MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mschuster91 | 2026-01-27 01:03:18+00:00
> But I would have absolutely no expectation of them getting actively involved in the tracker sleuthing of petty theft.

That's actually what I would love to see cops doing! Petty theft is among the most annoying nuisances there is, particularly for tourists. And I'd classify petty thefts in tourist areas, public transport and similar hotspots as aggravated cases as well.

Honestly, it doesn't take that much work. Have the mayor announce that police will now take stolen-property claims seriously and immediately follow up on reports, maybe run the occasional sting operation themselves... and the thieves will go away somewhere else all on their own.

Yes, you might run the risk of only catching some piss poor drug addicts instead of the brokers accepting and selling on the stolen merchandise - but when the brokers can't find anyone willing to risk a mandatory year in prison for petty theft, they will have to close up shop as well.
by tptacek | 2026-01-27 01:03:25+00:00
Important added context here: the list went from US, Cayman, Singapore, Canada to US, Cayman, Singapore. It's not as if YC was generally investing in non-US based entities before. Canada was an exception and isn't anymore.

We're a global employer, and just employing people in different jurisdictions is kind of a nightmare (totally worth it, though). I can't imagine how much of a pain it must be to try to manage investment stakes in foreign corporations.
by techblueberry | 2026-01-27 01:05:10+00:00
I'm not saying that he or any of these AI thought leaders are lying, but the economics of building advanced AI are such that he _needs_ people to believe this is true to be successful. If they can't get people to keep believing that LLM's will be this wildly powerful, they can't get the money they need to try and make advanced AI this wildly powerful.
by alephnerd | 2026-01-27 01:05:10+00:00
I can't speak for YC, but legal overhead is an operational pain.

It's safe to assume YC will continue to fund Canadian founders, but they'll now require them to incorporate in Delaware, Singapore, or the Cayman Islands - none of which is significantly difficult for a founder. You could literally make a US Corp via Firstbase in a couple of minutes [0]

[0] - https://www.firstbase.io/partnership/y-combinator
by komali2 | 2026-01-27 01:05:32+00:00
I think that's very exciting for you, because imo it's very rarely we encounter truly challenging problems like this.

I understand that you prefer to make up your mind about street artists, but I can assure you as someone that used to hold the same opinion, that opinion is held from a place of unfamiliarity with the culture and the people in it. It was very enlightening for me to step out of my SF tech circle into the street art scene and talk to very, very different people. You may be different but I personally find it very important to challenge my thinking by talking to very different kinds of people.
by trollbridge | 2026-01-27 01:05:51+00:00
It's a weird change though. Canada is one of the most investor-friendly and startup-friendly jurisdictions I can think of. If you want to grow quickly, you need to be thinking about how to get an office set up in places like Calgary (lots of machine-learning talent there), Toronto, and Vancouver, and when you do so you'll find the government incentives and lower wages lead to you spending about half on total compensation versus a typical American startup hub.

I worked at a place that expanded into Calgary and picked up a bunch of ML engineers with oil-and-gas backgrounds (who were eager for something outside the energy sector) and the government picked up half of the payroll tab for several years. There is also, of course, no health insurance benefits to worry about.
by lkey | 2026-01-27 01:06:06+00:00
sighs pulling out this quote again:

"Luddites were not opposed to the use of machines per se (many were skilled operators in the textile industry); they attacked manufacturers who were trying to >>circumvent standard labor practices<< of the time."

Luckily, the brave government's troops, show trials and making '"machine breaking" (i.e. industrial sabotage) a capital crime"' solved the crisis of these awful, entitled workers' demands once and for all and across all time.

I'm sure that any uppity workers in our present age can also be taught the appropriate lessons.
by Telaneo | 2026-01-27 01:06:24+00:00
> you understand the problem with what you just said right? Seems your bias is overriding your ability to look at the evidence.

There is no actual evidence for anything. Nobody is running actual surveys of any scale, since that wouldn't benefit anyone. There is only circumstantial evidence, and that continues to point to Windows growing worse.

> From my quick investigation on user satisfaction surveys of windows 11, it pretty much seems positive

And from mine it doesn't, and I have no reason to trust whatever Microslop says.

> it pretty much seems positive, but they all seem pretty limited in scope

Hmm. I wonder why.

> I'm guessing most people are mostly indifferent and don't mind windows 11 and just use it.

I'm guessing most people bailed on computers and started using phones and tablets instead, since the user experience continued to be hostile. That's what I'm seeing from non-gamers in non-work settings.

And if most people are indifferent, but a minority fucking hate it compared to what came before, that's not good. That's bad. That's a regression from what came before. The indifferent remain indifferent, while the angry multiply.

> I would guess this is what Microsoft sees also.

I would guess they don't want to see. It's not in their financial interest to see. They have telemetry out the fucking arse, but don't care to use it to improve the user experience. They have better things to use that for.
by TheRoque | 2026-01-27 01:07:12+00:00
> The only way to accomplish this at scale is to build something that is legit better and let the market decide. Anything else is just principled wishful thinking.

Classic neo-liberalism BS (pardon my french). Markets are not some natural law written in the atoms, it's a human construction, and we shape it the way we want. Countries can create or destroy markets just with laws, you put a tax here, you put a legal requirement there. That's for example the reason that big american tech companies have been kicked out of South Korea:

- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/08/south-korea-go...

- https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2023/12/05/an-update-on-twitch-in-...

Sure, if there are 2 competing companies that play with the exact set of rules, the mArKeT wIlL deCiDe, but that would be a really stupid decision from any government to not shape the rules in its favor. Europe is slowly waking up to this reality, better late than never I guess.

Did the "market decide" that Nvidia chips won't be shipped to China ? Did "the market decide" to put tariffs to get benefits from other countries ? Did "the market decide" to put embargo to Cuba, Iran, Venezuela.. ?

Hearing that regulations and laws is "wishful thinking" makes no sense at all. It's more the opposite, it's the only way to shape the markets the way you want to.
by ShakataGaNai | 2026-01-27 01:08:20+00:00
AirTags have always been "meh" about "finding" anything in motion. And by that I mean the up close "locate this device". I ASSUME it has to do with the fact that its trying to create a multiple point triangulation using only a single device (eg the phone you are on).

Even an airtag moving a little bit, will give you warnings in find my.
by trollbridge | 2026-01-27 01:08:49+00:00
It just doesn't make sense. "There's this new big thing coming that does all your work for you." "Okay?" "So it's imperative that you learn how to do this new thing or you'll never be able to work again."

In reality, the skills needed to use AI effectively are the same ones needed to be a competent programmer in the era of Visual Basic, or CASE, or in the era of COBOL, or any of the other things promised to eliminate junior programmers.

The idea of an engineer "not capable with AI" yet who can somehow hand-write code also baffles me. Do these people actually exist?
by jasonfarnon | 2026-01-27 01:09:07+00:00
But at some point don't you lose the direct memory, and only retain remembering it? Eg I don't know that I directly remember the fight I got in with the neighbor kid at age 4, but I can definitely remember thinking about it for a something we had to write in school around age 8. Or at least I could when I was in high school. That's when I thought about the time I had to write that essay when I was 8. At some point all I remember are the like the layers of subsequent thoughts about the original event, and I don't really access the original event any more, or it's just a stub.
by koe123 | 2026-01-27 01:09:18+00:00
> But now that most code is written by LLMs

Am I in the Truman show? I don’t think AI has generated even 1% of the code that I run in prod, nor does anyone I respect. Heavily inspired by AI examples, heavily assisted by AI during research sure. Who are these devs that are seeing such great success vibecoding? Vibecoding in prod seems irresponsible at best
by awesome_dude | 2026-01-27 01:09:41+00:00
I've been in teams like this - people who are lower on the chain of power get run in circles as they change to appease one, then change to appease another then change to go back to appease the first again.

Then, going through their code, they make excuses about their code not meeting the same standards they demand.

As the other responder recommends, a style guide is ideal, you can even create an unofficial one and point to it when conflicting style requests are made
by dminik | 2026-01-27 01:09:45+00:00
According to the twitter analytics you can see on the post (at least on nitter), the original

> We built a browser with GPT-5.2 in Cursor. It ran uninterrupted for one week.

tweet was seen by over 6 million people.

The follow up tweet which includes the link to the actual details was seen by less than 200000.

That's just how Twitter engagement works and these companies know it. Over 6 million people were fed bullshit. I'm sorry, but it's actually a great example of CEOs over hyping their products.
by AndrewKemendo | 2026-01-27 01:09:59+00:00
Nobody is complaining about trolls being told they are assholes.

The fact that this is an article at all is the question.

Why is trolling noteworthy? The only answer is if there are people who can’t differentiate between trolling and reality.

So that’s the answer, people are yet again, too dumb to live in reality and not engage with the trolls.

Your reaction “feeds the trolls” like do yall not know why they are called trolls

This article did more for trolling than anything else, the streisand effect is the goal
by derp-mcgee | 2026-01-27 01:10:03+00:00
Im running qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q8_0 @ 32k context. Comes out to 36gb and Im splitting it between a 3090 24gb and a 4060ti 16gb (ollama put 20gb on the 3090 and 13.5 on the 4060ti) , runs great tbh. Ollama running in ubuntu server and Im running claude code from my windows desktop pc.
by class3shock | 2026-01-27 01:10:07+00:00
You do but when it comes to certain critical areas that require very large investments in R&D to get going (space launch, 5th/6th gen fighters, nuclear deterrents, etc.) there is a significant lack of home grown capacity/capability. That's more what I was referring to in the above, you guys have plenty of comparable stuff in many areas.

Let me tell you, you folks weren't the only ones caught off guard by the current American political leadership. I think Europe is still betting this is more theater than anything and things will move back towards baseline in the long run, which I think is a fair bet, but I do wish they would hedge that bet a bit more than they are currently.
by crystal_revenge | 2026-01-27 01:10:11+00:00
> As someone in his 20s I can't imagine what I'll see in the next 80 years!

All of these rapid technological advancements are a function of tremendous increases in energy available .

We passed peak conventional oil years ago and only see proven reserves increase because we redefined 'shale oil' as included under proven reserves. But shale oil has much lower EROEI than traditional oil. We can already see geopolitics heating up before our eyes to capture and control what remains, but to continue to advance society we need more energy.

On top of this we are just now starting to feel the impacts of the effects of the byproducts of this energy usage: climate change. What we are experiencing now is only a slight hint of what is to come in recent years.

In the next 80 years we'll very likely see an incredible decline in technology as certain complex systems no longer have adequate energy to maintain. The climate will continue to worsen and in more extreme ways, while geopolitics melts down in a struggle for the last bits of oil and fossil fuels (interestingly these combine in the fight for Greenland because a soon-to-be ice free arctic holds lots of oil, not enough to advance civilization the way it has been going, but enough to keep yours running if you can keep everyone else away).

I sincerely suspect within the next 80 years we will see the full collapse of industrial civilization and very possibly the near or complete extinction of the human race. You can see the early stages of this beginning to unfold right now.
Show HN: Pikai – Making Cursor/Claude Code work better across multiple repos
by LuqmaanKhan | 2026-01-27 01:10:40+00:00
I built Pikai after using Cursor and Claude Code heavily in real production systems. These tools work well within a single repository, but once you’re working across multiple repos, microservices, and shared libraries, they start making changes with incomplete assumptions about the rest of the system.

Pikai provides a way to share relevant code and architectural context across repositories so tools like Cursor and Claude Code have a more accurate view of the system they’re modifying. The goal is fewer incorrect edits when changes span services.

This is an early beta shaped by day-to-day production use. I’m looking for developers working in multi-repo or microservice environments who want to try it and give direct feedback.

Happy to answer technical questions about how it works.
by komali2 | 2026-01-27 01:10:53+00:00
> It really undermines the sense of community

The people in these communities feel the opposite of you, especially since a lot of street art is murals capturing some local culture e.g. see Clarion Alley in San Francisco, a lot of very explicit messages of community.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/AAWmH3aq51MWN1M88
by OmegaArchitekt | 2026-01-27 01:11:59+00:00
Dla jasności: Google Issue Tracker #472998538 dokumentuje stan krytycznej awarii i anomalie przesunięcia fazowego. Opublikowany tutaj framework Ω-Kernel jest technicznym rozwiązaniem ograniczającym tę entropię przy użyciu synchronizacji Adlera/Kuramoto. Google ma zapis problemu; ja mam zapis rozwiązania. To repozytorium jest moim niezmiennym roszczeniem do tej własności intelektualnej.
by Telaneo | 2026-01-27 01:12:05+00:00
The fragmentation ain't great, but it's mostly just a hump at the start. Once you pick something, it's usually fine, and if it isn't, you learn that fairly quickly and switch to something else that is fine. After having tried one thing, you will have learned what needs you have and can rule out alternatives a lot more easily. Still, it would be nice to have one obvious solid choice, and then alternatives if you have specific needs.

I'd imagine most people are waiting for SteamOS to become that one obvious solid choice, but Valve probably don't want to do that without Nvidia support not being the way it is today (and they probably don't want to do support either way, so they might never do it either way).
by cheeze | 2026-01-27 01:12:13+00:00
FAANG here (service oriented arch, distributed systems) and id say probably 20+ percent of code written on my team is by an LLM. it's great for frontends, works well with test generation, or following an existing paradigm.

I think a lot of people wrote it off initially as it was low quality. But gemini 3 pro or sonnet 4.5 saves me a ton of time at work these days.

Perfect? Absolutely not. Good enough for tons of run of the mill boilerplate tasks? Without question.
by Terr_ | 2026-01-27 01:12:33+00:00
Hold up, why it changed matters to parent-poster's argument. Consider the difference between:

1. "The technology's capability was inferior to what humans were creating, therefore the quality of the output dropped."

2. "The costs of employing humans created a floor to the price/quality you could offer and still make a profit. Without the human labor, a lower-quality product became possible to offer."

The first is a question of engineering, the second is a question of economic choice and market-fit.
by troyvit | 2026-01-27 01:12:35+00:00
On a whim I gave my 14 year old an old System76 laptop with ElementaryOS on it then sent her back to her Mom's house on the other end of the world. Then she switched schools and ended up requiring a laptop instead of an iPad to do her work. I about crapped my pants but she's been using that laptop almost problem-free for two months now (two glitches with Firefox that she got around). She even figured out how to install Sober so she can play Roblox. While that probably says as much about my parenting as Linux's progress I have to say, I'm pretty impressed.
by fox4587 | 2026-01-27 01:12:44+00:00
Did you see the fish on pavement? Looks like it took great skill to get the shadows right. I've got goosebumps looking at them!:
https://stfu.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/sf-graffiti/138...

It's unfortunate that the city threatens to fine the owner of the property:
https://stfu.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/sf-graffiti/138...
by komali2 | 2026-01-27 01:13:23+00:00
> It's borderline demonic

Demons aren't real so I don't understand what this means.

> tasteless disgusting mess

Do you disagree that taste is subjective, then? It seems what's happening here is that you're very, very confident that you are an authority on what's beautiful, despite several people telling you they find beauty in what you abhor.
by jameshilliard | 2026-01-27 01:15:27+00:00
> But these numbers are simply not credible.

Why do you think that?

> Remember the governing ideology of the US and Israel sees the continued existence of Iran as an existential threat.

Obviously Israel would see the Iranian regime as an existential threat when they quite openly advocate for the destruction of Israel[0] and have a nuclear weapons program.

> Their aims may align with the protestors temporarily but I think a permanently fractured, Syria type situation is much more palatable to them than a rapid transition to a more democratic system that leaves the country intact.

Israel would almost certainly prefer a stable intact Iran with normalized relations.

> There is no guarantee a post-islamic Iran would step into line, and it would remain a regional power that would be much harder to justify continued sanctions against.

Israel and the US don't want to destroy Iran, they want Iran to stop funding terrorists and stop threatening regional stability.

> A clean change of government with domestic US pressure to lift sanctions would be their nightmare scenario.

Why should the US lift sanctions while Iran continues to fund terrorists and attempts to develop nuclear weapons?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_Israel_in_Irani...
by root_axis | 2026-01-27 01:15:32+00:00
> If it can autonomously write software and author CAD files then it can autonomously design robots.

It can't because the LLM can't test its own design. Unlike with code, the LLM can't incrementally crawl its way to a solution guided by unit tests and error messages. In the real world, there are material costs for trial and error, and there is no CLI that allows every aspect of the universe to be directly manipulated with perfect precision.
by jasonfarnon | 2026-01-27 01:15:34+00:00
I guess the question would be how easy it is to fake this evidence. I don't know this tech. Could I throw my airtags in someone's bag and just take that to the police station and say look here on my phone, that's where my bags are, and then it's a he said/she said? Then the airtags aren't really adding anything to just your word "they took my bag".
by lsh0 | 2026-01-27 01:16:19+00:00
> LLMs still can't write Gleam/Janet/CommonLisp/etc

hoho - I did a 20/80 human/claude project over the long weekend using Janet: https://git.sr.ht/~lsh-0/pj/tree (dead simple Lerna replacement)

... but I otherwise agree with the sentiment. Go code is so simple it scrubs any creative fingerprints anyway. The Clojure/Janet/scheme code I've seen it writing isn't _great_ but it gets the job done quickly and correct enough for me to return to it later and golf it some.
by lebuffon | 2026-01-27 01:16:37+00:00
I was on a course at Sony in San Mateo in the 1980s and they had a 36" prototype television in the corner. We all asked for it to be turned on. We were told by the instructor that he was not allowed to turn it on because the 40,000V anode voltage generated too many X-rays at the front of the picture tube.

:-))))
by ggm | 2026-01-27 01:17:24+00:00
it's complicated. obviously, specific instances like yours happen, and suck. But, there's a well known effect seen on HN: people tend to give partial, and usually one sided summaries of what went on. we've seen this repeatedly with e.g. google lockdowns, where a specific thing like "I broke their terms and conditions explicitly when I did <x>" is not communicated well in the rant here.

Some mods are lazy.

Some mods are on a power trip.

Some mods are not singular, and you may be receiving outcomes from internal distributed mis-communication.

Most mods are severely overloaded.
by alephnerd | 2026-01-27 01:17:48+00:00
We in the VC, PE, and Growth Equity space invest using other people's money.

The people who have capital in Canada are uninterested in funding Canadian GPs - they mostly end up choosing American asset classes because of high returns.

Institutional investors like the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan and CDQP tend to target asset classes outside of Canada due to their returns requirements being in the double digits range.
by Marsymars | 2026-01-27 01:17:55+00:00
I’m mostly not running Windows, but I dislike web apps, so GSuite is out. I could use Numbers, but I need cloud file storage that works on Android, and Office 365 vs Google One are roughly the same price for the storage I need, so I don’t see any particular reason to put the effort in to migrate from Excel/OneDrive to Numbers/Google Drive.
by krisoft | 2026-01-27 01:18:31+00:00
> pilots are trained to keep their nose gear on the centerline

Funily I was learning to fly at a grass strip and we were told to vary our positioning left and right on the runway for exactly this reason. In practice it meant that as we were taxiing to the runway my instructor would tell me “Today we are taking off left/right of center to avoid damaging the grass too much.”
by ModernMech | 2026-01-27 01:19:09+00:00
Many Americans understand "Trump's immigration policy" to be "deport murderers, rapists, and drug dealers".

But what's happening now is that Trump pulled a bait and switch -- when he said "deport criminals" the crime he had in mind was that of being an undocumented immigrant, whereas everyone else had in their head when he said criminal he meant "murders, rapist, gangbanger, drug dealers". Not "people going through the asylum process and my roofer".

For a lot of people, they just want to see immigrants come in the "right way", but for the Trump administration they don't want to see any immigrants who are not white.

So when people say they support Trump's immigration policies, you have to really dissect what they mean by that. Which policies? The ones he campaigned on, the ones they wish he campaigned on and are ascribing to him regardless, or the ones actually being implemented?