MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wahnfrieden | 2026-01-15 15:44:12+00:00
According to OpenAI it's something like 4.2% of the use. But this data is from before Codex added subscription support and I think only covers ChatGPT (back when most people were using ChatGPT for coding work, before agents got good).

https://i.imgur.com/0XG2CKE.jpeg
Ask HN: What to teach my kid if AI does math and CS?
by devShark | 2026-01-15 15:44:15+00:00
I am home-schooling my kid. He shares my interest in math and CS, and he's really good at it.

I've been cheering him on a path towards academic success in these 2 fields. In parts because I am not much use at anything else, in parts because he likes it, in parts because that's where I found some measure of success in life.

However, I can't go through a day without reading another article about how AI solved an Erdös problem previously unsolved by humans[1], is getting gold medals at International Mathematical Olympiads[2], is replacing coders at Microsoft[3] and even architects[4].

This makes me really question what I am doing.

Sure, people tell me what matters is training your brain, it's never about the skill itself, but learning to learn, etc...
Maybe that's right, but somehow, I can't shake the feeling that I am setting my kid on a path that leads directly into a solid brick wall.

What are the alternatives though?

Play video games all day long and wait for Universal Basic Income to kick in?

Encourage him to pivot towards humanities subject he has no strong interest in, that I would not be great at teaching, and that I've been taught young do not lead to great job opportunities?

Forget math and CS, and teach him how to build and run businesses, banning the reading of any article that shows AI might also be taking this over?

Close my eyes, do not listen to this feeling inside, and continue to teach python generators and linear algebra?

Does anyone have any suggestion, or random comment?

[1]: https://officechai.com/ai/gpt-5-2-and-harmonic-appear-to-have-autonomously-solved-an-erdos-problem-that-had-been-unsolved-by-humans-thus-far/

[2]: https://intuitionlabs.ai/articles/ai-reasoning-math-olympiad-imo

[3]: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/microsoft-ceo-says-up-to-30-of-the-companys-code-was-written-by-ai/

[4]: https://x.com/rakyll/status/2007239758158975130
by delta_p_delta_x | 2026-01-15 15:44:46+00:00
Okay... and? I'm not saying 'let's only do nuclear, and not bother about wind/solar/tidal'. I'm saying there is plenty of money to go around, and it doesn't hurt to spend some of that to diversify our power generation and have some reliable, non-polluting, highly power-dense, high-tech base load (nuclear) that can be quickly throttled to meet demand, and is generally resistant to most environmental conditions.

The Chinese, Indian, Indonesian, French, British, and even Singaporean[1] (of all places, one might expect a tiny equatorial city-state to be the last place to think about nuclear, but it is all the same, because nuclear is ridiculously power-dense) governments seem to agree with me.

[1]: https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/singapore-seriou...
by observationist | 2026-01-15 15:45:18+00:00
You also need the formal mechanisms by which rule of law is upheld, protected against mob rule, and has a feedback loop in which course correction is possible. A culture hostile to power isn't stable without stable principles and a leviathan by which those principles persist, which is the whole point of the American experiment. The founding documents laid out a system intended to address the problems of the era, persist into the future, and adapt to the needs of each generation while protecting and maximizing the liberty of each individual.

If all you've got is uniform hostility to power, you've lost the plot and won't ever get past small scale tribalism.
by rickydroll | 2026-01-15 15:45:21+00:00
Your point about developing markets resonates for me in a different area. Instead of layering mobile phones on top of landlines, many developing markets went straight to mobile phones. Another thing to consider is that solar/wind is an incremental expansion of power capacity, versus the "big bang" expansion of nuclear capacity.

To your point about the fossil fuel cliff, I think it was either a Bloomberg or Forbes article that discussed how China's deep involvement in the EV/battery/solar/wind Expansion in dozens of countries around the world gives it a chance to put a serious dent in oil consumption as well as locking American interests out of developing markets.
Show HN: I lost €50K to non-paying clients, so I built an AI contract platform
by deduxer | 2026-01-15 15:45:26+00:00
Hey HN,

I'm Roma, 21, from Bucharest, Romania. At 20 I was running a 12-person design studio doing €250K/year.

Then I lost €50K+ to clients who never paid. No contracts, just trust. Studio collapsed, I took €40K in debt.

That experience led me to build Accordio – an AI-powered contract and payment platform for freelancers.

The core idea: paste your meeting notes, AI extracts scope/deliverables/payment terms and generates a proposal.

Client accepts → contract auto-generates. Contract signed → invoice auto-generates.

Everything interlinked, no re-entering data across 4 different tools.

Tech stack: Next.js, Supabase, Claude for AI, Stripe Connect for payments, custom e-signature system (built from scratch – DocuSign API was too expensive).

The AI has memory...it learns your rates, terms, clients over time. Not just one-off generation.

Built it for freelancers like me.

Been "vibe coding" this for 2 years... before the term even existed.

Would love feedback from HN.
by re-thc | 2026-01-15 15:45:31+00:00
> I would think that if they were serious they would commit to cofinancing new foundries or signing long term minimum purchasing agreements.

That would ruin TSMC and others' independence.

Nvidia already did buy Intel shares so it is a thing.

Nvidia did discuss with TSMC for more capacity many times. It's not about financing or minimum purchasing agreements. TSMC played along during COVID and got hit.
by irl_zebra | 2026-01-15 15:45:35+00:00
Slamming people into the ground, firing tear gas canisters into their faces, or killing them are not valid remedies for the state to take even if obstruction is happening. (even if they're being like really annoying with whistles and stuff!)

edit: even if they referred to the ICE agent as "fatty fat fat fat" meanly
by lukev | 2026-01-15 15:45:36+00:00
They've definitely using tools like this for a while. It's been true under all administrations, and it's always been a problem. Privacy advocates have been alerting on this for a while.

Physically attacking citizens takes it to another level.

It's one thing for tech companies to be complicit in eroding privacy, it's quite another to be complicit in overt fascism.
by CodeMage | 2026-01-15 15:45:48+00:00
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? If all ICE did was deport immigrants, following the established laws and procedures, I would agree with you. As it stands, ICE is more evil, because they are abusing power and breaking laws they are supposed to uphold. And they're able to do so because people like you enabled those who are letting ICE get away with it.
by cies | 2026-01-15 15:45:48+00:00
The govt contract with them should be voided. That's the way.

But in the US no one believes they can meaningfully influence govt for real issues. And they are right.

Sure you can get them to paint a rainbow zebra crossing. /s

But not stop/prevent a (civil) war. Democracy dies and lobbyism (what we call corruption in "modern western democracies" -- because we dont do corruption, that's for poor countries!) takes over when the power is consolidated at a high enough level.
by alex43578 | 2026-01-15 15:45:53+00:00
Has the Ukraine situation not shown that the EU has relegated itself to second fiddle?

It’s too old, too complacent, and too broke. Even compared to the US and our level of discord, there’s no unity across divisions.

The US absurdly threatens Greenland, but Denmark/EU’s response is “Sanction US tech or kick out US military bases on Europe”, rather than be able to rattle a saber back and show some credible backbone.
Dropbox changing policy: Now threatening to delete files over storage limit
by huksley | 2026-01-15 15:46:35+00:00
Dropbox previously had a policy where if you downgraded from a paid plan to free, files over the 2GB free tier limit would be kept but simply stop syncing. This allowed me to have access to the copy of older files and backups.

I just received an email stating: “

This is a reminder that your account is currently over its storage limit.

If you don't take action by January 30, 2026 your files will be deleted.

What you can do:

- Choose a plan that suits your storage needs—starting at 2,000 GB.
- Log in and delete files to free up space.

What happens if you do nothing:
If your storage is still over the limit on January 30, 2026, we’ll take steps to bring your account within the limit. This includes deleting files and leaving shared folders.
by LollipopYakuza | 2026-01-15 15:47:01+00:00
Come one, there are things to say about this project but the Download section is pretty clear. It installs commands for your LLMs and AI-based IDE.
It states that clearly in the section.

If you’re not familiar with what a /command is in the context of LLM, this may just not be for you and that's fine, but the purpose is clearly stated.
by marginalia_nu | 2026-01-15 15:47:04+00:00
Yeah, the graphics were honestly kinda underwhelming, in particular the models were behind the curve compared to contemporary titles like Half-Life, and this didn't really improve with later titles like System Shock 2, where half the horror was the distorted textures stretched across the faces of the models.

I think what modern games have lost, that some of these late 90s titles absolutely nailed (Thief in particular), is the sound design and ambiance, which is just so dang evocative. Even the smallest incidental sounds had so much character. Picking up an item, pulling a lever, footsteps on the floor.

Modern games use such flat sounds for everything. Sure it's more realistic, at the cost of character and vibe.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-01-15 15:47:27+00:00
.

{
echo resolve web.archive.org:443:207.241.237.3
echo url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240404223104if_/https://twitter.com/Alejandro0tero/status/1768729031493427225
echo user-agent=\"\"
echo header accept:
} \
|curl -qK/dev/stdin|tr \< '\n'|sed -n '/^meta/s/^/</;/./{/og:url/,/og:image/p;}'
by skramzy | 2026-01-15 15:47:28+00:00
Anthropic's official ralph plugin gets the core principle of Ralph wrong by preventing a single instance of claude from exiting, rather than continuously starting new sessions.

Here's an opinionated, but proper implementation of the Ralph Wiggum AI technique.

Ralph solves the AI context window problem in the most simplistic way possible; keep feeding new AI sessions the same prompt until the job is done.
by praptak | 2026-01-15 15:47:31+00:00
GP didn't say greedy devs caused it, they (we?) are only enabling it.

Obviously there's always the cop out of "someone else would have done it anyway" but it doesn't really change the (un-)ethical side of your choices. I'm not saying it's black and white either - if the other choice is to leave your kids without proper medical care then it's a different thing than just being intentionally blind to ethics.
by nicbou | 2026-01-15 15:47:34+00:00
For me, it's a mix of factors:

- Our work feels very abstract and removed from real people in the real world. Sometimes I did not even understand what our product did, or it got axed after a year. Marx's theory of alienation felt very real.

- We can afford to consider other options. It actually feels achievable. Few people have that luxury.

- Many of us had a relatively easy career start, and underestimate how hard other fields are to get into.

- The material world just feels better. Making digital art does not feel as good as watercolours. Carving wood is a much more complex sensation than drawing in autocad. Even paper books feel better. I can't explain why, it's just how it is.
by Snuggly73 | 2026-01-15 15:48:00+00:00
And there is the thing about the cost. The blog post says that they've spent trillions (plural!) of tokens on that experiment.

Looking at OAI API pricing, 5.2 Codex is $14 per 1 million output tokens. Which makes cool $14m for 1 trillion tokens (multiplied by whatever the plural is). For something that "mostly works".

Its a nice ad for OAI and Anysphere, but maybe next time - just donate the money to a browser team?
by everdrive | 2026-01-15 15:48:08+00:00
I suppose cars will continue to get worse. I'd say "before they get better" but I'm not sure there's any light at the end of the tunnel here.

I don't want iPads in my dash, I don't want an LLM in my car, I don't want $1000 headlights, I don't want molded plastic that cannot be serviced, I don't want an infotainment system, I don't want it integrated with the CAN bus, I don't want huge aluminum rims, I don't want auto start/stop, I don't want GDI, I don't want turbos, I don't a mobile connection in my car, I don't want crazy-high belt lines, I don't want a $50k median new car price, I don't want a car that weighs 5,000 lbs, etc, etc, etc.
by FiveOhThree | 2026-01-15 15:48:19+00:00
I can't be the only one who feels that Wikipedia's quality has really started to go downhill over the past 5 or so years. I've noticed more and more articles which read as ridiculously partisan, usually around subjects with any link to politics or current events.

That's probably linked to the increasing polarisation in the US, but I get the impression that the sites neutrality policies have gradually been chipped away by introducing concepts like "false balance" as an excuse to pick a side on an issue. I could easily see that causing the site to slowly decline like StackOverflow did, most people don't want to deal with agenda pushing.

Fortunately topics related to topics like science and history haven't been significantly damaged by this yet. Something to watch carefully.
by jordanpg | 2026-01-15 15:48:23+00:00
My point still stands. The country will obviously not be permanently swarming with ICE agents violently grabbing immigrants off the street. There is going to be mission creep. If this isn't obvious then I don't know what to else I can say to convince you. Immigration is clearly just a pretext to establishing a national police force.

Remember this thread when you hear for the first time that ICE agents are tasked with doing something that has nothing to do with immigration enforcement. Coming soon.
by gambiting | 2026-01-15 15:48:29+00:00
>> (Since brexit, that might be different in UK, but I very much doubt it.)

It's crazy that in 2026 when we literally have the knowledge of the entire world at our fingertips it's still easier to just say "I doubt it" instead of looking it up.

To save you those 5 seconds of googling - no, you don't need to present any ID to buy a sim card in the UK.
by throw0101d | 2026-01-15 15:48:31+00:00
Some folks have observed that the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and other established far-right groups aren't marching as much recently:

> “How many pardoned January 6th insurrectionists have been hired by your respective departments?” Raskin (D-Md.), ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, asked the two officials [Bondi and Noem].

* https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-agents-january-6
by ianservin | 2026-01-15 15:48:31+00:00
Yes! So I probably over-simplified a bit in the language there... it's not just the physical motors, but the control electronics and logic on the cam itself doing the interpolation of receive VISCA commands that reduce overall responsiveness. And that lack of responsiveness not just absolute speed that causes issues. I sort of lump that all into hardware limitations since it's not something I can directly configure.
by ndiddy | 2026-01-15 15:48:47+00:00
Well if you look at the SKUs they're discontinuing, they're taking out all the lowest end models with more VRAM to save the allocation for the higher end models with jucier margins. For example the 5070 Ti costs $500 less than the 5080 but both have 16 GB of VRAM. I imagine that for the near future, they'll have the 5060 8GB, 5070 12GB, and 16GB will be limited to the 5080 for consumers willing to spend $1300 on a GPU.
by genocidicbunny | 2026-01-15 15:48:59+00:00
I am curious about the binning factor too since in the past, AMD and Intel have both made use of defect binning to still sell usable chips by disabling cores. Perhaps Apple is able to do the same with their SoCs? It's not likely to be as granular as Nvidia who can disable much smaller areas of the silicon for each of their cores. On the other hand, the specifics of the silicon and the layout of the individual cores, not to mention the spread of defects over the die might mitigate that advantage.
by shrubble | 2026-01-15 15:49:18+00:00
A person who believes the above examples should try to find the videos or other details of each case in order to be sure they are being told the truth.

Assuming that the “carried the woman through the street” is the same case as the video I watched, she was clearly deliberately obstructing traffic, as she wasn’t continuing to drive down the street despite the road being clear with no vehicles ahead of her. She then is removed from the car by force and refuses to move, requiring her to be carried.
by pif | 2026-01-15 15:49:25+00:00
> "Private remote communications" like sending a letter have been around forever.

Yes, but it was never more private than the law decided for. Any judge could lawfully have the police tear the envelope apart and read the contents during an investigations. In this sense, the only private communication that ever existed was from mouth to ear.

Today's technology enables actual privacy any anonimity online, and any good and bad deeds can be hidden behind the screen, and nobody should be offended, nor surprised, that civilised societies may want to have a say in the matter.
by stackghost | 2026-01-15 15:49:31+00:00
Think about this:

Right now, there are people commenting on HN who built software enabling the wholesale violations of the rights of US citizens.

Right now, there are people commenting on HN who built the systems used at Facebook when they experimented with trying to create "symptoms of depression" in their users by manipulating the feed.

And so on and so forth.

But thank goodness we have dang to shield those people from criticism because ItS sO uNoRiGiNaL.
by treebeard901 | 2026-01-15 15:49:42+00:00
It's a scale between sanctions and other forms of blocking trade. Cutting off Kaliningrad will be a key part of punishing Russia as it moves more into Ukraine. There have been many instances of deliveries turned back through lithuania, sometimes causing massive disruptions to shipping to Kaliningrad. There has been a lot of threats from Russia that if the blockade gets to be fully enforced that they will respond militarily. Having total access to this port is going to be the next phase of the Russian war.

Regardless, without Kaliningrad being a factor, it is still Denmark's responsibility to control those waterways to deny Russia access to the North Atlantic. Having to reinforce Greenland is taking resources away from Denmark enforcing its area in the Baltic Sea.

There is a lot of information about it over the past few years from more international sources. And no, it's not imagined.

The really debatable issue is with the reported attempted agreement by the Trump admin and attempts by Russia to sort of trade Ukraine to Russia for Venezuela. If this turns out to be true, and you can find domestic reporting on this offer having been made a few years ago, then places like Kaliningrad, Estonia and other former Soviet Republics become the next targets.
by rpigab | 2026-01-15 15:49:43+00:00
It's a nice addition for certain use cases, however in the case of running "rm -rf ...", it has no effect because of the "-f / --force" flag set afterwards.

"rm -if" never prompts, "rm -fi" prompts. --preserve-root is an entirely different thing which will stop the command from deleting files even if you told it to.

$ sudo rm -ri /
rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on '/'
rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe

When in doubt, you might want to activate xtrace with "set -x", run the command and see what it expanded to. then "set +x" to disable.
by adventured | 2026-01-15 15:50:07+00:00
By now they should be sitting on a billion dollars that safely yields a forever self-funding annual income ($30m-$50m) that would pay for all of their necessary expenses. They would no longer require any donations. It's grotesque and wildly irresponsible how they're managing the organization. If LLMs become the center of knowledge resources going forward (which they will), Wikipedia's funding will decline as their traffic declines, and they'll collapse into a spiral of cut-backs, as they operate on a present structure that burns most of its financial capability annually (this opens them up to a shock to the system on inflection, which is happening now).
by Rzor | 2026-01-15 15:50:08+00:00
Kind of ironic since I just read that China blocked imports of H200 chips.

>Beijing's motives for the directives are not clear

>Also unclear if this is a ban or temporary measure, sources say

>US only formally approved H200 exports to China this week

>China keen to promote development of domestic chip companies

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-customs-agents-to...
by turnsout | 2026-01-15 15:50:13+00:00
> Vocabulary is just the surface.

Yes, but with LLMs, sometimes simply mentioning the right words is enough to prime the model in the direction you want to take it. If you start a prompt talking about leading and type pairings, it will take greater care with typography. You don't need to be an expert typographer to take advantage of this phenomenon.
by stevenjgarner | 2026-01-15 15:50:24+00:00
Long-duration spaceflight causes a significant physical shift of the human brain within the skull, moving it backward, upward, and rotating it in pitch. By analyzing MRI scans of 26 astronauts, researchers found that these displacements—reaching over 2 millimeters in long-duration flyers—are widespread across nearly 130 brain regions and correlate with post-flight balance issues, particularly when shifts occur in sensory-related areas. While most of these anatomical changes recover within six months of returning to Earth, some deformations persist, suggesting that current ground-based microgravity simulations (like head-down tilt bed rest) do not fully capture the complexities of how actual space travel alters neuroanatomy. Despite these detailed findings, the most pivotal unanswered question remains: what are the long-term clinical and cognitive consequences of these physical brain shifts, and do they pose a permanent risk to the health and longevity of astronauts embarking on multi-year missions to Mars?

This video provides an overview of how the brain physically repositions itself during spaceflight and the potential implications for future missions to the Moon and Mars. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90EQEor52hs
by jandrese | 2026-01-15 15:50:31+00:00
I don't see how that is relevant to the discussion. Also if you are one if the low single digit percentage of people who do long distance towing regularly then yeah, get a diesel. I was talking more about people who live in the suburbs and commute to work and back in their truck, never tow anything, and use the bed maybe twice a year. About 67% of truck owners in the US.
by jensgk | 2026-01-15 15:50:34+00:00
> Especially maybe try not to appear like they just want to desperately hold on to their colonies? I mean, where's the decolonization people when you need them

Greenland’s path to independence is clear in law: only the people of Greenland can decide, by referendum. Denmark would respect that choice. So far, Greenland has not chosen to start the process. The decision is entirely Greenland’s.