MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jedberg | 2026-01-13 22:11:04+00:00
I worry that as technologists we are over indexing on accusing things of being AI. I worry about policies like this where they will remove suspected AI content without investigation.

Case in point, the other day I made a comment on reddit. I spent about 10 minutes writing it. I used proper grammar, bullet points, clean formatting, and em dashes, as I've been doing for many years.

I immediately got downvoted and sent multiple PMs about "not posting AI slop".

I didn't use AI at all to write that comment. It just looked like AI because it was well formed and researched. So am I supposed to add errors just to make it look "human"? But also, how do I even prove I wrote it without AI?

I'm not entirely sure how to solve this problem.
by strangecasts | 2026-01-13 22:11:05+00:00
> They can cite some of the most obvious ones

Thus already doing much better than the average Suno producer

E: More seriously, this strikes me as a motte-and-bailey where "Artists cannot list every single influence they have or provide an explicit motivation for every single creative choice" is treated the same as "artists cannot list influences or justify creative choices at all"
by hirpslop | 2026-01-13 22:11:06+00:00
As part of a research project, I combed through archives of my local paper from the 70s and 80s. As a practice exercise, I highly recommend you log in to your local library and try exploring yours. I was stunned at the quality papers used to produce. It left me with a profound sense of loss and regret, but also hope that we can do better.

Even the most trivial seeming stories were treated with a care that seems lost to time.

The power of observation beats most content I encounter now. For instance, the coverage of a Lieutenant Governor’s election victory celebration after being snubbed by Gov. Reagan’s inaugural party. The clever politician persevered because he knew the way to people’s hearts: free steins of beer and brats. Thousands attended on a chilly winter night in a parking garage.

They even followed up to verify precisely how much beer and brats were consumed.

They were also funnier and better written that most journalistic writing see today. Local restaurant reviews had a sense of responsibility and respectful conduct, but didn’t shy away from levity when the food stank. Far from a mere aggregate of gripes of the crankiest customers or sycophantic pablum, it was a the product of someone who’d honed their craft—taking pains to represent what was there according to a professional ethic.

This amounts to a public record that’s a dependable source of historical truth in a way that a forum or social platform doesn’t approximate.

They may not be as good today, but $200 a year is arguably worth the democracy protecting function alone.
by vintermann | 2026-01-13 22:11:08+00:00
Yet another person who plays the bogeyman card of "conspiracy theory" when what is described is garden variety corruption, only takes a trivial amount of secret coordination in a group smaller than your average terrorist cell, and could probably even be defended as legal with a small legal team (Spotify probably has a big one).

There are a billion ways you could cash in on this. A dead easy one is "music written for hire by a company you own".

Even if Spotify is not doing the slightest thing like this, suggesting that they might is not a conspiracy theory. Quit trying to tar every proposed view of the world you disagree with with that label. You're just making it easier for the actual grand conspiracy theorists.
by trashface | 2026-01-13 22:11:13+00:00
If you already had a relative with it (like a father) you need to check PSA more than every 10 years, and I personally think its not wise for any middle-aged man to wait that long between tests, considering PSA is just a blood test.

My Dad had PC at 65. My older brother got a PSA test at age 41, was a bit over 1.0. Waited 10 years before getting another PSA (his doc was telling him to get one but he didn't), then it was 14. Had surgery, but its now metastatic.

There are also forms of PC that don't raise PSA, though they mostly affect non-caucasians. A Urologist can do a physical test for it. Primary docs can do that test too, but since they do it it less often they can miss it.
by akomtu | 2026-01-13 22:11:18+00:00
It's very similar to what europeans did to american indian tribes a few centuries ago: they gave them alcohol. A neutral substance by itself, which could be used for disinfection or to light up fires. But it has a destructive side too and if the populace isn't resistant to it, they'll stand no chance. AI is very similar: some positive potential with a powerful destructive potential. Human tribes, as we know, have loose morals and thus aren't resistant at all to the AI's destructive side. We are like those american indians now, unable to resist the temptation.
by woah | 2026-01-13 22:11:26+00:00
Not to take away from the very real security concerns, but this quote is blatantly false to anyone who has used Claude Code or Cursor:

> She said if an AI agent could perform each step with 95% accuracy–which currently isn’t possible–a 10-step task would yield an action with a ~59.9% success rate. And if you had a 30-step task, the success rate would be ~21.4%. Furthermore, if we used a more realistic accuracy rate of 90%, then a 30-step task would drop down to a success rate of 4.2%. She added that the best agent models failed 70% of the time.
by tyre | 2026-01-13 22:11:57+00:00
I would tell a recruiter directly that 996 is a red flag.

Prior to that it was cracked (née 10x (née ninja)) engineers or sigma grindset or whatever.

It's performative. If you bring people together to build something that they actually give a shit about, you'll out-perform a group of people who are grinding out of fear. And you'll _definitely_ out-perform the kinds of people who are buzzword heavy.
by autoexec | 2026-01-13 22:12:05+00:00
> In contrast, human thinking doesn’t involve picking a word at a time based on the words that came before.

More to the point, human thinking isn't just outputting text by following an algorithm. Humans understand what each of those words actually mean, what they represent, and what it means when those words are put together in a given order. An LLM can regurgitate the wikipedia article on a plum. A human actually knows what a plum is and what it tastes like. That's why humans know that glue isn't a pizza topping and AI doesn't.
by alienbaby | 2026-01-13 22:12:37+00:00
I seee companies making statements like these (LArian and others) that must be afraid of the reaction from their customers if they decided they would use AI will eventually come to regret it. There will be other companies that do what they do better and faster because they leverage AI as part of the process, and I believe very soon the backlash against AI will disappear as people begin using products with AI that are really very good and they will jsuit stop caring / forget they had an issue with it in the first place as they watch their friends and others who dont care enjoying themselves regardless.
by SoftTalker | 2026-01-13 22:12:59+00:00
I don't think it's by design. I think it is by its nature.

Most people crave social interaction, and when others engage with them it triggers that dopamine hit. As you say, we all have need for social validation. Even HN has that effect, and it's not engineered to elicit it as far as I know.

Even USENET had that pull, and people would waste hours on it, engage in flamewars, etc.

Now platforms like TikTok and Instagram might optimize for it but even if they didn't, they would have that addictive quality.

I don't think there's any way to do social media that would avoid this.
by 1zael | 2026-01-13 22:13:09+00:00
This is dumb. The solution for all music platforms should be to add a label for AI-generated tracks or artists so users clearly can disambiguate. It's frivolous to prevent someone from enjoying a piece of art whether AI or human. Furthermore, the line is blurred between what constitutes human vs AI development of music. Most producers today use pre-packaged samples, sequencers, and tracks to generate derivatives. Sure, they might manually have to mess around with Ableton to do so, but the line is already blurred.
by TyrunDemeg101 | 2026-01-13 22:13:28+00:00
I just wanted to say, thanks for saying this. I actually have been writing music and using Distrokid to publish to the normal streaming services (Spotify/Apple Music) and your comment actually pushed me to sign up for and put music on Bandcamp.

In case you'd like to take a look, shameless self promotion: https://aaronholbrook.bandcamp.com/music

I have to go through my back catalog, and add all my music, but I appreciate your perspective and for wanting to support artists!
by thepotatodude | 2026-01-13 22:13:59+00:00
Physician reimbursement is only ~9% of national healthcare expenditures.

I tell you this with certainty as a 3rd year medical student: If physician wages go down and tuition stays as is, no one will do this. Intrinsic motivation to help people evaporates as soon as you see how enshittified healthcare in the US has become.

I do agree that medical school is far too restrictive to get into (For MD schools at least). However, if you want to make medical school easier to get into: Where will all those students rotate at for their clinical years? There aren't enough spots in hospitals to jam students in.

Stop taking aim at the people that sacrifice so much to help you. Take aim at the real drivers of healthcare expenditures: administrative bloat.
by kjuulh | 2026-01-13 22:14:11+00:00
I use vxlan on top of wireguard in my hobby set up. Probably wouldn't recommend it for an actual production use-case. But that is more or less because of how my homelab is setup (Hetzner -> Home about 20ms latency roundtrip).

I considered dropping my root wireguard and setting up just vxlan and flannel, but as I need NAT hole punching I kind of need the wireguard root so that is why i ended up with it.

Going Wireguard inside the vxlan (flannel) in my case, would likely be overkill, unless I wanted my traffic between nodes between regions to be separated from other peers on the network, not sure where that would be useful. It is an easy way of blocking out a peer however, but that could just as well be solved on the "root" wireguard node.

There might be some MTU things that would be messed up going nested wireguard networks.
by agentultra | 2026-01-13 22:14:37+00:00
If they did use AI and still charged as much as they do for a sprue of models people would definitely be upset.

AI generated anything is seen as cheap. It is cheap. It generates “similar” reproductions from its training set. It’s called, “slop,” for a reason: low effort, low quality.

There have been quality issues in some of GW’s recent product lines, but for the most part they still have fans because the bar is already high for what they make.

Cutting costs to make an extra bunch by making the product crappier would be a kick to the knee. Fans already pay a premium for their products.

Good on them for not going down that road.
by tyre | 2026-01-13 22:15:05+00:00
Yeah this 100%.

One of my core philosophies as a manager is that by default I should get the fuck out of the way. From there, identify the biggest issues and solve them.

If you're successful hiring great people, I really don't understand the desire to micromanage them. Or do silly things that are demotivating, like 996 or trying to mislead them / market things / hide the bad stuff.

Treating people like adults is that One Neat Trick that influencer bloggers don't want you to know.
by oconnor663 | 2026-01-13 22:15:15+00:00
> They aren't useful outside of "financial engineering."

Without disagreeing with your overall point in 99% of cases, we did actually have a good use for pinning things in the Bitcoin blockchain when I worked at Keybase. If you're trying to do peer-to-peer security, and you want to prove not only that the evil server hasn't forged anything (which you do with signatures) but also that it hasn't deleted anything legitimate, "throw a hash in the blockchain" really is the Right Way to solve that problem.
by lillecarl | 2026-01-13 22:15:30+00:00
Luckily Sweden is not a dictatorship and doesn't have a supreme leder. Our government can't just hand-wave things. There's the legislative branch which must've had the foresight to make laws that allows the executive branch to order operators to comply.

The parent asked "Which technologically advanced democratic countries DON'T have this capability already developed and deployed?" and there are many, every country on earth isn't run by warmongering corrupt idiots.
by phil21 | 2026-01-13 22:15:33+00:00
> How are you learning that habit when it’s hard to eat and you stay full ridiculously long?

For me? By changing my diet, understanding what "full" actually feels like, and keeping certain things I know I will binge eat out of the house. Plus the knowledge that I can have a bad day or two and get right back on the horse of healthy eating and be totally fine - if I gain a couple pounds I know precisely how to take them off in a repeatable and successful manner. That mental bit is key.

But for food itself - it's eating differently. Basically avoiding carbs and sugars does 90% of the work. It's not a 100% cutting out of my diet like Atkins, but it's prioritizing lean proteins and then simply being fuller for longer.

And part of it is learning you can be hungry for a period of time and not indulge. Which is much easier when you don't have those snacks you can't resist in the house.

It's certainly nothing groundbreaking, but habits are built over time. Motivation fades. I'm certainly not motivated every day or week or even month to eat well - but now it's habit and routine so it's almost more difficult to break it to go to the store to buy junk, or decide to order take out.

Going to the gym on a regular strict basis? I'm not exactly sure what changed. Likely being able to look in the mirror and feel a little vain? And knowing now it's all just about consistency. If I miss a day, just make it up the next day and stay on schedule. No big deal.

All those things stayed roughly the same after I came off Tirzepatide and hit my goal weight. They became harder of course, and I had some rebound (I overshot where I wanted to be on purpose on advice from my doctor) weight gain like most do - but I've now been stable at a healthy weight for over 18mo now. Habits have continued and stuck in place.
by cthalupa | 2026-01-13 22:15:39+00:00
> One thing I've found when talking to non-technical board gamers about AI is that while they’re 100% against using AI to generate art or game design, when you ask them about using AI tools to build software or websites the response is almost always something like "Programmers are expensive, I can't afford that. If I can use AI to cut programmers out of the process I'm going to do it."

I had a conversation with an artist friend some time back. He uses Squarespace for his portfolio website. He was a few drinks in, and ranting about how even if it's primarily artists using these tools professionally at the moment, it'll still lead to a consolidation of jobs, how it's built on the skillset and learning of a broader community than those that will profit, etc. How the little guy was going to get screwed over and over by this sort of thing.

I started out doing webdesign work before I moved more to the operations and infrastructure management side of things, but I saw the writing on the wall with CMS systems, WYSIWYG editors, etc. At the time building anything decent still took someone doing design and dev work, but I knew that they would get better over time, and figured I should make the change.

So I asked him about this. I spoke about how yeah, the people behind Squarespace had the expertise - just like the artists using AI now - but every website built with it or similar is a job that formerly would have gone to the same sort of little guy he was talking about. How it's a consolidation of all the learnings and practices built out by that larger community, where the financial benefits are heavily consolidated. I told him it doesn't much matter to the end web designer whether or not the job got eliminated by non-AI automation and software or an LLM, the work is still gone and the career less and less viable.

I've had similar conversations with artists before. They invariably maintain that it's different, somehow. I don't relish jobs disappearing, but it's nothing new. Someday, maybe enough careers will vanish that we'll need to figure out some sort of system that doesn't involve nearly every adult human working.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2026-01-13 22:15:43+00:00
> It becomes racist when the motivation is a prejudice toward the race inherently.

It becomes racist when you spread negative racial stereotypes. Which the statements were doing, unless the survey number was 100% and the sample size was the population size. And neither were.

Also, important context: The statement in question is a white supremacist slogan [0][1][2], much like "White Power!". Is anyone who doesn't agree with the phrase "White Power!" a racist, too, because that must mean that they seek to deny power to white people? Does not agreeing with the slogan "White Power!" mean you will kill all white people?

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_okay_to_be_white

1: https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/its-okay-be-white

2: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2025.2...
by drdaeman | 2026-01-13 22:16:05+00:00
> A person who takes a drug voluntarily is still being harmed by it. It causes changes in the consumer whether he likes it or not.

I’m afraid you’re oversimplifying it. If only things would be this simple. They just never are.

Every experience causes changes (it’s the whole point). And every stimulating experience has a potential to skew your behaviors towards having more of it. Some more, some less, of course, but anything can become a passion and get unhealthy so.

There’s this fine distinction between someone who does something now and then, without significant impairment to their decision-making abilities that cause over-favoring such actions, and those who fail to notice it in time and become overtly obsessed with something.

It’s not about what you do - you can be watching porn or going hiking (or whatever most people would naively deem “good”) - anything can become unhealthy.

I think I understand your point, though. Indeed, pornography consumption nature is intimate and that leaves less opportunities for feedback and self-introspection. That is, noticing the point it becomes more of an obsession. However, dismissing it under a simple “porn is bad” (a tempting idea) is short-sighted by dismissing any nuances, and also harmful - just in different ways (through stigmatization).
by mattmanser | 2026-01-13 22:16:12+00:00
GW don't have competitors, it has an absolute monopoly on the 40k and Fantasy worlds it has built up. It's like saying there's competitors to LOTR or Star Wars or DnD.

Their worlds are their monopolies. Worlds that now have multi-decades worth of lore investment (almost 50 years now I think).

Just because someone else can make cheaper little plastic models doesn't affect GW in the slightest. Or pump out AI slop stories.

The Horus Heresy book series is like 64 books now. And that's just a spin-off. It's set way before when 40k actually is set (10,000 years).

With so much lore they need complicated archiving and tracking to keep on top of it all (I happen to know their chief archivist).

You can't replace that. I only say all this just to try and explain how off the mark you are on understanding what the actual value of the company is.

I live in Nottingham where GW is based, another of my friends happens to have a company on an industrial estate where there are like 3 other tabletop gaming companies. All ex-gw staff.

You could probably fit all their buildings in the pub that GW has on its colossal factory site.

You used to know people who worked at Boots, which used to be the big Nottingham employer. Now days, I know more people who work at GW.
by numpad0 | 2026-01-13 22:16:16+00:00
> ... while they’re 100% against using AI to generate art or game design, when you ask them about using AI tools to build software or websites ...

And this is not complicated at all. It's the quality of output.

Users appreciate vibecoded apps but developers are universally unfazed about vibecoded pull requests. Lots of same devs use AI for "menial" tasks and business emails. And this is NOT a double standard: people are clearly ok when generative AI outputs may exist but aren't exposed to unsuspecting human eyes, and it's not ok if they are exposed to human eyes, because the data AIs generate haven't exceeded the low-side threshold of some sort. Maybe SAN values.

(also: IIUC, cults and ponzi scheme recruitment are endemic in tabletop game communities. so board game producers distancing from anything hot in those circles, even if it were slightly irrational to do so, also makes sense.)
by adastra22 | 2026-01-13 22:16:44+00:00
The only thing Anthropic receives is the chat session. Files only ever get sent when they are included in the session - they are never sent to Anthropic otherwise.

Note that I am talking about this product where the Claude session is running locally (remote LLM of course, but local Claude Code). They also have a "Claude Code on the Web" thing where the Claude instance is running on their server. In principle, they could be collecting and training on that data even if it never enters a session. But this product is running on your computer, and Anthropic only sees files pulled in by tool calls.
by OhMeadhbh | 2026-01-13 22:16:49+00:00
yeah. i think you can get away with no 1-on-1's for small teams (like 4 people) but by the time you're at 6 or 8, it's probably a good idea. i suspect the OP has reason for believing this, so rather than say "they're wrong," i would say "i'm not sure they explained their environment sufficiently to explain their conclusion."

as for ticket management. JIRA is not your friend. i would rather go with a stack of post-its than JIRA. JIRA does not help you understand what you are trying to do (in my experience.) once you've figured out specific tasks, JIRA can track those tasks, but so can BugZilla or (as my teams are using increasingly) text files checked into the repo.

people often confuse the tool with the process and confuse following the process with making progress. the first rule of issue tracking systems is they should not get in the way of making tasks you need to do visible. JIRA routinely violates this rule.

hmm... maybe i should write my own blog post.
by Gigachad | 2026-01-13 22:17:04+00:00
I’ve tried MeshCore as well and discovered zero nodes. At least what I’ve seen it looks like Meshtastic implemented the same routing fixes MeshCore has.

I think the issue is more that getting a message many kilometres out using a couple of nodes sitting in non prime locations is just unreliable. The noise is too high. There’s also a limit on how many messages can be sent while using flood routing.
by wussboy | 2026-01-13 22:17:15+00:00
In fact, some of every dollar you spend _must_ go to people you would find reprehensible if only you knew them better. Bought a Slurpee at 7-11? There's almost certainly someone in that corporation who will share ever-so-slightly in the revenue your $0.98 of sugar water brought in.

Ignore is not only bliss, but necessary.
by ahartmetz | 2026-01-13 22:17:29+00:00
Heh. Laptops with touchscreens are really bad for hopefully obvious ergonomic reasons ("gorilla arm syndrome"). I've had such laptops and I never use the touchscreen except by accident. I thought it might be useful to test multi-touch interactions, but actually! you can multi-touch the touchpad and that does the same things as multitouch on a touchscreen.