MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-01-13 10:36:07+00:00
> C. AI cannot update/evolve due to lack of Stack Overflow

> Who is going to produce mediated and revised ('good') content?

This take is ~3 years old and already obsolete. For the past two years RL flavours (RLAIF, RLVR, etc) have been driving the new models.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2026-01-13 10:36:39+00:00
Someone like Mamdani is strangely centre enough to get some of the "right-leaning" Gen Zs (mid or even lower high trollsters) to bounce off of Trump.

He just ain't the sorta centrist Scott was looking for.

Remember "Bernie bros"?

Bernie and Zohran don't have that school marm look.. Zohran beats Bernie in the semitic dept because (modal male urban "areligious") Gen Z Jew will vote for Zohran (!!!) over what the Dems might offer. Millennial Jews hesitated because Bernie was Jewish.

My hunch only ofc. (From anecdata >> polls)

We might have to go back to Tocqueville to see if, since 1775, American genius don't just think better, they just don't have to think!
by kouteiheika | 2026-01-13 10:37:17+00:00
> It’s such a commodity that there are only 3 SOTA labs left and no one can catch them.

No one can outpace them in improving the SOTA, everyone can catch up to them. Why are open-weight models perpetually 6 months behind the SOTA? Given enough data harvested from SOTA models you can eventually distill them.

The biggest differentiator when training better models are not some new fancy architectural improvements (even the current SOTA transformer architectures are very similar to e.g. the ancient GPT-2), but high quality training data. And if your shiny new SOTA model is hooked into a publicly available API, guess what - you've just exposed a training data generator for everyone to use. (That's one of the reasons why SOTA labs hide their reasoning chains, even though those are genuinely useful for users - they don't want others to distill their models.)
by roel_v | 2026-01-13 10:37:39+00:00
"Kind of tired of people taking anabolic steroids and then claiming it's a smaller part of their success"

Sounds like you've never taken steroids brother, and with that mindset you shouldn't, because I'll tell you that no matter how much you shoot into your muscles, if you don't put in the work in the gym, there's no way you're going to get jacked.
by pdftl-dev | 2026-01-13 10:37:52+00:00
I'm working on pdftl, a cross-platform PDF manipulation tool that syntax-matches pdftk but leverages the modern Python ecosystem (pikepdf, pypdfium2).

It’s a CLI utility that supports the standard operations (merge, split, stamp, rotate, form fill) and extends them with:

- Chained commands: You can pipeline operations in memory using --- separators.

- Geometry: Actual cropping, chopping (splitting pages into pieces), and scaling.

- Content editing: Regex search/replace on content streams and code injection.

- Modern Encryption: supports AES-256 encryption, and PDF signatures (via pyHanko)

- Built in help for every operation: pdftl help cat

It passes the php-pdftk compatibility tests, so it should be a safe drop-in for most legacy workflows. And better compatibility is on the way.

The project is open source (MPL 2.0). I'm looking for people to test this and for any helpful feedback/contributions.

Installation:

pipx install pdftl[full]
by inglor_cz | 2026-01-13 10:38:55+00:00
"Israel is openly committed [0] to seeing regime change in Iran; they were mowing down civilian and military leadership just last year. "

Are you surprised? The Islamic Republic has been drumming "Death to the USA, death to Israel" for almost fifty years and they invested a lot of money into both Hezbollah and their nuclear program.

They obviously cannot destroy America, but they could destroy Israel. Are you surprised that Israel wants to deny them this capability?
by pjmlp | 2026-01-13 10:39:24+00:00
If it wasn't for Apple wanting to get rid of GCC due to licensing, and Google as well on Android, LLVM would have remained like Andrew Compiler Toolkit, MSR Phoenix, and similar endevours, another compiler development research project at Illinois university.

Thus what would be the commercial reason to support LLVM's sucessor, especially since the companies that were responsible for LLVM going mainstream, are happy with current C and C++ support, mostly using LLVM for other programming language frontends?
by Eleshop | 2026-01-13 10:39:53+00:00
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by mlrtime | 2026-01-13 10:39:57+00:00
There are people like you [and me] that have almost 0 addictive tendencies when it comes to food/drugs. Or we may become addicted for a short amount of time and just stop.

I've tried all sorts of rec drugs/food activities etc.. Some are amazing but eventually I get bored and stop.

Smoking was probably the hardest, but I just decided to stop one day and never did it again.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-13 10:40:12+00:00
Sending a bunch of fresh grad children in to barricade themselves in government offices, demand access keys, and uplink all the data via illegal Starlink wasn't enough. Now we need to give the drooling nazi child-porn-bot creator to our secure classified networks.

They really are just trying to tear this whole nation apart as brutally & as fast as possible, lend quarter to every bad power in the world & idolize the dirtbags all. Vice signalling until there's nothing left.
A pink aesthetic wallpaper hub for makers/creators, with built-in AI edit tools
by xiaolu627 | 2026-01-13 10:40:26+00:00
This might be a bit of an unconventional Show HN, but I think many of us here (myself included) are tired of generic default wallpapers or overly busy designs. We stare at our screens for so long, and a visual environment that feels calm or joyful can have a real impact on focus and mood.

So, I built Pink Canvas (https://pinkcanvas.net).

The core is simple: a curated library of pink-themed wallpapers. But I wanted to make it genuinely useful, particularly for the tinkerers and creators among us:

Precise Curation: Walls are well-tagged (Kawaii, Floral, Minimalist, Fantasy, etc.) and by resolution (Mobile, Desktop, 4K). It saves the time of sifting through Pinterest or Unsplash for that specific look for a specific device.

Built-in Maker Tools: Here's the key feature and why I'm posting it here. I integrated AI Generate and AI Edit tools directly into the site. You can take any wallpaper and, using natural language, ask it to "add a small cat in the corner" or "make it cyberpunk" to create a unique variant on the fly. It's surprisingly handy for creators who need quick custom graphics or inspiration.

A Growing Library: There's a submission flow. User-modified or created images can be submitted and, after moderation, added to the main library. It's small now, but the vision is for it to grow into a community-curated collection.

Nothing too fancy tech-wise—Vue frontend, Python backend handling image processing and AI API integration. The bigger challenges were building a moderation flow that maintains quality and managing the growing asset library while keeping the site snappy.

I built this partly because my wife could never find a desktop background she liked, but more because I believe tools and aesthetics can merge. Even a niche like "pink," when executed with focus and user empowerment in mind, can be a utility.

I'm very curious to get this community's thoughts, especially on:

What's your take on the value of such aesthetic/consumer-focused tools in a space often dominated by infrastructure tech?

If you used it, what "power-user" or practical features would you want to see in the AI edit tools?

Any advice or lessons on fostering a sustainable, quality UGC community?

Thanks for looking! You can find it here: https://pinkcanvas.net
by OlaProis | 2026-01-13 10:40:32+00:00
Actually, this is going on the v0.3.0 roadmap. I've been looking for ways to make the standalone mermaid-rs crate genuinely better than just 'mermaid.js but Rust.'

The plan: use %% comments as layout hints. Something like:

%% @pos NodeA 100 200>

Mermaid.js ignores these, so the diagram stays portable. But Ferrite (and anyone using mermaid-rs) could parse them for manual positioning.

You'd be able to drag nodes around in Ferrite, have positions saved to the source, and still share with mermaid.js users (they'd get auto-layout).

If you want to follow progress or have input on the syntax, feel free to open an issue on the repo!
by austin-cheney | 2026-01-13 10:41:40+00:00
Everybody complains about performance. Slow software feels like poison.

Except, anything written with a large JavaScript framework is allowed to be slow. In fact slow as syrup is strongly encouraged. To prove it just ask the developers. Mention it could be 8-50x faster just by not using their favorite framework and note the response. Even better, show them a proof of concept and take note of their unemotional objectivity.
by river_otter | 2026-01-13 10:42:14+00:00
Good questions! All of that is handled inside of the coding agent (Claude Code / OpenCode). `aoe` is responsible for managing the agent sessions: It does keep those sessions persistent in tmux even if you close `aoe`, but if you restart your system, resuming a sessions would rely upon opencode/claude code storing the conversation history for each session, which I believe they do but would need to be manually restored for each agent.
by rpigab | 2026-01-13 10:42:28+00:00
Ubuntu pro and snap sure are obnoxious.

On servers I prefer Debian, but my experience on Debian hasn't been as smooth as Ubuntu for gaming, even when activating Debian nonfree repositories with proprietary NVIDIA drivers. I've had some trouble with the Wayland transition, but now everything works fine.

Also, the Steam client is officially supported only on Ubuntu. Probably SteamOS too, implicitly.
by alex43578 | 2026-01-13 10:43:36+00:00
Is that accounting for just how much bigger the US supermarkets are?

The ones by me, ranging from cheap grocery stores, Walmart/Costco, through premium grocery stores, all have plenty of fresh food available.

They absolutely have aisles and aisles of frozen, packaged, etc; but outside of like specialty tropical fruits, there's nothing reasonable you could walk in for and not find fresh or at least frozen w/ minimal processing.
by throwfaraway135 | 2026-01-13 10:44:22+00:00
I agree that communities should try to protect themselves from malicious actors.

But the part about FOSS being used in a project not aligned with the creator's values seams hypocritical:

IMO FOOS is a gift to humanity and as such:

"A gift should be given freely, without obligation or expectation, as a true expression of love and kindness"
by g947o | 2026-01-13 10:44:37+00:00
Nowhere in HN guidelines does it say "your comment must be coherent and should avoid using jargon". https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Meanwhile,

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names
Show HN: An iOS budget app I've been maintaining since 2011
by Priotecs | 2026-01-13 10:44:39+00:00
I’ve been building and selling software since the early 2000s, starting with classic shareware. In 2011, I moved into the App Store world and built an iOS budget app because I needed a simple way to track my own expenses.

At the time, my plan was to replace a few larger shareware projects with several smaller apps to spread the risk. That didn’t quite work out — one app, MoneyControl, quickly grew so much that it became my main focus.

Fifteen years later, the app is still on the App Store, still actively developed, and still used by people who started with version 1.0. Many apps from that era are long gone.

Looking back, these are some of the things that mattered most:

Starting early helped, but wasn’t enough on its own.
Early visibility made a difference, but long-term maintenance and reliability are what kept users.

Focus beat diversification.
I wanted many small apps. I ended up with one large, long-lived product. Deep focus turned out to be more sustainable.

Long-term maintenance is most of the work.
Adapting to new iOS versions, migrating data safely, handling edge cases, and keeping old data usable mattered more than flashy features.

Discoverability keeps getting harder.
Reaching users on the App Store today is much more difficult than it was years ago. Prices are higher than in the old 99-cent days, but visibility hasn’t improved.

I’m a developer first, not a marketer.
I work alone, with occasional help from freelancers. No employees, no growth team. The app could probably have grown more with better marketing, but that was never my strength.

You don’t need to get rich to build something sustainable.
I didn’t build this for an exit. I’ve been able to make a living from my work for over 20 years, which feels like success to me.

Building things you actually use keeps you honest.
Every product I built was something I personally needed. That authenticity mattered more than any roadmap.

This week I released version 10 with a new design and a major technical overhaul. It feels less like a milestone and more like preparing the app for the next phase.

Happy to answer questions about long-term app maintenance, indie development, or keeping a product alive across many iOS generations.
by spwa4 | 2026-01-13 10:45:03+00:00
This is, of course, exactly what's being talked about. The Kremlin, through the KGB, and the "socialist international" brought the Iranian mullahs to power and created the Palestinian movement. Both with the same purpose.

In case people don't realize the link between the two.

Both refer to the US (and Europe for that matter) as "the big satan" (meaning more important an enemy than Israel), showcasing their primary objective is to destroy US and more generally western influence. And actions against Israel are in service of that goal. Both Palestinians and Iranians are, to put it mildly, not shy about attacking and displacing population groups, including their own, and Palestinians aren't shy about using genocide to achieve it. Both have shown this extensively. The objective of these organizations is not better lives for Palestinians, Iranians, muslims or whoever. It's to get the US out of the middle east, and ideally do to the US what the US did to Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in WW2: starve the US of oil and with that energy.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB106419296113226300
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-13 10:45:18+00:00
You omitted the merge commit. M is taken so let's go with R. You jump back to M to confirm that the symptoms really don't predate the marriage. Then you jump to R to reproduce and track down the underlying cause of the bad interaction.

Had you simply rebased you would have lost the ability to separate the initial working implementation of D from the modifications required to reconcile it with M (and possibly others that predate it). At least, unless you still happen to have a copy of your pre-rebase history lying around but I prefer not to depend on happenstance.
by InfinityByTen | 2026-01-13 10:46:09+00:00
Solidworks and a lot of CAD software is just a GIANT amalgamation of the original software and the work of all of the tiny companies they keep acquiring (basically whosoever built a plugin/competitor for their stuff).

It's most likely so poorly set up that I finch considering working in that domain now.

Source: I've had friends who've worked there.
Background: we studied computational engineering, but I got a non-domain software job. Sometimes I feel I learnt more being away from that sort of work.
by charcircuit | 2026-01-13 10:46:48+00:00
>your graphics driver isn't loading/working

This is a bigger problem that should be fixed ASAP. OS vendors should never critically break graphics on a OS like this.

>you can't log into the GUI due to a bug in the login screen;

Again, the QA department or automated tests of your OS vendor should not let this get released. If such a bug happened there should be a fix rolled out immediately.

>you are working on a server that is headless

Why do you need to run the browser on the server? I can't think of a case where you would want to use a text browser there instead of a regular browser on your actual machine.

>so I had to boot into a system via a USB stick, chroot into the system, then install the uninstalled desktop package.

It's disappointing that you had to manually fix it compared to it just downloading a fix automatically like what would happen on Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, etc.
by hexbin010 | 2026-01-13 10:48:41+00:00
From your link:

> “The meds are highly effective for a majority of patients but there is still a percentage who don’t lose a clinically significant percentage of body weight. Everyone’s physiology is a little different,” – Veronica Johnson MD, an obesity medicine specialist in Chicago

> He explained that for someone who is overweight, shedding even a small amount of weight can improve heart and kidney function

And, the Guardian is exactly the kind of outlet that would publish "woe is me, it doesn't work for me" stories, as it's their target audience.

It's a tool - it can be a force multiplier if you also make other changes. If you just take the jab and do no exercise and continue eating bad, weight loss will be minimal.

Yes it's been oversold – just like almost any other product/service that ha an advertising budget. That doesn't mean it "doesn't work" for everyone.

Does your car 'not work' because you can't attract those extremely attractive ladies in the street which are often featured in the adverts?
by psychoslave | 2026-01-13 10:50:38+00:00
Probably variable is initially coming out of an ellipsis for something like "(possibly) variable* value stored in some dedicated memory location". Probably holder, keeper* or warden would make a more accurate terms using ordinary parlance. Or to be very on point and dropping the ordinariness, there is mneme[1] or mnemon[2].

Good luck propagating ideas, as sound as it might, to a general audience once something is established in some jargon.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mneme
[2] https://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/mnemon
by poszlem | 2026-01-13 10:51:23+00:00
I think this mixes up the 'how' with the 'why.' FOSS isn't the end in itself, I think that for most people it's just the tool that lets us work together, share what we've built, and get something back from the community.

If this is suddenly being weaponised against us, I don't see how that's not a problem.
by rando77 | 2026-01-13 10:51:49+00:00
I've been thinking about using LLMs to help triage security vulnerabilities.

If done in an auditably unlogged environment (with a limited output to the company, just saying escalate) it might also encourage people to share vulns they are worried about putting online.

Does that make sense from your experience?

[1] https://github.com/eb4890/echoresponse/blob/main/design.md
by goku12 | 2026-01-13 10:52:13+00:00
The really scary part is in how your reply differs from the comment you're replying to. So, Here are the relevant parts from your parent comment:

> And the US casually talks of invading other nations.

> Otherwise this merger of the government and corporate power could be a dark future.

And here is the relevant part from your reply:

> What happens if US actually attacks baddies and wins the war?

I get frequently downvoted for saying this. But I'm going to say it anyway on behalf of the 96% of human beings who are not US citizens. To the Americans, the "baddies" are anyone who America chooses to pick a fight with. But the rest of the world has a very different perspective.

I won't say that everything that the US did in the past was evil. But if you throw a dart at the world map, you're more than likely to hit a place that's a memorial to the US mission of 'spreading freedom and democracy around the world'. Except, those places (and sometimes the whole world, like in case of Venezuela) would have been better off without the US brand of freedom. There are far too many examples of this, but I'll just mention two that are currently relevant. Check out the history of Venezuela and Iran to see why they became 'rogue' nations to begin with.

The US preoccupation with wars and immensely destructive weapons has always been a serious security concern for the rest of the world. US warhawks and neocolonial corporations were always on the prowl for resource-rich nations to 'liberate', especially oil rich nations. But the current regime is off the charts and doesn't even bother to hide their greedy motives. Their predecessors at least cared about their international image enough to make something up as excuses (Iraq, anyone?). Now you have a government of racial supremacists and a bunch of billionaire tech bros who drool about technofascism! Why wouldn't the world be worried?

But honestly, I'm not as worried as the others are. They think they're above every law. And that includes even the laws of physics and economics.
by apothegm | 2026-01-13 10:54:53+00:00
I do prefer chat, but I already have people to chat with.

It doesn’t replace face to face interactions, but video calls are the worst of all worlds. You’re on the spot and can’t even move around in your chair and you lose the sense of connection from actual eye contact.

But also, I’m just not looking for more people to interact with in the first place.
by p0w3n3d | 2026-01-13 10:55:03+00:00
I find it quite nice to put a CD into CD player. That's something my kids were deprived of, but I'm trying to re-teach them.

I would say that feeling that we have everything at the tip of our fingers does not make our brains value it for some reason, but I'm not sure if it's true, and can't support it with any arguments others than anecdotical.
by liampulles | 2026-01-13 10:55:51+00:00
My dad was in a similar situation a couple months ago. He has been very obese for decades, which started after he stopped smoking. He does not eat fast food, has long ago cut out sugar and he favors whole foods in his diet. It was getting a shock blood sugar result and diabetes warning that pushed him to take Mounjaro (similar to Ozempic) that actually cut his weight down.

In his own words, what he noted as being the main contributor to his obesity was the moment to moment urges to just eat something (I empathize with that a lot - I'm also obese). Losing that desire made sticking to good portions and fixed calorie intake windows much easier. He has lost ~50kg of weight in the last year and now walks and bicycles around everywhere for hours every day.

I wish you luck!
by watwut | 2026-01-13 10:55:59+00:00
I mean, it looks like ordered Hegseth both war crimes and murders and America is not even at war. He is a guy who thinks bullying is being masculine and killing people due to feeling bad is how you prove that men more rational then women.

So, it makes 100% sense that he teams up with nazi billionaire to give him secrets in exchange of allowing him to more effectively mistreat people.
Show HN: HyTags – HTML as a Programming Language
by lassejansen | 2026-01-13 10:57:02+00:00
This is hyTags, a programming language embedded in HTML for building interactive web UIs.

It started as a way to write full-stack web apps in Swift without a separate frontend, but grew into a small language with control flow, functions, and async handling via HTML tags. The result is backend language-agnostic and can be generated from any server that can produce HTML via templates or DSLs.