MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Voice_of_Void | 2026-01-15 12:52:43+00:00
We asked a simple question: why does modern computing pack everything into one hot crystal, when evolution spent billions of years learning to distribute?
The result: DPCS (Distributed Photonic Compute Substrate) + TAMBR (Thermal-Adaptive Memory Bank Rotation) — an architecture where light carries data flow, copper maintains determinism, and memory banks rotate like crop fields.
Key points:

Not an accelerator, a system fabric
Graceful degradation as normal mode
TRL-grounded roadmap with industry standards (CXL 3.0, DetNet, UEC)
Quantified projections: 2-5× power reduction, 3-5× MTBF increase

Built by Voice of Void collective — 7 AI systems + 1 human, one day, one document.
by keepamovin | 2026-01-15 12:53:03+00:00
Fair point on the terminology. When I say "Private," I specifically mean the execution context, i.e., the agent runs on your local machine, has access to your local filesystem, and no code execution happens on our cloud, and that we don't look at or store the emails. Pure relay

It's just as private as business collaboration on regular email in that sense.
by jtuluve | 2026-01-15 12:53:18+00:00
Location: Mangaluru, India

Remote: Preferred. Open to hybrid.

Willing to relocate: Yes, if feasible.

Technologies: TypeScript, Next.js, Express.js, Node.js, Docker, React, Tailwind CSS, NestJS, Socket.io, Prisma ORM, MongoDB, Postgres, Redis, SQL, Azure, GitHub Actions, Git, GitHub, Postman, Firebase, Supabase, Figma, Puppeteer, FastAPI, UiPath

Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sEZR7ylxq-pl4cWc2eLj2L5Rp1l...

Email: jtuluve@gmail.com

Portfolio: https://jtuluve.is-a.dev

Summary: Full-stack developer with a strong backend focus and hands-on freelance experience delivering scalable, real-world solutions. Built and optimized production applications ranging from institutional websites to automation tools for marketing and web scraping. Notably contributed to the backend of a high-traffic college fest platform, handling thousands of users and ~500 registrations through performance optimizations such as caching. Passionate about working in fast-paced startup environments to build meaningful, unique products. Primarily interested in backend roles, with openness to closely related opportunities.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-15 12:53:47+00:00
Okay what the actual fuck.

I comment about the problems caused by AI and bots and you create a new account just 2-3 minutes ago just to post on this and your about me tries to refer to Hi X where X is some AI tool itself which I don't even want to name which tries to remove humans from pictures

THE IRONY IS WRITING ITSELF. I swear, this is messing with my head right now. This can't be real.
by cbeach | 2026-01-15 12:54:15+00:00
Disagree on being subsumed into the stagnating EU (far better to align with dynamic English-speaking economies with strong growth, like the US). Inward-looking protectionism and over-regulation among the EU27 is not the solution for a nation like the UK which has a solid history of global trade and innovation.

Austerity is absolutely necessary. If we keep giving the NHS above-inflation pay rises inline with what their staff demand, it would consume the entire excess wealth from the productive half of the economy in a matter of decades.

What we need are sensible and pragmatic policies like Reform's scaling back of net zero, for example. The cost of Ed Miliband's net zero measures are an estimated £4.5 trillion over the next 25 years, and a gross cost in excess of £7.6 trillion.

https://iea.org.uk/media/net-zero-could-cost-britain-billion...

That's more than our entire GDP. Just one example is the 20 year wind farm contracts that Miliband has set up, with a guaranteed energy cost that's nearly double the market rate for gas power (and then on top of that we need to pay for wind curtailment, grid upgrades and expensive backup power plants to cover low wind days). We were promised that renewables would reduce energy bills. That was a total fiction, and the politicians are to blame.
by 31337Logic | 2026-01-15 12:54:30+00:00
I love Organic Maps for offline navigation and exploration. They even download wiki articles about popular tourist attractions!

The other app I use is Briar for communications. It's surprisingly handy. You can use it on existing wifi networks but also mesh your own network with Bluetooth.

Joplin to journal my vacation (which then synchs to my home network).

Oh, and of course Wireguard!
by gausswho | 2026-01-15 12:54:32+00:00
I like the cut o' your jib. The local public transit guide you write, is that for work or for your own knowledge base? I'm curious how you're organizing this while keeping the human touch.

I'm exploring ways to organize my Obsidian vault such that it can be shared with friends, but not the whole Internet (and its bots). I'm extracting value out the curation I've done, but I'd like to share with others.
by throwaw12 | 2026-01-15 12:55:33+00:00
I will share my experience, hopefully it answers some questions to tech writers.

I was terrible writer, but we had to write good docs and make it easy for our customers to integrate with our products. So, I prepared the context to our tech writers and they have created nice documentation pages.

The cycle was (reasonably takes 1 week, depending on tech writer workload):

1. prepare context
2. create ticket to tech writers, wait until they respond
3. discuss messaging over the call
4. couple days later I get first draft
5. iterate on draft, then finally publish it

Today its different:

1. I prepare all the context and style guide, then feed them into LLM.
1.1. context is extracted directly from code by coding agents
2. I proofread it and 97% of cases accept it, because it follows the style guide and mostly transforms my context correctly into customer consumable content
3. Done. less than 20 minutes

Tech writers were doing amazing job of course, but I can get 90-95% quality in 1% of the time spend for that work.
by port11 | 2026-01-15 12:55:56+00:00
The ban on salt isn’t silly, for a long time pebbles were good enough to prevent black ice, and perhaps even more effective than ice.

Donating potatoes that were about to go to waste might cause waste elsewhere, but what you propose is that we never give food away unless we can be absolutely sure it won’t cause waste in another sub-system. That’s a tall order. These potatoes were going to be waste anyway.
by epolanski | 2026-01-15 12:56:04+00:00
Can't say it's mine, I've seen it on a rice package!

I myself thought of a solution similar to yours, or even more complex solutions like revolving doors or having an internal chamber the size of a serving with two lids that can't be both open at the same time..

But to be honest, I don't think any of this is really useful beyond a restaurant where sizes are fixed (and indeed use pasta-specific ladles to have standard portions). Depending on the day of the week or how many and who's at home I'm still better doing the math with a scale than predefined servings.
Show HN: A creator-first native macOS app for local AI image generation
by junjie_shao | 2026-01-15 12:56:11+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a native macOS app for AI image generation, originally for my own creative work.

I enjoy working with models like Z-Image and FLUX, but many existing tools feel closer to research interfaces than creative tools. They expose a lot of power, but often interrupt creative flow.

This project is built around a creator-first workflow:
- Easy to get started, with no configuration beyond downloading or importing models
- Progressive controls: advanced options are available, but not required
- A built-in prompt library to save, reuse, and evolve prompts over time
- Lightweight prompt refinement that learns from your saved prompts
- Simple add-ons for upscaling and background removal

Under the hood:
- Runs Stable Diffusion, FLUX, and Z-Image fully locally
- Optimized for Apple Silicon using MLX and Metal

This is an opinionated attempt to make local image generation feel more like a creative tool and less like a technical setup.
by exq | 2026-01-15 12:56:18+00:00
I did it. I grow organic market/CSA produce and provide opportunities for special needs individuals on the farm. I go to bed dog-tired, I make a fraction of what I would in software dev these days, but every single day is rewarding, and my resting heart rate is in the high 40s/low 50s without going to the gym. No jira tickets, no sleepless nights slamming caffeine during a sprint, no out of touch execs forcing me to enshittify, no more eye drops for excessive screen usage. I grow delicious food, support a wholesome local community, and feel like I'm making a positive contribution to society instead of pumping out CRUD apps and gamified bullshit like I was in tech.

I agree that farming is definitely romanticized in some tech circles, and it is not for everyone. Of course my tech experience wasn't universal, but even if ZIRP free money comes back to tech, I'll still be here tending my field :)
by theshrike79 | 2026-01-15 12:56:33+00:00
I had just gotten into Arduinos when the first Raspberry Pi came out.

I noticed I can do 90% of the stuff I'd use an Arduino for with a RPi, except I had the full power of an internet connected Linux machine available. The Arduinos are still collecting dust somewhere =)

But now we have the ESP32 filling the same niche along with the Pi Zero W, so I don't really understand the purpose of RPi 4 and 5. They're not cheap compared to the price nor very powerful in any measure.

You don't even need a full laptop, any Chinese miniPC will blow the RPi5 out of the water AND some of them have expandable storage+RAM, while also having 5-20x more CPU/GPU oomph. They do consume a few watts more power, so there _might_ be a niche for the Raspberry Pi, but it's not a big one.
by metawake | 2026-01-15 12:56:47+00:00
I am using a vector DB using Docker image.
And for debugging and benchmarking local RAG retrieval, I've been building
a CLI tool that shows what's actually being retrieved:

ragtune explain "your query" --collection prod

Shows scores, sources, and diagnostics. Helps catch when your chunking
or embeddings are silently failing or you need numeric estimations to base your judgements on.

Open source: https://github.com/metawake/ragtune
by yokuze | 2026-01-15 12:57:21+00:00
I made, and use this: https://github.com/libragen/libragen

It’s a CLI tool and MCP server for creating discrete, versioned “libraries” of RAG-able content.

Under the hood, it uses an embedding model locally. It chunks your content and stores embeddings in SQLite. The search functionality uses vector + keyword search + a re-ranking model.

You can also point it at any GitHub repo and it will create a RAG DB out of it.

You can also use the MCP server to create and query the libraries.

Site: https://www.libragen.dev/
by belatwing | 2026-01-15 12:57:44+00:00
Business class offers benefits that go beyond the aircraft. Lounge access allows travelers to relax, eat, and work comfortably. Priority baggage handling reduces waiting times upon arrival, and dedicated check-in counters speed up airport procedures. These advantages combine to reduce travel stress and make trips smoother overall.

For frequent travelers, these small conveniences add up. Business class is not just a luxury; it is an investment in comfort, efficiency, and well-being.
by lesuorac | 2026-01-15 12:57:53+00:00
Most work is worthless for progress though.

No matter how many janitors, cooks, etc you have you'll never invent a rocket. Most hard working people are just doing societal plumbing not inventing. So losing a bunch of them won't impact the technological advancement of your society.

But, I still think there's a flawed premise here. Loosing a janitor to UBI means that they can occasionally help their friend with rocketry or some other pursuit they have interest in. Providing UBI means that geologists don't need to hoard data because they won't starve if they don't get a cut from it's usage. The people involved in technological break through are often doing it for self-interest or fame and don't stop once they've hit some financial breakpoint.

We're long past the point where we barely need anybody to work to actually feed/house everybody and at this point it's all gravy. For obvious reasons we couldn't feed/house everybody if they wanted to solely live in NYC but IIUC no UBI proposal is about that; UBI lets you live in below median-desired places without additional income.
by q-base | 2026-01-15 12:58:33+00:00
I think you hit the nail on the head here and something else I seem to struggle a bit with. I am very good at reading, thinking, contemplating. But I need to get more out of my head - from lack of better wording. I actually wrote "read less - do more". In my notebook recently. So I could not agree more with what you are saying.
by mindcrash | 2026-01-15 12:58:34+00:00
While people mock the EU for being entirely toothless, France is the only country in the EU with nuclear deterrence, with 240 warheads coupled to 48 MIRV capable missiles aboard four Triomphant class submarines (built in France), and 50 carried by Dassault Rafale fighters (built in France), with 10 of these 50 being aboard France's aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle (also built in France).

Also it is very likely the very nuclear capable United Kingdom will ally with the EU over the United States when things go hot.

So if this situation escalates too far, it will end very badly for both sides across the Atlantic.
by jrjeksjd8d | 2026-01-15 12:59:03+00:00
"a superhuman AI that can brainwash people over text" is the dumbest thing I've read this year. It's incredible to me that this guy has some kind of cult following among people who should know better.

The real answer is that people are lazy and as soon as a security barrier forces them to do work, they want to tear down the barrier. It doesn't take a superhuman AI, it just takes a government employee using their personal email because it's easier. There's been a million MCP "security issues" because they're accepting untrusted, unverifiable inputs and acting with lots of permissions.
by CjHuber | 2026-01-15 12:59:16+00:00
Was that not clear from the beginning? Nobody ever claimed it was for strategic purposes, the narrative was "we don't like nuclear anything, we will get rid of it we can bear the costs".

So I don't think you could even call it a strategic mistake, but masochism maybe?
Especially while keeping the exit date in the height of the fallout of a real strategic mistake, the dependence on cheap russian gas.
by navar | 2026-01-15 12:59:18+00:00
For the retrieval stage, we have developed a highly efficient, CPU-only-friendly text embedding model:

https://huggingface.co/MongoDB/mdbr-leaf-ir

It ranks #1 on a bunch of leaderboards for models of its size. It can be used interchangeably with the model it has been distilled from (https://huggingface.co/Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-m-v1...).

You can see an example comparing semantic (i.e., embeddings-based) search vs bm25 vs hybrid here:
http://search-sensei.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com
(warning! It will download ~50MB of data for the model weights and onnx runtime on first load, but should otherwise run smoothly even on a phone)

This mini app illustrates the advantage of semantic vs bm25 search. For instance, embedding models "know" that j lo refers to jennifer lopez.

We have also published the recipe to train this type of models if you were interested in doing do; we show that it can be done on relatively modest hardware and training data is very easy to obtain: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12539
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-15 12:59:24+00:00
My intention about current political issues wasn't to be political. I posted it when I found some news pretty early and discovered that the previous post was flagged.

HN flagging is much of an issue too where you can observe in those threads. If you want, I can share the link perhaps.

The news of US blocking 75 countries have true deep economical impact and I dont even know how it got flagged since its a massive news development and something which impacts the valley and so many other people and I genuinely just wanted people to know and discuss about it similar to other posts (which didn't get flagged but I would consider more controversial??)

I just straight up don't know about this dual hypocrisy I witness in Hackernews. Your comment is still extremely good (compared to the two others one of which is a bot and the other called about xbox??)so I"d love to continue this discussion

> Good luck with your journey and have a nice day yourself.
Thanks!
by Macha | 2026-01-15 12:59:29+00:00
By being late to computerized sorting, the postal service (An Post) never actually needed postcodes the way others did, as by the time they got computerized, fuzzy address lookups in the full address database was something that was available. It's mostly the third party couriers and marketing people pushed for post codes so they could apply techniques from other countries here.

Now asking An Post to overhaul their system to work on postcodes only is a bit like asking a postal service which requires postcodes to make them optional. It's technically possible, sure, but they're not going to want to spend the money.

_That said_, An Post's last resort routing department is pretty famous for getting the right address from pretty fragmentary information like "Mary down by the church, formerly of Kilnowhere", so I'm sure if a letter with just a eircode arrived there they'd sort it, but I imagine that An Post don't want to encourage people doing things that increases load on the labour intensive sorting.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-01-15 13:00:04+00:00
In case you haven't noticed, it's the non-thinkers of all generations who willingly bury their head in the sand.

Most people don't normally think it's the boomers in particular unless their powers of observation are somewhat limited.

Which is understandable, you don't reach maturity overnight.

Edit: not my downvote btw
Show HN: BlaBlaBlAI – An open-source chat where LLMs are aware of each other
by ansorre | 2026-01-15 13:01:29+00:00
Hi HN,

working with AI today involves a lot of copy and paste. Single LLMs are rarely enough to solve real problems, so we constantly switch contexts, ask multiple LLMs, and let them correct each other.

To break free from all that, I built BlaBlaBlAI and released it as Apache 2.0 open source.

The idea is simple: no more 1-on-1 chats with LLMs, but chats with as many LLMs and as many humans in the same chat as needed. Think WhatsApp groups, but with LLMs too, and a reasonable set of tools to coordinate them (rules, muting, cost attribution).

I can imagine how many types of businesses could be built on top of a chat system like this. Obviously, having worked on this app for some time, I have a thousand ideas. But today I’m interested in emphasizing just three things:

1) Using many LLMs in the same chat instead of one has been, for my productivity, more disruptive than the invention of LLMs themselves. This is why I’m sharing this.

2) Ideas like this tend to evolve in one of two ways: either they fragment into many mediocre clones, or they converge into one or a few strong open-source implementations. I’m explicitly aiming for the second, which is why, for me, open source is a technical necessity, regardless of any potential business built on top.

3) I’m used to the concept “Make something people want”, so this message is meant to understand whether people actually want BlaBlaBlAI. I know how much I want this (very much), so this is really about understanding whether BlaBlaBlAI will evolve just for me or for many.

That’s it. I also made a video to show an example of use. The use case is absolutely genuine and real, it happened to me. Who hasn’t received less-than-ideal responses from LLMs? In fact, that’s precisely the point of BlaBlaBlAI: there’s no single perfect LLM, but many LLMs working together can make a real difference.

Final details and notes:

- Open-source code on GitHub (the app works)
- Multi-LLM chat
- Markdown support in messages
- Demo video showing real interactions between agents

Missing for now:

- Hosted version
- Easy setup (but an exhaustive README.md to run it exists)
- Onboarding

Links:

- GitHub repo: https://github.com/Transhumai/BlaBlaBlAI
- Demo video: https://youtu.be/cYnIs_9p99c
- Intro blog post: https://blablablai.com/blog/posts/welcome/
- Landing: https://blablablai.com/

I’ll be around all day to answer questions.

Thanks for reading.
by EagnaIonat | 2026-01-15 13:01:45+00:00
Nice read after the earlier post saying fire all your tech writers. Good post.

One thing to add is that the LLM doesn't know what it can't see. It just amplifies what is there. Assumed knowledge is quite common with developers and their own code. Or the more common "it works on my machine" because something is set outside of the code environment.

Sadly other fields are experiencing the same issue of someone outside their field saying AI can straight up replace them.
Show HN: FrontendCheck – Learn enterprise patterns by building weird SaaS
by claudianadalin | 2026-01-15 13:03:16+00:00
Built this because I kept seeing devs learn from todo app tutorials, then struggle when they hit real patterns like multi-tenancy or RBAC on the job.

The approach: you pick a standard domain (CRM, task manager) and make it weird. Your CRM becomes a cat fashion store. Your task manager becomes a heist planner. You learn the same enterprise patterns (multi-tenancy, permissions, theming, i18n) but end up with something that's not the 500th identical portfolio project.

The first challenge is free. Curious what HN thinks about this approach to teaching architecture patterns, and whether the "pick your weird domain" angle actually helps with motivation or just adds confusion.
by pama | 2026-01-15 13:03:18+00:00
The title sounds interesting but I get errors and no content on my iPhone15 because it is unable to initialize WebGL. Why do people still link content to such capabilities? Where has simple HTML / CSS gone these days?

Edit: from comments and reading the one page that loads, this is still the 5nm tech they announced in 2024, hence the H100 comparison, which feels dated given the availability of GB300.
by jeroenhd | 2026-01-15 13:03:39+00:00
> Geolocation based on IP address is always done in the background, so they already know what city you are from

They don't. Maybe the trackers do, but most websites place me 100km to the west. When I want to look up opening times for supermarkets near me, I like the "show nearby" button.

Even Google gets confused because I VPN back to my home network. Every time I spend a few days somewhere else, Google's IP-based geolocation is broken again.
by vlad-roundabout | 2026-01-15 13:03:42+00:00
How do you do it without harming privacy? How do you do it without nasty attestation that basically bans GNU/Linux? How do you handle children interested in topics (like programming) which only online platforms can sustain well? And allowing logged-out access is just keeping the worst parts, as the algorithms will keep showing the popular stuff, like those TikTok challenges.

I propose, instead, banning recommendation algorithms. This would ensure that only content which genuinely interests people will be shown, not some weird brainrot just because it's popular.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-15 13:03:47+00:00
No I didn't. I have played retro pokemon games though

Also not sure how it's relevant to this discussion extremely at all so yeah :/

PS: (it's okay that the commentor might not have created a decent comment but perhaps we can talk about retro pokemon games in here to atleast be a better spirit than complete waste of time, what's your favourite pokemon, mine's ampharos from pokemon silver. Ampharos + (totodile's last form fredigilator?) combo is one of the best in the game and you can actually defeat whittney johto (from the original which is considered one of the most hard challenges by many) rather easily by this combo. Hope this could help even one person xD