years.

Some sources

> Math & motion:
– The Nature of Code https://natureofcode.com/
– Coding Math https://www.youtube.com/user/codingmath

> Shaders / math-based rendering:
– The Book of Shaders https://thebookofshaders.com/
– Inigo Quilez https://iquilezles.org/

> Interactive explanations:
– Red Blob Games https://www.redblobgames.com/

You can also find some insight into his work process here:
https://x.com/BCiechanowski/status/1387827101294686210?s=20

Most people doing this level of work built their own tools over time, learned a bit here and there, and kept refining things throughout their career.
by soggy_nugget | 2026-01-10 15:29:27+00:00
I built this because I didn't trust privnote.com. It encrypts your message in the browser and never sends the key to the backend. The key is included in the fragment of the URL that you share. Messages are destroyed after they are read. The frontend is written in plain JavaScript, you can inspect the source code and see that only the encrypted payload is transmitted to the backend. I also plan to release the backend/IAC source code, just want to clean it up a bit more before I do.
by vmnm | 2026-01-10 15:29:47+00:00
Looking for feedback on my side project! I've been learning chess recently and have been struggling with the "why" behind certain moves.

I wanted to see how helpful an LLM could be if you gave it enough context to not hallucinate.

Id love for others to try it out and let me know what you think. You can play a bot or import your games directly from chess.com for analysis.

You can submit feedback in the app from the chat pane, or grab my email from the contact page.
by Workaccount2 | 2026-01-10 15:30:15+00:00
The obvious retort to this is:

"If I focused on my health, ate clean and exercised daily, why should I also be subsidizing Billy "video-games-are-my-exercise" fatass's chronic health conditions?"

This is why there is a hyperfixation on shifting blame away from (failing) individuals. The logic breaks when Billy has to admit he just hates exercising.

And yes, before you comment, I know "maybe Billy has (condition outside all control) so it's not on him". Please, see what I just said in the previous statement.
by etothet | 2026-01-10 15:30:28+00:00
It feels like the author is conflating Tailwind the open source project vs. Tailwind Labs the business, which Adam says has run into a bad situation with their revenue because Tailwind Labs’ paid projects aren’t getting as much traction as fewer and fewer users visit the official Tailwind docs, which is currently the primary source people find out about those commercial products.

Regardless of what happens to the company (my personal opinion is that they’ll come out of this strongee than before) Tailwind as OSS probably isn’t going anywhere for the foreseeable future.
by ajsnigrutin | 2026-01-10 15:30:34+00:00
Many of the things are also there because of regulation.

eg: https://www.forbes.com/sites/edgarsten/2024/07/01/mandated-a...

You have cameras, sensors, gps, maps, that need to be updated... and all that would easily be solved by a few policemen with radar guns and writing fines.
by ExpertAdvisor01 | 2026-01-10 15:30:50+00:00
How casually people here are ignoring NOx and especially PM2.5.
It has no DPF (Diesel Particulate Filter).
You are emitting more than 200 times the amount of pm2.5 than a modern diesel.
source:https://www.nanoparticles.ch/archive/2011_May_PR.pdf
https://aaqr.org/articles/aaqr-20-02-oa-0081

Also this car has only has 60hp.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-10 15:32:03+00:00
I am not on any social media so I don't even know what the propaganda is that you are talking about but there are ways to really filter out youtube in such a way (by following unbiased media houses) and I haven't seen much propaganda on youtube (I think)

> This is not about normal politics, Europe is under siege.

I am not European but this seems such an dangerous precedent to set upon. You mention destroying liberal democracy but also the fact that Europe is under siege makes people think of providing war time resolutions to Countries even for small details (and Mind you this ban itself has nothing to do with russia that much, its just the amount of influence football has in italy)

To me it feels as if by saying Europe's under siege, it gives more war time resolutions or justificiations for unmoral behaviour. In fact that's what happened right now. This also actively undermines democracy and one can clearly see how.

I understand your comment's in good faith and I appreciate it but I am just not even sure how this move of fining Cloudflare for not being in line for their censorship is related to this other instance.
by hopelite | 2026-01-10 15:32:10+00:00
It wasn’t as much focused on high level information visualization as Dark Sky, but I also still miss the original Wunderground and its precipitation prediction cones and radar features that were accurate down to the second back before it was acquired by the weather channel, where it went to die of neglect.

This topic raises an issue I’ve had in mind for a while, companies are not realizing their true value when they sell out to some exit, as is evident by the fact that the companies Andy what they created end up being taken out behind the shed. If a competitor is willing to pay a certain amount without extreme pain to the point of convulsion or you don’t get air tight contract that prevents killing off the service/product without it remitting back to the founders or being made open source, you are being low-balled.

Taking the Wunderground example, those folks would have ended up owning the weather channel and probably buying or merging with Dark Sky and being the data provider to Apple instead of the Weather Channel characters (in case you don’t know about that entity) owning and killing off their baby.
by wrigby | 2026-01-10 15:32:29+00:00
This comment shines a spotlight on my issues with the US auto market. None of these vehicles are sold in the US, for a variety of reasons - both economic and regulatory. I hate knowing that the vehicles I want to buy both exist and are affordable, but I just can’t have them. Meanwhile, the cars sold in my market are all egregiously enormous, have giant screens inside, etc.

This is the very definition of a “first world problem,” but it sure is frustrating.
by blactuary | 2026-01-10 15:32:55+00:00
Nonsense. They are targeting people who are here legally. Cancelling their asylum applications while they are in the legal process and then arresting them at court, when they are following all of the rules.

There are also millions of people who were brought here as babies or young children, through no fault of their own, and who have no ties whatsoever to the country where they were born. There should be a process to fix that, sending them to a faraway country they have never lived is disgusting.

At every turn Republicans have fought any attempt to find sensible solutions because they want to wield "they are here illegally!" as a cudgel, and they have fooled people like you
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-10 15:32:58+00:00
I didn’t assume agi.

I assumed extreme performance of a general AI matching and exceeding average human intelligence when placed in an F16 or an equivalent cockpit specified for conducting math proofs.

That’s not agi at all. I don’t think you understand that LLMs will never hit agi even when they exceed human intelligence in all applicable domains.

The main reason is they don’t feel emotions. Even if the definition of agi doesn’t currently encompass emotions people like you will move the goal posts and shift the definition until it does. So as AI improves, the threshold will be adjusted to make sure they will never reach agi as it’s an existential and identity crisis to many people to admit that an AI is better than them on all counts.
by hahajk | 2026-01-10 15:33:05+00:00
For me the thing keeping me on markdown is Obsidian on mobile - no other note taking app comes close. If they made an actual Emacs for mobile (actual emacs complete with elisp support, not the existing org mode apps) that was a pleasure to use, I would likely switch to that.

As it is, the * vs # for headings makes switching between the two uncomfortable.
by m-hodges | 2026-01-10 15:34:08+00:00
See: A field guide to sandboxes for AI¹ on the threat models.

> I want to be direct: containers are not a sufficient security boundary for hostile code. They can be hardened, and that matters. But they still share the host kernel. The failure modes I see most often are misconfiguration and kernel/runtime bugs — plus a third one that shows up in AI systems: policy leakage.

¹ https://www.luiscardoso.dev/blog/sandboxes-for-ai
by BatteryMountain | 2026-01-10 15:34:22+00:00
I literally have 3 folders, each on their own branch. But lately I use 1 folder a lot but work on different features (that won't introduce "merge conflicts" in a sense). Or I do readonly explorations (code auditing is fun!) and another one makes edits on a different feature, and maybe another one does something else in the Flutter app folder. So fairly easy to parallelize things like this. Next step is to install .net sdk + claude on some vm's and just trigger workflows from there, so no ide involved..

You won't be able to parallelize things if you just use the IDE's and their plugins. I do mine in the terminal with extra tabs, outside of the IDE.
by peepee1982 | 2026-01-10 15:34:23+00:00
You are conflating Marxism with China, which is just a state-capitalist powerhouse using the exact same model of enclosure and rent-seeking we are arguing against. China doesn't "hand over" automation because capitalists are better at it; the state simply socializes the risk and R&D before letting private proxies handle the commercialization. Citing a state-backed monopoly system to prove "the market" is the only way to build tech is total nonsense.
by jaybrendansmith | 2026-01-10 15:34:29+00:00
No, they don't. Ask any health official. We just had a high schooler die of meningitis 3 months ago, this kid was a star student, everybody loved him. 3 days later, DEAD. Why? Because his parents had "thought it best" to not give him the 2-shot meningitis vaccine. Vaccines are safe and proven. We in pharma, you know the actual people doing the medicine, spend billions to test them against giant cohorts to ensure safety and efficacy. Some rando on the internet feels they know better? Sit down please, you do not. Go get a medical degree ... you do not have the expertise to be credible on this, and neither does RFK.
by xtiansimon | 2026-01-10 15:34:33+00:00
He killed her.

Watching the synced videos, I'm realizing now the sound of "OOHHH" does not come from the shooter, but afterwards. It's another officer. I no longer have the impression of an officer surprised, threatened and reacting to danger.

You can clearly see on the POV-cam the driver's hands turning the steering wheel. She's trying to get out of that situation and drive away. That's clear, and it gives the shooter time to step out of the way.

Well, the shooter is not having it. And despite there being a civilian on the other side of the car, and officers all around the car, he choose to kill the driver, discharging his weapon. Felony Obstruction becomes punishable by death.

_"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!"_ – Mario Savio

The ultimate sacrafice
by hsin003 | 2026-01-10 15:34:52+00:00
Thanks for sharing! We’re definitely aware that Incus + Proxmox are very mature and full-featured.

Containarium is more of a "purpose-built, single-VM, SSH-first dev environment" approach:

- Lightweight: 1 VM can host 50–100+ LXC containers
- Quick provisioning: seconds instead of minutes per environment
- Focused on SSH workflows and dev sandboxing, not full datacenter management
- Minimal infra overhead: no GUI, no HA cluster required

Tradeoffs we’re aware of:
- Shared kernel (not VM-level isolation)
- Linux-only
- Less built-in tooling compared to Proxmox

We designed it to *optimize for cost efficiency and rapid dev onboarding*, rather than full-featured virtualization.

Would love to hear if you see any pitfalls with this approach compared to using Proxmox/Incus in a single-host scenario!
by WhyNotHugo | 2026-01-10 15:35:03+00:00
I use a lot of short-lived terminals. I have zsh+foot configured so that ctrl+shift+n opens a new terminal with the same current directory, so when using Vim, that's as fast as putting Vim in background, but I can tile both windows easily.

I never have more than a one or two dozen terminals at a time, but I definitely open hundred of short-lived ones.
by okanat | 2026-01-10 15:36:14+00:00
Not just Google is the problem, the entire industry is the problem. Almost all of the cell-based standards are locked away and purely depend on the operators, major infrastructure companies like Motorola, Ericsson and Huawei and modem implementors like Qualcomm, Apple or Broadcom.

Implementing them independently is extremely difficult and even if you manage to do it you cannot have them commercially available due to radio regulation and patents. Even academic research can only be done with collaboration of those huge companies.

It is impossible to make a phone that is LTE capable completely independently (or even without nation state support). You cannot implement VoLTE or RCS without support from the carriers. They all have their own proprietary protocol on top of the standards.

Google has basically infinite money and their own patents and industry relationships and government support so they can figure out RCS. An indie company, even with infinitely motivated engineers and good funding do not have any of it.
by scherlock | 2026-01-10 15:36:21+00:00
Many employees are doing text work and, until recently, operating systems and apps did a really bad job of working with Hi DPI displays. Your best bet was to target around 115 DPI on a monitor for decent text rendering without having to deal with font scaling. 19" 1080p is perfect for that. You just gave them multiple monitors if you wanted more real estate.