MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by self_awareness | 2026-01-15 07:40:08+00:00
> Black Lives Matter is objectively not a grift.

There we go again. I think that you people would gain if you'd read what does it mean if something is objective and also the meaning of "subjective". Either you live in social bubbles or you're intentionally ignoring anything that's not in line with your ideology. I'm actually not surprised this is the case, since you're not allowing people outside of your bubbles in your community spaces. You cherish diversity, yet in reality you're the most ideologically closed social group that I know. Letting people in only if it's easy for you is very far from "welcoming".

You're accusing the parent of being an asshole, yet you dismiss his arguments based on false "objectivity". And because of your "objectivity", which is clearly subjective, you reinforce the argument that parent is not welcome in your community. How is this welcoming?

I mean I know the answer.
by gaigalas | 2026-01-15 07:40:08+00:00
There's a clear conflict between SKILLS, tools and multi-tasking.

I think "intra-context" tooling is already dead. It's too narrow.

It's all "extra-context" now: how one instruments for multiple agents, at multiple times, handling things.

Personally, I think the best tool in this realm will come from open source, and be agnostic (many agents from many places interacting), in order to leverage differences between subtle provider qualities (speed, price and so on).

Building a browser is an interesting and expensive experiment. How much did it cost?
by mc3301 | 2026-01-15 07:40:56+00:00
The problems of plastic waste isn’t because the end user didn't recycle; it’s a failure of companies to stop producing garbage in the first place, and they should be accountable for the harm it causes. I know that’s not how it works, but I can dream. Band-aids are easier.

The problems of social media, addictive algorithms and attention theft shouldn’t be blamed on end users. It should be on the companies that design these garbage systems, and they should be held responsible. I know that’s not how it works, but I can dream. Band-aids are easier.
by dangelosaurus | 2026-01-15 07:41:46+00:00
https://mldangelo.com and https://github.com/mldangelo/personal-site

I have been slowly evolving it over 10 years. 1.6k stars, ~ 1,000 forks. I originally designed it to be easy to copy, and I've occasionally interviewed someone who forked it for their own site which always makes me happy.

I have made a lot of updates recently now that the age of vibe coding is making templates less useful, but it still is and will be my playground.
by manmal | 2026-01-15 07:42:09+00:00
Anyone can build _an_ agent. A good one takes a talented engineer. That’s because TUI rendering is tough (hello, flicker!) and extensibility must be done right lest it‘s useless.

Eg Mario Zechner (badlogic) hit it out of the park with his increasingly popular pi, which does not flicker and is VERY hackable and is the SOTA for going back to previous turns: https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono/blob/main/packages/codin...
by danielrhodes | 2026-01-15 07:42:29+00:00
This is no surprise. We are all learning together here.

There are any number of ways to foot gun yourself with programming languages. SQL injection attacks used to be a common gotcha, for example. But nowadays, you see it way less.

It’s similar here: there are ways to mitigate this and as we learn about other vectors we will learn how to patch them better as well. Before you know it, it will just become built into the models and libraries we use.

In the mean time, enjoy being the guinea pig.
by nanapipirara | 2026-01-15 07:42:53+00:00
I actually volunteer to take care of parts of the trash in our neighborhood. Like with a proper garbage truck. And the amount of volunteers so big that I only have to do it a few times a year. All the money they make with recycling goes to the local school. It is fun to do, even in cold rain. The garbage truck driver gets paid, but I am sure in an IBU world even drivers would chip in if they could afford it. People want to contribute and feel useful.
by D-Machine | 2026-01-15 07:42:58+00:00
>> Kitchen work is all about proportions

> Only in Imperial/United States customary units.

Cooking is only about proportions in some very narrow fields (e.g. baking), and, even then, adjustment to ingredients, environment, and other contextual factors is paramount, and most adjustments need to be non-linear (whether by mass, volume, or surface-area). If the proportions are anything other than guidelines, you are doing mediocre cooking, at best.
by treebeard901 | 2026-01-15 07:43:16+00:00
It seems China has won the race for EV dominance in battery technology and manufacturing. Probably not much the U.S. can do to catch up. From the insane oil needs of the U.S. Military to the gasoline needed for a functioning economy and transportation, China will be light years ahead in every category which will have huge implications for U.S. National Security.
by superhuang | 2026-01-15 07:43:25+00:00
I'm the creator of Agent Skills. I've been building this because I realized managing and discovering agent skills for local agents was becoming a mess.

We just hit a milestone of indexing nearly 5,000 skills. It's been a fun engineering challenge dealing with deduplication, categorization, and handling different metadata formats from GitHub.

Honestly, building this has brought back the joy of creating for me. I just launched on other platforms and the feedback has been incredibly motivating. For example, a user recently pointed out that "permission boundaries" (read-only vs write access) are a bigger bottleneck than discovery—an insight I hadn't fully considered and am now planning to build.

The Stack: It's built with Next.js, Sanity (for the structured content), and hosted on Vercel. I'm using some custom scripts to parse GitHub repos for skill.json / SKILL.md files.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on what makes an agent skill "trustworthy" to you. Is it the star count? The code visibility? Or something else?
by PunchyHamster | 2026-01-15 07:43:25+00:00
but it isn't "rolling your own" but changing the lib you use.

> The C++ programmer who needs to do an HTTPS POST but mostly is doing 3D graphics could spend a month learning about the Web PKI, AES, the X.500 directory system and the Distinguished Encoding, or they could just call OpenSSL and not care.

they gonna call libcurl, not openssl directly. Tho they might use it still for parsing certs but that's easier to replace
KR Customizer Shopify Product Configurator and Live Preview
by krcweb | 2026-01-15 07:43:43+00:00
KR Customizer is a powerful Shopify product configurator that enables real-time product personalization with live visual previews, allowing shoppers to customize colors, text, images, materials, and styles before purchasing. Designed to enhance customer engagement and buying confidence, KR Customizer helps reduce returns, increase conversions, and improve order accuracy by showing exactly how the final product will look. Seamlessly integrated with Shopify, it supports 2D and 3D customization for print-on-demand, custom products, and complex configurable items, making it an ideal solution for eCommerce brands looking to deliver interactive, modern, and conversion-focused shopping experiences.

Source URL: https://www.krcustomizer.com/blog/shopify-product-configurator-let-shoppers-preview-and-personalize-products
by YetAnotherNick | 2026-01-15 07:43:53+00:00
GPUs are supply constrained and price isn't declining that fast so why do you expect the token price price to decrease. I think the supply issue will resolve in 1-2 years as now they have good prediction of how fast the market would grow.

Nvidia is literally selling GPUs with 90% profit margin and still everything is out of stock, which is unheard of before.
by Aromasin | 2026-01-15 07:44:07+00:00
Worth noting the circle of "pubs that light on fire" and "flat roofed 1970s slum pub" almost entirely overlap. Nobodies setting fire to their thatched-roof pub from 1650 because of pub rates. They just change hands through the breweries every 3-4 years now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat-roofed_pub
by Eisenstein | 2026-01-15 07:44:55+00:00
> But when you just look at it from an inference perspective, looking at these data centres like token factories makes sense.

So if you ignore the majority of the costs, then it makes sense.

Opus 4.5 was released on November 25, 2025. That is less than 2 months ago. When they stop training new models, then we can forget about training costs.
by hettygreen | 2026-01-15 07:45:31+00:00
Hi Phil, sorry to hear that something went down and involved Limor... that's not cool. A few Q's:

1. Will the freenzy be a 100% drop-in replacement for the teensy?

2. Will the freenzy be able to be programmed using teensyduino?

3. PJRC's bootloader is closed-source (I know, I've built 1000 Teensy-LC's after the product's discontinuation). Does that mean you're sourcing bootloaders from PJRC or reverse engineering the bootloader chip?

Opinion 1: If I can't take code written for a Teensy and upload it straight to the Freenzy, then this is not "Teensy Compatible". Likewise if the pinout is not the same, including all of the rear pcb-pads.

Opinion 2: If this is not actually Teensy Compatible, but just "Teensy Inspired", what about branding this as adafruit's own microcontroller and not cut into Paul and Robin's income by selling a totally different product that rides on their name recognition and decade of work?
by Strift | 2026-01-15 07:47:44+00:00
I just use a web server and a search engine.

TL;DR:
- chunk files, index chunks
- vector/hybrid search over the index
- node app to handle requests (was the quickest to implement, LLMs understand OpenAPI well)

I wrote about it here: https://laurentcazanove.com/blog/obsidian-rag-api
by ggm | 2026-01-15 07:48:10+00:00
I'm caught on a fence in this, because I'd be delighted if X sank and the majors broke associations. But, I think handset makers and device makers need some kind of safe harbour around what obligations they have to place things in or out of play, else we are right in state sanctioned s/w and we might as well run "red wall linux"

(Yes, a reductive line of argument. I do not propose we run red wall linux)
by jen729w | 2026-01-15 07:48:40+00:00
I guess the snark is funny, so I'll bite.

I've used Safari daily for … must be 20 years now? Every day, for everything, minus the odd exceptionally rare circumstance. And I couldn't tell you what the last one of those was, it was so long ago.

I'm a web developer. I use its devtools constantly.

People ask why do you use Safari and not Chrome and I think the question is backwards. Why, given how lovely Safari is, would you go and download Chrome? It's really ugly and doesn't look like any of the other apps on my Mac.

When I do want other devtools, I vastly prefer Firefox's to Chrome's.
by esperent | 2026-01-15 07:48:58+00:00
I'm lucky enough to have 95% of my docs in small markdown markdown files so I'm just... not (+). I'm using SQLite FTS5 (full text search) to build a normal search index and using that. Well, I already had the index so I just wired it up to my mastra agents.
Each file has a short description field, so if a keyword search surfaces the doc they check the description and if it matches, load the whole doc.

This took about one hour to set up and works very well.

(+) At least, I don't think this counts as RAG. I'm honestly a bit hazy on the definition. But there's no vectordb anyway.
by theshrike79 | 2026-01-15 07:50:05+00:00
There was an anecdote that went something like "a 4x4 will just get you stuck worse then a 2wd" =)

And, like you said, people think that an AWD car will stop faster. No, it'll just start moving faster, more traction doesn't make the brakes better or the road any less slippery.

I owned a single 4WD car and it was super fun in the winter, but... when it's icy, you're most likely moving faster than you would be with a 2wd, which again results in some heart palpitations when you're trying to stay on the road =)
by lelanthran | 2026-01-15 07:50:55+00:00
> Because you said you're "not even able to fathom how this is possible" - honestly, I still don't quite understand that sentence, especially after what you wrote above.

Look, in context, what I said had a qualifier:

>>> I am not even able to fathom how this is possible; unless someone is trying to convince you to join them in their belief, how on earth does a quarrel arise from differing beliefs?

I am not able to fathom how this is even possible unless one party is trying to change the beliefs of the other party.

I think that's a little less ambiguous, no?

> But maybe that particular war is worth fighting? Maybe, through countless battles over the Christmas tables, society changes course?

Maybe it does, and you just need to keep fighting.

Or (my approach), wait for the older generation to die off; the younger generation has no need to change the minds of the older generation, they just have to wait.

You still end up with the following result:

> next generation to live their lives a little better than you could?

I like my way better[1], but, you know, whatever works for you, works for you.

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[1] For example, in my entire adult life I have had only two serious (i.e. shouting) arguments with my father, and neither of them had to do with differing beliefs, and now that he is dead I regret even having those two arguments.

He did not approve of my beliefs, but both he and I take a live and let live approach to life. I mean, I'm atheist and I'm happily married to someone who isn't; we have yet (over decades) to have a single argument over religion!
by saghm | 2026-01-15 07:51:44+00:00
> The government doesn't need to oppress innocent people to pay your salary

Pretty much everything a government can do is going to qualify as "oppression" if you use the term so broadly that's it includes levying taxes, so that's pretty much a meaningless characterization.

Let's put it in more concrete terms: if the US government passes a law to raise taxes to fund UBI, that probably wouldn't even make the last of the top 100 most oppressive things it's done to innocent people in the past year. If the strongest objection to this policy would be "I don't want to pay taxes to fund things for other people", it's in pretty good company.
by ares623 | 2026-01-15 07:52:32+00:00
I would argue that evolution’s primary driving force is not something so easily resisted. It is literally a person’s only purpose when you strip everything else away. I would be careful to handwave away another person’s desire to have children.

5 years ago single income households were feasible for a subset of the population. Yes that subset has been decreasing for a while. But the last 5 years or so have eroded it so much more.

And pointing at struggling children/parents as the source of society’s ills is a low blow. When there are individual humans who have accumulated so much resources that they can feed an entire country for a few days at a single thought and _still_ have enough left over to live comfortably. You are looking at the wrong place to blame, in my opinion.
by jphartley123 | 2026-01-15 07:52:33+00:00
I think this is really what is necessary to take things to the next level at large enterprises that are working extensively with LLMs and agent-based workflows. So many teams are just making the first steps, which work quite easily in a localhost environment, but then when they try to move this to production they find that they have to build so much core infrastructure to create what is necessary to run agentic workflows as scale within a large enterprise.

I am happy to see this solution looking so much more mature and feature rich than when I saw the first demo a few months ago.
by georgefrowny | 2026-01-15 07:52:54+00:00
Plus housing insulation. So many British houses are still almost entirely uninsulated. That's not an exaggeration, the roof of my house had zero insulation, solid brick walls, no under floor insulation and single glazing. The only gesture to efficiency was some secondary glazing over the windows.

It absolutely ripped though gas just to keep a couple of rooms warm enough to live in, and it was still two jumpers and thermal trousers indoors. God only knows how the pensioner who lived there before managed.
by atraac | 2026-01-15 07:53:12+00:00
I've learned that being truthful in your resume as a SWE doesn't work anymore. I've had nearly 0 response rate to my applications, even if I was nearly a perfect match. Dude that we fired a while ago for being abysmally bad and non-productive gets interviews, raises and just got into ycombinator backed company by making up 75% of his resume(which I saw). We need a reset, this is getting ridiculous.
by GuestFAUniverse | 2026-01-15 07:54:00+00:00
A "confidence trick" doesn't generate a working program on demand -- I just did that yesterday. In a blink of an eye. It worked. It was clean (passed linter).
It wasn't very complex, yet it would have taking me several minutes to type it myself. Again: two sentence description -> enter -> working program/script.
Plus: with simple feedback the program is modified accordingly (and working).

While there might be open issues with AI, those AI companies are providing *far* more value than null.
by jillesvangurp | 2026-01-15 07:54:26+00:00
Exactly. Their truck was apparently quite nice but expensive. And then dealers made it worse by adding a hefty markup to that. It would have done fine at a much lower price point. But that would have required a manufacturing cost level that Ford could not deliver:

There are a few reasons for that:

- Ford designed this as a one off vehicle, not as a platform to build multiple vehicles on. So, a lot of the manufacturing process is making components in low volume just for this truck that they are selling in small numbers. It never hit the economies of scale where they could optimize and lower cost.

- It's a big heavy vehicle that needs lots of battery. Batteries are expensive.

- The tariff situation made importing components from Mexico, China, and elsewhere prohibitively expensive. Ford can't source everything they need locally just yet.

All this drives the production cost up. When they launched the vehicle a few years ago, they were still able to import components. They had a shot at sourcing much cheaper batteries from China down the line. All that went away and locally produced batteries aren't as cheap.

Another factor is that it's a product that was designed to be premium and more expensive than the ICE F150 in order to protect sales of that. It was forever going to be compared to that in terms of performance and towing capacity. And the combination of being more expensive than that while having less range and even less while towing is not a great selling point.

Companies like Rivian or BYD that have no ICE truck sales to protect can operate differently. They simply make the best and most affordable vehicle they can without artificially making it needlessly expensive. Rivian isn't cheap of course but they sell well because it's a desirable product. And Rivian has done a lot of work to lower cost and is now introducing cheaper models on the back of that. BYD is cutting well below F150 ICE prices with their Shark truck. Because they can. Not for sale in the US of course but it makes F150 Lightning international sales a bit unviable. As a US only niche vehicle selling in the low thousands per year the Lightning had no future.
by danaris | 2026-01-15 07:54:58+00:00
I think you (and many others) are overestimating the degree to which everyone does, in fact, know that (everyone should, but not everyone does...), while simultaneously underestimating the degree to which the people in charge right now think they're the absolute most specialest people. Or, in some cases, literally God's chosen.

Furthermore, they really, really want to be absolute rulers being treated like (the popular conception of) medieval lords by all of us, the peasants. They deeply believe that we are beneath them; that we do not deserve to have the means to thrive or even survive if they do not explicitly grant it to us; that our natural state is that of supplication, and theirs is that of power and control.

UBI would give that up. It would give us the unconditional means to live, regardless of their approval. And that they cannot abide.
by dtkav | 2026-01-15 07:55:07+00:00
https://relay.md is a company I'm working on for shared knowledge management/ AI context for teams, and the Obsidian plugin is what i am driving with my live-debug and obsidian-e2e skills.

I can try to write it up (I am a bit behind this week though...), but I basically opened claude code and said "write a new skill that uses the chrome debug protocol to drive end to end tests in Obsidian" and then whenever it had problems I said "fix the skill to look up the element at the x,y coordinate before clicking" or whatever.

Skills are just markdown files, sometimes accompanied by scripts, so they work really naturally with Obsidian.
by VBprogrammer | 2026-01-15 07:55:27+00:00
This government have been in power for less than 2 years. Despite launching a lot of trial balloons on raising taxes they haven't actually raised the headline tax rates (other than allowing fiscal drag to do so).

Overall the tax burden in the UK is middling for western democracies. It's actually on the low side for low earners - which is probably a problem because the distribution is such that the majority pay very little.

The other problem being cliff edges and complexities which distinctive chasing pay rises and working more for a lot of people.
by majestik | 2026-01-15 07:55:37+00:00
I was already a Tesla owner and I reserved a Cybertruck right after I saw the original Cybertruck Unveil live stream on November 21, 2019. The infamous one where the window glass shattered.

That was when it was supposed to cost around $35,000.

Four years later when my reservation was ready to order, on December 8, 2023, the CyberTruck cost more than $100k.

Because it cost almost 3x more than what was originally advertised, I cancelled the order. I know many other people who canceled for the same reason. Keeping in mind this was after several delays, so I and many others with reservations were already frustrated with the product before it became available to order.
by phil21 | 2026-01-15 07:56:39+00:00
AWD is a luxury outside of the most extreme of extreme locations.

I grew up in Minnesota driving rear wheel drive cars to start. They worked fine even in the olden days where plows would take a couple days to clear the country backroads and even rock salt was applied sparingly due to the expense.

Not a single one of my vehicles had winter tires - all seasons were perfectly serviceable. You’d get stuck once in a great while but that’s what the bag of sand and shovel in the trunk were for.

Front wheel drive came along and made it easy mode.

All wheel drive is certainly something I love these days, but it’s an extreme luxury that makes winter driving laughably easy.

A basic utilitarian work vehicle does not need to be 4WD in 90% or likely even 99% of use cases anywhere in the country.
by re-thc | 2026-01-15 07:57:09+00:00
> I mean the amount of money invested across just a handful of AI companies is currently staggering and their respective revenues are no where near where they need to be. That’s a valid reason to be skeptical.

Yes and no. Some of it just claims to be "AI". Like the hyperscalers are building datacenters and ramping up but not all of it is "AI". The crypto bros have rebadged their data centers into "AI".
by user34283 | 2026-01-15 07:57:26+00:00
The man is officially a dear friend of Israel, he has never defended Hitler, he indeed supports the German far right party, his chatbot had an alignment issue that has been patched within 16 hours.

What you call a "Sieg heil" was an innocent hand gesture made once, and that hoax has been debunked by both the anti defamation league and the Israeli PM personally. You know this, yet you cannot let go of your hate.