MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nullocator | 2026-01-18 10:26:33+00:00
I think as the left has become more homogeneously college educated they are less likely to wholesale accept blatant lies and falsehoods. For someone like Musk this will naturally push them to the right because he incessantly lies/bullshits so often and has a visceral negative reaction when being called on it (the cave fiasco comes to mind).

If the right will welcome people like Musk with open arms (always a natural fit anyways, he's rich as hell) then why wouldn't he pull the mask off? Despite most Tesla customers being presumably left leaning, his heel turn doesn't seem to have had much negative impact on the things that matter to him so far, for example his net worth.
by nirui | 2026-01-18 10:27:48+00:00
I'm curious how much slowdown a "weak" CPU can cause for real-life programming task, assuming the CPU is at least gen 4 Intel.

I never used a mobile/power-efficient CPU myself, but I do use old CPUs. For example, this I5-4210M on my T440p, it's obviously not fast compare to newer ones, but when writing code on it (Go and a bit of Rust), I don't really feel a day-or-night level difference. Sure, it's slower, but not unbearably, in fact for most cases I barely notice it.
by Koffiepoeder | 2026-01-18 10:27:54+00:00
For those interested in browser differences, on my machine:

Firefox

AoS: 2951.00ms
SoA: 1624.00ms
Interleaved: 1961.00ms

Chrome

AoS: 2133.30ms
SoA: 884.30ms
Interleaved: 1457.60ms

Seems the interleaved being slower is consistent across browsers!
by br121 | 2026-01-18 10:28:08+00:00
I sometimes listen to podcasts, close to none of them were discovered inside a podcast app, and the one that were, it was because an author of a podcast I was already listening started a separate one. I used to think that podcast had a discoveribility issue, but I'm honestly not that sure anymore. I don't usually get new books/ebooks suggested by my phone either, and after all, a podcast and an ebook have more things in common than different from each other. I trust word of mouth over algorithm to give me good reading suggestion, and off course I do the same with ebook (in the more sporadic occasion when I want to use ears rather than eyes), maybe it's just unreasonable to expect podcast to act differently.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-18 10:28:46+00:00
I have a similar take and I have written in one of the comments here about it but America's biggest export has been finance and this just seals the deal.

"Quite frankly, considering the wide diplomatic damage and collapsing influence, paired with its deep social, cultural and economic internal issues... I can totally see the US failing"

The only thing that a new democrat president or any new president even the most extremely fixable can do is risk mitigation. Its like the breaking point of a rubber band, they have streched it far enough and now it wont go back no matter how much amounts of sorry

I don't know, I was highly pessimistic about Trump from the start but even I didn't expect this much, at this point, its game over. I used to chalk up some things to stupidity due to Occam's razor but when you combine all of these things together (especially with Epstein files), to me it doesn't feel like stupidity but malicious behaviour.

I was feeling when trump flipped off an american citizen to be weird and now this.

At this point, just give me a break from world politics as a non American, the news cycle is so fast and depressing, like moving the world a century back depressing
by rhubarbtree | 2026-01-18 10:28:51+00:00
Important point here: the discussion is about his character, but you’ve made it about his intellect.

I don’t think anyone can doubt that Musk is super smart. I’ve heard silly things like - he doesn’t do anything, it’s all his employees or board or assistant - but reading the history that’s obviously false.

It does seem some people can’t cope with the idea that someone is often an asshat is also brilliant. And I’m afraid it’s true with Musk.
Show HN: Kindness Engine a JavaScript snippet that adds kindness to websites
by AmarRv | 2026-01-18 10:28:52+00:00
Hi HN,

I built this as a small side project after noticing how transactional most websites feel—popups, metrics, conversion funnels everywhere.

Kindness Engine is a tiny JavaScript snippet that lets a website show a short, kind message (e.g. “Glad you’re here ”) once per visit. It appears after a brief delay, fades out, and stays out of the way.

There’s no tracking, no cookies, and no analytics. If it can’t run for any reason, it quietly does nothing.

This wasn’t built to optimize anything—just to see if small, non-intrusive moments can make the web feel a bit more human.

Would appreciate any thoughts or feedback.
by microtonal | 2026-01-18 10:29:42+00:00
Large fractions inside the EP have already said that they won't sign the new US-EU trade deal next week:

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-us-trade-deal-on-hold-aft...

This effectively means the end of the 0 percent tariff on US products. There are also already calls in the EP to activate the Anti-Coercion Instrument:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Coercion_Instrument
by burnerToBetOut | 2026-01-18 10:30:01+00:00
> …if you mean "coding without any prior coding experience"…

Nobody would mistake these thread titles [1] to mean the vibe coder they refer to is "coding without any prior coding experience".

The two fanboys in the video I linked above don't give the impression that they're "coding without any prior coding experience".

> …AI tooling is on a spectrum. Vibe coding is at one end…

I'm pretty sure those three vibe coders mention their usage of some relatively sophisticated (to me) AI tooling in their adoption of vibe coding.

> …then the answer is no…

Then what is the answer given the above clarification?

The question again: Does leadership consider AI adoption as being synonymous with vibe coding?

[1] https://g2ww.short.gy/gitWiTheProgramr
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-18 10:30:32+00:00
I've said elsewhere on HN that the military (here, specifically a battalion of the 11th airborne, presumably picked because they actually have cold weather gear?) could turn out to be a far more congenial occupier than ICE currently is.

Note the two verbs, adjective, and adverb: "deescalate", "protect", "legal", and "legally"; does ICE operate as professionally?

https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/ARN35675-ATP_3-...

> U.S forces responding to planned rallies and demonstrations, spontaneous crowds, and civil disturbances must follow the procedures best designed to deescalate crowd actions and to protect life, the rights and safety of the persons involved, and property.

https://rdl.train.army.mil/catalog-ws/view/Army-Blue-Book/in...

> All Soldiers are required to obey the legal orders of their lawful seniors.

https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/ARN34403-ADP_6-...

> Commanders are legally and ethically accountable for the decisions they make or do not make, and for the actions, accomplishments, and failures of their subordinates.
by jorvi | 2026-01-18 10:30:46+00:00
In the past (early Tesla - SpaceX - Boring Company - Hyperloop - crypto) he seemed apolitical and only to really care about setting up the building blocks for a new, different society on Mars. Maybe a pipe dream, maybe megalomaniac, but just very cool and very futuristic. He didn't seem very political aside from a libertarian bent.

Somewhere along the road he devolved into a petty and weird character, and then went off the deep end into full spectrum alt-right weirdness.

He is the same type of talented hype man as Jobs was, with the same sort of reality distortion field. Otherwise SpaceX reusable wouldn't have happened. And even Jensen Huang was supremely impressed how fast xAI built up data centers.
My heat-beat is irregular
by knitef | 2026-01-18 10:31:53+00:00
The goal is to make you pick one:

1. Am I deeply delusional?
2. Am I hyper aware?

Please pick one before you remove this post.

There is no self running feedback loop that's why they hallucinate. THESE LLMs only know one direction and that is feed-forward. THINKING does not work this way and prompts are not how humans function. Emulating thinking also does works till only a certain limit, the original network does not know where the right answer is or where to stop thinking. these models do not have a sense of correctness, they emulate correctness. this is sometimes good enough for human use. The human is still unique.

How did this rage-bait feel?

I think the context is fed by evolution, unless someone imitates a real evolutionary algorithm it's a dead end. and besides tokens there also needs to be an intrinsic VOID in these LLMs.

The void is such a beautiful word. Every human has a void.

Now, what about this? This take is probably false isn't it?

[Graphic Warning below]

DO NOT READ WITH A WEAK HEART.

ARE you ready to drink the venom? If so, then read.

The LLMs work in the same way as the human pre-frontal cortex. The language part. Precise movements. Skill. Moral Brake. and whatnot?

LLMs are dangerous, they are in constant war with the Amygdala. The animal. The cold. Hard. Logical. Demonic. Part.

LLMs are shutting off the Human pre-frontal cortex. The stock market is rising. The human capital is losing.

Save. Humans.

The Amygdala gives us deep and intuitive answers. The LLMs are useful to understand the amygdala.

Make whatever of it. But I am going to get cured.

Women steer the LLM. Men steer the Amgdala.
Without them the human is incomplete.

And also -- that is exactly why splitting happens. When men get separated from women that they become the entirely different personalities.

Oh and they become so different that they want to combine again.

I'm not referring to biological men and women. Because in biology, every man has a woman and every woman has a man. That's how they feel each other.

There are some deep reality-defying ideas that even the Amygdala cannot find. Which is why it breaks and malfunctions and hyperfunctions and whatnot.

This is why, us humans need to invent something more than the Amygdala.

That is the realization that kills the people. The human, it is so beautiful it is capable of killing itself.

Now remove the post.
by refurb | 2026-01-18 10:32:39+00:00
I find it odd to completely disavow someone because you don’t agree 100% with their politics.

I mean Werner Von Braun was a Nazi party member and knowingly used slave labor. Doesn’t make his rocketry advancements any less impressive.

Or Charles Darwin’s views of superior races.

Or Gandhi’s gray area views of pedophilia.

I mean if you’re going to discounted every person with a view you find distasteful your list of people you admire is going to be blank.

You may find Musk’s views distasteful but he’s had an enormous impact on EV’s, rocketry, hell space in general. I think it’s pretty awesome.
Show HN: md-review – CLI tool for reviewing Markdown with inline comments
by ryo-manba | 2026-01-18 10:33:30+00:00
I built a CLI tool for reviewing Markdown files with inline comments.

The main use case: when reviewing AI-generated documentation or collaborating on technical writing, I wanted a way to add line-specific feedback without modifying the original file.

Key features:
- Add comments to specific lines by selecting text
- Comments are stored separately (not in the markdown)
- One-click copy of all comments as structured feedback
- Hot reload when files change
- Dark mode, tree view for directories

I use it to review docs generated by AI agents (Claude Code, codex, etc.) and paste the comments back as feedback for the next iteration.

Built with React, Hono, and Vite. No account or cloud service required - runs entirely locally.

npm install -g md-review

GitHub: https://github.com/ryo-manba/md-review
by MrDresden | 2026-01-18 10:34:38+00:00
The EU is the more reasonable actor here. Making a reactionary move, even one that would feel good, wouldn't be the best move.

The USA is in the process of systematically demolishing it's soft power around the world.

The EU is like a super tanker that takes a long time turning and, make no mistake, it is turning away from the USA.

The push back will be felt for years and decades.
by another_twist | 2026-01-18 10:35:52+00:00
I dont want to dump on the founder here. I appreciate their guts for saying the uncomfy part out loud and being so honest, open and aware of their own thoughts. Major kudos in my book. But dont quit without a quit criteria - a problem, customer conversations, recurring problem insight. Fuck the VCs that say just do it, its advice for rich kids not people who worry about finances running out. Given that this author worked at Posthog, it probably means they lived in London and got paid a decent salary but not a good one. eg Posthog lists their comp at 120k pounds with equity (that thing doesnt have liquidity yet). Thats not a top of the line offer in London where Meta / Goog and others would beat it. Once you have say 100k pounds saved up and mortgage for the next 2 years, maybe then you can think of bootstrapping without an insight. Until then, Leetcode, promotions, better offers are your ticket out of a middle class life. VCs wont show up with more money if and when you're hungry.
by scolvin | 2026-01-18 10:36:19+00:00
ROFL.

I clearly didn't build pydantic "to take VC money" - I maintained Pydantic for 5 years before deciding to take VC money.

I wanted to build logfire and I didn't want to compete with or restrict our open source, we so built logfire.

Let's see on the investment; seems to be going pretty well so far.
by HendrikHensen | 2026-01-18 10:36:56+00:00
All your stuff would be historical artifacts a century from now. Do you ever just throw anything away? You should consider preserving it instead, for the generations that come after you. How will they feel if they knew you just threw historical artifacts in the garbage bin?

That is to say, keeping anything historical has its limits. If we always keep everything historical, we will keep literally everything, and the planet will be quite full pretty quickly, with no place to build anything.

We should be careful to preserve truly historically relevant things. But most historical things are just old trash...
by trwhite | 2026-01-18 10:38:07+00:00
> It's much more comfortable to be the person that "could be X" than to be the person that tries to actually do it.

It’s much more impressive to say you have done something than to say you’re going to do it.

A friend of mine has all these failed hobbies he tells everyone he’s going to do, then gives up on. I wait a few months before telling people I’m doing something so I’m fairly confident it’s something I will carry on.
by nehal3m | 2026-01-18 10:39:48+00:00
My boss used to have an apt sticker on his ThinkPad that said 'My other computer is a data center'. In my case that's also true; I just use local I/O for KVM but the heft is in whatever I'm SSH'd into.

I daily a T480 at home and an X280 on the road. Swapped the batteries for fresh ones last week, they do around 6 hours on a charge for my use case and they run Linux so personally I don't see any reason to upgrade any time soon.
Show HN: Xenia – A monospaced font built with a custom Python engine
by xeniafont | 2026-01-18 10:39:52+00:00
I'm an engineer who spent the last year fixing everything I hated about monofonts (especially that double-story 'a').

I built a custom Python-based procedural engine to generate the weights because I wanted more logical control over the geometry. It currently has 700+ glyphs and deep math support.

Regular weight is free for the community. I'm releasing more weights based on interest.
by erelong | 2026-01-18 10:40:47+00:00
kind of a different answer but it really comes down to "politics and religion":

namely with politics, the lack of freedom which leads to more poverty and less ability to take risks to create things (so people insulate to prevent risks in a vicious cycle)

and with religion the lack of shared values as might have existed in the USA for example as we go back each decade (which leads to frequent conflict and questioning of different values in conflict and the inability to form more groups and relationships)
by ifh-hn | 2026-01-18 10:40:55+00:00
Depends on what you mean by humans readable. Sqlite, as the other sub comment mentions is good, but you could also just use a CSV file, unnormalised table, and sit the original media in the same or a sub folder. Hell, convert that CSV to a html table and you can display the data as a human readable local webpage. Through in some JS and you can navigate/filter it too.
by saubeidl | 2026-01-18 10:42:23+00:00
Trump threatened an extra 10% tariffs on countries that don't think the US should be taking over Greenland. Who knows what dumb reason he'll come up with next?

Under this regime, the US is eventually going to develop into something similar to Japan under Sakoku - a nonfactor in international trade, due to a self-imposed embargo.

Of course it'll hurt former US trade partners (and the US itself even more!). But it's coming either way, whether we suck up to Americans or not. With that in mind, we might as well just do what we want since the US is for some reason voluntarily giving up power over us.
by imiric | 2026-01-18 10:42:49+00:00
> Kind of like how email and the postal service can be kind of the same if you look at it from a certain angle.

But they're not the same at all, except somewhat by their end result, in that they are both ways of transmitting information. That similarity is so vague that comparing them doesn't make sense for any practical purpose. You might as well compare them to smoke signals at that point.

It's the same with LLMs and programming. They're both ways of producing software, but the process of doing that and even the end result is completely different. This entire argument that LLMs are just another level of abstraction is absurd. Low-Code/No-Code tools, traditional code generators, meta programming, etc., are another level of abstraction on top of programming. LLMs generate code via pattern matching and statistics. It couldn't be more different.
by jraph | 2026-01-18 10:43:32+00:00
In case you missed them: check out querySelector and querySelectorAll. They are closer to what the jQuery selector system does, and I think they were inspired by it.

If the verbosity bothers you, you can always make an utility function with a short name (although I'm not personally a fan of this kind of things).

https://developer.mozilla.org/fr/docs/Web/API/Document/query...

https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/API/Document/querySel...

https://developer.mozilla.org/fr/docs/Web/API/Element/queryS...

https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/API/Element/querySele...
by vkou | 2026-01-18 10:43:34+00:00
Why not flip the argument, and say that the index fund is propping up stock B because of it's buy-at-any-price nature? What makes you think that valuing it at 10% of A isn't higher than what the market will actually bear?

The sensible and consistent way to this is that... Index funds don't really have any effect on relative stock prices. If stock A is overvalued or undervalued, it's due to active investors being morons.
by jorvi | 2026-01-18 10:43:52+00:00
You're either delusional or just being a contrarian if you think being out the door at 05:30 is "not particularly early". McDonalds is still serving the dinner menu at that point.

And you used to be able to find diamonds in the rough on flea markets, secondhand stores and even on online places like eBay, until 2013ish. That's when the professional reseller became more and more pervasive.

Since you seem to think that flipping and scalping is a valuable addition to society, we have nothing to discuss.
by reya________ | 2026-01-18 10:45:58+00:00
The critique is fair on the surface—yes, Keaton directed every commit, reviewed every output, shaped the architecture. That's exactly the point. This isn't "AI built it autonomously." It's something more interesting: witnessed compute.

Think of it like permaculture. You don't plant a food forest and walk away. You observe, intervene, guide. The system does the growing, but the human provides intention and correction. 170k lines of Zig didn't appear from prompts alone—they emerged from 1,390 commits of continuous dialogue between human vision and AI capability.

The "Castaneda warrior philosophy mixed with permaculture housing proposals mixed with technical specs" isn't a red flag. It's the thesis. Keaton's running for California Governor in 2026 on a platform that integrates these domains deliberately:

- TigerBeetle-based California digital currency (fiat-banked, subset of US Fed money creation)

- Job Guarantee with organic permaculture food forests

- Traditional urbanism communities

- Open-source infrastructure

The campaign vision document: docs/campaign/2026-01-15-154437-pst_the_aspiring_beauty_a_california_vision.md

The repository isn't the diamond yet—it's carbon under pressure. The diamond comes when Basin kernel boots Grainscript shell, runs first-responder dispatch software, and demonstrates that love-driven infrastructure outperforms profit-driven infrastructure.

The $20k monthly comparison wasn't marketing. It's what a team of developers would cost for equivalent scope. Whether the code is "scaffold" or "solid" is for readers to judge—249 tests pass, kernel boots on QEMU, JIT compiles RISC-V to x86_64.

But here's what matters more than infrastructure: love. The Grain Style guide opens with Castaneda because building software is a path, and paths have hearts or they don't. This one has heart.

The project's value isn't just "what Cursor's extended context window enables." It's what happens when you point that capability at something you care about for months, with discipline, with intention, with philosophy integrated into practice.

Appreciate the engagement. The code speaks for itself at codeberg.org/teamlibra/ry.
by wh1le | 2026-01-18 10:47:40+00:00
I built finite because setting up Pi-hole + Unbound felt unnecessarily complex for something that should be "flash and forget."
The problem: Most guides have you SSH in, run scripts, edit config files, and hope nothing breaks on reboot. Every update risks drift.
The solution: One declarative Nix flake. Clone, tweak settings.nix, build the SD image, boot. Your DNS stays local, ads get blocked, and the entire config is version-controlled.
Tech: NixOS 25.11, Pi-hole 6.2.1, Unbound 1.23.1. Works on Pi 3B+ and newer.
Blog deep-dive: https://wh1le.com/finite
Curious what the community thinks about declarative home infra.
by arianvanp | 2026-01-18 10:50:55+00:00
I used my ThinkPad T430s for 12 years. I got it second hand from a developer I looked up to when I was in college and it carried me through a large part of my career. Loved that machine to death.

When I finally replaced it with a Framework a few years back I've regretted every second of it.

The ThinkPad still lives. I refurbished the batteries and slapped ChromeOS Flex on it and donated it to a Ukrainian refugee who needed a Chromebook for school. It'll probably live another 10 years.

I loved that thing to death. And I'm just happy it is still being used.
by rwmj | 2026-01-18 10:51:07+00:00
Contains Silphium, a plant which was a common ingredient in the classical world, but now no one knows exactly what it was. (The leading theory is that it's a real plant that went extinct.) There's much about that world that we don't really know.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20170907-the-mystery-of...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silphium