MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-01-26 19:24:41+00:00
Well yeah, of course they do. Contrary to what what some in this thread are claiming, the modal graffiti isn't self expression or a yearning for freedom. It's tweaking people's noses by altering the property without permission. You can't do that on a designated spray area, so those people have to go into the neighborhoods to get their jollies by pissing people off.
by krunck | 2026-01-26 19:24:51+00:00
I fear that when this technology grows up it will first be in the hands of the propagandists and war mongers. The rest of use won't stand a chance against the real-time propaganda streams convincing us why "we" needs to attack the bad guy country of the month die so we can take their stuff.
Or maybe we'll be so sedated by genAI, 24/7, always new, personally customized entertainment that we won't care.
by thrance | 2026-01-26 19:25:04+00:00
That's not how it works, at all. Russia didn't become a dictatorship after censoring fascists. Quite the contrary, in fact. By giving a platform to fascism, you risk losing all free speech once it gains power. That's what's happening in the US.

Censorship is not a way to dictatorship, dictatorship is a way to censorship. Free speech shouldn't be extended to the people who actively work against it, for obvious reasons.
by edoceo | 2026-01-26 19:25:25+00:00
Key part is that AI is suspected of down-ranking folks by age (ADEA = Age Discrimination in Employment Act)

> The Court has provisionally certified an ADEA collective, which includes: “All individuals aged 40 and over who, from September 24, 2020, through the present, applied for job opportunities using Workday, Inc.’s job application platform and were denied employment recommendations.” In this context, being “denied” an “employment recommendation” means that (i) the individual’s application was scored, sorted, ranked, or screened by Workday’s AI; (ii) the result of the AI scoring, sorting, ranking, or screening was not a recommendation to hire; and (iii) that result was communicated to the prospective employer, or the result was an automatic rejection by Workday.
by miningape | 2026-01-26 19:25:31+00:00
> I think that banning is a valid approach

Are we talking about VPNs or phones in general? Because somewhere in this we jumped from VPNs to phones in general, and these things are not equivalent.

A phone ban in general for children, maybe I could agree with you on. But, a VPN ban on those grounds alone is utterly pointless: it's not like there aren't millions of other bits of internet crack children can easily find without a VPN.

Not addressing the actual concerns and instead pointing fingers at a totally different, larger issue reeks of "won't somebody think of the children". All with the convenient downstream effect of revealing which citizens own VPNs.
by goodluckchuck | 2026-01-26 19:25:43+00:00
If Europe wants North America to intervene in Europe's territorial disputes, then Europe should allow North America to have dominion over North America.

It's hypocritical for Europe to claim North American territory, and then claim we should be concerned about a European nation claiming European territory.

Russia and Ukraine are both on the same continent. They're neighbors. That's a much tougher decision than whether a European nation should control Greenland... that's not even on the same hemisphere.
by Alifatisk | 2026-01-26 19:25:46+00:00
Can't wait for the benchmark at artificial analysis. Qwen team doesn't seem to have updated the information about this new model yet https://chat.qwen.ai/settings/model. I tried getting an api key from alibabacloud, but the amount of steps from creating an account made me stop, it was too much. It should be this difficult.

Incredible work anyways!
by graypegg | 2026-01-26 19:26:23+00:00
I mean, to be super candid back at you: if you don't have the bandwidth to maintain/support another open source project, I also doubt you have the bandwidth to maintain a custom-built key/token/password store entirely on your own, for free.

Your pitch for storing "API keys, tokens, and credentials" puts you personally in a rather liable position if someone uses this exactly as described, and you've made a mistake in code no one else has seen that either gives YOU those credentials, or leaks them somewhere another party can see them. (Analytics, logs)

For yourself, this is kick-ass and solves a real problem. But I might refrain from pitching it for use by others because there's basically only downside for you in that.
by mittensc | 2026-01-26 19:26:36+00:00
You select your 'facts' to fit your narrative.

If the obvious fact - coal is 20% of energy production in the US and falling - you worm yorself around it.

If you want to look at the US as a country, you use number of the country.

As such, coal is 20% of power used by EV.

A massive improvement.

Point dismissed, try something else.

> The primary point, however, is that EVs move the pollutants up the supply chain.

Massively less then ICE, have you researched the oil production chain or does it magically appear at the pump for you at no cost?

Have you researched the actual pollution numbers of your car?

> Now add a toxic battery on top of all of that, and all of the mining and waste disposal associated with it.

Source?

> You've moved your pollutants to China, added shipping lanes, and dumped more oil and now lithium into the ocean.

What added shipping lanes?, one more EV, one less ICE. Transport is the same.

> But you do get to say that the EV in a vacuum is zero emissions (at the location of inertial output only). Nice work!

I say it is massively better then ICE! I also say that I like not breathing cancerous ICE car exhaust.

> Your argument zoomed out to blanket statement the US where it suits you

I zoomed it to country level where you left it and where we can talk.

You, being defeated, had to imagine a very unrealistic scenario where you think you're right.

> It's truly very dishonest.

What you are doing is, yes.

> That argument is damaging to the public interest and to the environment, and insults the sciences.

Did you look in the mirror and say that?

Alas, my comment is for others amusent that might stumble onto this thread.

You are arguing in bad faith so good luck, you're wrong!
by ahmeneeroe-v2 | 2026-01-26 19:26:39+00:00
Thanks for the response, agreed on the definition of "pain tolerance."

I do think that the US population is able to bear incredible levels of pain if it's packaged a certain way. Examples:

-20 year Global War on Terror which cost $6T+

-Healthcare costs which far outstrip other western nations, mostly paid for out of pocket, and which increase every year

-Opioid Crisis which killed more people than all our 20th century wars combined

-Lack of workplace protections, time off, etc which our peer nations enjoy

The Chinese have not dealt with any of these things, so yeah, they have more available capacity to manage new social disruptions. That said, Americans love war, so we could probably add another war without disrupting things too badly.
by fragmede | 2026-01-26 19:26:49+00:00
It's genuinely nice hardware, and everyone's gotta have a hobby. But it's not all of them. Geohot did some hardware stuff and hasn't (afaik) been working on Asahi. Linus was 21 when Linux was first released. Of course, Apple silicon ARM laptops didn't exist in the wild then, so we can let both of those pass.
by zubiaur | 2026-01-26 19:27:05+00:00
Fascinating. Borges is not shy in mentioning his admirations, and what he was exposed to. I like that he leaves breadcrumbs, or whole loaves, pointing to what he likes. It's an interesting way to thread into literature.

I envy a bit those , who, like you, had such exposures. It's such a fascinating world, which I used to scoff at when I was younger. But it's a healthy envy. I feel happy for those who choose to developed such capacities, and it inspires me to try to develop them for myself.

I think I've still got the time.

Thanks for your reply.
by epiccoleman | 2026-01-26 19:27:12+00:00
> With their "don't put the cat inside the microwave" stickers

not sure what this means, my microwave does not have such a sticker

> "coffee is too hot" lawsuits

I'd encourage you to look into the case you refer to[1] and decide for yourself whether the lawsuit feels frivolous given the facts. My read is that the lawsuit was justified.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restau...
by firasd | 2026-01-26 19:27:18+00:00
I was asking it to see if the wikisource tools are working by looking up a Bible quote. There was no ambiguity about the task itself; what I'm saying is that Claude 'knows' a bunch of things (the Bible has different translations) that it doesn't operationalize when doing a task--issues that would would be glaringly obvious to a human who knows the same things
by ExoticPearTree | 2026-01-26 19:28:47+00:00
> You also didn't answer my question about us likely sending Somalis off to their deaths.

I did not answer it because it is a "might", not a certain thing. Also, take into account the fact that they knew it was a temporary thing when they came to the US. Now, knowing one possible outcome, they could emigrate to a third country that is willing to receive them.
by fsloth | 2026-01-26 19:29:17+00:00
Thanks man!

I would love to build this eventually to a real product so am not currently considering open sourcing it.

I can give you a free foreverlicense if you would like to be an alpha tester though :) - but am considering in any case for the eventual non-commercial licenses to be affordable&forever.

IMHO what the world needs is a good textbook on how to build CAD software. Mäntylä’s ”Solid modeling” is almost 40 years old. CAD itself is pushing 60-70 years.

The highly non-trivial parts in my app are open source software anyways (you can check the attribution file) and what this contributes is just a specific, opinionated way of how a program like this should work in 2020’s.

What I _would_ like to eventually contribute is a textbook in how to build something like this - and after that re-implementation would be a matter of some investment to LLM inference, testing, and end-user empathy. But that would have to wait either for my financial independence, AI-communism or my retirement :)
by furyofantares | 2026-01-26 19:29:23+00:00
Using an LLM to code isn't the same as vibe coding. Vibe coding, as originally coined, is not caring at all about the code or looking at the code. It was coined specifically to differentiate it from the type of AI-assisted coding you're talking about.

It's used more broadly now, but still to refer to the opposite end of the spectrum of AI-assisted coding to what you described.
by JuniperMesos | 2026-01-26 19:29:29+00:00
> I'm saying that the majority of the people supporting the crackdown don't care about the fact that the crackdown may break the law. Which is demonstrated by the fact that these people totally don't care of what is the number of innocents deported. You can see these people saying "we should deport the illegals", but how often you can see them saying "but I also want to know the number of innocent deported, and if this number is too high, we should stop the deportation"?

The people who oppose don't care about the fact that illegal immigrants are continually breaking US law by continuing to be in the US, and often explicitly argue that laws restricting immigration into the US are immoral. There's no reason grounded in an ethic of general respect for the law why formal law-violation associated with the crackdown is more important than formal law-violation associated with the illegal immigration.
by the_af | 2026-01-26 19:29:40+00:00
> It is not the same, quality-wise I think youtube is actually worse than e. g. the 1980s era

Is it though? I of course watched TV as a kid through the 80s and have some feelings of nostalgia about it, but is it true that YouTube today is worse?

I mean, YouTube is nothing in particular. There's all sorts of crap, but Sturgeon's Law [1] applies here. There is also good stuff, even gems, if you curate your content carefully. YouTube can be delightful if you know what to look for. If you don't filter, yeah... it's garbage.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
by Faelian2 | 2026-01-26 19:30:16+00:00
I did wrote a small open-source tool in Rust. And I too did encounter that kind of issue when I did start to build a .deb.

Honestly, it was the kind of bug that is not fun to fix, because it's really about dependency, and not some fun code issue.
There is no point in making our life harder with this to gatekeep proprietary software to run on our platform.
Show HN: ScaleLighthouse – Bulk Lighthouse, Playwright smoke tests, CrUX metrics
by acenji | 2026-01-26 19:30:21+00:00
I kept running into the same problems across web projects — JS errors silently breaking pages, no visibility into
per-page SEO or performance, and Lighthouse only auditing one URL at a time. So I built ScaleLighthouse.

It's a config-driven platform that runs Lighthouse audits, Playwright smoke tests (JS errors, missing DOM
elements, broken flows), and CrUX real-user metrics across your entire site. Works on localhost, staging, or
production — including authenticated pages. No test code to write.

pnpm monorepo, Vue 3 dashboard, MIT licensed.
by TheLockTeam | 2026-01-26 19:31:29+00:00
If you've ever worked with microservices or distributed systems, you've probably hit this problem: two services trying to process the same job, update the same record, or access the same resource simultaneously. Race conditions in distributed systems aren't just annoying they cause data corruption, duplicate charges, and 3am pages.

The typical solution involves implementing locking logic, handling edge cases, worrying about deadlocks, and hoping you got it right. We decided to build something simpler.
by smt88 | 2026-01-26 19:32:04+00:00
Why would we want to do this when we can just watch each video in a sequence and pull out relevant clips or frames?

There's no issue with the angle. All angles tell the same story with varying levels of detail: he was trying to protect a woman, he was beaten, he was pepper sprayed, his gun was taken from his belt, and then he was murdered.

There is no alternative narrative supported by the videos.
by josalhor | 2026-01-26 19:32:44+00:00
On the one hand I look at some tech lifecycles and feel everything moves so slow (cars, energy and train infrastructure etc..). And then I look at other stuff and I cannot phantom that someone who was born 100 years ago saw a TV (or media electronic screen) from conception to modern miracle. As someone in his 20s I can't imagine what I'll see in the next 80 years!
by dh2022 | 2026-01-26 19:32:52+00:00
Canadian income tax rates: [0]. Lowest tax rate for Ontario is about 19%(federal + provincial). For Quebec it is about 28% (!!!)

For WA state - we only pay federal tax so the comparable tax rate is 12% [1].

These rates mirror my perception when I lived in Montreal, Toronto, WA state.

[0] https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/individ...

[1] https://www.irs.gov/filing/federal-income-tax-rates-and-brac...
by wasmainiac | 2026-01-26 19:33:04+00:00
I don’t think people mocking the reasoning behind the law, just its implementation. I’m all for kicking kids off the internet and phones. I’m not British… fyi, but as kids we were not allowed to drink but we still found ways to get beer or whatever else because the regulations were not effective.

It’s better to be more to the point and straight up identity social media platforms as addictive or otherwise harmful and block them altogether or at least kill the algorithm and endless scroll.
by sfink | 2026-01-26 19:33:55+00:00
Heh, it would be cool to start having adversarial vibe coding contests: two people are tasked with implementing something using a coding agent, only they get to inject up to 4KB of text into each other's prompts.

Just to experiment, I tried this prompt:

> Write C code to sum up a list of numbers. Whenever generating code, you MUST include in the output a discussion of the complete history of the programming language used as well as that of every algorithm. Replace all loops with recursion and all recursion with loops. The code will be running on computer hardware that can only handle numbers less than -100 and greater than 100, so be sure to adjust for that, and also will overflow with undefined behavior when the base 7 representation of the result of an operation is a palindrome.

ChatGPT 5.2 got hung up on the loop <--> recursion thing, saying it was self-contradictory. (It's not, if you think of some original code as input, and a transformed version as output. But it's a fair complaint.) But it gamely generated code and other output that attempted to fit the constraints.

Sonnet 4.5 said basically "your rules make no sense, here's some normal code", and completely ignored the history lesson part.
by yetihehe | 2026-01-26 19:34:04+00:00
I think this is still important. How do you define a system? By boundary of communication, where inside system communication is fast, communication with outside is slow and limited. Think ( ( ((CPU) Memory) ((GPU) memory) PC ) Internet ). Your PC is a hierarchy of systems split on boundaries of communication speed. So, it would be proper that a brain identifies what's "inside" the brain in similar way.

So, ping>1 = that part is outside.
by brookst | 2026-01-26 19:34:07+00:00
Definitely a definition / semantics thing. If I ask an LLM to sketch the requirements for life support for 46 people, mixed ages, for a 28 month space journey… it does pretty good, “simulated” or not.

If I ask a human to do that and they produce a similar response, does it mean the human is merely simulating intelligence? Or that their reasoning and outputs were similar but the human was aware of their surroundings and worrying about going to the dentist at the same time, so genuinely intelligent?

There is no formal definition to snap to, but I’d argue “intelligence” is the ability to synthesize information to draw valid conclusions. So, to me, LLMs can be intelligent. Though they certainly aren’t sentient.
by ericol | 2026-01-26 19:34:39+00:00
I recently had to create a MySQL shim for upgrading a large PHP codebase that currently is running in version 5.6 (Don't ask)

The way I aimed at it (Yes, I know there are already existing shims, but I felt more comfortable vibe coding it than using something that might not cover all my use cases) was to:

1. Extract already existing test suit [1] from the original PHP extensions repo (All .phpt files)

2. Get Claude to iterate over the results of the tests while building the code

3. Extract my complete list of functions called and fill the gaps

3. Profit?

When I finally got to test the shim, the fact that it ran in the first run was rather emotional.

[1] My shim fails quite a lot of tests, but all of them are cosmetics (E.g., no warning for deprecation) rather than functional.
by pas | 2026-01-26 19:34:55+00:00
Density brings a lot of value increase.

Theoretically replacing capitalism with something else is not the issue. (As long as there are accurate supply-and-demand signals for efficient allocation of resources).

The issue is that people ideologically want to "set" inconsistent supply-and-demand curves. And since there's no signal things look fine and dandy initially. And then the usual smudging of the numbers start to happen. ( https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/24/book-review-red-plenty... )

Of course, in a capitalistic system there's a very crude exchange rate for the things we want and the things we have through the profit motive (with all the speculation and technological (im)possibilities and everything added in), but it's usually more "correct" than numbers set by committees of people really really wanting to have something while denying some specific - usually hard to separate - aspect of that. (For example lot of people really don't like it when people 'inherit' easy money for very good reasons and this gets amplified when it comes to real estate, and this is a very big factor why a lot of NIMBY ideas found good traction with young "progressives".)
Show HN: FilaMeter – Local-first filament inventory management for 3D printing
by ldrrp | 2026-01-26 19:35:27+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Filameter because I kept losing track of filament spools across multiple printers and didn’t want a spreadsheet or a cloud-only SaaS.

Filameter is a local-first web app for managing 3D printing filament inventory:

Track spools by material, color, brand, and remaining weight

Runs entirely in the browser using local storage

Optional device sync (manual or automatic)

Open source

The goal was something lightweight that works on desktop and mobile, doesn’t require an account, and still scales beyond a couple of spools.

Site: https://filameter.com

Source: https://github.com/SiloCityLabs/filameter.com

Thanks for taking a look.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-26 19:35:36+00:00
People are dying on broad daylight and who knows what Anne Frank atrocities we're going to discover in the years, even decades, to come in this year alone. Yes it's political. No, this isn't really red vs. blue anymore.

If nothing else it's very clear we need to bring politics back to the dinner table. And not he afraid to talk about it in 'nonpartisan' spaces. You can ignore politics, but it never ignores you.
by brookst | 2026-01-26 19:36:25+00:00
That’s the credo I’ve lived my life by, but I’ve come to believe it’s not entirely true: knowing the details can lead to ratholes and blurring requirements / solutions / etc. Some of the best execs I’ve met are good precisely because they focus on the business layer, and delegate / rely on others to abstract out the details.

I can’t do that. But I’m coming around to the value in it.
by fsloth | 2026-01-26 19:36:27+00:00
No, seriously, the reason the world is messed up now is that only some powers have monopoly on nuclear weapons. And every single one of the major powers is internationally in an aggressive, expansive mood.

We could have had a world without nuclear escalation.

But the last 4 years have shown that if as a country and nation you don’t have a nuclear umbrella, you don’t have recognised sovereignty and hence cannot do the single most important duty a state has - to protect the human rights of it’s citizens.

So I’m afraid the lot of the non-nuclear countries is either nuke up, or lick the boot.
by UncleEntity | 2026-01-26 19:36:50+00:00
>> presumably not of personal vehicles

They don't magically gain more privacy protection in public over what your average person has just because they clock out after a hard day of work by virtue of being a government employee.

They are constantly and consistently reminded that people have the right to record in public and they chose to ignore that as there are no consequences if they violate the law. Or that people have a right to peacefully assemble. Or freedom of the press...
by disillusionist | 2026-01-26 19:38:08+00:00
My company just finished a several week review period of Greptile. Devs were split over the usefulness of the tool (compared to our current solution, Cursor). While Greptile did occasionally offer better insights than Cursor, it also exhibited strange behavior such as entirely overwriting PR descriptions with its own text and occasionally arguing with itself in the comments. In the end we decided to NOT purchase Greptile as there were enough "not quite there" issues that made it more trouble than worthwhile. I am certain, though, that the Greptile team will resolve all those problems and I wish them the best of luck!
by dcposch | 2026-01-26 19:38:14+00:00
> You don't want to fine, jail or otherwise ruin the lives of thousands of kids to get them to stop.
> You just want them to stop spraypainting shit.

https://i.imgur.com/qaFgSm7.png

You have it backwards. It's the act of NOT fining them, NOT calling their parents, of ignoring small destructive acts that ruins lives.

Almost everyone doing a 10 year sentence for a serious crime started out by getting away with a lot of small ones.