MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bryanrasmussen | 2026-01-08 10:11:03+00:00
>If the actions and beliefs of a group are fundamentally morally repugnant to me,

sure, although if tribal differences are always experienced as fundamentally morally repugnant one might think the moral calibration is screwed a bit too tight.

>I think that it is reasonable to not expect me to be able to find "something positive" in it.

Sure, I do think it is possible that some groups are so morally repugnant that they have absolutely nothing to offer whatsoever. For example that tribe of cave dwelling cannibals in the film The 13th Warrior, man those guys sucked! But the comment seemed more to be about how it is weird that when you find some group does some things that you find morally repugnant then they have nothing they do that can ever be good.

I have lived in places in which I find much of the surrounding culture to have behaviors that I found morally repugnant, or intellectually repugnant for that matter, but even at my most contemptuous of a culture and a people I will at times be forced to admit, honestly, that they have behaviors that can also be considered admirable (in many cultures the repugnant bits are so tightly bound to the admirable bits though I can see how it is difficult not to condemn everything)
by lxgr | 2026-01-08 10:11:40+00:00
Are you sure it's not part of e.g. this dataset? https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/seller-profile?id=13af1c0...

And even if it's not, as long as the other side (i.e. merchants and acquirers) just collects and aggregates the same data, that's little consolation.
by ben_w | 2026-01-08 10:13:28+00:00
That kind of pattern was easy before AI.

It's just… a lot of people don't see this on their bottom line. Or any line. My awareness of accessibility issues is the Web Accessibility Initiative and the Apple Developer talks and docs, but I don't think I've ever once been asked to focus on them. If anything, I've had ideas shot down.

What AI does do is make it cheap to fill in gaps. 1500 junior developers for the price of one, if you know how to manage them. But still, even there, they'd only be filling in gaps as well as the nature of those gaps have been documented in text, not the lived experience of people with e.g. limited vision, or limited joint mobility whose fingers won't perform all the usual gestures.

Even without that issue, I'd expect any person with a disability to describe an AI-developed accessibility solution as "slop": because I've had to fix up a real codebase where nobody before me had noticed the FAQ was entirely Bob Ross quotes (the app wasn't about painting, or indeed in English), I absolutely anticipate that a vibe-coded accessibility solution will do something equally weird, perhaps having some equivalent to "As a large language model…" or to hard-code some example data that has nothing to do with the current real value of a widget.
by bulba4aur | 2026-01-08 10:14:05+00:00
Indeed, the Microsoft Copilot eco-system might be a bit more sophisticated these days.

It so just happens than people around me, including myself, don't use the copilot, we "left" for the next big thing when Cursor was release, and copilot was still a glorified auto-complete.

From your feedback it seems like they became quite good?
by KellyCriterion | 2026-01-08 10:14:23+00:00
You are right:

How long will they do it? Id expect investors to roar up some day? Will MS fund them infinitely just for sake of "staying in the game"?
According to the public numbers of users, investments, scale etc., OpenAI will need huge amounts of money in the next years, not just "another 10 billion", thats my understanding?
by rainonmoon | 2026-01-08 10:14:33+00:00
It doesn't have to get to your employer, it just has to get to the enormous industry of grey-market data brokers who will supply the information to a third-party who will supply that information to a third-party who perform recruitment-based analytics which your employer (or their contracted recruitment firm) uses. Employers already use demographic data to bias their decisions all the time. If your issue is "There's no way conversations with ChatGPT would escape the interface in the first place," are you... familiar with Web 2.0?

Edit: Literally on the HN front page right now. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46528353
by jasonvorhe | 2026-01-08 10:14:54+00:00
Had to laugh out loud when checking this out. So now you're expected to keep two pieces of glass clean in order to a) not see smudges and b) not scratch the original display because there may be dirt on the touch screen and you can't just close your laptop shut anymore if you're in a hurry?

Not even a hint of a price region as well. Can't imagine anyone really asking for this. Just get an iPad.

Edit: Correction on the no price thing, it's relatively cheap for Kickstarter.
by general1465 | 2026-01-08 10:15:02+00:00
> 2) US Tech companies can't afford to pull out. They might do some short-lived performative black-outs to show European customers how dependent they are, and they will for sure run to the government, who in turn will start trade wars. But in the end they simply can't afford to just pull out completely.

Yep, case and point is current situation in Russia, where US companies "pulled" out due to sanctions, but not really.
Show HN: Versus – A free app that ranks video games using head-to-head matchups
by bustylasercanon | 2026-01-08 10:15:27+00:00
I built this after seeing people on subreddits like /r/30_plus_gamers sharing images of their Top 25 games and arguing in the comments. I wanted a more playful way to do that than static lists.

Versus lets you rank games by pitting them head-to-head. Under the hood it uses a simple ELO-style system, but the goal isn’t mathematical purity, it’s to make ranking games feel like a game itself. Over time it builds your personal Top 25, which you can turn into a clean shareable image. There are also global rankings and public profiles so you can see how wildly wrong everyone else is.

It’s completely free. No ads, no paywalls, no accounts required to get started.

Mostly just sharing because I think it’s fun, and maybe a few other people here will too.
by jatinlalit | 2026-01-08 10:16:17+00:00
Hi HN,

I got tired of constantly typing while doing research and development work.
So I built an AI voice assistant Chrome extension that lets you control
any website by voice.

Instead of typing "search for kubernetes documentation", you just say it.
It searches, follows links, fills forms—all via natural voice commands.

How it works:
- Install the extension (one click)
- Enable microphone permission
- Say "search for [query]" or "click the first link" on any site
- It understands natural language (not just rigid commands)

Why I built this:
I noticed that voice assistants exist (Google Assistant, Alexa), but they don't
really work with websites. They can't fill out forms, navigate pages, or
interact with the DOM. So there's this gap where you need voice control,
but you still have to use your hands.

Current state: Launched 4 days ago, 0 users (hence this post ).
I've been gathering feedback and iterating based on early testers.

Technical approach:
- Built with WebSpeech API for recognition
- Uses Claude/GPT for intent understanding
- Local processing where possible (privacy-first)
- Works offline for core features

What I'd genuinely appreciate feedback on:
1. Does the permission model make sense to you? I'm asking for microphone access only.
2. What voice commands would be most useful for your workflow?
3. Any privacy concerns I should address more clearly?
4. Should I open-source the core logic? (Considering it)

It's completely free. Link:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ai-voice-assistant-...

Happy to answer any questions. Thanks for checking it out!
by big_man_ting | 2026-01-08 10:16:54+00:00
you don't see the products because not all AI-assisted dev products are AI wrappers. These products look like regular software, both internal company tools and external customer facing ones.

There are people all over the place building stuff that would've either never been built, or would've required a paid dev++.

I built a whole webshop with an internal CRM/admin panel to manage ~150 products. I built a middleware connecting our webshop to our legacy ERP system, smth that would be normally done by another software company.

I built a program with a UI that makes it super easy for us to generate ZPL code and print labels using 4 different label printers automatically with a simple interface, managed by an RPi.

I have built custom personal portfolio websites for friends with Gemini 3 in hours for free, smth that again would've cost money for dev or some crappy WP/Squarespace templates.

As the other user said, the progress/changes are not distributed evenly, and are impossible to quantify.

But to me whose main job is not programming (but who knows how to code) but running a nom-software business, the productivity gains are very obvious, as is the fact that because of LLMs I have robbed developers of potential work.
by pezezin | 2026-01-08 10:17:29+00:00
Most of these CRT shaders seem to emulate the lowest possible quality CRTs you could find back in the day. I have a nice Trinitron monitor on my desk and it looks nothing like these shaders.

The only pleasant shader I have found is the one included in Dosbox Staging (https://www.dosbox-staging.org/), that one actually looks quite similar to my monitor!
by yurishimo | 2026-01-08 10:17:34+00:00
Can confirm having experienced both the USA and Dutch systems now. In both countries is my visit only about 20 minutes + another 15-30 sitting in the lobby because they doctor is always running behind schedule.

In theory, the Dutch system will take care of your more quickly for "real" emergencies as their "urgent care" (spoedpost) is heavily gate kept and you can only walk in to a hospital if you're in the middle of a crisis. I tried to walk into the ER once because I needed an inhaler and they told me to call the call the hotline for the urgent care... this was a couple of months after I moved.

That said, I much prefer paying €1800/year in premiums with a €450 deductible compared to the absolute shitshow that is healthcare in the USA. Now that I've figured out how to operate within the system, it's not so bad. But when you're in the middle of a health crisis, it can be very disorienting to try and figure out how it all works.
by podgietaru | 2026-01-08 10:17:58+00:00
This year I read 30 books. I'm very proud of that fact, HOWEVER.

I set a goal at the start of the year. And definitely at certain points I was optimising for that goal. And it took a lot out of me. I would have to do it rigidly, I would need to read X amount of pages.

I still enjoyed what I did. I still think it was ultimately a worthwhile goal. But this year my goal is to just "read." Not read N Amount. just to read for the pure enjoyment of reading.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-01-08 10:18:56+00:00
> This "intelligence gathering" function is the primary goal of a prediction market. It's the only reason it makes sense to even have them. If you turn it into some parlor game where everybody who participates has access to all the same information, then what are we even doing here?

If everyone has the same information, then whoever does better analysis wins. That's far from a parlor game.

Ideally people with good info and people with good analysis can both make money. (And ideally nobody takes real-world actions to make their bet come true.)
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-08 10:19:45+00:00
They developed a great deal of formal logic, but looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroco#:~:text=In%20the%20term... (with the hindsight from Boolean logic, admittedly!) it seems more like they were mostly slathering on the tech debt. How am I mistaken?

Speaking of reconciliation, might I interest you in a reconciliation of Aquinas and Spinoza, by way of Galois Theory?
by tomp | 2026-01-08 10:20:17+00:00
you need to educate yourself better about "basic facts about biology"

they're called essential because humans cannot produce them internally, so we have to consume them (though you could in principle make the same assessment for other animal species, but that's less relevant, unless you're, I don't know, raising cows?)

plants don't eat, but produce organic molecules from raw ingredients (or almost raw, in case of nitrogen), and can produce all amino acids - but in different quantities, so maybe the (parts of) plants you eat don't have all the necessary amino acids.
by iLoveOncall | 2026-01-08 10:20:20+00:00
Since there are a lot of positive comments at the top (not surprising given the astroturfing on HN), please watch this video from ChubbyEmu, a real doctor, about a case study from someone who self-diagnosed using AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yftBiNu0ZNU

For every positive experience there are many more that are negative, if not life threatening or simply deadly.
by businessmate | 2026-01-08 10:20:42+00:00
On January 7, 2026, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Health, a dedicated experience designed to support health-related conversations with stronger privacy, security, and contextual grounding. It is not a marketing experiment or a superficial feature release. It is an explicit acknowledgment that generic AI systems are no longer sufficient once outputs begin to shape understanding, preparation, and decision-adjacent behavior in sensitive domains.
by yurishimo | 2026-01-08 10:21:33+00:00
Do you think the majority of those people are lying or do you think it's possible that our pursuit of algorithmic consumption is actually rewiring our neural pathways into something that looks/behaves more like ADHD?

Personally, I'm on the fence. I suspect that I've always had a bit of that, but anecdotally, it does seem to have gotten worse in the past decade, but perhaps it's just a symptom of old age (31 hehehe).
by gusgus01 | 2026-01-08 10:21:46+00:00
I'd actually just say that comps magically anchor prices in the constrained market we've been experiencing. As a person who was looking to buy a few times over the last few years, comps strongly affect appraisals which affects whether a company will issue a loan for the house (appraisers actually send you the houses they based their appraisal on). Plus realtors base their understanding of the market on comps when they try to help you form your offer. And of course sellers will look at comps when deciding what to ask for and whether to accept your offer.

Now this only really works in constrained markets, but intrinsically there's always a time constraints in buying (our lifetime of course, but also life events and lease renewals and er ). There's of course also selection constraints because of the aforementioned time constraints, and location, and whether new construction in happening within those.

Saying "they impact listing prices but not necessarily clearing prices." might be logically consistent, but is disconnected from the reality of the housing market.
Developing a high level language over Zig
by ziyaadsaqlain | 2026-01-08 10:22:12+00:00
Hi everyone I saw zig is and intresting language I am learning it and also making a transpilied High level language over it I want some help with developing syntax.
in my lang there are three types of var declaration
1) using local keyword this are added in arena of the specific function.
2) using let keyword this are on stack but i am finding solution to make strings easier here.
3) manual memory but my transpiler will automatically use defer keywords so they are safe and delete once block exit
4) using unsafe direct fully manual memory management but still my transpiler will not let compiler till once in code the are freed.
by tomhow | 2026-01-08 10:22:22+00:00
WTF? This is not an acceptable comment on HN, no matter who or what you're replying to. We've had to ask you before to follow the guidelines. We have to ban accounts that comment like this repeatedly. Please remind yourself of the guidelines and make an effort to observe them if you want to keep participating here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by WackyFighter | 2026-01-08 10:23:41+00:00
> If the actions and beliefs of a group are fundamentally morally repugnant to me, I think that it is reasonable to not expect me to be able to find "something positive" in it.

No it isn't reasonable. In fact it is one of the stupidest things you can do. If you read any history, you will see that failures in military, politics, science etc. (really pick anything) are often due to key people simply refusing to learn from their opponents and/or refusing to adjust to the new reality. Often this is done because they find their opponents morally repugnant, or lacking in some virtue they happen to hold as important.

It is fine if you don't like the current US Administration. However if they do something that happens to be good, it is fine to acknowledge it as such, while still pointing out what else they are doing wrong. Otherwise you just come off as a sore loser and people will stop taking any notice of you.
by rainonmoon | 2026-01-08 10:25:20+00:00
I'm also Australian and some of these comments have really made me re-appreciate what we have in Medicare. Damn, it's got its issues, but the American attitudes towards their healthcare system are downright bleak. Deeply worrying that the prevailing attitude seems to be "But ChatGPT is so good" rather than "Our healthcare system is so bad." Remind me to visit my GP next week to thank them.
by MohskiBroskiAI | 2026-01-08 10:25:39+00:00
Lol. I'm too busy actually solving problems to worry about making sure my "HN" post is proper.

"I checked your other submissions" - Sure you did. You LOOKED at them and then made an assumption. You didn't "check" jack.

"Stop spamming AI garbage" > You just made yourself famous for being the absolute biggest idiot in the world.

Check my work. Then come back and apologize. Or don't. Because your validation means absolutely ZERO.

"You haven't discovered anything!"

Tell that to doctor Tanzi Ruldolph. YES that Tanzi. Who validated that my paper on reversing AD "Matched Harvard's screening over the past 10 years, and virtually every compound came up in that screening - we are doing clinical trials now - nice work!"

Wanna see the email thread?

Unlike you. I'm too busy discovering EVERYTHING to worry about my "AI generated post" being "perfect"

I'd rather my CODE and my RESEARCH and my PUBLICATIONS be perfect.

This? This is just an announcement to all you MUGGLES.

Damn. you guys bring out the worst in me.
by rasz | 2026-01-08 10:25:52+00:00
Oh its MUCH better than that. Commodore did this because they had incompetent management. They shipped earlier products (VIC-20, 1540) with hardware defective 6522, but:

- C64 shipped with 6526, fixed version of 6522 without shift register bug

- C64 is incompatible with 1540 anyway

They crippled C64 and its floppies _for no reason_.
by Traster | 2026-01-08 10:26:31+00:00
This seems a bit like a needlessly publicized finding. Surely our baseline assumption is that there are lots of systems that aren't very good at finding cancer. We're interested in findings that are good. You only need 1 good system to adopt. Yes, it's good scientific hygiene to do the study and publish it going "Well, this particular thing isn't good let's move on". But my expectation is you just going until you design a system that does do well and then adopt that system.

If I pluck a guy off the street, get him to analyze a load of MRI scans and he doesn't correctly identify cancer from them I'm not going to publish an article saying "Humans miss X% of breast cancers" am I.
by antisol | 2026-01-08 10:27:03+00:00
Impossible, huh?

May I suggest Xephyr, which will give you the X11 sandboxing that wayland people like to claim is impossible under X, using tech that's been around for about 20 years.

And you won't even need to replace your entire software stack with incompatible beta-quality software.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xephyr
by littlestymaar | 2026-01-08 10:27:29+00:00
> They moved from dirt poor to middle income largely by strangling their economy quite as hard as the did under Mao.

They did move from durt poor to “higher life expectancies than the US” because the state made it an actual goal, with policies designed for that.

> If they liberalised further, they could become richer.

That's just your religious belief. But it has strictly the same factuality as “if you went to church, God would help you be happier”.

> > “FDR didn't exist”.

> Huh?

Maybe document yourself on the massive financial regulations tightening that happened under FDR before saying it has always been the same.
by energy123 | 2026-01-08 10:27:35+00:00
Doctors should be expected to use these tools as part of general competency. Someone I knew had herpes zoster on her face and the doctor had no idea and gave her diabetic medication. A five second inference with Gemini by me, uploading the picture only (after disabling apps activity to protect her privacy), and it said what it was. It's deplorable. And there's no way for this doctor to lose their job. They can keep being worse than Gemini Flash and making money.
by MohskiBroskiAI | 2026-01-08 10:27:51+00:00
https://www.academia.edu/145628758/P_NP_Spectral_Geometric_P...

https://github.com/merchantmoh-debug/ARK-P-neq-NP-Formalizat...

Put that in your pipe in smoke it.

In fact - There's another spot you can put it.

Jerk.
by kaave | 2026-01-08 10:27:56+00:00
so i bought shipfast few weeks ago and noticed something, there is no error tracking included in the stack, i mean this is good for "shipping fast" really but IMO , i feel error tracking should be included especially for launch day traffic. Most users might encounter bugs and errors on launch day , and not having a way to track it is risky(you will lose a lot of customers) and as humans , we dont have that time or patience to text support or try again, we just leave the site and never come back

so i wrote a guide on how to add error tracking to your ship fast stack using Bugmail.

chose bugmail cos i built it and its very simple to use and indie friendly , you can literally get started with 4 lines of code
no config hell, or bloat or confusing dashboards (bugmail is just an interface that looks like gmail ) so the way it works is ;

when something breaks in prod , i get an email , i go to my dashboard , see the stack trace , user context and breadcrumbs(this way i can see what the user did ) and an ai analysis of the bug and suggested fixes

basically a 2 minutes setup , so while you're shipping fast , you can get notified when something breaks
by sounds | 2026-01-08 10:28:30+00:00
What I don't understand is how this new type of asset is above reproach.

I mean BlackRock and Blackstone creating securities backed by real estate in general, not only single family homes.

What if this new type of asset signals to the broader real estate market that regulators favor large investors?

Even more likely, what if this new type of asset succeeds at the expense of first time home buyers?
by Fnoord | 2026-01-08 10:28:46+00:00
My current one sure as hell is.

My previous one was, too.

The one I had as kid, well. He was old, stuck in old ways, but I still think he was decent at it.

But seeing the doctor is a bit more difficult these days, since the assistants are backstopping. They do some heavy lifting / screening.

I think an LLM could help with symptoms and then looking at the most probable cause, but either way I wouldn't take it too serious. And that is the general issue with ML: people take the output too serious, at face value. What matters is: what are the cited sources?
by Dilettante_ | 2026-01-08 10:28:53+00:00
Sure, but the person I replied to seemed quite adamant and specific in rejecting external curation.

He wants to know for sure, he'll have to see for himself. That's actually one of the very useful generalizable lessons you can learn on this path.

Of course you won't be able to experience everything? That's a feature of the universe. You won't even be able to hear about everything. It's up to the individual to decide their breadth/depth ratio, but at a certain point you need to, pardon my french, "shit or get off the pot".