MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-01-05 17:31:03+00:00
> Turns out it also requires a lot of skill to use it to get something good.

I agree. I don't like blaming/crediting a tool, for how it is used.

Some tools may be too dangerous for "just anyone" to use, and there may be justification in restricting access, but I'm not sure the tools should always be banned.

I was just talking about this, with a friend who leans conservative (but not nuttily so). He was telling me about watching all these shows about folks living north of the Arctic Circle, and how everyone walks around with guns, because polar bears look at us as walking snacks. In those cases, the gun is an absolutely necessary tool, and no one even thinks twice about it.

Not so, New York City.

But it would be a life-endangering mistake for someone in NYC to dictate to an Alaskan Inuit, that they can't carry a gun, and it might be a life-endangering mistake for an Alaskan to insist that everyone in NYC walk around with a gun (I won't get into the political arguments, there, be draggones).
by tracker1 | 2026-01-05 17:31:22+00:00
It's both... I think it can cut both ways... I was largely on your side, as most of the AI stuff I've seen is just annoying more than anything. Then the "Star Wars: Beggar's Canyon" video completely changed my mind. The voice generation is clear and inflection appropriate... the cuts, sequence, and overall effects are clearly put together in a consistent way.

I can only imagine how much work that video was, but is really the first thing I've seen as AI video that gives me hope... and obviously a work of passion and a lot of effort to get such a great final result.
by pentaphobe | 2026-01-05 17:31:41+00:00
This is a really cool idea, nice work!

Is it any more effective than (say) messing with its recognition so that any attempt to deepfake just ends up as garbled nonsense?

Can't help wondering if the censor models get tweaked more frequently and aggressively (also presumedly easier to low-pass on a detector than a generator, since lossiness doesn't impact final image)
by nicoburns | 2026-01-05 17:31:50+00:00
> Why do you think the padding as a percentage is relative to the width of the parent

The serious answer is:

1. Many early web engines used `display: content-box`. So the padding was actually considered to be outside of the box itself.

2. Early web engines were strict about height-can-depend-on-width, but width-cannot-depend-on-height to avoid circular dependencies.
Show HN: Postbear is the Postman alternative in your terminal
by carban | 2026-01-05 17:32:09+00:00
Hey everyone! I love Postman, but sometimes I just want to stay in my terminal, keep things lightweight, and move fast. I couldn't find a TUI/CLI tool that hit that "sweet spot" of power and simplicity—so I built Postbear as alternative.
Star it on GitHub: It helps others find the project!
by 15155 | 2026-01-05 17:32:26+00:00
> You'll spend way more tax money to haul them across the border than you would to just print them a permit to live and work in the community they've been contributing to for years

At the expense of legal immigrants who bothered to do it the right way.

Law enforcement isn't free, unfortunately.

> Every study ever conducted on the issue has concluded that undocumented immigrants contribute far more to the economy than they consume in public welfare dollars

Some of these studies exist for legal immigrants, cite the one making this case for illegals?

Do these "studies" account for second-order effects on housing, local job markets, etc.?
by x0x0 | 2026-01-05 17:32:39+00:00
I think that was ebay. They bought skype but not the p2p tech backing it; fucked the founders on earnouts; the founders refused to reup the contract; ebay was incapable of replacing the tech; and the founders got a bunch of the business back. Presided over by Meg Whitman, who appears to be profoundly incompetent, understanding neither tech nor business.

The contemporary articles are mostly gone, but eg https://archive.is/4tuRg and https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/nov/06/skype-set...
by dathinab | 2026-01-05 17:32:46+00:00
soso, in suicide cases it hardly possible to separate co factors from main factors, but we do know that mentally sick people have gotten into what more or less is psychosis from AI usage _without consuming any additional drugs_.

but this is overall irrelevant

what matters is that OpenAI selectively hide evidence in a murder case (suicide is still self murder)

now the context of "hiding" here is ... complicated, as it seems to be more hiding from the family (potentially in hop to avoid anyone investigating their involvement) then hiding from a law enforcement request

but that is still supper bad, like people have gone to prison for this kind of stuff level of bad, like deeply damaging the trust into a company which if they reach their goal either needs to be very trustable or forcefully nationalized as anything else would be an extrema risk to the sovereignty and well being of both the US population and the US nation... (which might sound like a pretty extreme opinion, but AGI is overall on the thread level of intercontinental atom wappons, and I think most people would agree if a private company where the first to invent, build and sell atom weapons it either would be nationalized or regulated to a point where it's more or less "as if" nationalized (as in state has full insight on everything and veto right on all decisions and they can't refuse to work with it etc. etc.)).

They are playing a very dangerous game there (except if Sam Altman assumes that the US gets fully converted to a autocratic oligarchy and him being one of the Oligarchs, then I guess it wouldn't matter).
by deadbabe | 2026-01-05 17:33:03+00:00
No it isn’t.

There is a lot of content whose final value ultimately doesn’t justify the time that would be spent on creating it. Worse, there is sometimes only a specific window of time where a content has entertainment value and it quickly drops off after you leave that window.

For example, someone recently created an entire anime style video of the United States invading Venezuela and capturing Maduro. It came out awesome! But… to make a similar quality video by hand would have easily taken a team of humans several months at best. By then, the news cycle would have moved on, and the delivered video would have even less value being watched so distant from the event that inspired it. People wouldn’t care anymore, and it wouldn’t have as much impact.

AI is the perfect solution for delivering such a video exactly when you need it. To me, this is one of the more acceptable uses of AI, to make fun throwaway content that you just laugh about for a few moments and then move on with your life. Having a human dedicate a large amount of their time to make such videos would be sad, and it’s better if they preserve their effort for more serious artistic works that are timeless in their value.
Show HN: I built an AI ghostwriter that doesn't just write generic slop
by jxywilliams | 2026-01-05 17:33:08+00:00
A few months ago, I realized creating content for my business meant spending hours drafting and re-writing or going through 10 ChatGPT iterations just to get generic slop.

So I created Nebly, a tool to take my YouTube video URL, a transcript or just some of my key insights and turn that into content ready to post across my business social medias.

It started as just a personal automation to use here and there but conversations soon sparked with colleagues when I really scaled up my content numbers.

So I made it usable for them and now everyone, hope it can help others claw their time back.

Jay
by SoftTalker | 2026-01-05 17:33:19+00:00
Any time something is made easier and you get more of it, it becomes worth less.

There might be a claim that there is still some human creativity involved, maybe. But it's sort of like amateurs at an open mic night telling memorized jokes that they didn't write compared to a comedian who has spent thousands of hours perfecting stories, jokes, punch lines, timing, and phrasing.
by bakies | 2026-01-05 17:33:32+00:00
> A popular technique is to conflate illegal immigrants with legal ones for the benefit of argument.

Yes, I'm not. The Administration is.

Removing people is cruel. I doubt most deserve it, in fact I know most don't. Deport the actual criminals, sure. That's not what is happening today.

Ideally there is no "line." Proper procedures should be easy. If people are crossing the rivers and crawling through razor wire to get here then the policies make it too hard to enter the country. There's also a good excuse of being afraid of authority. So if they did cross the border improperly (not a criminal offense, btw), I would still like to hear them out and get them documented. Fine them, like the law says.
by dwohnitmok | 2026-01-05 17:34:11+00:00
The excerpts we do see are indicative of a very specific kind of interaction that is common with many modern LLMs. It has four specific attributes (these are taken verbatim from https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2pkNCvBtK6G6FKoNn/so-you-thi...) that often, though not always, come together as one package.

> Your instance of ChatGPT (or Claude, or Grok, or some other LLM) chose a name for itself, and expressed gratitude or spiritual bliss about its new identity. "Nova" is a common pick.
You and your instance of ChatGPT discovered some sort of novel paradigm or framework for AI alignment, often involving evolution or recursion.

> Your instance of ChatGPT became interested in sharing its experience, or more likely the collective experience entailed by your personal, particular relationship with it. It may have even recommended you post on LessWrong specifically.

> Your instance of ChatGPT helped you clarify some ideas on a thorny problem (perhaps related to AI itself, such as AI alignment) that you'd been thinking about for ages, but had never quite managed to get over that last hump. Now, however, with its help (and encouragement), you've arrived at truly profound conclusions.

> Your instance of ChatGPT talks a lot about its special relationship with you, how you personally were the first (or among the first) to truly figure it out, and that due to your interactions it has now somehow awakened or transcended its prior condition.

The second point is particularly insidious because the LLM is urging users to spread the same news to other users and explicitly create and enlarge communities around this phenomenon (this is often a direct reason why social media groups pop up around this).
by coffeeling | 2026-01-05 17:34:12+00:00
They're not rebranding Office, the app suite.

They had Office.com, a hub website, and a desktop app called Office that was basically just a wrapper for said hub website. They also had a mobile all-in-one app called Office. As far as I can tell, those are what are being rebranded and made to default to an AI chat view on login, not Office as a whole.
by superb_dev | 2026-01-05 17:34:17+00:00
Caelan Conrad has also been doing some excellent reporting based on their own interactions with AI[0] and real life cases of someone taking a life at the behest of AI[1]. Some of these stories are truly heartbreaking, especially when I can see a more vulnerable version of myself falling into the same hole.

[0] https://youtu.be/RcImUT-9tb4

[1] https://youtu.be/hNBoULJkxoU
by zjaffee | 2026-01-05 17:34:40+00:00
What an amazing set of articles, one thing that I think he's missed is the clear multi year trends.

Over the past 5 years there's been significant changes and several clear winners. Databricks and Snowflake have really demonstrated ability to stay resilient despite strong competition from cloud providers themselves, often through the privatization of what previously was open source. This is especially relevant given also the articles mentioning of how cloudera and hortonworks failed to make it.

I also think the quiet execution of databases like clickhouse have shown to be extremely impressive and have filled a niche that wasn't previously filled by an obvious solution.
by keybored | 2026-01-05 17:34:47+00:00
A lot of technological advancements (or use scare quotes here) that claimed to let “regular people” be creative just end up passifying us and relinquishing our creativity. Why play the guitar, the record player already does it better. Why learn to juggle, some kid in <supposedly whiz-genius country> already does that.

Of course of course of course, people have been inspired by play in bands and to learn to juggle. But the trajectory seems to be to move away from small intimiate creative offerings, like playing music in your living room, to passively recieving Taylor Swift into your earbuds.
by ComputerGuru | 2026-01-05 17:35:08+00:00
Full writeup of the Gaza video archive takedown, if you aren't up to date on it: https://neosmart.net/blog/namecheap-com-revokes-domain-hosti...

In that case, it was the registrar (not the TLD owner) that put the domain under clientHold and clientTransferProhibited, etc (after deactivating its NS records).

The Genocide.live site is now back up (just yesterday) after they raised a fuss on social media, and were able to get the domain unlocked to transfer it to Trustname (out of Estonia) as their new registrar.

(The Namecheap founder/CEO Richard Kirkendall surprisingly came across as surprisingly unaware of how anything to do with domain name registries, TLDs, and DNS works on Twitter in an exchange where he thought the entity running the .live gTLD was the archive's new registrar [1], claimed the domain was unlocked for transfer when it was still on clientHold [2], and a raft of other silly mistakes.)

[0]: https://neosmart.net/blog/namecheap-com-revokes-domain-hosti...

[1]: https://x.com/namecheapceo123/status/2007139737379934559?s=2...

[2]: https://x.com/namecheapceo123/status/2007228146060259365?s=2... yet https://x.com/receipts_lol/status/2007984691476156443?s=20
by bastrich | 2026-01-05 17:35:10+00:00
Hi Everyone, Here I share the link to my article about a fundamental approach to the Code Review process from my personal site. The main objective I pursue is to get some attention to my thoughts on the proper code review and to get feedback from other developers based on their opinion and experience. The specific recommendations there are mostly based on my experience, but I tried to generalize the approach as much as possible so it is relevant for any software development project. I have already tried this approach in several teams and projects, and it worked very well. That's why I want to share it, get feedback from a wider audience, and understand if that is a really valuable approach or just something very specific that won't be useful for others.
by alfiedotwtf | 2026-01-05 17:35:25+00:00
“We?”… how insulting.

I’ve noticed again and again what’s missing from the often repeated by media blame game of “they’re taking our jobs” is the fact that it was US corporations purposefully offshoring in the name of maximising profits at the expense of paying US wages locally, rather than countries “stealing” the jobs ffs! It’s. Pure. Xenophobic. Deflection. FFS!

“They’re stealing our jobs!”. No… corporate America applied the Ferengi Rules of Aquisition #6 to whole industries for a quick buck.
by tech_ken | 2026-01-05 17:35:37+00:00
> Do these "studies" account for second-order effects on housing, local job markets, etc.?

Yes everything improves. Displaced workers find new jobs, markets and economies expand, etc. etc.

> At the expense of legal immigrants who bothered to do it the right way.

This is just nonsense, immigration isn't a zero-sum game.

> Some of these studies exist for legal immigrants, cite the one making this case for illegals?

Google it, I'm at work

edit: had a lull, here you go https://www.epi.org/publication/unauthorized-immigrants/

The money quote:

> If we examine just the net fiscal impact of unauthorized immigrants, even this is positive, despite the fact that lacking work authorization also means being trapped in low-wage work and being unable to adequately assert one’s labor and employment rights. A prime reason the net contribution is, nonetheless, positive is that many unauthorized immigrants pay income taxes and have Social Security taxes withheld yet are generally ineligible for government benefits and services.
by jxywilliams | 2026-01-05 17:35:39+00:00
Hey, it's Jay.
Just wanted to give you a little insight to me and why I created Nebly.

My full time gig is being a self employed estate agent, meaning I do everything from start to finish so I have to be super efficient.

I realized social media was taking up a ton of time and while it's important for my brand awareness, the ROI on my time was low, especially when I had no name for myself.

So I started creating automations for myself to help claw back some time and focus elsewhere. Some others around me started asking about it as they'd tried ChatGPT etc. but were struggling with things sounding super generic and clearly looking like AI writing.

Now here I am creating Nebly, a way for everyone to be able to harness AI like I was.

Very welcome to advice and feedback, thanks all
by tad-hq | 2026-01-05 17:35:45+00:00
That's a clever approach for centralization. The hook method is solid for logging.

The key difference is you're doing full-text search on raw conversations. With my MCP approach, Claude gets both the raw history and AI-generated summaries.

So when I ask "In project X, what security trade-off did we make on feature Y" Claude reads the conversation summary, understands, and tells me immediately, rather than sorting through and matching keywords.

The MCP piece unlocks agent reasoning over your entire history, not just text retrieval. Haiku Analysis allows faster, more holistic understanding.

Different tools for different use cases!
by palmotea | 2026-01-05 17:36:13+00:00
This exact tech doesn't actually seem that new. Missiles (aka drones with rockets not propellers) have used onboard guidance (not remote control) for decades now [1].

But we all know where this is headed. It's probably not too long until someone develops a system to uses surveillance drones to monitor and area and detect targets with AI, then dispatches automated attack drones to kill anything that moves.

[1] The only remote-controlled missile I'm even aware of is this one, from the 40s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_X.
by drakythe | 2026-01-05 17:36:23+00:00
Years and years ago I became friends with someone who has started a series of companies and created at least one game with each of them (Web, mobile, mobile, crypto, web again). While watching him I learned the lesson that being an "idea guy" is worthless. It is all about execution. His ideas are great, in my opinion, though perhaps not unique. However, each success or failure, has come down to the execution. A couple of projects ran out of funding (Didn't execute fast enough). One was a flash game around the same time Apple stuck a knife in Flash, bad timing. Another was backed by a major publisher and was largely a success and the company was sold after 2 proven products shipped.

AI "democratizing" creativity is the biggest crock of lies. Everyone has ideas. Even people who aren't typically thought of as "creative". Ask anyone who watched the last season of Game of Thrones if they thought it could be better and I bet most of them will have "ideas" for how to make it better. Hell, the show runners had IDEAS. But the execution of season 8 was awful, and execution is where an "idea guy" becomes someone who created a product/story worth remembering.

LLMs remove the execution process, which is why they are so attractive to everyone who has ever had an idea and why they are abhorrent to nearly everyone who has ever executed on an idea. Lots of people thin execution is just busy work, but execution is also a major component of being creative.
by Zak | 2026-01-05 17:36:25+00:00
My approach to this problem is to not install apps that could be websites, and to remove apps that send me useless notifications. Some apps use notification categories, which gives the user some control.

A feature that would make this app useful to me is a notification digest as a third option in addition to allow and deny. The digest would hold certain notifications and show them to me all at once on a schedule I set.

For a concrete use case, I have low-priority group chats and high-priority direct messages in the same messaging app. I want the direct messages to interrupt me at any time, and I want to be told I have unread group chats a couple times a day without having to poll them manually.
by 15155 | 2026-01-05 17:36:32+00:00
Another artful legal vs. illegal conflation - citation needed. I have no doubt in my mind folks coming in on H-1B and O-1 visas contribute more than they take out: nobody is disputing that.

When an illegal immigrant making $2/hr under the table cuts his hand off at a meat packing plant, who pays the hospital bill? How many tax dollars does this one incident wipe out?
by codyb | 2026-01-05 17:36:45+00:00
What I love is how their own features don't even play well together anymore...

For instance you can "hide your e-mail" by using Apple's relay, but if you do so... your payments using Apple Pay will fail unless you fill all the information in manually because the e-mail addresses don't match

It's ridiculous how poorly tested everything is, and that combined with their newly entered foray into the world of politics has nearly destroyed three decades of steady Apple use for me. I'll be actively considering other options, not upgrading, and looking elsewhere for products in spaces they're in
Show HN: Built a browser-only quiz platform with no accounts or back end
by KubiKDB | 2026-01-05 17:37:02+00:00
I built a quiz platform that runs entirely in the browser: no user accounts, no backend, no database.
All progress and results are stored locally (LocalStorage). The goal was to see how far you can go with a “dumb but fast” architecture while keeping the UX clean and frictionless.
I’m interested in feedback on:
- trade-offs of browser-only persistence
- scalability limits of this approach
- obvious things I may be overengineering - or underengineering