MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by w10-1 | 2026-01-22 17:50:36+00:00
Other comments mention difficulty, cost, conditions, etc.

Also, competitive agreements: of the big players like Apple, Microsoft, Facebook/Meta, Amazon, etc., only Google is in the ad business. But it has credible threats of digging into their businesses - GCP, Android, (not to mention software licenses and competitive access to e.g., Samsung), etc. So they agree to cede the ad world to Google, to keep Google out of their businesses.

The injunctions cannot be effective. Google ads are essentially a tax at a fine scale that rational people chose when it didn't change site behavior. But then Google ads changed the nature of the web itself, converting every snippet of information into an opportunity to monetize. Neither would change with a public search.org, and injunctions to license ad-free indexes won't change site behavior or publishers' self-interest in selling access to their content to Google alone.

Google knows the injunctions are unworkable and ultimately ineffective. The only question is what price they have to pay to the Trump judiciary to counter them.
by array_key_first | 2026-01-22 17:50:45+00:00
Just to expand on this idea with more historical context: part of the reason agriculture is regulated like it is in the US is because it used to be much more deregulated. And then speculation and profiteering in agriculture in the 1920s contributed to the great depression and caused the dust bowl. Then, it became a national food security issue. The New Deal is where a lot of the regulation and subsidies originate, but we didn't just do it for kicks. We have, actually, tried the alternative, and it was a disaster.
by fwip | 2026-01-22 17:50:45+00:00
I got a recommended video in Youtube just the other day, where a bunch of users made NYC in Minecraft at a 1:1 scale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZouSJWXFBPk

Granted, it was a team effort, but that's a lot more laborious than a pixel-art view.
by anonzzzies | 2026-01-22 17:50:53+00:00
It is fine if it is not lying but so often you ask how are you and get the flowers and butterflies response but when you sit 10 min more they start explaining how miserable they are: as a Dutchman, I do tend to ask why they said how great and excellent they were just minutes ago. And no, it is not just something you do out of politeness: if you just canned response to one thing, how do I know you don't have canned responses to many more things which are in fact lies at this point in time? I don't want to talk with Zendesk, I want to chat with someone I just met in the pub.
by ferguess_k | 2026-01-22 17:51:05+00:00
I don't know why you get downvoted. This article doesn't provide much details. I'd expect at least a series of posts for the comparison.

Let me be blunt: any article posted here should provide more information, or more in-depth analysis than Wikipedia. Since I'm not a compiler person, I might be too harsh to suggest that the article does not provide more in-depth analysis (because it is definitely shorter than it) than the Wikipedia article -- I apologize if that's the case.
by Proziam | 2026-01-22 17:51:18+00:00
Fraud implies intent, either intent to deceive or intentionally negligent.

If you're taking public funds (directly or otherwise) with the intent to either:

A) Do little to no real work, and pass of the work of an AI as being your own work, or

B) Knowingly publish falsified data

Then you are, without a single shred of doubt, in criminal fraud territory. Further, the structural damage you inflict when you do the above is orders of magnitude greater than the initial fraud itself. That is a matter for civil courts ("Our company based on development on X fraudulent data, it cost us Y in damages").

Whether or not charges are pressed is going to happen way after all the internal reviews have demonstrated the person being charged has gone beyond the "honest mistake" threshold. It's like Walmart not bothering to call the cops until you're into felony territory, there's no point in doing so.
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-01-22 17:51:22+00:00
They've got a graph of vacancy rates going back to 2023. But I'm wondering about longer term. Does anyone have data going back to, say, the 1980s?

(Why the 1980s? Because I go back that far. I have some sense of what the business cycle was doing during those times. I'd like to know if this is really historically unusual, or just a blip, possibly a COVID-related one.)
by azan_ | 2026-01-22 17:51:52+00:00
The problem is that reproducing something is really, really hard! Even if something doesn't reproduce in one experiment, it might be due to slight changes in some variables we don't even think about. There are some ways to circumvent it (e.g. team that's being reproduced cooperating with reproducing team and agreeing on what variables are important for the experiemnt and which are not), but it's really hard. The solutions you propose will unfortunately incentivize bad reproductions and we might reject theories that are actually true because of that. I think that one of the best way to fight the crisis is to actually improve quality of science - articles where authors reject to share their data should be automatically rejected. We should also move towards requiring preregistration with strict protocols for almost all studies.
by zdragnar | 2026-01-22 17:52:17+00:00
Industrial buildings tend to be much easier to renovate, because they're filled with big open spaces.

Commercial office buildings are optimized for seating space, so you get a lot more interior walls already built and often shorter ceilings then industrial spaces. That's a lot more renovation to add in all the necessary plumbing for showers and toilets and often laundry in every unit.

New building codes mean that everything has to be done right to today's standards, not yesteryear's, so it becomes cheaper to demolish and rebuild than retrofit, especially if the building has a lot of interior space that doesn't have access to exterior walls for mandated windows.
by mschuster91 | 2026-01-22 17:52:31+00:00
> Donbas is mostly wheat fields

... which nevertheless are very important worldwide. Early in the war, there was a lot of effort to make sure grain exports could run smoothly because otherwise Africa would have been in serious trouble.

> The global response would not be the same, even remotely.

We're already at a stage where Trump doesn't give a single fuck about NATO and some of his advisors would rather have it disbanded yesterday in favor of isolationism, or even outright march into territory to annex it. I have absolutely zero faith that Trump would intervene on Taiwan's favor - an intervention does not fit into Trump's and especially Miller's world view wherein the world is to be divided into areas of influence for the super powers to act with impunity.

> And what would China get from it? A tiny island of rubble and an ego boost, while losing enormous global favor?

Never underestimate nationalist idiocy. Putin invaded Ukraine because of his dream to restore "Great Russia", it is entirely possible that the CCP wants the same for the ego of their leadership to be the ones "bringing the lost areas home". They already did so with Hongkong, and not reacting to China violating the treaty with the UK was the biggest mistake the Western nations have ever done.
by alfalfasprout | 2026-01-22 17:52:42+00:00
I'm writing a blog post on this very thing actually.

Outsourcing learning and thinking is a double edged sword that only comes back to bite you later. It's tempting: you might already know a codebase well and you set agents loose on it. You know enough to evaluate the output well. This is the experience that has impressed a few vocal OSS authors like antirez for example.

Similarly, you see success stories with folks making something greenfield. Since you've delegated decision making to the LLM and gotten a decent looking result it seems like you never needed to know the details at all.

The trap is that your knowledge of why you've built what you've built the way it is atrophies very quickly. Then suddenly you become fully dependent on AI to make any further headway. And you're piling slop on top of slop.
by velcrovan | 2026-01-22 17:52:54+00:00
Transparency comes much more from repeatable results than manual process. You run the same stack of 1,000 ballots through 2 optical scanners, they will give the same result unless one is busted (in which case do it with 3 or 4). This takes very little time and is reliable. Do it by hand and you are guaranteed to get a different result almost every time, and it will take forever.
by iboshoer | 2026-01-22 17:53:09+00:00
Founder of Clerk Chat here, I work with RCS for Business day in and day out and know the protocol inside and out.

A lot of the criticism in this thread is fair from a client / handset perspective, but it’s important to separate consumer RCS from RCS for Business. On the business side, RCS is actually a very powerful, well-designed protocol with massive potential when used the way it was intended: verified senders, conversational flows, and rich interactions at scale.

At Clerk Chat, we’re leading the way on conversational RCS, not just blasting messages, but enabling real two-way conversations that feel native, secure, and useful. Yes, Google is the gatekeeper as well as carriers today, but that’s also what enables trust, verification, and deliverability at global scale. When you work with the ecosystem instead of against it, it’s surprisingly effective.

We’re investing heavily in RCS because we believe it’s the natural evolution of business messaging beyond SMS. For companies that want to engage users where they already are with rich UI, fast responses, and verified identity, RCS is hard to beat.

If you’re interested in exploring what’s actually possible with RCS for Business today, feel free to reach out. Happy to enable folks and share real-world learnings.

Igor, Founder @ Clerk Chat
by ottah | 2026-01-22 17:53:19+00:00
I find that people who are the most opposed to diffusion models are usually the most ignorant about the technology. AI art doesn't begin and end with Midjourney and OpenAI. If you don't know what a controlnet, comfyui node, lcm, or lora is, then I'm not sure you really have anything valuable to lend to the conversation. There's a massive world of tools and techniques out there, and I just cannot fathom why people can't be bothered to look beyond the most readily available knowledge and be so insistent in their moral correctness.
by ted_dunning | 2026-01-22 17:53:22+00:00
Broadcasting is a great thing, but the author of this article missed the most important example of a language that handles higher order funcions, as well as broadcast and array operations as well.

That language is Julia.

The approach in the article layers an inefficient interpreter in a slow interpreted language. The result is going to be terse (and nearly unreadable) but glacially slow. Julia, otoh, is a high performance language.

An example of this performance with higher order functions is this implementation of cubic splines in 7 lines of readable code. The idea is to implement interpolation between points and functions and then define first, second and third order splines in that many lines of code. This isn't quite as terse as it would be in APL, but it has the virtue of compiling into code that runs as fast as a native C implementation.

```
import Base.+, Base., Base./

+(f, g) = x -> f(x) + g(x)
(t::Number, g) = x -> t * g(x)

interpolate(a, b) = t -> (1.0-t)a + tb
b1(p1, p2) = interpolate(p1, p2)
b2(p1, p2, p3) = interpolate(b1(p1, p2), b1(p2, p3))
b3(p1, p2, p3, p4) = interpolate(b2(p1, p2, p3), b2(p2, p3, p4))
```

See https://discourse.julialang.org/t/seven-lines-of-julia-examp...
by JangoSteve | 2026-01-22 17:54:07+00:00
Anecdotally, I've noticed an uptick in my eBay feeds recently of items being immediately relisted after having supposedly sold. This has always happened occasionally, but within the past couple weeks, I've noticed it happening for like 25% of my watched items. I'm wondering if bots are buying things for which the owners are then canceling when it comes time to pay.

I've also had to return a few items for which eBay's AI-generated description was wrong in ways that couldn't be verified in the product's images. I can only imagine the increase in canceled/returned orders from all the different AI features and bots.
Show HN: Lima-devbox – Claude skill for creating a VM dev sandbox on your Mac
by mberg | 2026-01-22 17:54:19+00:00
As I've increasingly pursued orchestrated agentic coding - I needed a safe way to run Claude Code in YOLO mode on my mac.

I looked at a lot of options including Docker but then came across Lima (Linux for Mac) and this great guide by Chris Hager on how create a dev sandbox for your mac using Lima. This creates an Ubuntu VM, mapped to your dev directory with RW access, port and SSH forwarding, Mise support for language installs and automatic code agent installs.

https://www.metachris.dev/2025/11/sandbox-your-ai-dev-tools-...

I followed his guide. Got it working on my own then thought I'd try packaging it up in a claude skill to share. And holy yep works great!

To setup just go to /plugin -> marketplace in Claude Code and add

recodelabs/lima-devbox

Then install the skill and ask Claude to create you a VM. Claude will ask you some questions and then proceed to build you your VM.

Side note - this really hits home for me that Agent Skills is really all you need. Instead of writing a guide or wrapping this up in a app/TUI just bake any knowledge or process you want to automate and share into a skill. Definitely feels like the future.

Would love your feedback and PRs if you have ideas on how to improve.

https://github.com/recodelabs/lima-devbox

Thanks! Matt
by aylmao | 2026-01-22 17:54:22+00:00
At least in SF, last I checked, it's as expensive, or sometimes more expensive, as Uber/Lyft. It'll serve the same sector of the population as those apps already do, so it's unlikely to actually reduce parking needs.

There's an argument that more competition could reduce prices and/or wait times for consumers, but there's also the argument it'll take away gig jobs, which are already somewhat of a "backup net" for people who need money but can't find a formal job for some other reason.

I don't live in SF anymore. When I did and now that I occasionally visit, I personally don't see any meaningful difference from when only Lyft and Uber operated there.
by simoncion | 2026-01-22 17:54:24+00:00
> Everyone hates Walter at the end.

Hate? Nah. He's tragic.

Does he do evil, despicable things? Absolutely. Are most of those things done because of jealousy, rage, or a failure to bother to understand the context in which he's operating? Definitely. But, like, unless you've never been jealous, blindingly angry, foolish, or far too hasty, you can see where (assuming turning yourself in to the cops isn't an option [0]) you might end up making similar choices. [1]

Is he prideful, wrathful, did he do many evil things? Yes, yes, and yes. It's not unreasonable to call his (in)actions -on balance- monstrous. But he's also relatable/understandable in a -er- "Greek tragedy" sort of way. He's a blunderer and a wrecker who probably deserved far worse than he got, but I find it dreadfully difficult to hate him when I consider the entire story.

[0] Which it pretty much immediately absolutely was not. Even at the start, all the money he made would have been forfeit and (because the USian "Drug War" is batshit crazy) prosecutors probably would have found a way to take the house and cars, leaving his family way worse off than if he'd done nothing at all.

[1] Having said that, there are so many points of decision that the odds that you'd walk his path exactly are approximately zero.
by mrweasel | 2026-01-22 17:54:27+00:00
Arguing that European business should be allowed to pollute the environment more, because that's what China does is a little backwards I think. In my mind we should enforce the rules on a per product basis, rather than per country. Where a product is made shouldn't matter, a product should be taxed based on the pollution it has generated, shipping included.

Want to sell to the EU: Workers can only work e.g. 40 hours a week, must have five weeks of vacation per year and here are the tax rates for various types of pollution.
by _aavaa_ | 2026-01-22 17:54:42+00:00
> So you do not use busses,taxi or road travel? do you fly all the time? Do you have stuff delivered by truck/cars or only by air? What about shopping? do you think the items you buy or the things needed to make those items use roads ? In a perfect extremist capitalist word there would be a road tax included in the products and services so you would still pay the text for the roads.

"Yet you participate in society, curious!"

> In a perfect extremist capitalist word there would be a road tax included

There's nothing capitalist about that. Driving around and polluting the environment is currently done for free. That should be taxed. Highways and streets are by and large (in NA) used as a publicly subsidized private good at the expense of everyone else. Subsidized to the detriment of all because it pulls funding away from public transit that would move more people, prioritizing convenience of drivers over the safety of everyone else (to say nothing of it creating dead spaces with nothing but parking as far as the eye can see).
by notahacker | 2026-01-22 17:54:54+00:00
Feel like I'm repeating myself here, but they're moving less than half of them, which is going to have a negligible impact on a state with sufficient ASAT ability to create a massive mess with the many thousands of Starlink satellites operating in their original plane. Not even like the satellites in the lowest orbit are insulated from the effects of debris cascades set off in higher reaches of LEO either

Plenty of operational reasons to want a large fraction of your constellation in a slightly lower orbit, none of them involve "terrorist states"
by eigenspace | 2026-01-22 17:55:06+00:00
It can be rather misleading to to talk about renewable energy generation versus total energy usage.

Most uses of fossil fuels are very inefficient. For instance, when you step on the accelerator in your car, only around 30% of the energy in the fuel you use actually is being used to propel you forward. The majority of the energy is wasted as heat. In a power plant that's more like 70% being captured and going towards the goal (electricity generation).

Another large quantity of energy-usage is heating, and electrical heat-pumps can be around 3-5x more energy efficient at heating an enclosed space than combustion or resistive heating.

So while things like heating an transportation use a very large amount of energy, conquering them with renewables actually won't require that Europe installs 10x or whatever more wind and solar, since electrification also brings significant new efficiencies.
by mort96 | 2026-01-22 17:55:09+00:00
I'm not sold on the idea of adding compression to PDF at all, I'm not convinced that the space savings are worth breaking compatibility with older readers. Especially when you consider that you can just compress it in transit with e.g HTTP's 'Content-Encoding' without any special PDF reader support. (You can even use 'Content-Encoding: br' for brotli!)

If you do wanna change PDF backwards-incompatibly, I don't think there's a significant advantage to choosing gzip to be honest, both brotli and zstd are pretty widely available these days and should be fairly easy to vendor. But yeah, it's a slight advantage I guess. Though I would expect that there are other PDF data sets where brotli has a larger advantage compared to gzip.

But what I really don't get is all the calls to use zstd instead of brotli and treating the choise to use brotli instead of zstd as some form of Google conspiracy. (Is Facebook really better?)
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-01-22 17:55:22+00:00
Great job of indirectly implying that there must be a tradeoff. Funny thing though: those poor countries? They're not building nuclear, or oil fired, or coal fired, or natural gas plants. They're installing solar. Not necessarily because they care about what percentage of their energy usage is renewable, but because there is no tradeoff.

Further, environmental protection is not a luxury good, it's a long term investment. Ask me more in another 30-50 years when the larger impacts of climate change are happening. Or ask someone else about how much we've spent on superfund cleanup sites.
by to11mtm | 2026-01-22 17:55:35+00:00
> This behavior appears in software projects as well. It's difficult to work like this.

I have seen that across just about every culture in the software engineering world.

And not just in the 'business' itself. I still remember the argument I had with an Infosec guy where he absolutely insisted that every Jeep had AWD or 4WD from the factory, Even naming ones that didn't did nothing until I more or less passively aggressively sent him wikipedia links to a few vehicles.

At which point he proceeded to claim "No I said it was always a standard option" ... To be clear this whole argument started because someone asked why I swore by Subarus and mentioned 'Every US Model but the BRZ has AWD standard' but Heep owners gotta have false pride, idk.

People do weird shit with imposter syndrome sometimes, IDK.
by dentemple | 2026-01-22 17:55:37+00:00
Even then, he goes through the typical heroic arc of:

1) Starting the story by Resisting the Call to adventure -- in a way that reveals strong character motivation (a strong desire to live)

2) He suffers a series of trials that slowly push him to the opposite view: That he must act boldly and selflessly if he is to survive (and thereby also save the Discworld)

3) He performs a heroic act (even if only armed with a "half-brick in a sock") contributing to the good side's overall victory

Although to be fair, he does tend to revert by the start of his next story.
by nephihaha | 2026-01-22 17:55:57+00:00
Germanic and Celtic languages have been in contact for at least two thousand years. Probably longer. There are Celtic loanwords in English which predate the Anglo-Saxon invasions. After the invasion, English took centuries to expand into areas which spoke P Celtic, and it seems to have profound influences on its verbal structure. Another wave of Celtic loanwords entered English via French.

As for modern English, there are numerous Celtic loanwords and calques in American, Canadian and Australian slang and dialect.
by keyringlight | 2026-01-22 17:56:55+00:00
I'd wonder how much that scales up though for the benefit of the companies that are each investing hundreds of billions and hope to see a net return. How many developers like you (presumably less of you seeing as each is more productive) or enterprises you work for paying fees (along with slimming down legacy costs paid to someone) does it take to get up in the 12 digit range?
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-01-22 17:57:04+00:00
Trains do not solve the same issue as Waymo/Rideshares/Taxis. For example, if I want to go from SF to somewhere in the East Bay, I would walk to my nearest bus stop, ride the bus to the train station, then hop on a train to Berkeley. But now I'm a couple miles from my friends' house. Relatively few people want to go to my friends' house each day, so it doesn't make sense to put a train station there. Maybe there should be a bus stop, but if everyone there owns cars anyway, the city might have other priorities. But I, the dude visiting, don't have a car. So I hire a cab/Uber/Waymo to bring me the last couple miles.