MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JBorrow | 2026-01-27 20:09:44+00:00
From my perspective as a journal editor and a reviewer these kinds of tools cause many more problems than they actually solve. They make the 'barrier to entry' for submitting vibed semi-plausible journal articles much lower, which I understand some may see as a benefit. The drawback is that scientific editors and reviewers provide those services for free, as a community benefit. One example was a submission their undergraduate affiliation (in accounting) to submit a paper on cosmology, entirely vibe-coded and vibe-written. This just wastes our (already stretched) time. A significant fraction of submissions are now vibe-written and come from folks who are looking to 'boost' their CV (even having a 'submitted' publication is seen as a benefit), which is really not the point of these journals at all.

I'm not sure I'm convinced of the benefit of lowering the barrier to entry to scientific publishing. The hard part always has been, and always will be, understanding the research context (what's been published before) and producing novel and interesting work (the underlying research). Connecting this together in a paper is indeed a challenge, and a skill that must be developed, but is really a minimal part of the process.
Show HN: DocEndorse – An AI assistant that runs your e-sign workflow in chat
by kariopaul | 2026-01-27 20:09:46+00:00
DocEndorse is an AI-powered e-signature assistant that lets you prepare, send, track, and follow up on documents through natural language instead of forms and drag-and-drop editors.

You can tell it what you want (“Send this NDA to John for signature”), and it will:
• Find the right document and contacts
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• Assign signer roles
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• Send requests via email, SMS, WhatsApp, or Microsoft Teams
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It supports the full e-signature lifecycle: self-signing, sending requests, templates, reminders, resends, and real-time status updates. Follow-ups are generated automatically with tone and timing adjusted based on progress.

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by Izikiel43 | 2026-01-27 20:10:02+00:00
Yeah, I was chatting with a friend living in Spain once, and ascending the ladder in responsibility didn't make sense, as whatever salary increase he got would be heavily taxed, and it didn't make sense to bear much more responsibility for just a little bit of extra money a year.

As you say, avg workers are "fine" there, but for anyone trying to standout or grow in their career, they will hit an income ceiling very fast due to the high taxation, so it doesn't make sense to keep on growing as you are not properly rewarded for it.
by ethan_l_shen | 2026-01-27 20:10:08+00:00
Hey! These are great observations. So first, while TTS can improve performance, we wanted to evaluate the raw capability of our model. This meant generating only one rollout per evaluation instance, which follows other papers in the space like SWE-smith and BugPilot. In addition, TTS adds extra inference cost and is reliant on how rollouts are ranked, two confounding factors for deployable models where memory and inference speed are extremely important.

Following that line of reasoning, context length is another very large confounding factor. Longer context lengths improve performance - but also result in enormous increases in KV cache size and memory requirements. We decide to control for this in our paper and focus at the 32K context length for 32B size models, a context length that already pushes the bounds of what can be "deployable" locally.

Still, we evaluate at 64K context length using YARN and are able to outperform CWM's 54% performance (non TTS), which it achieves using 128K context, a substantial increase over what we use. This is also pretty significant because we only ever train at 32K context, but CWM trains for a full 128K.
by trhway | 2026-01-27 20:10:16+00:00
>Even if so, it does not contradict the idea that his actions may have been unlawful and thus can be punished according to crimial law.

What "criminal law" you're referring to? If Russian - then not really. Uniformity of law application and enforcement is that makes law legitimate. Using the law as political prosecution tool clearly undermines the legitimacy of the law, at least when it used in such a way (and Interpol clearly responds to Russia in those requests that Interpol doesn't take part in political prosecution).

Right now Russia has no legitimate laws. Even killers and rapers are getting pardoned after signing up for war for just 6 or 18 months. Some of them have already returned, killed and raped again. The financial and economic crimes laws are used only when government people want to punish somebody for either political reasons or for not paying [enough] bribes.

That again isn't the judgement on this guy's crimes. If he say stole from somebody, and that somebody can bring a suit and prove it in say an Europe or US court - i'm all for that.
by thisislife2 | 2026-01-27 20:10:21+00:00
I have no idea what country's legal system you referring to. My broad understanding is that most Islamic empires allowed the minorities to retain their own personal laws on some legal matters (marriage, divorce, inheritance etc) as Sharia laws were largely Islamic, for muslims. From today's modern perspective many things that was done by many former empires of the past would be problematic. Like I said, you will only get a warped view of history if you try to analyse it by applying modern principles. By and large, for their time, Islamic empires were largely egalitarian towards their citizens. (The Ottoman empire's secular history undermines sharia claims - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2011/oct/07... ). If you want to judge them by their worst examples, you can ofcourse "prove" the worst that you imagine of them.

> Imagine Utah taxing non-Mormons because they don’t tithe

Mormons don't pay their tithe to the government. In the Islamic empire, it was the government that collected the 'tithe' from the muslims after calculating their wealth. So you can imagine how disgruntled muslim citizens would have been, every year, when the tax collector only came to collect money from them and not from the non-muslims. It was this kind of social unrest that lead to the imposition of the Jizya on non-muslims.
Ask HN: What are you optimistic about in the age of AI?
by annodomini2019 | 2026-01-27 20:10:21+00:00
As a senior-almost-staff engineer just having turned 30, I feel pretty pessimistic about AI and how much it's going to affect the lives and careers of myself and my peers. I see people optimistic about AI for how it can impact and improve society but also at a personal level for their own careers. What should I be looking towards to not despair for the future?
by mmooss | 2026-01-27 20:10:21+00:00
> This is a tale as old as time.

> But the Project 2025 changes we saw were unique.

I'm not sure what you're saying. Until the last paragraph, you seem to say that it's just the same thing continuing.

As an academic you know that such claims are irrelevant without quantifying them. For example, the US has had inflation continuously for decades; does that mean recent inflation is not significant? How about 1980 compared with 1960? If my town is washed away by a flood, I don't say, 'we've always had rain'.
by cj | 2026-01-27 20:10:47+00:00
But, why care? (Yes, we can “care” that there was a leak - but… why worry? what new risk exists today that didn’t yesterday?)

The data in the leak (other than follower count, etc) was already available for purchase from Zoominfo, 8sense, or a variety of other data brokers or other legal marketplaces for PII.

I suppose the risk now is that the data is freely available and no longer behind a data broker’s paywall?
by kayodelycaon | 2026-01-27 20:10:51+00:00
A large number of people don’t want the existing system.

They want Jesus on the throne, enforcing morality and making sure the poor people to work instead of being lazy grifters that take good people’s hard-earned money.

This isn’t a hot take. I’m a Christian who grew up that community. :(

It’s everywhere. And I hate what they are
doing to my LGBTQ friends.
by augusteo | 2026-01-27 20:10:57+00:00
The ahmadyan comparison is fair. Meta's CWM models hitting 65% vs SERA's 54% is a meaningful gap.

But the interesting number here isn't accuracy. It's the $400 to reproduce top open-source performance. That's the part that matters for teams building internal tooling.

We've been running agents on proprietary codebases at work. The pain isn't model quality. It's customization. Most off-the-shelf agents don't understand your repo structure, your conventions, your test patterns. If you can fine-tune a 32B model on your own codebase for a few hundred dollars, that changes the economics completely.

But codebases changes everyday, so finetuning will have to be continuously done!

Probably not worth it versus something like Claude Code.

Curious whether anyone's tried this on non-Python codebases. Most SWE-Bench stuff is Python-heavy.
by natmaka | 2026-01-27 20:11:01+00:00
> 8bn/unit is successful considering that FL3 was 23bn.

Yes, a failure is better than a disaster. As we say in France, "in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."

> Korea also announced their plan.

For 25 years, numerous announcements of this kind have been made by many nations, without any real intention of following through, and for various reasons (electoral considerations, will to create competition for renewable energy suppliers, etc.).

Only projects that are actually starting (on the ground) provide a good indication.

> Energiewende
> spends more than the entire French fleet

The actual cost of this fleet is considerably higher than official estimates. Details and sources in French: https://sites.google.com/view/electricitedefrance/accueil#h....

> after 25 years to have much worse emissions

This comparison is invalid, for many reasons.

On the one hand, France's transition to nuclear power began with the first industrial nuclear power reactor (dubbed "EDF1") in 1957. In 1959, the project for the power plant that would be completed in Chooz in 1967 began, and as early as 1964, nuclear power was presented to the public as the energy source that would take over in 1975 (correctly predicting that in Europe it would produce 25% of electricity 20 years later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6Xfu8u3Yqw).

As early as 1972, two years before the launch of the Messmer Plan, nuclear power in France produced 15 TWh, or about 11% of its electricity: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-primary-energy-fos...

Then the Messmer Plan, considerably accelerating this nuclearization, started in 1974 and was completed in 1999 (Civaux-2 reactor): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Chrono-parc-nucleaire-...

This nuclearization lasted approximately 40 years.

Furthermore, nuclear power did not replace a huge set of existing electricity-producing sector, such as coal in Germany, because in 1970 France produced about four times less electricity than at the end of its nuclear power deployment: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-production-by...

Moreover, this was a very prosperous period, as France fully benefited from the "Thirty Glorious Years": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trente_Glorieuses

Other major differences exist.

In short: comparing France's nuclearization with the Energiewende is extremely difficult, and a direct comparison absurd.

> planning to have 80GW of gas-fired power plants

In early 2026, Germany announced it would deploy new gas-fired power plants. The impact depends on the corresponding emissions. If they are only all active for a few hours a year to get through critical periods and (as planned) replace coal or primarily burn green hydrogen, for example, then it will be progress (reducing emissions). The best-case scenario is a full renewable fleet but Rome wasn't built...
by alephnerd | 2026-01-27 20:11:23+00:00
All automotive goods in India below the $17,800 pricepoint are "Made in India", not China.

Chinese manufacturers got hounded out and as a result the PRC tried [1] and failed [0] to weaponize the WTO against India [0] for India trying to subsidize GreenTech driven industrialization.

Chinese manufacturers are allowed to enter India, but on terms similar to what the PRC used when Western, Japanese, and Korean players began entering the Chinese market - something which German policymakers even pointed out [2].

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-files-wto-case-aga...

[1] - https://www.reuters.com/world/china/india-stops-chinas-reque...

[2] - https://table.media/china/thema-des-tages/indien-weshalb-chi...
by nathan_compton | 2026-01-27 20:11:27+00:00
Really think about this claim: "private sector does some things better." What evidence is there of this really that isn't anecdotal? There are so many things tossed around like this which sound plausible but for which I can't think of a definitive, conclusive, account.

For example: the public sector literally send humans to the moon with technology vastly inferior to that which we currently have at our disposal. Heck, the Soviet Union put a probe on the surface of Venus and sent back images. To me, it is not at all clear that "private sector better" is a foregone conclusion. At best you could make the strong claim that contemporary economic theory predicts that private sector companies do better.
by palmotea | 2026-01-27 20:11:27+00:00
> I really wonder how my life would be different if someone told be that the US, which for me was as close to a paradise as it gets, will go down the same road in the future - I think it would shatter quite a lot of my dreams of a better life.

That reminds me of one of the things that stuck with me from The Man in the High Castle (the book). The main story is an alternate timeline where the Nazis/Japanese won WWII and conquered America. Then there's an alternate-timeline-within-the-alternate-timeline where America/Britain won WWII, but it's not our timeline (and it's hinted there that the liberal US was eventually defeated by a British Empire gone full authoritarian). Everything passes away. The good guys sometimes win, but eventually they lose too.
by patmorgan23 | 2026-01-27 20:11:29+00:00
This has been a strong part of Rust culture for a long time. One might remember last year when Ted T'so started yelling at someone given a presentation on rust at a Linux developer conference. The thing the presenter kept saying was "we need your (c developers) help in figuring out the semantic meeting of this code so we can encode it in the rust version"

https://lowendbox.com/blog/nontechnical-nonsense-rust-stirs-...
by 2001zhaozhao | 2026-01-27 20:11:41+00:00
The directionally interesting part is that according to the announcement, K2.5 seems to be trained specifically to create sub-agents and work in an agent swarm usefully. The key part is that you don't need to manually create or prompt sub-agents, K2.5 creates them automatically, so from the looks of things it's similar to Claude Code dynamic sub-agents except the model is trained to scale to many more agents autonomously.

I wonder whether Claude is doing the same kind of training and it's coming with the next model, and that's why the agent swarm mode in Claude Code is hidden for now. We might be getting very very good agent orchestrators/swarms very soon.
by ssl-3 | 2026-01-27 20:12:11+00:00
No. We don't have roads like that here where I am. At all.

But when I've lived in larger cities that did feature such expansive roadways, the supermarket was also less than a ~5 minute drive away.

In one instance, it was close enough that I'd walk there instead of drive -- even for a couple of tomatoes, just to stretch my legs. That was a fairly opulent store as such places go, but there was a Kroghetto just a block further out if I felt like being cheap today.

(And I refuse to be baited into a discussion about how cars are, or are not, evil. I am powerlesss to change that, or to change anyone's views. That's a complete non-starter of a conversation that is absolutely devoid of merit.

I can only piss with the cock I've got.)
by ethan_l_shen | 2026-01-27 20:12:33+00:00
Hey! We are able to outperform Devstral-Small-2-24B when specializing on repositories, and come well within the range of uncertainty with our best SERA-32B model. That being said, our model is a bit larger than Devstral 24B. Could you point out what in the paper gave the impression that we were smaller? If theres something unclear we would love to revise
by augusteo | 2026-01-27 20:12:54+00:00
> I don't see the point of JSX, seems to decrease type safety

JSX compiles to typed function calls. The type safety is in the component definitions, not the syntax.

The real question is whether video composition is actually hierarchical enough to benefit from JSX. For simple clips, probably overkill. But once you're layering talking heads, captions, b-roll, and transitions, the tree structure starts making sense.

The hardest part isn't the generation. It's the orchestration. Caching, retry logic, stitching outputs from multiple providers. A declarative layer that handles that automatically is genuinely useful.
by culi | 2026-01-27 20:12:59+00:00
I posted this elsewhere but thought I'd repost here:

* https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard — crowd-sourced head-to-head battles between models using ELO

* https://dashboard.safe.ai/ — CAIS' incredible dashboard

* https://clocks.brianmoore.com/ — a visual comparison of how well models can draw a clock. A new clock is drawn every minute

* https://eqbench.com/ — emotional intelligence benchmarks for LLMs

* https://www.ocrarena.ai/battle — OCR battles, ELO

* https://mafia-arena.com/ — LLMs playing the social deduction game Mafia

* https://openrouter.ai/rankings — marketshare based on OpenRouter
by MarkusWandel | 2026-01-27 20:13:05+00:00
My only experience with Linux secure boot so far.... I wasn't even aware that it was secure booted. And I needed to run something (I think it was the Displaylink driver) that needs to jam itself into the kernel. And the convoluted process to do it failed (it's packaged for Ubuntu but I was installing it on a slightly outdated Fedora system).

What, this part is only needed for secure boot? I'm not sec... oh. So go back to the UEFI settings, turn secure boot off, problem solved. I usually also turn off SELinux right after install.

So I'm an old greybeard who likes to have full control. Less secure. But at least I get the choice. Hopefully I continue to do so. The notion of not being able to access online banking services or other things that require account login, without running on a "fully attested" system does worry me.
by davidstrauss | 2026-01-27 20:13:22+00:00
Hi, I'm David, founding product lead.

Our entire team will be at FOSDEM, and we'd be thrilled to meet more of the Mullvad team. Protecting systems like yours is core to us. We want to understand how we put the right roots of trust and observability into your hands.

Edit: I've reached out privately by email for next steps, as you requested.
by dTal | 2026-01-27 20:13:57+00:00
Thanks for the reassurance, the first ray of sunshine in this otherwise rather alarming thread. Your words ring true.

It would be a lot more reassuring if we knew what the business model actually was, or indeed anything else at all about this. I remain somewhat confused as to the purpose of this announcement when no actual information seems to be forthcoming. The negative reactions seen here were quite predictable, given the sensitive topic and the little information we do have.
by spinity | 2026-01-27 20:14:04+00:00
To be honest, I’m not trying to hold back on technical details. At its core, this is simply an integrated bearing structure, so the overall concept itself is quite straightforward.

What we’ve been more cautious about sharing at this stage are the manufacturing and process details, since the project is still in its early phase. I understand that this can sometimes come across as being less transparent, and that’s a fair concern.

One example that genuinely surprised us during testing was that laser engraving caused slight deformation, which affected how smoothly the ring could spin. Because of that, we decided to move to a different engraving method to preserve performance.

Either way, I truly appreciate the feedback and suggestions. Until I’ve properly edited my “beer story,” I’ll take a step back from posting here for now.

Thanks again for taking the time to engage and share your perspective.
by Macha | 2026-01-27 20:14:25+00:00
I've had the opposite experience, it's been a long time listening to people going "It's really good now" before it developed to a permutation that was actually worth the time to use it.

ChatGPT 3.5/4 (2023-2024): The chat interface was verbose and clunky and it was just... wrong... like 70+% of the time. Not worth using.

CoPilot autocomplete and Gitlab Duo and Junie (late 2024-early 2025): Wayyy too aggressive at guessing exactly what I wasn't doing and hijacked my tab complete when pre-LLM type-tetris autocomplete was just more reliable.

Copilot Edit/early Cursor (early 2025): Ok, I can sort of see uses here but god is picking the right files all the time such a pain as it really means I need to have figured out what I wanted to do in such detail already that what was even the point? Also the models at that time just quickly descended into incoherency after like three prompts, if it went off track good luck ever correcting it.

Copilot Agent mode / Cursor (late 2025): Ok, great, if the scope is narrowly scoped, and I'm either going to write the tests for it or it's refactoring existing code it could do something. Like something mechanical like the library has a migration where we need to replace the use of methods A/B/C and replace them with a different combination of X/Y/Z. great, it can do that. Or like CRUD controller #341. I mean, sure, if my boss is going to pay for it, but not life changing.

Zed Agent mode / Cursor agent mode / Claude code (early 2026): Finally something where I can like describe the architecture and requirements of a feature, let it code, review that code, give it written instructions on how to clean it up / refactor / missing tests, and iterate.

But that was like 2 years of "really it's better and revolutionary now" before it actually got there. Now maybe in some languages or problem domains, it was useful for people earlier but I can understand people who don't care about "but it works now" when they're hearing it for the sixth time.

And I mean, what one hand gives the other takes away. I have a decent amount of new work dealing with MRs from my coworkers where they just grabbed the requirements from a stakeholder, shoved it into Claude or Cursor and it passed the existing tests and it's shipped without much understanding. When they wrote them themselves, they tested it more and were more prepared to support it in production...
by adev_ | 2026-01-27 20:14:29+00:00
European researcher here.

There is an other thing that should make America worry.

Research grants have been cut everywhere in the US. That cuts deep and terminated many scientific collaborations between USA and the EU Horizons projects in many STEMs research fields.

That created a void.... and sciences is like nature: it hates void (and the lack of money...)

My perception in the domain is that the resulting void is been fulfilled everywhere by new collaborations with China. Because China has the money, the infrastructures, the will to progress and a shit ton of smart engineers/PhDs.

There is today 10x more conferences in China... more exchange with China... more common projects with China than 10y ago.

So congratulations to the Trump team: your stupidity and your hate for intellectualism is directly fueling new technologies to the country you consider 'your enemy'.