MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by amitav1 | 2026-01-01 17:26:17+00:00
This is cool! This summer I made something similar but in C++. The goal was to build an entire LLM, but I only got to neural networks. GitHub repo here: https://github.com/amitav-krishna/llm-from-scratch. I have a few blogs on this project on my website (https://amitav.net/building-lists.html, https://amitav.net/building-vectors.html, https://amitav.net/building-matrices.html (incomplete)). I hope to finish that series eventually, but some other projects have stolen the spotlight! It probably would have made more sense to write it in Python because I had no C++ experience.
by skeeter2020 | 2026-01-01 17:26:29+00:00
>> One day I’ll get to enjoy them, but today is sadly not that day.

I've got news for you: you won't. Your post reads like you're letting perfect be the enemy of good enough. Also it's 2026, and being the first day of the new year the PERFECT time to just go ahead and do it. You could probably buy a used record player today for < $50 and be listening to a record.
by btrettel | 2026-01-01 17:26:40+00:00
Hmm... okay, I'll try some more local cycling groups as there are a lot of them. Maybe one lesson to take from all the comments I'm reading here is that there's a lot of variation between groups.

I'm thinking road cycling. When I was in grad school, a decade ago, I briefly participated in a student road cycling group. It was very performance oriented as I recall. I was definitely slower than them and my heavy steel commuter bike contrasted strongly with their lighter racing bikes. I talked to some of them, but not during the rides. I was older than the vast majority of them as I recall and in retrospect that might have prevented me from making friends there.
by runako | 2026-01-01 17:27:01+00:00
Re #2 -- locking Chinese vehicles out of the market will also lead to the downfall of our industrial base over time. In general, Americans (including those who work in US manufacturing) do not understand that Chinese vehicles are very competitive. At some point, those vehicles are likely to surpass domestic capabilities (they are already there viewed through a price/performance lens).

All of this is down to the simple fact that essentially no American has ever driven a Chinese vehicle and does not know anybody who has. They are not even getting secondhand reports. This is worse than the '80s when the Japanese makers arrived in the sense that in the '80s everybody could see the quality of the Toyotas and assess quality/performance for themselves. It's much worse to not even know how good the competition is.

From a business standpoint, it's especially bad for the domestic industry because the majors actually do need to be competitive in fast-growing regions like Latin America, Asia, and Africa. It's not a viable strategy to depend on protectionism at home while ceding countries where most people live.
by flumpcakes | 2026-01-01 17:27:06+00:00
I think the OP was making the point that it isn't meritocratic, at least that is how it read to me: they thought people where not meaningfully different in skill level (the people at the exclusive company being comparable to everywhere else) and that where you worked was the new way to find the 'in' people, rather than what university you graduated from (saying they had job offers based purely on getting the job at the exclusive company).

You could argue that getting a job at X or Y company by itself conveys some level of skill - but if we are honest, that is just version of saying you went to Harvard.

There's lots of cliques everywhere in life, and various ways to show status, SV is definitely not immune to that.
by t0mas88 | 2026-01-01 17:27:18+00:00
BYD Sealion 7 is better than a 2025 Model Y Standard and worse than a Model Y Premium in terms of ride quality/suspension and driving dynamics.

The interior is more taste dependent, but the Model Y Standard is clearly a low budget version (with fabric seats) that's below the BYD. The Model Y Premium interior and seats felt higher quality to me, but it has a more minimalist design while the BYD has a more traditional setup with a screen behind the wheel.

The Tesla screen/app seem more responsive and premium. Also above for example VW where things are often sluggish and don't feel as well designed from a UX perspective.
by smallmancontrov | 2026-01-01 17:27:31+00:00
Yes, but causality is backwards: the Chinese housing market stalled because China took the debt punch-bowl away from housing and gave it to the industrial sector.

It's also worth mentioning that loan subsidies play a bigger role in Chinese capital markets: Chinese industry is largely capitalized with state debt rather than private debt/equity or public markets. Zooming out, as a response to Trump's 1st term tariffs China went on a big autarky push by redirecting its citizens' and companies' deposits into a loan bazooka for the industrial sector. We are now seeing the fruits of that. The big questions have to do with (true) profitability and (true) balance sheets: can the new industries service their debts well enough for the government to hold face?
by centamiv | 2026-01-01 17:27:47+00:00
I tested it myself with 1k documents (about 1.5M vectors) and performance is solid (a few milliseconds per search). I haven't run more aggressive benchmarks yet.

Since it only stores the vectors, the actual size of the Markdown document is irrelevant; you just need to handle the embedding and chunking phases carefully (you can use a parser to extract code snippets).

RAM isn't an issue because I aim for random data access as much as possible. This avoids saturating PHP, since it wasn't exactly built for this kind of workload.

I'm glad you found the article and repo useful! If you use it and run into any problems, feel free to open an issue on GitHub.
by heresie-dabord | 2026-01-01 17:28:11+00:00
> Basically the whole point of the Freemasonry fraternity as well. Male only. It is dressed up with some altruistic goals and rituals

Freemasonry began as a workers' guild, but the accreted "goals and rituals" take a group far beyond the simplicity of a men's shed.

The simplicity of any club rapidly becomes complex when monotheism or henotheism (any theism) is injected:

From Wikipedia:

* Anglo-American style Freemasonry, which insists that a "volume of sacred law" should be open in a working lodge, that every member should profess belief in a supreme being, that only men should be admitted, and discussion of religion or politics does not take place within the lodge.

* Continental Freemasonry or Liberal style Freemasonry which has continued to evolve beyond these restrictions, particularly regarding religious belief and political discussion.

* Women Freemasonry or Co-Freemasonry, which includes organisations that either admit women exclusively or accept both men and women."

[1] _ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry
by nullorempty | 2026-01-01 17:28:21+00:00
>Lack of action due to the expectation of long timelines is one of the sins of the lawyerly society.

>But American problems seem more fixable to me than Chinese problems.

China has stayed on trajectory of improving life of its society for a long time. USA has been in decline all that time and decent accelerated after Cold War with Russia ended.

All of China's growth comes from its internal resource. Growth in the USA had been driven by exploiting other countries.

>I made clear in my book that I am drawn to pluralism as well as a broader conception of human flourishing than one that could be delivered by the Communist Party.

Pluralism had been eradicated in the western society. I can't speak freely in Canada. People get cancelled or jailed for speaking their mind in UK. US is not too far behind in that.

There is no meaningful pluralism in the West. They never make a long term plan they can follow for many years.

China has monolithic ( more so ) society with shared culture, language(s) and national identity that runs deep to the gene level. They don't don't allow foreign influence to erode it. It's much easier to make progress when people share the same long term vision and goals.

CPP is doing just fine leading the country into the future. Sure, it has a monopoly on power, but it also owns its mistakes and fixes them. Multiparty systems of the USA and the rest of the West are just two curtains on the stage, and when you draw the curtains you see the same people attending the same party.

Elected officials aim to earn as much as they can in their short stay in power. After all, they only have a few years before they get replaced, better make use of the short time you got.

China IMO has a much brighter outlook for the future
by bigyabai | 2026-01-01 17:28:30+00:00
I don't know if it's that hard to figure out, at least in the short-term. China's #1 goal should be to keep the value of their currency stable and push hard on the neoliberal expansionist path. If the United States' financialized economy starts to sag, this is China's opportunity to provide discount stability to the nations that China needs as allies.
by j45 | 2026-01-01 17:28:56+00:00
Physically held is _very_ different than only one person having access. It doesn't seem to imply it's hosted in a basement at all.

There is zero reason that server in the basement can't be a mirrored node to one or more vps'.

To extend your point, it's probably far better to have something cloud agnostic so it can flip between horribly compromised or attacked hosts.

Basement servers on Fibre, with a bit of knowledge and power backup can be just as reliable as most for one simple and over looked reason, they're reasonably obscure and don't fall under the attention large hosts receive. They absolutely have other issues to get rid of, which can be.

Self-hosting isn't about a "point of pride". Time reveals the value of self-sufficiency, not in every case to the absolute, but being able to.

Self-hosting at home is often similar skills to hosting a server in a datacenter, whether it's your own hardware co-located, rented server, or a managed server.
by reincarnate0x14 | 2026-01-01 17:29:30+00:00
Even on dialup it was common to get a public IPv4 address, depending on what service. The service I had in like 95-98 didn't promise static IPs but I effectively got the same address for weeks at a time, I'm assuming due to whatever logic was mapping accounts to addresses. They also gave you access to a FreeBSD shell if you wanted to read email via elm or pine or the like, one of the first places I saw SSH!
by tbrockman | 2026-01-01 17:30:10+00:00
Cool project, great work!

Forgive the uninformed questions, but given that `workerd` (https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd) is "open-source" (in terms of the runtime itself, less so the deployment model), is the main distinction here that OpenWorkers provides a complete environment? Any notable differences between the respective runtimes themselves? Is the intention to ever provide a managed offering for scalability/enterprise features, or primarily focus on enabling self-hosting for DIYers?
by toshinoriyagi | 2026-01-01 17:31:00+00:00
I don't know much about Andre's strength feats. Was he exceptionally strong? Wrestling definitely involves lifting heavy opponents, especially in Andre's weight class. So, if he was extremely strong, I can see why despite no explicit resistance training, given his wrestling and increased HGH.

Yeah, this whole discussion is based on assuming human genetics. Every animal, without any resistance training, will develop an amount of muscle within some range. This can be massive, like for gorillas. Perhaps someday we will have gene editing that allows us to have the muscle building genes of gorillas, so we can all bench 1,000lbs with no training.

I wonder, do gorillas possess the mechanism for stimulating muscle growth via resistance training? How strong could one be with a dedicated training plan and coach?
by spectreflow | 2026-01-01 17:31:17+00:00
Modern marketing is built on measurement. Campaigns are tagged, funnels are optimized, and budgets are shifted based on performance data and ROI.
Yet, despite all this effort, attribution often breaks at the most critical moment: when a user actually converts. With the current online channel diversity, this is not acceptable. Learn how SnapForms provides insightful analytics.
by _pdp_ | 2026-01-01 17:31:34+00:00
We have a lot of grunt work scheduled overnight like finding bugs, creating tests where we don’t have good coverage or where we can improve, integrations, documentation work, etc.

Not everything gets accepted. There is a lot of work that is discarded and much more pending verification and acceptance.

Frankly, and I hope I don’t come as alarmist (judge for yourself from my previous comments on Hn and Reddit) we cannot keep up with the output! And a lot of it is actually good and we should incorporate it even partially.

At the moment we are figuring out how to make things more autonomous while we have the safety and guardrails in place.

The biggest issue I see at this stage is how to make sense of it all as I do not believe we have the understanding of what is happening - just the general notion of it.

I truly believe that we will reach the point where ideas matter more than execution, which what I would expect to be the case with more advanced and better applied AI.
by jmyeet | 2026-01-01 17:31:34+00:00
We are seeing the culmination of the 50+ China industrialization project at the samme time as the West's 50+ year financialization and deindustrialization project, all to concentrate even more wealth in the hands of the 0.01%.

China is really the only country capable and willing to build infrastructure. The ban on selling lithography AND chips to China is massively backfiring. The chip ban in particular has created a captive market for Chinese chips. In 1945, American exceptionalists believed the USSR would take 20+ yars to copy the atomic bomb, if they could do it at all. It took 4 years. China will do the same thing with EUV in the coming years.

Tesla is a trillion dollar company that was created entirely by government subsidies that only continues to exist because of the tariffs and import bans on BYD in the US and much of Europe.

Additionally, Tesla is completely dependent on Chinese rare earth exports for its products.

As an example of how China uses state power, a famine in the 20th century caused China to decide that food security was a national security interest. The availability of cheap, quality food is viewed as essential and the state intervenes to ensure that continues. Likewise for housing.

Western companies seem increasingly focused on the top 10% because the bottom 90% have nothing left to eextract.
Show HN: Vect AI – An execution-focused AI platform for marketing automation
by afrazullal | 2026-01-01 17:31:48+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m building Vect AI, a practical AI platform focused on execution rather than demos or hype.

Most AI tools stop at suggestions. Vect AI is built to help founders and marketers actually do the work — from planning campaigns to setting up repeatable growth workflows.

What it currently focuses on:

AI-powered marketing automation workflows

Agent-style execution for growth tasks

An organic growth engine built around SEO and distribution (not ads)

I’m building this in public and iterating fast based on real usage, not pitch decks.

I’d really appreciate feedback from the HN community:

Does this solve a real problem for you?

What would make it genuinely useful in your workflow?

What feels unnecessary or confusing?

Project: https://vect.pro

Thanks for taking a look.
by all_factz | 2026-01-01 17:31:50+00:00
Sure, I agree. Kneejerk condemnation and othering is bad.

But there’s a need to balance even-handedness with a healthy skepticism of those in power. Otherwise you risk becoming an apologist. No one is saying not to do your homework or not to think critically, but we’re also saying not to come in guns blazing in defense of moneyed interests. That’s what the person who brought up the hidden agenda stuff seemed to be doing - making assumptions that favor capital without even taking the time to read the article that addressed those assumptions. That’s not even-handed, it’s biased against labor.
Show HN: HumanMark – open-source AI content detection (self-hosted, offline)
by mindtrades | 2026-01-01 17:32:02+00:00
Hey HN! I built this because existing AI detectors (GPTZero, etc.) are all cloud-based, paid, and require sending your content to third parties.

HumanMark is:
- 100% self-hosted (your data never leaves your server)
- Zero dependencies (single Go binary)
- Multi-modal (text, image, audio, video)
- Free forever (MIT license)

Current accuracy is ~60-75%. I'm being upfront about that. The algorithms use statistical analysis (sentence variance, vocabulary richness, AI phrase detection) rather than ML models.

Looking for feedback and contributors to improve accuracy. Would love to hear what use cases you'd find this useful for.

GitHub: https://github.com/vinpatel/humanmark
by wdr1 | 2026-01-01 17:32:06+00:00
> I consider this abuse of the visitor.

Why can't anything simply be "disliked" anymore?

I get you don't like it.

But abused?

Because there's a slide-in?

On a site run by volunteers?

For open source software you get for free?

That you freely choose to visit?

Calling that abuse seems... off. I have no concerns with people saying the don't like something. But the current nature to be hyperbolic is off-putting to me.
by RajT88 | 2026-01-01 17:33:01+00:00
This. Vinyls are the most "special" of media formats, because they require the most care. They function as wall art. If you actually want to listen to them, it's a ritual - something you have to make time and space for. You don't have that with anything else - an Artifact is a great way of putting it, but I would also suggest some other words: relic, totem, effigy, charm
Show HN: I built a tool that turns prompts into full-stack web and mobile apps
by genvibe | 2026-01-01 17:33:11+00:00
Hi HN,
There are a lot of these popping up (Lovable, Bolt, etc.), but I built this one to solve a specific frustration I had with them: Lock-in.

Most AI builders give you a hosted app but make it hard to leave. GenVibe focuses on generating clean, exportable code that you can actually maintain outside the platform.

What makes this different:

Framework Agnostic: Unlike tools that lock you into a single stack, Genvibe support React, Next.js, Remix, Vue, Svelte, Angular and React Native (Expo).

Real Backend Integration: It doesn't just mock data; it can scaffold backends using Supabase or standard Node/Express APIs.

No Black Box: You get full access to the repo structure and can export the zip to run locally.

Under the Hood:
I use a custom orchestration layer (Node.js) that dynamically selects the best model (currently leveraging Opus 4.5 for complex architecture) to generate framework-specific boilerplate and logic.

I’m a solo dev running this on my own infra. Would love feedback on the generated code quality across different frameworks.

Demo: https://streamable.com/nm6i6g
Try it here: genvibe.pro
by doctorpangloss | 2026-01-01 17:34:16+00:00
here's what we have: a way to identify every almost every American by their face, identify almost every American by their name and birthdate, identify every American invasively (like via a blood draw), lots of documents at the national level that we can compel people to have for various activities that are practically required for living. we don't, narrowly, have a document, that you can force everyone to have, in a very peculiar interaction, where someone can be like, "you're going to jail unless you produce this document," and you're not driving, you're not crossing a border, you're not etc. etc.

so do we need a constitutional amendment? i guess if enough people perceive that we do.
by doodlesdev | 2026-01-01 17:34:17+00:00
> I've also noticed this recently. Python has a slide-in "donate now or we mug you". I consider this abuse of the visitor.

I had to disable uBlock Origin to test this and... wow, what a load of bullshit. If anything, this kind of stuff makes me want to _not_ donate to that project. All projects I've donated to in the past were the ones which didn't bother me with these things.

I wonder now how many of these I've been missing because of uBlock Origin + DNS Blocking + JS disabled. Last time I tried a normie browser (my mom's), I had to install uBlock Origin there, because I just couldn't use it that way. I feel sorry for the majority of web users, who don't have any protections against popups and invasive advertisements.
by machomaster | 2026-01-01 17:34:27+00:00
Of course you would personally notice. But the parent was talking about the effect on muscles. And it has been long estsblished that 5-30 reps (perhaps even highter) will cause the same hypertrophy.

Obviously, for practical reasons the optimal range for each exercise will vary. For squat 5-10 is definitely better than 10-20 let alone 20-30. For DB side raises highter reps would feel better than the lower rep range.
by t0mas88 | 2026-01-01 17:34:49+00:00
As a long term BMW driver instead of Audi I have the same. I'm swapping one of my two BMWs for a Model Y Premium. Also tried the BYD 7 but the Model Y felt nicer to drive and with more space.

The BMW iX1 is disappointing in range, interior luxury and power. It's below an older 6 series (that I'm switching from), and much less powerful than a Model Y AWD. No idea why BMW thinks they can price it like they do. The other option was the BMW i5 Touring but it's more expensive and feels "old" already.
by falkensmaize | 2026-01-01 17:35:00+00:00
I buy vinyl for one reason - it forces me to actively listen to the music. My teen daughter does the same.

I have many happy memories of getting a new record as kid, laying in the floor and listening from start to finish while poring over liner notes and album art. There was a level of connection with the music that I just don’t get from listening to Spotify while I’m washing the dishes or something.

I know it’s sentimental, but I get so much joy out of watching my daughter do the same thing now. She has a blast going to our local record store, finding records from her favorite bands old and new and then coming home and just listening. No devices, no distractions, just her and the music she loves. In a sometimes horrible and depressing world, it’s a sweet escape.
by nine_k | 2026-01-01 17:35:20+00:00
There is no way to reliably block pop-ups in the general case.

The working way is to block ad networks entirely, because online ads have become unreasonably obnoxious. A web site that critically depends on ads may state so, and refuse to run with ads blocked. (When a site I need says that, I disable my ad blocker. If a site I don't need does that, I close the tab.)

I do believe that good web sites deserve support; I may offer a donation if there is an easy way to do so. I don't mind the donation pop-up on python.org, and even in Wikipedia.

If a site only exists for the purpose of making money off ads, not because the owners care about the content, and the visitors don't care enough either to tolerate ads, then I don't see the shutdown of such a site a big loss.
by BoredPositron | 2026-01-01 17:36:09+00:00
Yes but the headline should reflect that. Generally saying Linux performs worse is a bit of a exaggeration if you only tested one distro. Next time throw in fedora, I wouldn't care about caschy or arch benchmarks because of the reasons you stated but it would give your headline more merit. Especially if the headline is as generalized as it stays at the moment. To be honest it's what I would expect if you see an outlier like we see now.
by bigyabai | 2026-01-01 17:36:23+00:00
> "Pay more and get less" has been the trend

That article doesn't support what you're saying whatsoever. GPU cores going down at the same price point is the opposite of shrinkflation, especially when you consider the US dollar is worth ~40% less than it was in 2012. And VRAM prices aren't going down anywhere, especially now.

> bullshit like fake frames

Fake frames are an option. You can play at native 4K/8K resolution, with the same 2.25-4x cost in power usage and raster compute. It will be miserable, but that's your choice.