MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jyoung789 | 2026-01-22 19:42:57+00:00
That's interesting to me. I suppose I can think about the qualities of an apple or its location without having to render the obj and textures all in my head, but my default approach to 'imagination' is to render everything out completely in my head. Similar to how I can think without an internal monologue, but my baseline is that my thoughts tend to be constantly narrated.
by Lerc | 2026-01-22 19:42:57+00:00
So the headline says

>GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers

And I'm left wondering if they mean 100 papers or 100 hallucinations

The subheading says

>GPTZero's analysis 4841 papers accepted by NeurIPS 2025 show there are at least 100 with confirmed hallucinations

Which accidentally a word, but seems to clarify that they do legitimately mean 100 papers.

A later heading says

>Table of 100 Hallucinated Citations in Published Across 53 NeurIPS Papers

Which suggests either the opposite, or that they chose a subset of their findings to point out a coincidentally similar number of incidents.

How many papers did they find hallucinations in? I'm still not certain. Is it 100, 53 or some other number altogether? Does their quality of scrutiny match the quality of their communication. If they did in-fact find 100 Hallucinations in 53 papers, would the inconsistency against their claim of "papers accepted by NeurIPS 2025 show there are at least 100 with confirmed hallucinations" meet their own bar for a hallucination?
by bArray | 2026-01-22 19:43:00+00:00
Yes and no. This was the IT of a school, most likely low-paid College/University graduates trying to patch together a working system on a shoe-string budget 20 years ago. Maybe they were fully aware of the issues and struggled to get time to deal with them - try convincing an uneducated management that you need to fix something that is currently working.

I remember IT were continuously fixing computers/laptops broken by students, fixing connectivity issues (maybe somebody has pushed crayons into the Ethernet ports), loading up software that teachers suddenly need tomorrow, etc. Maybe they also have to prevent external actors from accessing important information. All the whilst somebody well above your pay grade is entering into software contracts without knowing anything about software.

Things are likely far more plug & play now for IT infrastructure, back then (XP I think) it was more the Wild West. Only five years ago I know that a University login system used to send username and password credentials via plaintext, because that's how the old protocols worked. The same University also gave me sudo to install/run programs, which provided sudo over all network drives.

You would probably be horrified to know how much infrastructure still runs on outdated stuff. Just five years ago the Chinese trains stopped working because Adobe disabled Flash [1]. I know of some important infrastructure that still uses floppy disks. Not so long ago some electrical testing could not be conducted because the machine that performed it got a corrupted floppy disk.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/deactivation-of-...
by Moldoteck | 2026-01-22 19:43:05+00:00
Co2 tax is just an indirect subsidy for renewables. When prices are low those are subsidized through cfds. When high- through merit order artificially pumped by co2 tax. This isn't bad per se but it affects negatively final consumer prices and industry which is bad.

Problem is not about the neighbors throwing trash. Unilateral co2 tax means industry relocates to regions where it's not present. In your analogy it would look like you are sending trash to US to deal with it.

DK is lucky to be able to get firming from nordics, but not everyone can do this. And from what I remember Norway already said one of the interconnectors will not have extended license at EOL
by teddyh | 2026-01-22 19:43:08+00:00
> Surprisingly, Rust, as of now, uses line buffering for both TTYs and non-TTYs.

> The FIXME comment shows the Rust team acknowledges that ideally they should check if something is executed in TTYs or not and use LineWriter or BufWriter accordingly, but I guess this was not on their priority list.

This does not inspire confidence.
by onraglanroad | 2026-01-22 19:43:18+00:00
So you have two AIs. Let's call them Claude and Hal. Whenever Claude gets something wrong, Hal is shown what went wrong and asked to rewrite the claude.md prompt to get Claude to do it right. Eventually Hal starts shouting at Claude.

Why is this inevitable? Because Hal only ever sees Claude's failures and none of the successes. So of course Hal gets frustrated and angry that Claude continually gets everything wrong no matter how Hal prompts him.

(Of course it's not really getting frustrated and annoyed, but a person would, so Hal plays that role)
by munk-a | 2026-01-22 19:43:47+00:00
> They're begging corporate decision makers to ask the question, "If Anthropic doesn't trust Claude to run its support, then why should we?"

Don't worry - I'm sure they won't and those stakeholders will feel confident in their enlightened decision to send their most frustrated customers through a chatbot that repeatedly asks them for detailed and irrelevant information and won't let them proceed to any other support levels until it is provided.

I, for one, welcome our new helpful overlords that have very reasonably asked me for my highschool transcript and a ten page paper on why I think the bug happened before letting me talk to a real person. That's efficiency.
Show HN: FlowPDF – A node-based PDF editor (100% local, build workflows)
by mdotk | 2026-01-22 19:44:06+00:00
Hi HN,

I built FlowPDF because most PDF sites make you do one action at a time. I wanted to chain steps like merge → remove pages → compress in one run, without re‑uploading between each step.

FlowPDF is a local‑first, node‑based editor that runs in the browser (Web Workers + WASM where needed). PDFs never leave the device. Optional OCR/translation models download on first use and are cached, so it can run offline after that.

Any feedback appreciated!

CHeers

https://www.flowpdf.app/
by pixl97 | 2026-01-22 19:44:35+00:00
>These GPUs are treated like toilet paper, you use them and throw them away, nothing you will give to the next generation.

I'm guessing this may be highly dependant on what the bathtub curve looks like, and how much the provider wants to spend on cooling.

Of course with Nvidia being a near monopoly here, they might just not give a fuck and will pump out cards/servers with shitty reliability rates simply because people keep buying them and they don't suffer any economic loss or have to sit in front of a judge.

Be interesting to see what the error rate per TFLOP (no /s, we're looking at operations not time) is compared to older generation cards.
by guywithahat | 2026-01-22 19:45:04+00:00
Yes they do, as they should. Ebay is in an extremely competitive market and you have lots of other options, if you're abusing their service they need to be allowed to ban you. Imagine if Amazon wasn't allowed to ban scammers, or if they couldn't refuse a login portal to a user, allowing infinite attempts. It's important they get to decide whether to deliver a page to you, let alone keep you as a user.

If we were talking about some government-run water utility then sure, it would different, but a private online store can ban users without ruining their life, and if you're opposed to this new rule you should stop using them in protest.
by colechristensen | 2026-01-22 19:45:04+00:00
>Don't you want people to use energy sources that are better for our entire world, even if it costs you like $10 more in taxes per year?

If everyone gets the benefit it's either A) exactly the same cost but with additional government program or B) some form of wealth distribution and not necessarily in a direction you favor

Also large solar installations are significantly more cost efficient.

Mind you I am IN FAVOR of subsidized residential solar, but let's not pretend government money is free.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-01-22 19:45:19+00:00
Critically, this has to be their play, because there are several other big players in the "commodity LLM" space. They need to find a niche or there is no reason to stick with them.

OpenAI has been chaotically trying to pivot to more diversified products and revenue sources, and hasn't focused a ton on code/DevEx. This is a huge gap for Anthropic to exploit. But there are still competitors. So they have to provide a better experience, better product. They need to make people want to use them over others.

Famously people hate Google because of their lack of support and impersonality. And OpenAI also seems to be very impersonal; there's no way to track bugs you report in ChatGPT, no tickets, you have no idea if the pain you're feeling is being worked on. Anthropic can easily make themselves stand out from Gemini and ChatGPT by just being more human.
by jedwards1211 | 2026-01-22 19:45:41+00:00
for example, I got fed up with the old form library we were using because it wasn't capable of checking field names/paths and field value types at compile time and I kept having unexpected runtime errors. I wrote a replacement form library that can deeply typecheck all of that stuff.

If I had turned an AI loose against the original codebase, I think it would have just churned away copying the existing patterns and debugging any runtime errors that result. I don't think an AI would have ever voluntarily told me "this form library is costing time and effort, we should replace it with such and such instead"
by gond | 2026-01-22 19:45:53+00:00
Around ten years ago, I was a designer for some 20 years. A strange path led me to a different place which is intermixed or adjacent to the field of organisational theory.

At that time, I decomposed problems too, maybe a bit differently than a developer, I can’t really know. I still decompose, except that the difference to the past is that analysis only makes up one part of the larger whole. I knew many designers which never did either.

I agree with you that there are some areas which do not need theory. That depends on where you define the System boundaries. In the example of a csrpenter: Yes, 30 years, the person indeed knows that stuff. One of first question of Systems Thinking, however would be: What’s the reference system, is his system viable in the future?
I very much believe that if you apply this to complex projects, to ‘communication and control’ of an enterprise, that one should know the backstory.

The reductionist approach got us to the problems, applying reductionism to a theory trying to solve reductionism is courageous.
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-01-22 19:46:35+00:00
I think the idea is fine, but what might end up happening is that one agent gets unhinged and "asks" another agent to do more and more crazy stuff, and they get in a loop where everything gets flagged. Remember that "bots configured to add a book at +0.01$ on amazon, reached 1M$ for the book" a while ago. Kinda like that, but with prompts.
by som | 2026-01-22 19:46:38+00:00
That's fair. Lack of any official APIs outside of the standard YT data API is frustrating. Would love to see / hear about a rosetta stone for the streaming services to allow easier migration (and integration) between them. Though I guess that's not in anyone's interest.

Also regards the ban, from what I've read Google have included Music by choice. Potentially as a bargaining chip.
by godelski | 2026-01-22 19:46:46+00:00
Here's a work from last year which was plagiarized. The rare thing about this work is it was submitted to ICLR, which opened reviews for both rejected and accepted works.

You'll notice you can click on author names and you'll get links to their various scholar pages but notably DBLP, which makes it easy to see how frequently authors publish with other specific authors.

Some of those authors have very high citation counts... in the thousands, with 3 having over 5k each (one with over 18k).

https://openreview.net/forum?id=cIKQp84vqN
by ryandrake | 2026-01-22 19:46:54+00:00
I always thought it would be nice to see some kind of "maintainer profile" for each project, that the maintainers could set up: Is the project open to PRs? What is the quality bar for PRs? How much developer testing is expected before a PR is accepted? Are there any automated test coverage requirements/expectations? Sort of like a more structured version of CONTRIBUTING.md.

Also, statistics about past PRs: How long does it take, on average, before the maintainer responds to a PR, before it gets merged? What % are rejected or closed? How many edits do PRs for this project on average need before being accepted? What is the current incoming rate for PRs and what is the current merge rate? I could look at these and figure out if a project can sustain yet another incoming PR or if they are in over their heads. And it would help me understand what level of "done" they are expecting. Maybe some of these are even already available--i haven't really explored GitHub that much. Hope this helps.
by burningChrome | 2026-01-22 19:46:56+00:00
Years ago, I built what I thought was a pretty basic static site generator using HapiJS. I was using it for personal projects and after some convincing by friends, put it up on Github. My friends went on Reddit and posted it and then told me about it afterwards.

It initially got some decent traction and then all of a sudden, all the pull requests came, all the feature requests and then all the bug reports.

I kept telling people this was a side project, if they want to fork it go ahead, but this is not something I'm going to spend a ton of time on. Then all the hate started about how I put something out into the OSS community with no desire to support it. I was bad person, my code was shit and I should stop being a developer.

That was my first and last OSS project.

I applaud and respect the people who are committed to getting OSS out there, but for me, it was a horrible experience.
by dogma1138 | 2026-01-22 19:46:58+00:00
They don’t have a choice, they sell they get back dollars. What are they going to swap 8 trillion dollars into? And an even better question how?

$8 trillion is about half the M3 of the Euro.

In fact there are only about 20 trillion dollars right now, there isn’t even enough liquidity to cash out.
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-01-22 19:47:05+00:00
In fields like psychology, though, you can be wrong for decades. If your result is foundational enough, and other people have "replicated" it, then most researchers will toss out contradictory evidence as "guess those people were an unrepresentative sample". This can be extremely harmful when, for instance, the prevailing view is "this demographic are just perverts" or "most humans are selfish thieves at heart, held back by perceived social consensus" – both examples where researcher misconduct elevated baseless speculation to the position of "prevailing understanding", which led to bad policy, which had devastating impacts on people's lives.

(People are better about this in psychology, now: schoolchildren are taught about some of the more egregious cases, even before university, and individual researchers are much more willing to take a sceptical view of certain suspect classes of "prevailing understanding". The fact that even I, a non-psychologist, know about this, is good news. But what of the fields whose practitioners don't know they have this problem?)
by forty | 2026-01-22 19:47:37+00:00
Do you have sources for what you say for meat for example? From what I could read on this topic, they don't have the same traceability constraints, may use growth hormones that are forbidden here, etc.

To add to the absurdity, one of the thing we Europeans will be able to export more to SA is chemicals, including those which we forbid here because they damage health and environment...
by bowsamic | 2026-01-22 19:47:48+00:00
Regardless of whether memory was externalised, it’s still the case that it was lost internally, that much is true. If you really care about having a great internal memory then of course you’ll think it’s a downside.

So we’ve externalised memory, we’ve externalised arithmetic. Personally the idea of externalising thinking seems to be the last one? It’s not clear what’s left inside us of being a human once that one is gone
by pseudony | 2026-01-22 19:48:11+00:00
Yes, but also no.

Pension funds around these parts are big, we are often forced to pay into them.
Years ago, I noticed they started advertising green funds. Would not be surprised to see options that exclude the US too.

If you look at Trumps polls across EU countries, it is heavily in the negative and a lot of us are wanting to put our money where our mouth is about it.
Show HN: I built a directory of free AI writing tools to support my main product
by EdgarsHQ | 2026-01-22 19:48:25+00:00
Hi HN, I built a directory of free (no signup/no cc) AI writing tools and wanted to share it with you. It’s basically a collection of preconfigured prompts to quickly improve text, change tone, reply to emails, rewrite, including some niche ones.

I used Astro with DaisyUI and Cloudflare Workers/CDN to make the site fast and SEO-friendly. Managed to get a 100% Lighthouse score, which is nice. Overall, it went pretty well, though I did run into a couple of bugs with Astro along the way — some of which have already been fixed. It uses Gemini 3 Flash under the hood right now. I've also spent some time protecting it from bots and scrapers with Turnstile, and I currently manage my costs by pre-funding credits to avoid any surprises on my bills with post-payment, in case bad actors try to exploit the service (and while not user-friendly, since it's a free public service, I might also add some fingerprinting if there's a need down the road).

My main motivation was to improve SEO presence and drive traffic/funnel into my main product (posted about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46183195). But at the same time, I wanted to create something useful, so I ended up spending more time on that than I initially planned. I’m curious to see how it all turns out, how much it will cost, and how soon I might run out of credits.

If you have a minute, let me know if/how it’s useful for you. Some prompts still need improvement, so feel free to share your results — I’m happy to explore and improve.

Link: https://textwisely.ai/directory
by Aurornis | 2026-01-22 19:48:26+00:00
Years ago I was involved in a service where we some times had to disable accounts for abusive behavior. I'm talking about obvious abusive behavior, akin to griefing other users.

Every once in while someone would take it personally and go on a social media rampage. The one thing I learned from being on the other side of this is that if someone seems like an unreliable narrator, they probably are. They know the company can't or won't reveal the true reason they were banned, so they're virtually free to tell any story they want.

There are so many things about this article that don't make sense:

> I'm glad this happened with this particular non-disabled-organization. Because if this by chance had happened with the other non-disabled-organization that also provides such tools... then I would be out of e-mail, photos, documents, and phone OS.

I can't even understand what they're trying to communicate. I guess they're referring to Google?

There is, without a doubt, more to this story than is being relayed.
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-22 19:48:40+00:00
It does take social permission in places like Europe. There's a big pressure against datacenters here that use scarce resources. Like here in Holland the power grid is overloaded and companies need to wait for ages to get a connection.

So this is something that factors in hugely in planning permission. What do we get back for it is a question asked a lot. And datacenters are notoriously bad at providing jobs, during construction yes but in the run phase it's mainly low-value remote hands and security stuff.
by wtcactus | 2026-01-22 19:48:44+00:00
So, the president of a socialist country (a country where the government spenditure is 57% of the total GDP is a socialist country [1]) is now saying their citizens that they will be stopped from investing the little money the state allows them to keep wherever they want, and be forced to invest in their faulty economy.

That’s it, right?

There’s a reason Europeans mostly invest in US stocks: they are much more profitable because the US doesn’t tax to death and regulates to death their own companies. Maybe France and the rest of the EU should try the same.

[1] https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/2381414
by futureshock | 2026-01-22 19:48:48+00:00
I think this is clearly the way forward for Apple. The rest is just UX and refinement.

I recently set up a Shortcut on my Apple Watch that lets me bypass Siri and talk directly to ChatGPT. I used a custom pre-prompt in the Shortcut to tailor the length and detail for watch use. I have 2 versions I can launch from my watch face, one that responds with voice and the other that response with text. I find myself using them all the time, it’s so convenient to be able to ask any little thing that’s on my mind. A version of LLM Siri with full access to the phone and application APIs would be like a superpower.
by dangjc | 2026-01-22 19:48:52+00:00
Rooftop solar has lower distribution costs. A solar farm needs new transmission and upgraded capacity distribution lines to get the power from far away to the users. Generating solar right next to your neighbors lets them access your surplus cheap power with existing slack capacity in the distribution lines. Our current monopoly utilities don’t have a mechanism to recognize that value created, and they would prefer to keep building more infrastructure as that’s what increases profits for them.
by jamesgill | 2026-01-22 19:48:52+00:00
There's a lot of info about this online, but here's a quick TL;DR example:
https://www.health.harvard.edu/diet-and-weight-loss/lessons-...

What most people don't understand is that weight loss and health is about a lot more than 'calories in/calories out', despite what we've been told for decades.
by WarmWash | 2026-01-22 19:49:16+00:00
Anthropic isn't bothering with image models, audio models, video models, world models. They don't have science/math models, they don't bother with mathematics competitions, and they don't have open model models either.

Anthropic has claude code, it's a hit product, SWE's love claude models. Watching Anthropic rather than listening to them makes their goals clear.
by i_am_proteus | 2026-01-22 19:49:42+00:00
>this error does make me pause to wonder how much of the rest of the paper used AI assistance

And this is what's operative here. The error spotted, the entire class of error spotted, is easily checked/verified by a non-domain expert. These are the errors we can confirm readily, with obvious and unmistakable signature of hallucination.

If these are the only errors, we are not troubled. However: we do not know if these are the only errors, they are merely a signature that the paper was submitted without being thoroughly checked for hallucinations. They are a signature that some LLM was used to generate parts of the paper and the responsible authors used this LLM without care.

Checking the rest of the paper requires domain expertise, perhaps requires an attempt at reproducing the authors' results. That the rest of the paper is now in doubt, and that this problem is so widespread, threatens the validity of the fundamental activity these papers represent: research.
by KaiserPro | 2026-01-22 19:49:53+00:00
> In the UK in winter we regularly have periods of 5 cloudy days

True, but then for the UK solar power isn't the right thing for winter, hence why we need a massive mix of other stuff.

Also we have the advantage that france isn't that far away.

In the UK battery is about grid stabilisation, as in making sure that it hums at 50hz rather than 49.