MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PopGreene | 2026-01-29 20:11:20+00:00
While I'm slaloming between and around potholes and recessed man hole covers, my Accord keeps popping up a "Lane Departure" warning. After a couple hours of this, it will pop up a picture of a coffee cup, hinting that I need break and dose of caffeine. When this happens, I kind of wish the program knew I was avoiding hazards, not driving impaired. I hope this is part of Honda's pothole software.
by dlubarov | 2026-01-29 20:11:59+00:00
Wikipedia has become a very poor source for anything Israel-related. The basis of the article is just

- Israel supported a non-violent predecessor org, which is pretty irrelevant to Hamas.

- Israel allowed Qatari aid to fund some Gaza infrastructure projects, salaries for civil servants, etc.

Neither is actually supporting Hamas, unless we say that allowing food to enter Gaza is also supporting Hamas.
by jcalx | 2026-01-29 20:12:07+00:00
You can see an archived list of industrial security clearance decisions here [0] which is interesting, and occasionally entertaining, reading. "Drug involvement security concerns" usually involve either actively using drugs or, worse, lying to cover up drug use, both of which are viewed as security concerns and grounds for rejection.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20170218040331/http://www.dod.mi...
by maybe-tomorrow | 2026-01-29 20:12:09+00:00
Thanks!

Great questions, and you actually caught a few UI inconsistencies that I’ve now fixed.

Titans / Giants: these are just very large organisms. Titans are size 20 and up, and I log those in the size panel. I also updated the field guide with sizes: https://soupof.life/concepts/life-organisms/size-classes

Micro-brains / learning showing 0: that was a real bug in the UI. Different panels were using different thresholds to decide what counts as a brain. I’ve aligned everything so micro-brains now consistently mean organisms that can actually form memories and learn. The stats and graphs should now match.

Timeline not showing: timeline only records data if logging is enabled. I’ve updated the panel to make that explicit and added a button to enable recording directly.

Seasons and (2s): that was unclear. It now shows how many seasons are left for extreme conditions, for instance 2 seasons left, with tooltips explaining what each season does.

Food always at 100%: that was also wrong. It was showing a refill rate, not real scarcity. It now reflects actual global food availability and will drop when the world is under pressure.

Really appreciate you flagging this, it helped clean up a bunch of confusing edges.
by lamontcg | 2026-01-29 20:13:32+00:00
I'd like to get a look at SpaceX financials. I'm pretty sure their margins are thinner than you might expect, Starlink is less profitable than you might expect (but quite necessary to fund the launch cadence of Falcon 9) and that Starship blowing up over and over has been funded entirely by the US taxpayer and that they'd be insolvent without that.
by CyberDildonics | 2026-01-29 20:14:04+00:00
I want to be able to leverage Hollywood grade VFX and make shows and transform my likeness for real time improv.

Do you know anything about "Hollywood grade VFX" ? Have you ever worked for any company that does it?

No more nepotism in Hollywood

Do you think "Hollywood VFX" is full of nepotism?
by suriya-ganesh | 2026-01-29 20:14:51+00:00
Interesting take, but this feels like one of those tarpit ideas that YC discourages their portco to start attacking.

Guaranteed this is going to attract a ton of abusers who are looking to use this for signing up to services, spamming or other nefarious purposes, which then blacklists the doman. This is an infinite whack-a-mole.

do you guys have some ways of handling it?
by pixl97 | 2026-01-29 20:15:09+00:00
>in the US I think because of our hyper individualist culture.

Calvinism.

There's been a number of papers written about how pervasive Calvinistic ideas are in the medical community. This tracks with the New England area of the US pumped out the most doctors while medicine was 'growing up', and protestant christianity was the most common form there. When you view the creation of the US medical system with that view many of our screwed up systems make sense. A lack of willpower is a failure of man to be in touch with god, and not a problem a doctor should solve.
by groby_b | 2026-01-29 20:15:10+00:00
I don't think you're missing something. The standards committee made a bad call with "no submodules", ran into insurmountable problems, and doubled down on the bad call via partitions.

"Just one more level bro, I swear. One more".

I fully expect to sooner or later see a retcon on why really, two is the right number.

Yeah, I'm salty about this. "Submodules encourage dependency messes" is just trying to fix substandard engineering across many teams via enforcement of somewhat arbitrary rules. That has never worked in the history of programming. "The determined Real Programmer can write FORTRAN programs in any language" is still true.
by VWWHFSfQ | 2026-01-29 20:15:39+00:00
> The moat for SaaS is gone.

What does this even mean?

I could spend $1,000s on tokens asking an agent to build (some semblance of) Sentry, or New Relic, but why would I bother? I have real work to do in the near-term, and I'm happy to pay for services that help me do it.
by dirtytoken7 | 2026-01-29 20:15:48+00:00
The 29% score tells us more about benchmark design than model capability IMO.

These benchmarks conflate two very different problems: (1) understanding what needs to be done, and (2) correctly implementing it in a specific library ecosystem.

A human SRE who's never touched OTel would also struggle initially - not because they can't reason about traces, but because the library APIs have quirks that take time to learn.

The more interesting question is whether giving the model access to relevant docs/examples during the task significantly changes the scores. If it does, that suggests the bottleneck is recall not reasoning. If it doesn't, the reasoning gap is real.

FWIW I've found that models do much better on ops tasks when you can give them concrete examples of working instrumentation in the same codebase rather than asking them to generate from scratch.
by Kim_Bruning | 2026-01-29 20:15:49+00:00
> But in a physical sense free will does not exist.

I'd consider (deterministic) chaos to be pretty much free will anyway?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory

[ Accidentally on purpose, time-loop stories like Groundhog Day almost perfectly illustrate this. Each time-loop people start out acting the same way: Deterministic, not random. But if the protagonist interacts with them (or the protagonist's actions ripple out), this changes the (initial) conditions, so people's behavior is no longer (as) predictable at all. Some of these stories even literally quote the butterfly effect. ]
DroidDock Now on Homebrew Cask for macOS
by rajivm1991 | 2026-01-29 20:16:08+00:00
DroidDock, the macOS Android file browser, now supports Homebrew Cask installation!

brew tap rajivm1991/droiddock
brew install --cask droiddock

Features: file preview, multiple views, keyboard navigation, and more.

Links:

- Website: https://rajivm1991.github.io/DroidDock/
- GitHub: https://github.com/rajivm1991/DroidDock
- Homebrew Tap: https://github.com/rajivm1991/homebrew-droiddock

Try it out and share your feedback!
Show HN: Lok – Treating LLMs more like infrastructure, not chatbots
by ducks_ | 2026-01-29 20:16:21+00:00
Hi HN,

I've been building a small open-source CLI called Lok for orchestrating multiple LLMs in a single workflow.

Instead of a single "agent", Lok treats models as interchangeable tools: one can plan, another can execute or critique, and others can verify output. The focus is on inspectable, composable workflows rather than autonomous behavior.

It's local-first, CLI-driven, and intentionally small. I've been dogfooding it for real development work and documenting what works and what breaks as I go.

The accompanying post is mostly about the mental model behind the tool: thinking of LLMs as infrastructure and control planes rather than chat interfaces: https://jakegoldsborough.com/blog/2026/introducing-lok-multi...

Code is here if you want to poke at it:
https://github.com/ducks/lok
https://crates.io/crates/lokomotiv

I'm curious whether this framing resonates with others experimenting with multi-model workflows.
by godelski | 2026-01-29 20:16:53+00:00
That seems needlessly cumbersome, why not

declare STDOUT_COLOR='\e[34m'
declare STDERR_COLOR='\e[31m'
declare COLOR_STOP='\e[0m'

print_stdout() {
echo -e "${STDOUT_COLOR}${*}${COLOR_STOP}" &> /dev/stdout
}

print_stderrr() {
echo -e "${STDERR_COLOR}${*}${COLOR_STOP}" &> /dev/stderr
}

Like why are you exporting? Do you really need those in your environment?

And those print statements aren't going to work by default.
by dwaite | 2026-01-29 20:16:59+00:00
This is the model they have moved to in the EU - an annual per user-app core technology fee for apps enabled to be listed outside the store, and relaxed in-store rules (and reduced commissions) if you choose to still list in Apple's App Store. Effectively, they are acting as if commissions are paying the core technology fee, and subsidizing it for apps which aren't profitable.

The per-user model means that apps which have adopted freemium and advertising-driven models wind up having quite different financials, and could be more expensive.
by linuxftw | 2026-01-29 20:17:32+00:00
I mean, I don't disagree that these are basic skills that most anyone should be able to perform. But most people are not capable to do them safely. Whether that's aptitude or motivation, doesn't matter.

Ask your average person what a 'fuse' even is, they won't be able to tell you, let alone how to locate the right one and check it.

Just think about how help the average person is when it comes to doing basic tasks on a computer, like not install the Ask(TM) Toolbar. That applies to many areas of life.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2026-01-29 20:18:02+00:00
> Clinical implications: While more research will be needed before trials in humans can begin

Why? Seriously, think about it. Most people with pancreatic cancer have nothing to lose and many of them have just weeks or months to live.

Daraxonrasib, Afatinib, and SD36 are molecules that can already be purchased in bulk, and what's the worst that can happen?

Our society's morbid, irrational fear of quack medicine causes orders of magnitude more deaths through therapeutic neglect than it prevents through safety screening. "Better 10,000 die of cancer than 1 person die of fraud/waste/mismanagement or even in failed experiments performed in good faith."
by mritchie712 | 2026-01-29 20:18:11+00:00
Piling on to the vendor pitches here:

We give you all of this in 5 minutes at https://www.definite.app/.

And I mean all of it. You don't need Spark or Snowflake. We give you a datalake, pipelines to get data in, semantic layer and a data agent in one app.

The agent is kind of the easy / fun part. Getting the data infrastructure right so the agent is useful is the hard part.

i.e. if the agent has low agency (e.g. can only write SQL in Snowflake) and can't add a new data source or update transformation logic, it's not going to be terribly effective. Our agent can obviously write SQL, but it can also manage the underlying infra, which has been a huge unlock for us.
by lbrito | 2026-01-29 20:19:34+00:00
>And the "good guys" firebombed tens of millions innocent civilians and nuked cities. Not to mention the mass rapes, starvation, etc.

This is factually true. It is bizarre how this is downvoted. Its like people can't live in a world where the victors were less than perfect, or that acknowledging war crimes from one party is equivalent to saying the other parties are good.

People even invented a fashionable buzzword for this evil way of thinking: whataboutism.
by ZhadruOmjar | 2026-01-29 20:19:53+00:00
ChatGPT for health questions is the best use case I have found (Claude wins for code). Having a scratch pad where I can ask about any symptom I might feel, using project memory to cross reference things and having someone actually listen is very helpful. I asked about Crohn's disease since my grandfather suffered from it and I got a few tests I could do, stats on likelihood based on genetics, diet ideas to try and questions to ask the doctor. Much better than the current doc experience which is get the quickest review of my bloods, told to exercise and eat healthy and a see you in six months.
by Supermancho | 2026-01-29 20:20:16+00:00
>> Filming officiers performing their jobs is not obstruction

> This is irrelevant, because many people have been observed physically obstructing officers, whether or not they were filming at the time.

The OP made a point and you constructed the strawman of a hasty generalization.
This is disingenuous.

>> while ICE men literally openly threaten to kill people who are no threat.

> Please show me where you think this has happened.

Re: "You raise your voice, I erase your voice," - January 27, 2026
Free speech is a right and I support their right to say whatever they want. They are subject to their own policies beyond that.

> he was not an "observer" (as demonstrated by the fact that he was in the middle of the street and a car had to swerve to avoid him),

You are cherry picking. He was an observer, among other things.

>> and then are proud of their murdering colleagues

> Please show me where you think this has happened.

10s in - https://youtube.com/shorts/IUBkPWVg3yY?si=eYXwZ5qmL6JmXYjr

I'm not trying to get you to agree with anything, but it's not constructive to continue. Many of your questions are asking other people for information that is readily available. Not everyone needs to agree on everything, but I don't think it's hard to understand the various sentiments.
by maxglute | 2026-01-29 20:20:30+00:00
Domestic problem as in domestic involution problem not a EV overcapacity problem. I'm pointing out important to distinguish between ICE and EV, ICE is structural overcapacity, EV is under capacity but involution. ICE zero mile shenanigans is to liquidate/ unload excess inventory that doesn't have demand in PRC, mostly targeting loopholes in russia, central asia, mena. There's (less regulates) markets other than EU.

BYD/EV zero mile hack is more for subsidy harvesting, they're trying to dip on domestic subsidies for new sales then skip on stuff like servicing/warranty because used sale, i.e. shady involution behavior that abuse national policies, hence crackdown. It's not because EV are excess capacity, but so many EV players involuting and accountants find creative ways to carve margin. It's not EV sector makes 100 cars can only sell 50, because overcapacity, so discount to sell 100. It's EV sector makes 100 cars, sell 100 @1% margin but with some engineering they sell 100 @2% margin.

Yes, there are some brands that does use it for price cuts, premium brands, i.e. nio/xpeng, who won't lower sticker price, so they have to flip to lower price in used market. But that's also less overcapacity, more PRC EV moving so fast last few years no one wants 12 month old models. AKA tech stack progressing so fast / involution pressures so hard consumers won't pay sticker for anything older than 1 gen. What happens PRC manufacturing turns car cycles into phones obsolescence cycles. The broader the point here is EV makers are generally not doing accounting tricks to sell more cars due overcapacity / lack of demand (what over capacity implies), they're doing accounting tricks to sell the same amount of cars to make their razer thin involution margins slightly less razer thin, at the expense of the government.
by yunnpp | 2026-01-29 20:20:53+00:00
No. The auto there is doing some lifting so that you can declare the type afterwards. The return type is only defined once.

There is, however, a return type auto-deduction in recent standards iirc, which is especially useful for lambdas.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/auto.html

auto f() -> int; // OK: f returns int

auto g() { return 0.0; } // OK since C++14: g returns double

auto h(); // OK since C++14: h’s return type will be deduced when it is defined
by delichon | 2026-01-29 20:21:05+00:00
I prepared for a new patient appointment with a medical specialist last week by role playing the conversation with a chatbot. The bot turned out to be much more responsive, inquisitive and helpful. The doctor was passive, making no suggestions, just answering questions. I had to prompt him explicitly to get to therapy recommendations, unlike the AI. I was glad that I had learned enough from the bot to ask useful questions. It would have been redundant if the doctor was active and interested, but that can't be depended on. This is standard procedure for me now.
by yunnpp | 2026-01-29 20:21:57+00:00
I recently started a pet project using modules in MSVC, the compiler that at present has best support for modules, and ran into a compiler bug where it didn't know how to compile and asked me to "change the code around this line".

So no, modules aren't even here, let alone to stay.

Never mind using modules in an actual project when I could repro a bug so easily. The people preaching modules must not be using them seriously, or otherwise I simply do not understand what weed they are smoking. I would very much appreciate to stand corrected, however.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-29 20:22:13+00:00
No, I'm not sure how that'd make sense. Either you're making the correct (expected) calculations, or you're getting it wrong. Depending the type of wrong or how wrong, could go from "used #2 in attention instead of #1" so "blue" instead of "Blue" or whatever, to completely incoherent text and garbled output.
by volkk | 2026-01-29 20:22:13+00:00
it's too difficult honestly. there are a lot of the classic easy traps -- "it's not just X, it's y" which are a dead giveaway, especially when they're used like 3-4 times in one essay. But the harder to spot ones, IMO, are ones where the overall tone is unnecessarily complex. E.g:

"When replacement is cheaper than retention, the decision gets framed as strategy instead of consequence."

This sentence is tight and on paper reads well, but it's robotic. It's kind of like taking a dead simple if/else statement that's pleasurable to read into a one line ternary statement. Technically a one line sentence, but now I have to re-read it like 5 times to understand it. The flow is dead.

Another example:

'AI becomes the excuse, not the cause. It’s the clean narrative that hides what’s actually happening: experienced workers being swapped out through global labor substitution while leadership talks about “efficiency” and “the future of work.”'

Starts off with a short & trite sentence (LLMs loves this if you don't steer it away). The other thing LLMs _love_ to do unprompted is: "It's the X: _insert_next_loaded_statement_here"

It's hard to get my point across, and I hope you kinda see it? I'm not a linguist, but these patterns are literally in every piece of LLM writing I've ever seen.
by Fischgericht | 2026-01-29 20:22:29+00:00
You really should give some modern SSRI like Escitalopram a chance. It has made my life so much better, and that of a lot of friends, too. The two most common complaints I have heard are:

1.) It's killing my libido
2.) It's too strong

For 1.) - yes, this is a very very common side effect. And it's logical - you simply get "triggered" less. Applies for me, too.

And 2.) is the same that a lot of people fail to understand: Then try a lower dosage!

Unlike most anti-depressants, where you have to constantly increase the dose because your brain just generates more receptors to fight back, SSRIs hardly wear off.

Also, relax about the "become accustomed" part. Should your Serotonin levels be too low, then they are too low. Just think about it like you think about table salt. It would be just as unhealthy to try to "get off" salt.

All of this being said: There are tons of different kinds of root causes for depression. A good rule of thumb is: Are you depressed because bad things happened to you? Then seek psychological therapy, and potentially combine this with medication in case it would be too painful to uncover the dark things. Are you depressed on a regular basis, but can not name any valid logical reason? Then your brain has a chemical problem, so stop treating it like this is an illness, but do what you would do if your car would turn on the "oil warning" lamp. You can not replace oil with therapy or willpower.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-29 20:22:51+00:00
> If the police doesn't approve, don't do it. It would be better to get a no-objection letter from the police in advance.

The article says they did have an authorization letter from the state court officials (the people running the building) and they were released right after the letter was verified with the court officials.

At least from what I can see, the police officers involved were doing the right thing. They detained the suspects, made a proper effort to listen to them and validate their story, and then released them.

It was the Sheriff who showed up and didn't like it who then hassled them further.

They basically had a no-objection letter from the people in charge of the building and the police officers were onboard. It was one person who tried to turn it into something else.
by bragr | 2026-01-29 20:22:59+00:00
>Driving under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol is already illegal in every state.

FWIW, your first OWI in Wisconsin, with no aggravating factors, is a civil offense, not a crime, and in most states it is rare to do any time or completely lose your license for the first offense. I'm not sure exactly what OP is getting at, but DUI/OWI limits and enforcement are pretty lax in the US compared to other countries. Our standard .08 BAC limit is a lot higher than many other countries.
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2026-01-29 20:23:12+00:00
> Pivoting to consumer robots? Isn’t that cool?

Has there been a single public video of an Optimus robot that isn't an embarrassment? Has there been a single public video of an Optimus robot performing a complex or precise task? No, scooping popcorn at the Tesla diner isn't a complex or precise task...it wasn't very good at that in the videos I saw either, and it seemed they only had it doing that job for a short amount of time. If we're that close to consumer robots, why isn't Tesla (or other Musk companies) increasingly using them internally? Seems like it'd be a great way to prove the potential while working through the kinks.

It'd be exciting if there was any actual detectable signal of a product worth buying.

Instead we have...this... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bk91DpkdPQY
by gus_massa | 2026-01-29 20:23:40+00:00
Where did you get that "50 mice days is equivalent to about 5 human years"?

Mice are short lived, so the time for some events like sexual maturation are shorter.

On the other hand, the problem with cancer is that it adapts, it "learn" how to avoid the effect of the drugs, or how to make the signals to get more blood vessels, or ... I think most of these only depend on how many times the cancer cells reproduce to get a lucky adaptation, so for these effects 200 days is only 200 days.

Also survival rate depends on how early it's detected. In a recent post about colon cancer, the mice got the treatment like 2 weeks after the cancer cells were injected. My guess is that this study also has a short time before the treatment.

Early detection improves survival rate a lot: https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/pancreatic-can...

> Localised: More than 25 out of 100 people (more than 25%) survive their cancer for 3 years or more after diagnosis.

> Regional: Around 15 out of 100 people (around 15%) survive their cancer for 3 years or more after diagnosis.

> Distant: Only 1 out of 100 people (1%) survive their cancer for 3 years or more after diagnosis.*

Also (combining all detection stages):

> Generally for adults with pancreatic cancer in the UK:

> around 5 out of every 100 (around 5%) survive their cancer for 10 years or more