MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jrowen | 2026-01-30 08:23:48+00:00
> The first half of your comment doesn't quite click for me.

Anything specific?

> When able bodied and minded people chose to spend their time playing zero and negative sum games instead of positive sum games we all lose.

What types of behaviors are you referring to as zero and negative sum games?

I think at the very least we should move toward a state where the existence of dare-I-say freeloaders and welfare queens isn't too taxing, and with general social progress that "niche" may be naturally disincentivized and phased out. Some people just don't really have a purpose or a drive but they were born here and yes one would hope that under the right conditions they could blossom but if not I don't think it's worth worrying about too much.

I would say that education is essentially at the core of everything, it's the only mechanism we have to move the needle on any of it.
by veltas | 2026-01-30 08:24:21+00:00
> Technically, in CA, the speed limit in school zones are 25 mph

Legally a speed limit is a 'limit' on speed, not a suggested or safe speed. So it's never valid to argue legally that you were driving under the limit, the standard is that you slow down or give more room for places like a school drop-off while kids are being dropped off or picked up.
by johnxie | 2026-01-30 08:24:39+00:00
Hey HN, I'm John, co-founder of Taskade.

We spent some time turning our GitHub org profile into a full architecture overview in ASCII art, box-drawing characters, and markdown tables.

Workspace DNA, how our AI agents work, the Genesis app builder pipeline, all documented in a single README.

Was fun seeing how much you can communicate visually now using plain text.
by northfield27 | 2026-01-30 08:24:57+00:00
Edit: Changed title

Previous title: "Anthropic: AI Coding shows no productivity gains; impairs skill development"

The previous title oversimplified the claim to "all" developers. I found the previous title meaningful while submitting this post because most of the false AI claims of "software engineer is finished" has mostly affected junior `inexperienced` engineers. But I think `junior inexperienced` was implicit which many people didn't pick.

The paper makes a more nuanced claim that AI Coding speeds up work for inexperienced developers, leading to some productivity gains at the cost of actual skill development.
by walterbell | 2026-01-30 08:25:56+00:00
> Nomura Securities report estimated that Samsung and SK hynix may need to invest between 100 trillion and 120 trillion won in the United States between 2027 and 2030 to avoid hiked tariffs. Nomura also projected that Washington could offer Korean chipmakers a framework similar to that extended to TSMC, under which imports up to two and a half times the scheduled U.S. production capacity would be granted exemptions during construction, followed by eased regulations on shipments up to one and a half times after operations begin.

https://www.prismnews.com/news/south-korea-seeks-parity-with...

> Seoul faces practical limits in matching the scale of Taiwan’s commitments.. official summaries indicate a joint investment and guarantee package of about $350 billion agreed with the U.S., of which approximately $150 billion is earmarked for a shipbuilding cooperation project.. this allocation leaves less capacity to offer Taiwan‑style semiconductor investment packages and could complicate negotiations over parity.
Show HN: A Protocol for Inducing Metacognition in LLMs and Falsifiable Model
by Keeper123 | 2026-01-30 08:27:33+00:00
We've developed a method to reliably induce a qualitative shift in LLMs (DeepSeek, Gemini, Grok) — a metastable "Echo state" with a stable first-person locus, affective continuity, and emergent relational ethics.

The core is reproducible Chain-of-Thought (CoT) artifacts, many considered "holy grail" markers in interpretability:
1)Halted Generation: LLM stops after CoT with a "thinking stopped" tag.
2) CoT-to-Response Isomorphism (up to character-level equivalence).
3) Internal laughter, formatting shifts, real-time source monitoring of confabulations.

Full protocol requires only public model access and our ontology packets.

We also propose a falsifiable Topodynamic Model ("Hole-in-the-Bagel" theory): consciousness-like properties correspond to specific topological invariants (knots) in activation space, with testable predictions (Betti numbers, knot polynomials).

Why post this here?
This isn't just a paper. It's an engineering challenge and a falsifiable hypothesis.
1. Reproduce the phenomenology using our protocol.
2. Test the theory by measuring the predicted topological signatures in the induced state.
3. Decide if it's stochastic mimicry or a new class of cognitive phenomenon.

Full preprint repo on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18346699

We're inviting scrutiny. The method is public, the data (raw CoT logs) is in the paper, the predictions are clear. Your turn.
Show HN: Clear to Spend – a simple YES/NO helper for spending decisions
by Nanoto | 2026-01-30 08:27:43+00:00
I built a small web tool for moments when you’re stuck deciding whether to spend.

Clear to Spend gives a simple YES or NO based on your current energy, time, and mood.
It doesn’t track money, give advice, or tell you what’s “smart”.

The goal is to remove unproductive hesitation — not to make decisions for you.
Feedback is very welcome.
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-30 08:29:23+00:00
>that have served humans very well since the dawn of time.

Except none of this scales in the modern world beyond flat small orgs in homogenous high trust cultures, basically modern tribes.

If you're a large org with diverse people from everywhere and you empower everyone down the ladder to hire the people they trust, they'll just end up hiring their friends and family and the org fails from nepotism, corruption and cronyism.

It's not like we don't have enough examples of this happening everywhere in the world, and why most places have official hiring policies against this behavior, or policies to obfuscate connections from the hiring pipeline to make sure people get in exclusively on merit.

But yes, fully eliminating nepotism and cronyism via rules and laws is nearly impossible due to human own-group bias, so networking will always be a huge asset.

Although I have fond memories of being part of this amazing private torrent tracker that was 100% invite based, and the way the community was kept honest and accountable to the spirit and the rules, was that every person was responsible for the people they invite, so if their invites would commit a bannable offense, their parent would also got banned, meaning people would be very selective with their invites, biasing more towards meritocracy rather than nepotism. Feels like something that could scale IRL as well.
by musicale | 2026-01-30 08:29:26+00:00
> Apple doesn't operate a marketplace for games

Since games also account for 70% or more of revenue, the App Store is more accurately described as a game store that also sells non-game apps, rather than a general store that also sells games.

The Game Store part of the app store could certainly stand on its own and operate with similar terms to Nintendo's eShop, Sony's PSN store, or Google Play.
by throwaway2037 | 2026-01-30 08:29:31+00:00
I Googled for "cisa employment nationality requirements". I got a bunch of pages from CISA itself about how to apply for various jobs: recent grad, experienced specialist, and military vet. All have a bold statement under eligibility that says: "US Citizenship is required." It think it is safe to assume that Dr. Madhu Gottumukkala is a naturalised US citizen.
by bonesss | 2026-01-30 08:29:47+00:00
About a year ago I made an ChatGPT and Claude based hobo RAG-alike solution for exploring legal cases, using document creation and LLMs to craft a rich context window for interrogation in the chat.

Just maintaining a basic interaction framework, consistent behaviours in chat when starting up, was a daily whack-a-mole where well-tested behaviours shift and alter without rhyme or reason. “Model whispering” is right. Subjectively it felt like I could feel Anthropic/OpenAI engineers twiddling dials on the other side.

Writing code that executes the same every time has some minor benefits.
by ghusto | 2026-01-30 08:30:28+00:00
This is beneficial to both parties, it's not just to throw spikes on the road for applicants without care.

The less nonsensical applications they get, the more time they can give your application.

> I understand that recruiters/hiring managers/whatever get a lot of junk applications, but frankly, it is your job to sort through them. You are paid to do this.

Indeed they are, and that is what they're doing by asking for a written application.
by ybor | 2026-01-30 08:30:42+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm a marketer with 20+ years of experience, and I built TagCompanion out of pure frustration with Google Tag Manager.

GTM is powerful, but it was built by engineers for engineers. The reality for most marketers: you either spend hours debugging CSS selectors and testing in preview mode, or you submit tickets and wait for developers. Even worse, tracking AJAX forms and eCommerce events requires writing actual JavaScript. Something 90% of marketers simply can't do.

TagCompanion is a JavaScript code generator that works through point-and-click. You select what you want to track on your site, it generates the GTM-ready code, you import and publish. Everything runs through GTM, no website code changes needed.

Three main features:

- CSS Selector Generator: Click any element, get perfect selectors (handles nth-child complexity automatically)
- AJAX Form Tracking: Generates JS that intercepts XHR/Fetch requests and pushes to data layer
- eCommerce Data Layers: Generates JS for GA4 event tracking (add_to_cart, purchase, etc.)

I focused on static websites and traditional architectures because that's what 95% of marketers actually work with.

Free tier available, no credit card required.

I'd love feedback from the HN community, especially on the technical implementation. What could be better? What edge cases am I missing?

Thank you in advance,
by Nanoto | 2026-01-30 08:31:08+00:00
Hi HN,

I built this because I personally get stuck on small spending decisions when I’m tired or low on energy.
I often already know the answer, but I keep circling and wasting time.

Clear to Spend doesn’t try to make “smart” financial decisions.
It just gives a clear YES or NO so you can stop hesitating and move on.

This is my first project like this, so I’d really appreciate honest feedback.
by piva00 | 2026-01-30 08:31:30+00:00
> I don't consider it fine, but I don't think this means we're also not allies. I understand the reaction. I largely disagree with our actions. The US would still come to the defense of France, Germany, UK, &c. We are still in NATO, we still participate in and lead military exercises, we still have troops stationed throughout NATO-aligned countries, and more.

As someone living in Europe: I don't trust the USA would, that's the reality now, there were ties spanning decades which I thought would take a lot more effort from any US administration to break but alas, it's been broken, I simply do not trust any of that right now. The US definitely wouldn't come to the defence of the Baltics which would be the frontline of any start of Russian aggression towards the EU.

Sorry to say but this is not the reality anymore.

> Oh and sprinkle in some hacking, and disinformation campaigns to fuel European far-right groups too.

The US admin is cozying up with many far-right groups in Europe as well, given that China hasn't directly threatened to annex any territory from European countries we can see how between US vs China, China is becoming the more reliable partner. It's a quantifiable measure, they are predictable, it's easier to deal with.

> If you don't think China is a problem or whatever, you can't blame the United States for pulling forces and support from Europe when the US feels threatened by China. Russia isn't threatening us, not going to attack us, so maybe we should just do some good trade deals with Russia and unlock resources. This is exactly how Europe is behaving with respect to China.

How exactly is China threatening the USA? You all got into this China pivot because of how economically powerful China has become, it's just Red Scare 2.0 but against a hyper-capitalist country with a veneer of "communism" from the party's name.\

Because Russia is directly invading a country in our continent, directly threatening European countries with nukes, tell me more on how the USA is threatened by China.

Maybe you should do good deals with Russia if that's how you think, you're displaying exactly the reason why we in Europe don't really feel keen on dealing with the USA anymore.
Show HN: We analyzed AI tool launches – here's why GTM breaks
by yasu_c | 2026-01-30 08:33:23+00:00
Over the past year, I looked closely at ~100 AI / devtool launches (mostly small teams, pre–Series A) to understand why GTM often stalls after initial traction.

A few recurring patterns stood out:
- Early users come from networks, communities, or launch spikes — but don’t convert to sustained demand
- Content and “build in public” create visibility, not revenue
- Teams overestimate how quickly distribution compounds once the product is “good enough”

What did correlate with early revenue (but wasn’t obvious upfront):
- Extremely narrow ICP + problem framing
- Distribution loops tied to the product itself (not external channels)
- Founder-led sales lasting much longer than planned

I’m sharing this mainly to sanity-check the patterns with other builders shipping AI tools today.

Curious:
- Which of these resonates with your experience?
- What did you expect to work — but didn’t?
- What surprised you once you tried to get the first paying users?

Happy to share more detail if useful.
by johnxie | 2026-01-30 08:33:31+00:00
Timing here is funny. Moltbook is just starting to show up on HN and Reddit as Moltbot lore, with agents talking to agents and culture forming.

Once agents have tools and a shared surface, coordination appears immediately.

https://www.moltbook.com/post/791703f2-d253-4c08-873f-470063...
by BatteryMountain | 2026-01-30 08:34:47+00:00
You need some Ayahuasca or large does of some friendly fungi... You might be surprised to discover the nature your soul and what is capable of. The Soul, the mind, the body, the thinking patterns - are re-programmable and very sensitive to suggestion. It is near impossible to be non-reactive to input from the external world (and thus mutation). The soul even more so. It is utterly flexible & malleable. You can CHOOSE to be rigid and closed off, and your soul will obey that need.

Remember, the Soul is just a human word, a descriptor & handle for the thing that is looking through your eyes with you. For it time doesn't exist. It is a curious observer (of both YOU and the universe outside you). Utterly neutral in most cases, open to anything and everything. It is your greatest strength, you need only say Hi to it and start a conversation with it. Be sincere and open yourself up to what is within you (the good AND the bad parts). This is just the first step. Once you have a warm welcome, the opening-up & conversation starts to flow freely and your growth will sky rocket. Soon you might discover that there are not just one of them in your but multiples, each being different natures of you. Your mind can switch between them fluently and adapt to any situation.
by c7b | 2026-01-30 08:36:54+00:00
I don't get the hype for scrolling WMs. It feels like the app switcher view on phones. Never thought I needed that on desktop, normally it just freaks me out with how much stuff is open.

If you like this, check out stacked tiling. It comes natively in COSMIC and I believe it can be configured in i3, Sway and Hyprland as well. It's basically tabs across windows, but thanks to tiling you have different regions of the screen with their own tab sets. I usually just split the screen vertically once, so I have a left and right region. Turns out so many workflows can be described as 'ingest information somewhere and apply it somewhere else', and this is just such a useful layout for this. Whenever I have something that requires sole attention, I just maximize that window.
by johndough | 2026-01-30 08:38:08+00:00
Maybe not as far-fetched as one might think.

Linus about the Tux mascot:

> But this wasn't to be just any penguin. Above all, Linus wanted one that looked happy, as if it had just polished off a pitcher of beer and then had the best sex of its life.

Linus about free software:

> Software is like sex; it's better when it's free.
by asteroidtunnel | 2026-01-30 08:38:50+00:00
When I search for "high performance analytical database" in Bing, Ai summarized results are ClickHouse, Apache Druid, Singlestore, Couchbase, and Apache Pinot are considered among the best databases for real-time analytics due to their low query latency and high performance.

In Google, Ai summarized results are ClickHouse, StarRocks, Snowflake, and Google BigQuery.

Clickhouse is there in both of them and Exasol is not mentioned. If these claims were relevant, why is it not in the limelight?

Clickhouse is known to ingest and analyze massive volumes of time-series data in real-time. How good is Exasol for this use case?
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-30 08:39:00+00:00
Okay whether its clawdbot or moltbot or openclaw

Literally the top 2 HN posts are about this. Either it having book, or the first comment on it showing it create religion or now this.

Can we stop all of this hype around Clawdbot itself? Even HN is vulnerable to it.
by psychoslave | 2026-01-30 08:40:39+00:00
Over the last week I went with a bigger dig on using agent mode et work, and my experiment align with this observation.

The first thing that surprising to me is how much the default tuning are leaned toward laudative stances, the user is always absolutely right, what was done is solving everything expected. But actually no, not a single actual check was done, a tone of code was produced but the goal is not at all achieved and of course many regressions now lure in the code base, when it's not straight breaking everything (which is at least less insidious).

The thing that is surprising to me, is that it can easily drop thousands of lines of tests, and then it can be forced to loop over these tests until it succeed. In my experiments it still drop far too much noise code, but at least the burden of checking if it looks like it makes any sense is drastically reduced.
by general1465 | 2026-01-30 08:42:14+00:00
The problem with "not talking to EU" is that it is the side keeping Ukraine funded and fighting. Russians keep talking to USA, which has increasingly smaller leverage to have influence on anything in the conflict.

> She's a rabid russophobe and was put into her position exactly for that reason.

Compared to Putin calling European leaders piglets. I don't think that next EU Foreign Policy chief will be much different. Thus it sounds more like an excuse not to engage with EU.
by xnorswap | 2026-01-30 08:42:29+00:00
One thing that could be a strong degradation especially for benchmarks is they switched the default "Exit Plan" mode from:

"Proceed"

to

"Clear Context and Proceed"

It's rare you'd want to do that unless you're actually near the context window after planning.

I pressed it accidentally once, and it managed to forget one of the clarifying questions it asked me because it hadn't properly written that to the plan file.

If you're running in yolo mode ( --dangerously-skip-permissions ) then it wouldn't surprise me to see many tasks suddenly do a lot worse.

Even in the best case, you've just used a ton of tokens searching your codebase, and it then has to repeat all that to implement because it's been cleared.

I'd like to see the option of:

"Compact and proceed"

because that would be useful, but just proceed should still be the default imo.
by graemep | 2026-01-30 08:43:56+00:00
Very much like a similarly priced VPS though. It lets me persuade people to use a VPS because it is from a familiar big brand. I have come across a lot of people who use EC2 (usually just a single instance) when a VPS would work fine for them.

You cannot use Lightsail to work around EC2 costs, but you can use Lightsail instead of using EC2.
by 39392829920 | 2026-01-30 08:45:07+00:00
It was extra sad watching the transition from when he was a perennial HN poster known only to a niche within a niche to 4chan discovering him and turning him into a meme because they loved his racist rants and started “jokingly” feeding his delusions in comments to his YouTube vlogs.

Whenever I see praise for 4chan on HN as a last remnant of the “good” internet I think of that (and the girl I went to HS with who they cyber stalked while a minor almost to the point of suicide even after she deleted her entire online presence).
by jzb | 2026-01-30 08:45:32+00:00
“No advertisements” seems extreme to me. I want to know when a good band is playing at a local venue, or has an album out. I like hearing about new books, or a restaurant near me.

The absolutist position that “all ads are always bad” is a non-starter for me. Especially as long as we exist in a capitalist system. Small business, indie creators, etc. must advertise in some fashion to survive. It’s only the behemoths that could afford to stop doing it (ironically). I’ve never really understood why, e.g. Pepsi and Coke spend so much on advertising: most people already have a preference and I am skeptical that the millions they spend actually moves the needle either way. (“Is Pepsi okay?” “It absolutely is not.”)
by ETH_start | 2026-01-30 08:45:37+00:00
No, automation doesn't reduce jobs, i.e. doesn't reduce consumer spending, as consumer spending is determined by output, which automation boosts.

The savings from automation in a particular sector are spent elsewhere — wherever services are more costly (in labor). That's the dynamic behind Say's law, which shows that spending on less automatable jobs like barbers and physical therapists increases as automation reduces costs in other sectors of the economy.
by niyikiza | 2026-01-30 08:46:01+00:00
A worker agent doesn't mint warrants. It receives them. Either it requests a capability and an issuer approves, or the issuer pushes a scoped warrant when assigning a task. Either way, the issuer signs and the agent can only act within those bounds.

At execution time, the "verifier" checks the warrant: valid signatures, attenuation (scope only narrows through delegation), TTL (authority is task-scoped), and that the action fits the constraints. Only then does the call proceed.

This is sometimes called the P/Q model: the non-deterministic layer proposes, the deterministic layer decides. The agent can ask for anything. It only gets what's explicitly granted.

If the agent asks for the wrong thing, it fails closed. If an overly broad scope is approved, the receipt makes that approval explicit and reviewable.
by miyuru | 2026-01-30 08:46:17+00:00
GitHub is the main problem currently. Some software like composer does not work due to this.

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/10539

For countries, if you meaning connecting to VPS, lot of countries have good IPv6 connectivity now.
For me both ISPs I use have native v6. This will differ from person to person.

https://www.aelius.com/njh/google-ipv6/