MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bri3d | 2026-01-15 14:04:32+00:00
For a truck you rent in an at least semi-urban area by the hour it’s never mattered for me, it’s always covered all of the “I live in a city but need a pickup truck” cases like picking up landscaping materials, appliances, large furniture, and so on - a lot more than “just being allowed to bring stuff home from home depot.” Since I drive an SUV which can tow now I just do the opposite and rent a trailer when I would have needed a pickup bed, which also works well.

I’m actually far from a pickup truck hater; they certainly have their place (my parents live in a rural area and I can’t really see them not having one), and I occasionally miss owning one, but I’ve never managed to make the economics come even close to balancing out vs. renting for myself.
Show HN: Building dev visibility for non-technical founders and stakeholders
by inferno22 | 2026-01-15 14:04:53+00:00
Gitmore (https://gitmore.io) – plain English access to your Git activity.

If you're a founder, PM, or exec who doesn't code, you probably rely on engineers to tell you what's shipping. That works until investors ask for updates, customers want a changelog, or you just need to know where things stand.

*The problem:*

Your engineers already document their work. Every commit, every PR. But that information lives in GitHub – a UI built for developers, not stakeholders.

*What Gitmore does:*

Connect your repos. Ask questions like you're talking to a teammate:
- "What shipped last week?"
- "Who's working on the mobile app?"
- "What's blocking the release?"

Plain English in, plain English out.

*Slack integration:*

Connect the bot to your workspace. Ask questions directly from Slack – no need to open another dashboard. Your whole team gets access without needing GitHub logins.

*Automated reports:*

Schedule weekly or monthly summaries to Slack or email:
- Features shipped
- Bugs fixed
- Who contributed

Forward to investors. Share with your board.

*How it works:*

Webhooks only. Git platforms push metadata to us – commit messages, PR descriptions, authors, timestamps.

Every event normalized into a structured schema. The AI queries structure, not raw text.

*Who it's for:*

- Non-technical founders
- PMs writing changelogs
- Execs who need visibility
- Anyone outside engineering who needs to know what's shipping

*Security:*

Metadata only. We never clone repos or access source code.

- Encrypted tokens (Fernet)
- Webhook signature verification
- 2FA support

GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket – one dashboard.

Free for 1 repo: https://gitmore.io

Are there non-technical people on your team who struggle to get dev visibility?
by rocketvole | 2026-01-15 14:06:22+00:00
a lot of people buy rpis because they are the only reasonable option for connectivity with power. I'm not sure what other devices you can get that have gpio and mipi connectivity with the ability to (potentially) run vlms and llms on them.

I daresay they could charge more than a comparably specced computer (if they don't already) and they would still be a viable purchase.
by seanwilson | 2026-01-15 14:06:39+00:00
> They act as stand-ins for actual users and will flag all sorts of usability problems.

I think everyone on the team should get involved in this kind of feedback because raw first impressions on new content (which you can only experience once, and will be somewhat similar to impatient new users) is super valuable.

I remember as a dev flagging some tech marketing copy aimed at non-devs as confusing and being told by a manager not to give any more feedback like that because I wasn't in marketing... If your own team that's familiar with your product is a little confused, you can probably x10 that confusion for outside users, and multiply that again if a dev is confused by tech content aimed at non-devs.

I find it really common as well that you get non-tech people writing about tech topics for marketing and landing pages, and because they only have a surface level understanding of the the tech the text becomes really vague with little meaning.

And you'll get lots devs and other people on the team agreeing in secret the e.g. the product homepage content isn't great but are scared to say anything because they feel they have to stay inside their bubble and there isn't a culture of sharing feedback like that.
by pjc50 | 2026-01-15 14:06:46+00:00
This is the hidden tragedy of the "listed building" process. It's actually a sizeable burden on a property, because suddenly there's all these compliance requirements on how you do repairs and upkeep.

_Not_ doing repairs and upkeep is free.

Arson is very difficult to prove.

So the listing process preserves a building exactly as it is, sometimes for decades past its usefulness, until it collapses or burns down.
by 9JollyOtter | 2026-01-15 14:07:00+00:00
I generally don't pay attention to the news at all anymore (the vast majority of it is rage bait). I think the last time I paid attention to the BBC news when it was on when the Bibby Stockholm Barge was being moored in Portland. The way the news anchor was talking about it, was as if it was full of Zombies with the T-Virus on-board. While the footage just had a tugboat pulling a barge. It was utterly ridiculous.

Outside of that the news seems to be very focused on what happens in London/Westminster, Ukraine, Palestine or Trump. I don't really care about any of those.

I only pretty much care about things like Digital ID and stuff like OSA.

However Scotland (much like Northern Island) seems like it own little weird microcosm.

I don't really understand the political landscape outside of England and whenever I see statements made by the main party up there (the SNP) they seem to be utterly ridiculous jingoist anti-English nonsense that feels like it stems from Braveheart. I am not going to listen to a politician that basically painting me out to be the enemy, which is odd since most Scottish people I've spoken to are quite friendly.
by alexfoo | 2026-01-15 14:08:24+00:00
There will always be idiots, regardless of whether alcohol is involved or not, but I'm talking about the levels of hooliganism that were rife in the 80s and 90s, the things that got alcohol banned (when in view of the pitch) at football matches.

That level of hooliganism at games and around the stadiums is a mostly a thing of the past.

The days of open brawls in the stands that you saw in the 80s/90s are gone, you just get the occasional bit of jostling nowadays if that. (I used to do stewarding back in the late 90s and saw a lot of the bad side of things.)

The various "firms" that would meet up for their arranged pre-match fight have dwindled to almost nothing and now there is little fear for away fans walking to/from games. It used to be quite a scary prospect depending on the ground visited.

However, successive UK Governments have repeatedly kicked the can down the road when considering reversing the 1985 ban that stopped people having a drink in view of the pitch.

More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_in_association_footbal...

I don't think any UK political party has the bottle (pun intended) to reintroduce it, it would be a pretty divisive proposal and most political parties try to steer well clear of such things in today's politics.

Things are starting to change though. At some grounds you do have home and away fans mixing in the concourses (the Putney End of Fulham's ground for example) but most grounds in the top tiers are designed to keep home and away fans apart as much as possible.
by roxolotl | 2026-01-15 14:09:01+00:00
Is that not just slippery slope? If supernormal stimuli are broadcast across a population and we are helpless to prevent mind control then sure we should probably ban that. If the argument then is “yes but that’s exactly what TikTok is”. Well the US did actually manage to muster the political will to ban that for everyone. Of course it’s not being enforced because of reasons but it does seem like if the population believes they are being mind controlled the will is there.
by dpoloncsak | 2026-01-15 14:09:14+00:00
>When it became cheaper to x did the quality go up?
...yes?

It introduces a lower barrier to entry, so more low-quality things are also created, but it also increases the quality of the higher-tier as well. It's important to note that in FOSS, we (Or atleast...I) don't generally care who wrote the code, as long as it compiles and isn't malicious. This overlays with the original discussion...If I was paying you to read your posts, I expect them to be hand-written. If I'm paying for software, it better not be AI Slop. If you're offering me something for free, I'm not really in a position to complain about the quality.

It's undeniable that, especially in software, cheaper costs and a lower barrier to get started will bring more great FOSS software. This is like one of the pillars of FOSS, right? That's how we got LetsEncrypt, OpenDNS, etc. It will also 100% bring more slop. Both can be true at the same time.
by jerf | 2026-01-15 14:09:16+00:00
"well, if public transit documentation suddenly starts being terrible, will it lead to an immediate, noticeable drop in revenue? Doubt it."

First, I understand what you're saying and generally agree with it, in the sense that that is how the organization will "experience" it.

However, the answer to "will it lead to a noticeable drop in revenue" is actually yes. The problem is that it won't lead to a traceable drop in revenue. You may see the numbers go down. But the numbers don't come with labels why. You may go out and ask users why they are using your service less, but people are generally very terrible at explaining why they do anything, and few of them will be able to tell you "your documentation is just terrible and everything confuses me". They'll tell you a variety of cognitively available stories, like the place is dirty or crowded or loud or the vending machines are always broken, but they're terrible at identifying the real root causes.

This sort of thing is why not only is everything enshittifying, but even as the entire world enshittifies, everybody's metrics are going up up up. It takes leadership willing to go against the numbers a bit to say, yes, we will be better off in the long term if we provide quality documentation, yes, we will be better off in the long term if we use screws that don't rust after six months, yes, we will be better off in the long term if we don't take the cheapest bidder every single time for every single thing in our product but put a bit of extra money in the right place. Otherwise you just get enshittification-by-numbers until you eventually go under and get outcompeted and can't figure out why because all your numbers just kept going up.
by 9rx | 2026-01-15 14:09:53+00:00
Wales/Welsh doesn’t jive under the conditions set. Perhaps you missed "non-trivial percentage"? Outer Hebrides is a part of the UK where ~50% of its residents speak Scottish, never mind England and its English dominance, so clearly ~30% is still considered within trivial range. Otherwise "the one part" doesn't work; seeing many parts of the UK fit the bill.
by pc86 | 2026-01-15 14:09:56+00:00
I don't have any problem with not giving Adams just because you don't like him. Even if I think it's a bit silly, it's certainly your right, and while I would rather enjoy art I enjoy regardless of the artist's beliefs, not everyone feels that way and that's fine. What bothers me is the performative nature of it, having to tell everyone about it to let them know how good of a person you are, and acting like people with a different viewpoint are somehow lesser or worse.

Just look at this thread, several comments about "oh yeah that's what people without morals always say." As if whether someone spends $10 on an old book of Dilbert comics has far-reaching moral implications.
by __jonas | 2026-01-15 14:10:15+00:00
You seem quite passionate about this, which I find difficult to understand, maybe because I’m not as deeply immersed in American political culture as you (I had no idea people see BLM as an organisation rather than a movement / ethical stance) but I’m curious: Is it really just about language for you?

If the section was phrased as “We are LGBTQ+ friendly and do not tolerate transphobia or racism” that would feel more welcoming to you?

At the end of the day, it’s a programming language community. If you join and ask a question about how to call functions from Erlang, you’ll definitely get an answer. If you join and bring up your feelings about trans women in sports you’ll most likely be asked to stop or removed, as it’s just not a space where that kind of discussion is welcome.

But why should it be?
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-15 14:10:49+00:00
It's almost always the engineers, analysts and MBA spreadsheet pushers and other people removed from the physical consequences outputting these mistakes because it's way easier to not notice a misplaced decimal or incorrect value when you deal in pure numbers and know what they "should" be than you are the person actually figuring out how to make it happen the difference between needing 26666666.667 and 266666666.667 <units> of <widget> is pretty meaningful. Engineers don't output these mistakes as often as analysts or whatever because they work in organizations that invest more in catching them, not because they make them all that much less.

Whether talking weight or bulk a decimal place is approximately the difference between needing a wheelbarrow, a truck, a semi truck, a freight train and a ship.
by bix6 | 2026-01-15 14:11:09+00:00
> Trust me, the tech folks, are well aware, which is why they are already fleeing the state. Peter Thiel and Larry Page left for Florida. David Sacks opened a moved his business to Texas. Sergey Brin is looking at Miami, and Chamath Palihapitiya is eyeing Texas as well.

I won’t be missing any of these people.

What have they done to give back to this state with all the money it’s helped them earn?

These rich folk are stateless. Community means nothing to them.
by shimman | 2026-01-15 14:11:15+00:00
The are purposely ruining the commons as any corporation does to society. Companies take advantage of open source all the time without ever truly giving back, which is why we should lobby the government to compel big tech into this.

If it helps, voter sentiment against big tech is quite high and the profit margins that big tech has means there's a lot to plunder for the public.

The only question is who do you want to do the plundering?
by inanutshellus | 2026-01-15 14:11:24+00:00
Tut tut, judgemental one. The point is the sharing - with us - let's not discourage that.

After all, if he didn't feel foolish for it, he wouldn't've held it in his memory, and thus wouldn't've shared it with us.

Who among us hasn't written an angry email, re-(re-)read it, smugly hit send, slept on it, then regretted the sending?
by samiv | 2026-01-15 14:11:28+00:00
With China's huge resources both natural and human it's only expected that China will again reclaim its position as the leading country in science, technology, production and generally everything.

If you assume that .5% of population are "einsteins" then China has 7.5m einsteins who are now able to access universities and advance sciences whether it's AI or solar power or self driving cars.

There's no doubt about the fact that the future belongs to China.

There's just no way to deny this. The economical and political power will shift to China.
by nottorp | 2026-01-15 14:11:48+00:00
Did you post them with commentary along the lines of "this is the second coming of $DEITY, AI will replace us all, click on this Claude referral link to sign up"?

No, don't think so.

However, 90% of "AI" articles either are full of bullshit about "AI" or are someone trying to pass as an "expert" in some domains with LLM generated bullshit.

Stuff like yours is rare.
by aggeeinn | 2026-01-15 14:12:05+00:00
Fair question. We distinguish them based on the specificity of the rule. If a robots.txt file explicitly names GPTBot or CCBot, we count that as intentional. The accidental group consists of sites using generic User-agent: * disallows (often left over from staging) or legacy security plugins that block unknown user agents by default. We spot-checked a sample of these owners, and most were completely unaware that their 5-year-old config was actively blocking modern AI agents.
by dewey | 2026-01-15 14:12:13+00:00
Every time I read these "I've managed to control Claude Code from my phone posts", they come with some variation of "so that I can continue being on my computer" during some other activity. It's a very personal decision, but feels like on of these points where people should re-evaluate. Just because we can, doesn't mean we should.

> it was so good that I caught myself coding from my phone while out with friends… and decided that this is something I should stop, more for mental health than anything.

https://steipete.me/posts/2025/shipping-at-inference-speed
by kmbfjr | 2026-01-15 14:12:13+00:00
Aluminum conductors are dangerous unless the entire system is designed for it. It is not a case of switching to something cheaper.

Look at the electrical fires of the 1950’s and 1960’s as an example, and that was at household levels of current.

Aluminum is used, but everything accounts for the insane coefficient of linear expansion and other annoying properties.
by Emarginated73 | 2026-01-15 14:12:21+00:00
Great stuff!!

It is definitely an idea discussed quite a bit on X (and in the broader AI community) as i read around.

The core argument is that no single LLM is truly best-in-class at absolutely everything and never can it be (in the short/medium term).

Different models have relative strengths (e.g., one excels at reasoning, another at creative writing, coding, fact-checking, or domain-specific tasks like DeFi or medical analysis).

So, routing tasks to specialized LLMs (or combining/ensembling them) often beats forcing one generalist "do-it-all" model to handle every step.
by gruez | 2026-01-15 14:12:28+00:00
>It is incredible to see just how many big-oil talking points there are in this thread. From renewable energies resource costs, to their land use impact. I didn't realise just how effective their propaganda was in the tech space till reading this thread.

What makes this more valid than something like "it's incredible how many YIMBY talking points there are" in a thread about housing, aside from you agreeing with the YIMBYs? Is "talking points" just a roundabout way to summarily dismiss the opposition's arguments and imply they're dumb/misguided?
by fainpul | 2026-01-15 14:12:34+00:00
> When it became cheaper to … did the quality go up?

No, but the availability (more people can afford it) and diversity (different needs are met) increased. I would say that's a positive. Some of the expensive "legacy" things still exist and people pay for it (e.g. newspapers / professional journalism).

Of course low quality stuff increased by a lot and you're right, that leads to problems.
Show HN: Why Neural Networks Need He Init, Clipping, and Momentum
by sbondaryev | 2026-01-15 14:12:49+00:00
Hi HN,

I made an interactive guide showing why neural networks need specific training techniques.

Start with a simple network trying to learn x². Each section introduces a problem like gradient explosion or dead neurons and shows the fix that solves it using ReLU activation, He initialization, gradient clipping, and momentum.

All code is editable and runs in the browser.
by ronjouch | 2026-01-15 14:13:29+00:00
To Thief heads who played I and II and want more of it: play The Black Parade, an enormous mod 7 years in the making that is actually an entire new game.

New gigantic maps full of secrets, style faithful to the original, weird universe, new story with voice acting. https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=152429

I am not affiliated, just a fan.
by ivan_gammel | 2026-01-15 14:13:39+00:00
Most people have a vested interest in one party remaining in power, one that addresses their personal concerns over everything else. The ruling coalition just passed a pension reform that supports the older generation but is hostile to the young. Trade unions will support the SPD no matter what, because additional bureaucracy "benefits" workers. CDU is strongly influenced by business lobbies (and FDP too). Greens are feel-good choice for voters alarmed by climate change and as such are highly unstable (their pro-war stance could be probably a good idea, if Ukraine was winning, but now it looks detached from reality). The main problem is that German politics have professionalized, with careers starting straight from university, and became as opportunistic as product management in scale-ups. People understand that their political future isn’t tied to a decade-long housing program, so that is off the table.
by munksbeer | 2026-01-15 14:14:04+00:00
I may not have been following this topic closely, but I do like this suggestion. Truly anonymous age tokens should be a thing.

However, we're not going to get that because politicians would just say it is open to abuse. Anyone can go to a liquor store and supply alcohol to minors. The same would apply to anonymous age tokens. I don't know if it would be a big issue in practice, but it will in the minds of politicians.
by franktankbank | 2026-01-15 14:14:06+00:00
I wouldn't be surprised if that part was not really reviewed by an expert. They have the unit mass correct but maybe an editor is like ok but what does this look like for a gw project? It doesn't take more than 3rd grade math and a pocket calculator to do it correctly but journalist hasn't had to fumble that ball before. An expert knows its all too easy for any person to make that mistake and would second guess their own work.
by mothballed | 2026-01-15 14:14:12+00:00
Your world view is so shattered that someone espousing a few of the views of some right-wing people doesn't match what you think, that you refuse to believe it. Instead you suggest your own vicious introduced stereotype, that if someone is a "parasite" or "non productive" that it must refer to an immigrant -- that says as much guilt about you as you think it does about me.