MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gn4d | 2026-01-05 15:28:36+00:00
Friend in my group was in the public beta back in '08. We all ended up signing up by the end of '09. I used it off-and-on over the years (have some questions and replies with hundreds of upvotes). Though SO had a rap for having what might seem like harsh replies or moderation, it was often imho just blunt/curt, to the point, and often objectively defensible. I also agree with your timeframe that, in the later 2010s, the site became infected with drama, and moderation suddenly started reaching its tendrils into non-technical areas, when it should not have. And on an ostensibly technical site, no less!

I found myself contributing less and less (same with Wikipedia), because I merely wanted to continue honing my craft through learning and contributing technical data with others who shared this same passion... I did not want to have politics shoved in my face, or have every post of mine have to be filtered through an increasingly extreme ideology which had nothing to do with the technical nature of the site. When I had my SO suspended with no warning or recourse for writing "master" in a reply, I knew it was time to leave for good. Most of the admins on the site transformed from technical (yet sometimes brash!) geeks, into political flag-waving and ideology-pushing avatars (including pushing their sexual agendas front and center), and not of the FSF/FLOSS kind, either.

These types of dramas have infected nearly everything online, especially since 2020. Even Linus has lost his mind with pushing politics into what should be purely technical areas https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41936049

LLMs were a final blow for many reasons, though I think that a huge part of it is that LLMs won't chide you and suspend/ban you for wanting to stick to strictly technical matters. I don't have to pledge allegiance to a particular ideology and pass a purity test before asking technical questions to an LLM.
by Molitor5901 | 2026-01-05 15:28:54+00:00
Ostensibly Microsoft has a goal, and they realize that the public is adamantly opposed to the way they are going about that goal. So the calculus for Microsoft management must be either: 1) We are right, doubters be damned; 2) This will be profitable and people will go along with it whether they want to or not, we're Microsoft, what are they going to do, use Pages?; or a total uncertainty as to the future but really hoping this path pays off for a variety of reasons.

I hate the future of Microsoft. I hate the future, and current iterations of Outlook and Word. I hate AI. I don't want CoPilot. What I WANT is competition in this space so Microsoft has to actually care what the consumer think.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2026-01-05 15:28:57+00:00
> Not sending production to the place with the cheapest labour is great way to have your companies being outcompeted by foreign actors

This is is a fallacious argument. Most or even all of those places couldn't have hoped to out-compete the domestic companies without the traitorous companies shipping complete factories to them. The reason the Soviets didn't outcompete us wasn't down to just incentive structures (though that was part of it), quite alot of their failure was down to being locked out of the market on machine tools.
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Show HN: Mersel AI – Turn product photo into marketing reels in few clicks
by josephwu | 2026-01-05 15:29:26+00:00
I've been building tools for e-commerce sellers who struggle with video marketing. Most video tools require complex prompts, multiple platforms, and editing skills.

We built Mersel to solve this: upload one product photo and get 5-10 well-edited reels ready for Instagram/TikTok in 10 minutes. No prompts needed – just upload and select your desired video styles.

Currently works best for fashion/clothing (expanding categories soon). The AI handles clips, backgrounds, face and editing.

Technically, the biggest challenge was maintaining product integrity across clips. We built a pipeline that prevents the AI from "hallucinating" changes to the original item.

Free tier: 1 generation per month. Would love feedback from anyone doing e-commerce or building in the AI video space.
by xpe | 2026-01-05 15:29:35+00:00
Do you mean a terminal-based editor, like emacs, vim, neovim, or helix? (I quite like the latter, after having used all the former to some degree.)

Or do you mean line-editors? They have gotten impressively good. See rustyline (based on linenoise) and reedline (not a typo; developed by the Nushell team) for example. Way better than one might expect!

[1]: https://github.com/kkawakam/rustyline

[2]: https://github.com/antirez/linenoise

[3]: https://github.com/nushell/reedline
by sublinear | 2026-01-05 15:30:23+00:00
Congrats to you, but yeah the other comments have already said it.

I'm talking about projects that have a lot of people working together across multiple teams where not everyone is even a dev. This is routine with e-commerce. The build will have assets from design teams, copywriters, analytics scripts, etc. and a CMS isn't always the correct or even scalable solution for that. The original commenter I was replying to seems to be stuck in the past. These days it can all be done with a simple CI script, but yeah ultimately that means build tools.

Above all else, like I said in another comment, there cannot be server-side rendering either because it deploys to a CDN for hosting. These are projects that require huge amounts of content, but need to stay responsive. The final build result and upload is many files, but the initial load for the site is minimal JS and HTML to render for the user.
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by sanderjd | 2026-01-05 15:30:56+00:00
I've done both things, and they have their pros and cons. Big businesses can build bigger and more impactful things, and it is very satisfying to contribute to those things. The original poster is still clearly proud of the things they were able to build by "playing politics and kissing ass".

But (for me) there is definitely a certain ennui to being a little cog in a big machine, especially because everybody else there is doing the same thing. So being in smaller more cohesive companies definitely has its advantages.

The grass is always greener and all that!
by ttul | 2026-01-05 15:31:06+00:00
This is cute. I think within 36 months AI will replace middle management in software companies. This will happen because, ironically, today’s middle managers will switch back to being individual contributors, using AI to contribute PRs once again (who doesn’t prefer this anyway?).

Sufficiently powerful AI can become the middle manager of everyone’s dreams. Wonderfully effective interpersonal skills, no personality defects. Fair and timely feedback.

Try to convince me this isn’t the case.
by grufkork | 2026-01-05 15:31:50+00:00
Besides the visual design, I've been thinking about the tech part of it. There's so many bits shifting, morphing and having state, that it sounds antithetical to what a UI is supposed to be: a consistent and unnoticeable tool to interact with software. I do like some of the things they do to free up screen space, but having components being to programmatically complex is bound to cause issues. Besides having your presentation desync with your data, your UI now has opportunities to desync with itself...
by ModernMech | 2026-01-05 15:32:21+00:00
The way they did it, they were writing an aimbot. So the pipeline was:

- take a screenshot

- run massive skeletal detection on it to get the skeletons of any humanoids

- of those skeletons, pick a target closest to the player

- for that target, get coordinates of head node

- run a PID to control the cursor to where the head node is located

- move the camera one frame, repeat the whole process. If you can fit that pipeline to 16ms it can run in real time.
by Analemma_ | 2026-01-05 15:32:34+00:00
> AI-generated videos have developed their own unique look. There's a visual quality that marks them, a subtle wrongness that your brain picks up on even when you can't articulate exactly what's off. It's the new uncanny valley, and I feel an intense revulsion whenever I encounter it.

Yesterday on the comment thread for the "Attention is Bayesian Inference" blog post (which definitely seems to have been written by AI), a couple people were asking "who cares who/what wrote it, if it has good information", and others were struggling to articulate a response. Well, for me this is the response: it has a specific tone, and every time I see it it activates my gag reflex and I back-button straight out of the page. I'm not interested in examining or deconstructing this response either, as far as I'm concerned it's evolutionarily adaptive and I intend to keep it.
by zingababba | 2026-01-05 15:33:01+00:00
In general I agree. However I know someone who, since they have gone on GLP-1 burp, hiccup and do this strange 'gasp' with regularity. Probably related to the delayed gastric emptying. Adjusting dose hasn't helped. To them its a good trade because they had always struggled with weight loss. When I observe them sure they look better but now it seems like they are in a different type of constant discomfort.
by Noaidi | 2026-01-05 15:33:10+00:00
> Yeah I'm hopeful that they spend the next software update atoning for their UI sins.

I have heard Liquid Glass was in development for two years, so I see no hope of them spending all that money over again. Nevermind all the developers who have redesigned apps for IOS26.

They could just re-release IOS 18, but that would piss me off as a developer.

This is why I left the Apple Ecosystem last month, I see no hope.
by alwillis | 2026-01-05 15:33:14+00:00
> If they can't learn to reliably and predictably use CSS in the same way, then I'd say that makes CSS flawed.

It's not the fault of CSS that most developers don't learn to use it correctly. That's like blaming the bicycle when learning to ride one.

Frankly, it's not a priority for most of them to learn CSS; they don't see it as a "real" programming language; therefore it's not worth their time.
by joaomacp | 2026-01-05 15:33:34+00:00
It felt nice finding the optimal path. I found it nice as a hook to pay for the whole course, I think I'd enjoy this hands-on approach to learning, congrats for making it feel appealing!

However, I won't pay for the course as I'm only an IC with no realistic path to management. But maybe "transitioning from IC to management" is too small of a niche for this product: sounds like it would be good for managers that want to improve: "strategies for management from an ex-developer" or something like that
by ycdeebs | 2026-01-05 15:33:36+00:00
I wouldn’t say people are writing off “eliminating obesity as something purely cosmetic”. Being obese is way worse than just a cosmetic issue.

But a world where literally millions of people are on a “lifetime drug” to reduce their bodyweight seems to be exactly what the big pharmaceutical companies are hoping for. They will make tens of billions of dollars every year if this is the case. Hell, there are endless commercials where middlemen (e.g., Ro) are hyping these drugs, telling you they can get you prescriptions, etc. If there wasn’t HUGE money in it, this wouldn’t be the case.

Yes, there are some people who have medical conditions that make weight loss very difficult. And these drugs can be a literal lifesaver for them. But for every one of them, there are dozens and dozens (or more) who simply make bad choices about food and exercise. Things that, if changed, would lead to a lifetime of improved health without any of the concerns or side effects of taking a drug forever. Our culture seems to be evolving to where it’s perfectly acceptable to translate “this is not easy” to “I can’t possibly be expected to do this, no matter how good it would be for me."

I’ve been accused of “hating fat people” for this take, but it’s the furthest thing from the truth. I encourage people to actually change their lives in a sustainable, healthy way, because I care about them. It’s not about shaming them.

Can you be “healthi-ER” taking these drugs than if you don’t exercise and eat too much and too many awful foods? Sure. But I’d prefer to see them EVEN healthier by treating their bodies better in every single case where that’s possible.
by davey48016 | 2026-01-05 15:34:06+00:00
Rock climbing is probably going to be just as good at weight lifting. My understanding of the mental model here is:

Up until around age 60, your body adjusts your muscle mass based on usage. Somewhere around 60, you start losing muscle mass. If you have just enough muscle for day to day activities in a sedentary life at that point, then over time daily tasks like carrying groceries or standing up out of a chair are going to become prohibitively difficult. You need to do something that encourages your body to grow more muscle than you need for day to day life so that you can afford to lose some of it.
RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids
by red-polygon | 2026-01-05 15:34:14+00:00
RevisionDojo is a YC-backed test prep company ($3.4M raised) that sells International Baccalaureate (IB) test prep. Over the past year, users on r/IBO sub-reddit have documented a pattern of unethical marketing practices:

*Astroturfing:* Coordinated campaigns where accounts pose as students sharing "cheatsheets" and "predicted exam leaks." Other accounts then upvote, leave supportive comments, and ask follow-up questions—creating the illusion of organic student excitement. Multiple threads have exposed this pattern [1][2][3].

*Paid fake posts:* High school students report being offered payment to write promotional Reddit posts [4].

*Pressuring critics:* Users who post negative reviews report being contacted directly by company representatives, told it's "a shame" they're posting publicly [5]. Critical comments receive coordinated mass downvotes [6].

*Soliciting copyrighted materials:* They use TikTok influencers and fake reddit posts to persuade students to sell them official IB exam papers, violating IB policies [7].

The r/IBO moderators are actively investigating [8].

These practices appear to be working great for them. Recently, they acquired OnePrep (oneprep.xyz), a free SAT prep tool that was already popular on r/sat. Since the acquisition, the same manipulation tactics have been deployed at scale: 150 Trustpilot reviews in a window of a few days [9], and widespread coordinated Reddit manipulation—multiple accounts posting "tips" that recommend Oneprep, coordinated upvoting, and fake enthusiasm in comments. The most prominent example was a 2,000+ upvote post removed by moderators for manipulation, but it's part of a sustained campaign across the subreddit.

*Sources:*

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/IBO/comments/1p55qun/
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/IBO/comments/1jsb00a/
[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/IBO/comments/1ohcohi/
[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/IBO/comments/1p55qun/comment/nqmhal3/
[5] https://www.reddit.com/r/IBO/comments/1my1ajx/comment/na94upv/
[6] https://www.reddit.com/r/IBO/comments/1my1ajx/comment/na8zvs4/
[7] https://www.reddit.com/r/IBO/comments/1mej900/
[8] https://www.reddit.com/r/IBO/comments/1my1ajx/comment/nagdkl5/
[9] https://www.trustpilot.com/review/oneprep.xyz
by ur-whale | 2026-01-05 15:34:23+00:00
> If anything this is a very strong argument for a completely decentralized domain name system.

As you probably know, this is a very old idea, dating back almost from the birth of bitcoin [1] [2].

Real shame it didn't take off.

[1] https://www.namecoin.org/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin
by awaaz | 2026-01-05 15:34:39+00:00
Can you share a screenshot of the notification, and the rule that you created for it at aj@donotnotify.com please?

Also, do note that if it is a persistent notification[1] then the Android OS does not allow it to be dismissed. In such a case, you will see the notification in the blocked history with a warning icon next to it.

[1] https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/views/notifications...
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2026-01-05 15:34:41+00:00
>and it really made a lot of this stuff click for me: they want to provide low-paying American jobs in American factories.

This isn't a fair characterization. The people on reddit who complain that the coffee place is only scheduling them for 10 hours a week and that people are being stingy with the tips might actually prefer the factory job with a regular 40 hours, occasionally mandatory overtime, and $5/hr more than what Starbucks offers. If you disagree, then I suspect that there's no universe possible where you're satisfied without the population of the United States being cut by three quarters.
by cosmicgadget | 2026-01-05 15:34:55+00:00
No I am saying this time around there is zero chance he gets convicted of anything before he dies, due primarily to the SCOTUS immunity decision for anything this term and the fact that self-pardons for prior crimes would require another trip to the Supreme Court.

> I think the man is severely and uncurably addicted.

How do you distinguish this from him rubber stamping other people's agendas and falling asleep all the time?
by mminer237 | 2026-01-05 15:35:05+00:00
Max can be third, but Office is probably the second biggest computer software there is behind Chrome. Office is largely the entire reason people use Windows. Killing the brand that made you the world's biggest company for a long time is rather unprecedented.

HBO's was bad, but it's just the fourth place streaming service in its primary market, so the scale is pretty minor comparatively.
by ceejayoz | 2026-01-05 15:35:17+00:00
> But a world where literally millions of people are on a “lifetime drug” to reduce their bodyweight seems to be exactly what the big pharmaceutical companies are hoping for. They will make tens of billions of dollars every year if this is the case.

They (and other elements of our healthcare industry) already make a lot more than that on treating the side effects of widespread obesity.
by gn4d | 2026-01-05 15:35:41+00:00
>it just felt kinda shitty to those of us who spent more time answering, when we actually needed to ask one on a topic we were lacking in. (Speaking as someone who never moderated).

Great observation. Just like friendship, open communities psychologically feel as though there should be some balance. Spending free time contributing to something (even if you don't directly expect anything in return with ulterior motives) to benefit others, then getting an anvil dropped on your head when you dare to ask for a morsel in return, was an awful feeling which occurred too often there. The site and moderation, especially since the late 2010s (and especially in 2020 and beyond), became malignantly predatory.
by cocoto | 2026-01-05 15:35:47+00:00
I’m now an iOS user but the problem is actually the same here : apps not respecting communication channels to push ads (mostly to their own app or service). I usually fully block notifications from most apps but for some apps the notifications are really convenient (carpooling, transport or delivery app).
Yes I want to know if the train I booked is delayed. No I don’t want to be notified that you are now partnering with another transport company and that you are sharing 5% off coupons to try it…
I systematically give a 1 star review explaining the issue and mail the devs if possible. I even think that Apple Store and Play Store ToSs are against this practice but they are not enforcing it sadly…
by bakies | 2026-01-05 15:36:01+00:00
They pay into social security when they have a job just like anyone else.

If it's weak social safety net then why would the immigrants choose this country for financial benefit? You're contradicting yourself right in the next bullet point.

They came here for the American Dream, which is about finding a new life free from oppression against all odds. It's what this country is built on. There's nothing more patriotic than welcoming the oppressed with open arms and helping them build a new life. It's what happened when your ancestors came to this country.
by reedf1 | 2026-01-05 15:36:15+00:00
My solution to this problem was to have my phone permanently on silent. The logic being - there was nothing so urgent 25 years ago that couldn't be solved by an asynchronous answering machine message checked once a day; why do I need moment to moment updates now.

Nowadays I'd probably use a tool like yours. My partner is going through legitimate withdrawal symptoms after two years of short-form content addiction. Turning off all notifications was one of the first things I did for them.