MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-19 16:54:34+00:00
I'm "kind of yes AI" and use it everyday, mostly for programming, for other stuff too, been doing for years. People on HN would probably call me "AI zealot", considering I have nuance with my opinions.

So obviously I voted "No", because that's closer to what I do, than "Yes". I can imagine lots of the "No" votes are like this.
by bwfan123 | 2026-01-19 16:54:46+00:00
> If LLMs are covering a gap here maybe there's an opportunity for better, local, lower-tech tooling that doesn't require such a huge tech stack (and subscriptions/rent) to solve simple, tractable problems?

I see this with every new technology stack. Way back, we had folks putting out browser "applets" to do the same things that could be done in excel. And then, we had these apps built in the cloud, in react, on raspberry pi, on a gpu etc..etc.. ie, Simple apps reinvented with some new tooling. It is almost the equivalent of 'printf("hello world")' when you are learning a new language. This is not to undermine the OPs efforts, but I see the spirit is that of learning rather than that of solving a hard problem.
by physicsguy | 2026-01-19 16:54:47+00:00
Come on, that's not the full story at all.

The body that made the recommendation, the "Safety and Advisory Board" met several times and changed their report multiple times. When it was finally released they redacted large parts of the decision making process including saying that:

* The police didn't want the match to go ahead (prior to any evidence for that)

* Two local Muslim councillors (Labour and Lib Dem) had been lobbying against it going ahead with one saying (quote) 'we are the voice of the people'

Additionally:

* They edited the report saying risk to local muslim residents went from Medium -> High

* They edited the report saying risk to fans travelling went from High -> Medium.

* They adjusted the number of police needed from 1200 -> 5000 in order to try and justify the decision.

When the full unredacted report was leaked, then they were put on the back foot and falsely threw out that they'd got the evidence (including of local muslim residents in Amsterdam being thrown in a river, which didn't happen) from a Dutch Police report, which wasn't true.

Anyone with a brain in the police should know that recommending cancellation or banning away fans from a Champion's League game is a major international news
story. The chief of police needs to be on top of the details and 100% sure that the evidence is there.
by mock-possum | 2026-01-19 16:55:28+00:00
Why would they be losing money? It’s what we use for tracking expenses and getting comped for travel, meals, software licenses etc - works great in my experience. I can click a few buttons and get a new business expense card spun up in less than a minute, use it to make a purchase, get approval and have the funds transferred. Boom easy.

Do you not think they’re charging enough or something?
by monegator | 2026-01-19 16:55:37+00:00
It's more or less what minimumsdk does, but there may be libraries that require you to bump the minimum.

For example, there are APIs that make feasible something that should be trivial (like autosizing a font based on size, the way it happens in iOS) but they are available from 8.0 so you cut out anything below that.

Or, we use BLE a lot and there are newer methods that makes our life easier but again are not available in older SDK versions
by madeofpalk | 2026-01-19 16:55:49+00:00
> why I don't trust or use AI when I code

These are two different concepts. I use AI when coding, but I don't trust it. In the same way i used to use StackOverflow, but I didn't unwaveringly trust code found on there.

I still need to test and make sure the code does the thing I wanted it to do.
by MisterTea | 2026-01-19 16:56:10+00:00
I know women in NYC who voted Trump because they believed Harris was not tough enough to handle the geopolitical stage. I know Puerto Ricans and Dominicans who voted Trump because they believe they are being replaced by a wave of new immigrants who will vote Democrat. My friends, an interracial couple who voted democrat, voted Trump because the schools were going to give their kids hormone pills without their consent.

The amount of crazy and not so crazy shit I hear for voting for this idiot is incredible. Though the Dems do themselves no favors either.
by Syzygies | 2026-01-19 16:56:16+00:00
Back in 2001 I was the math consultant for "A Beautiful Mind". One spends a lot of time waiting on a film set. Eventually one wonders why.

The majority of wait time was the cinematographer lighting each scene. I imagined a workflow where secondary digital cameras captured 3D information, and all lighting took place in post production. Film productions hemorrhage money by the second; this would be a massive cost saving.

I described this idea to a venture capitalist friend, who concluded one already needed to be a player to pull this off. I mentioned this to an acquaintance at Pixar (a logical player) and they went silent.

Still, we don't shoot movies this way. Not there yet...
by WillPostForFood | 2026-01-19 16:56:31+00:00
to the surprise of absolutely no-one with even the most basic grasp of how economies function.

No, it is surprising, as noted in the article, because basic economics suggests that suppliers will adjust pricing, and eat some of the tariff to keep their products competitive. Page 5:

This finding was initially surprising to some observers. Standard economic models suggest that the incidence of a tariff depends on the relative elasticities of supply and demand. If foreign exporters face highly elastic demand (meaning buyers can easily switch to alternatives), they might be expected to absorb part of the tariff to remain competitive.
by hbarka | 2026-01-19 16:56:34+00:00
> Viewers assume the imagery is AI-generated.

Watching this Helicopter music video made me recall a scene in Money for Nothing by Dire Straits, which was famously the first music video to air on MTV Europe (when the MTV phenomenon launched the 80s). It used 3D animation for the human characters and was considered groundbreaking animation in that time. The irony is we knew it was computer generated but now human generated is indistinguishable from AI.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-19 16:56:35+00:00
I haven't seen a single ad from ChatGPT here in Spain, yet everywhere I go, there are tons of people using ChatGPT for all kinds of stuff. Last time I saw it in the wild, it was the person who was giving me the keys to a car I wanted to test drove, that was using ChatGPT and had it opened on their computer.

Seemingly to me, adoption is happening without ads or promotion, how do you explain away this?

FWIW, I wouldn't say I'm "YES AI" nor "NO AI", but I do use LLMs daily to programming.
by akhil08agrawal | 2026-01-19 16:56:39+00:00
I don't know if I can really trust the data. 93% of 40k+ votes are NO AI. How is that possible. I am not sure if I would like to go back to time when I couldn't code or when I had to do all the labourious work of writing test cases on my own. Now, my time is free to build more 0 to 1 ideas, faster and more effectively.
by Zambyte | 2026-01-19 16:56:51+00:00
I use AI (LLMs) all the time, but I use it very intentionally. I don't reach to it for everything.

A while ago I was paying for both Kagi Ultimate and Perplexity Premium to see which one fit my needs better. I ended up dropping my Perplexity subscription in favor of Kagi Ultimate, because Perplexity often lead me down rabbitholes of trying to beat the LLM into submission, where dropping to a simple keyword search would short circuit such loops.

Sometimes LLM assisted search helps me get to the information I want faster. It can be nice to be able to provide lots of context to narrow down your query to specifically what you need, in ways that do not work with keyword searches.

Sometimes keyword searches get me to the information I want faster, especially when I know there are specific resources where I'll find the information I want, such as looking at the documentation for a specific version of something, or some any kind of information that decays over time.
by throwaway2037 | 2026-01-19 16:57:08+00:00
> The charging port wore out.

Zero trolling: How did that happen? Can you share some details? (I am not doubting you.) Ideas: You are the type of person who needs to constantly charge your phone, but move frequently, so maybe you have 5x the number of "plugs" compared to an average user. Or, sadly, they used a cheap part, and it broke quickly.
by vjerancrnjak | 2026-01-19 16:57:18+00:00
What can I say, I expected more than what they actually offer. A Redshift job can fail because S3 tells it to slow down. How can I make this HA performance product slower given its whole moat is an S3 based input output interface.

As a compute engine its SQL capabilities are worse than the slowest pretend timeseries db like Elasticsearch.
by lucb1e | 2026-01-19 16:57:24+00:00
I looked into the Jelly Star about six months ago. Downsides are the lack of dual-frequency GNSS and eSIM, and blanks in my spreadsheet are chipset speed, unlockability, warranty, slow motion camera speed, screen brightness, storage speed, and battery longevity (on 2Ah that might not be very much)
by ifwinterco | 2026-01-19 16:57:24+00:00
Yep you're right, that would be another possible legitimate (sort of) use of tariffs. Make the case that (for example) steel production is a vital national interest which must be defended even if it results in higher steel prices.

Of course it will result in higher prices, that's the point, but also the part politicians aren't too keen to spell out
by antonvs | 2026-01-19 16:57:34+00:00
"Yes AI" means you're in favor of using AI for absolutely everything, including making court decisions, medical decisions, etc.

"No AI" means you're against using AI for anything, and oh by the way that includes all technology previously identified as AI, including various search, pathfinding, scheduling, and planning techniques; rule-based systems; logic programming; knowledge representaion; clustering; computer vision; and robotic control. If you're in the "No AI" camp, you need to immediately reformat your hard disk and then microwave your computer, or risk being branded a traitor.

And no, there is no middle ground. Pick a side!
by notahacker | 2026-01-19 16:57:55+00:00
Thing is, whilst you can make that argument for carefully chosen tariffs in strategic industries (something basically every country including the US was already trying to do, for better and for worse), you don't get much domestic production realignment for arbitrarily large shirt term tariffs as a precursor to a "big beautiful deal" or punitive tariffs because other countries push back on your proposal to annex another country. Or indeed tariffs levied on the exports of uninhabited islands

In some cases, the Trump tariffs have actually been so poorly designed that US manufacturing has been hit, because the tariffs on the raw materials and parts are higher than the tariffs on importing finished products from third countries...
by salezred | 2026-01-19 16:57:57+00:00
If you're the author or if anyone knows a program that can do this, it would be great to have a way to take a photoshphere or a 360 degree pano and see what is actually viewable from a particular location.

I've done this in stellarium to some degree but i am still not very happy with it because I still can't quite get an accurate estimate without a tremendous amount of manual work, so someone actually actively working on this would be amazing.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-19 16:58:18+00:00
> I don't know if I can really trust the data. 93% of 40k+ votes are NO AI. How is that possible.

You give a question that requires nuance, forces it into a 50/50 situation and then you'll have everyone in the middle defaulting to "No" since it's closer than "Yes". Then use that as evidence for everyone hating AI.
by JKCalhoun | 2026-01-19 16:58:30+00:00
Thanks, I have read a lot of human-written text (and actual books from the day) in addition to the LLM feedback. Again though, had I ignored LLMs altogether I would have barely progressed in the past two months. I think. They seem to act as an "idea board" of sorts—sends me out then looking for others to validate (or not) what they're spouting.

"Schottky diodes to protect op-amp inputs…" Not op-amp inputs, ADC inputs (which may well come from an op-amp output though—I am playing with analog computing after all).
by tonymet | 2026-01-19 16:58:38+00:00
AI isn’t one thing. The consumer AI bots (e.g. ChatGPT) are heavily dumbed down. Asking it a Wikipedia topic without prompting will of course produce low quality content.

With a good model , fine tuning & supervision AI can produce stellar content.

AI is at least a thousand tools. It’s a mistake to write it off so trivially.
by rhines | 2026-01-19 16:58:45+00:00
Yeah I can definitely see that being a threat model. In the gaming case I think it's harder because it's more of a general reputation system and it's based on how people feel while playing with you, whereas for a website every post can be reviewed by multiple parties and the evidence is right there. But certainly I would still expect some people to try to maximize their reputation and use that to push through content that should be more heavily moderated, and in the degenerate case the bad actors comprise so much of the userbase that they peer review their own content.
by oulipo2 | 2026-01-19 16:58:53+00:00
I think that's wrong. The Democrat platform offered a lot.

It's just that if in front of you, you have a weirdo who gives some stupid "with me, everything is free, and there's no problem" line, that is provable completely bullshit, but that your population is too uneducated (or too in a cult) to understand, then this happens...

What did you want Democrat to do? Give the same lies that GOP does? then what's the endgame?
Show HN: Antigravity-usage – CLI to check your AI quota without opening your IDE
by skainguyen1412 | 2026-01-19 16:58:55+00:00
I built a simple, lightweight CLI to check Antigravity AI quotas. As you probably know, the official tool doesn't actually show your remaining limits or reset times, which makes it hard to manage your usage.

I developed this to add a few things I was missing:

1. No IDE needed: It has a "Cloud Mode" so you can check your status even when VS Code or JetBrains is closed.
2. Auto-wakeup: Since the quota is "use-it-or-lose-it" every few hours, it can set up a system cron (macOS/Linux) to automatically trigger models so your daily limits don't go to waste.
3. Multi-account: You can track personal and work accounts side-by-side.
4. Local-first: If your IDE is open, it handshakes with the local server for instant, login-free access.
by KPGv2 | 2026-01-19 16:58:58+00:00
> Its odd to me to still use "luddite" disparagingly while implying that avoiding certain tech would actually have some high impact benefits

They didn't say to avoid certain tech. They said to avoid takes and news headlines.

Your conflation of those two is like someone saying "injecting bleach into your skin is bad" and you responding with "oh, so you oppose cleaning bathrooms [with bleach]?"
by smeej | 2026-01-19 16:59:09+00:00
It's not a bounty, though, right? It operates like other trading markets? So unless they have big money to wager, they don't have big money to gain. If it's hovering at, say, 10% odds, it's not like they can automatically 10x their money because other people have to take the opposite side. There would have to be a lot of liquidity in the market for their large bet not to move the odds, and as the odds move, they make less money.
by visarga | 2026-01-19 16:59:15+00:00
The problem is when you use your "copy" as inspiration and actually create and publish something. It is very hard to be certain you are safe, besides literal expression close paraphrasing is also infringing, using world building elements, or using any original abstraction (AFC test). You can only know after a lawsuit.

It is impossible to tell how much AI any creator used secretly, so now all works are under suspicion. If copyright maximalists successfully copyright style (vibes), then creativity will be threatened. If they don't succeed, then copyright protection will be meaningless. A catch 22.
by spogbiper | 2026-01-19 16:59:34+00:00
the change is more subtle than I expected but this does seem like a step in the wrong direction

a bigger older problem is the number of copycat applications allowed in the app store. for example the listing for the official microsoft authenticator app (free and used in many corporate environments) is surrounded by results with similar looking icons and titles. these look a likes also work for MFA but charge a monthly subscription. not exactly a scam since they do work, but its obvious they are only there to confuse users into paying for something thats free.
by kanbankaren | 2026-01-19 16:59:35+00:00
> Through building materials, foliage etc, but not in free space/line-of-sight.

Yeah. Even in free space. For example, attenuation at 1 km for 144 MHz (ham VHF band) is about -76 dB while for 2.4 GHz, it is about -100 dB. That 24 dB drop could mean, the signal is below the noise floor of your receiver unless you increase the RF power output which means more battery drain.

For example, BT audio gets cut just moving to the next room despite the RF power of BT transmitters being ~ 5mW( 7 dBm ) and at 10m, the attenuation is -60 dB(just free space loss which is ideal condition), so 53 dBm (7-60) at the receiver is usually sufficient, yet they struggle.
by giardini | 2026-01-19 16:59:42+00:00
BFD. The reason for tariffs is NOT to reduce prices but to bring production home.

Our economy remains robust (down jackets moving like mad in Minneapolis) and the number of native-born Americans and legal aliens working is higher than ever. Illegal aliens are either headed for the door or being pushed out the door.

USA increased payroll employment (+584,000 jobs in 2025). Unemployment rate has decreased to 4.4%. We show gains in food services, healthcare, and social assistance, but retail trade has declined (necessarily). The labor market is stabilizing and expanding more slowly than before. Private payrolls have risen an average of 43,000 jobs/month over the past six months. Wage growth eased and average hourly earnings are up 3.8% over the past year.

We're much better off and it is showing!
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-01-19 16:59:43+00:00
Wont make a difference. People are already in the Walled Prison and moms/teens/lower-middle class people are shamed for not being able to afford the $50/mo to buy an iphone. They had numerous privacy and security issues that caused literal deaths of VIPs. Their quality is always 2nd best if we are being generous.

If they haven't switched yet, its not going to happen. Apple knows this. Late users are always punished like my parents who still have a landline and cable tv.
by tw04 | 2026-01-19 16:59:47+00:00
I thought you said she didn’t have a platform?

Now you’re criticizing her for “giving in to political resistance” - and by that you mean not getting up on stage and just knowingly and blatantly lying to the American public by claiming she would single handedly drop the price of groceries and gasoline in her first week in office while also ending the war in Ukraine?

I think you’re both moving the goal posts and claiming that the rest of us are looking for a presidential candidate that has no moral compass. I’m good.
by piltdownman | 2026-01-19 16:59:54+00:00
Brexit wasn't an exercise in Imperialism and power-projection though, it was a dissolution of federated oversight and grant conditions to facilitate a transfer of wealth from the working classes to a select group of oligarchs.

They, in essence, traded 10% of their GDP for Regulatory Independence and UK’s accession to the trans-pacific partnership, estimated by the government to be worth only 0.06% of GDP by 2040.

If the Falklands represented a major turning point, then imo Greenland does too. The simple mustering of an international task-force of troops for defense is a move unprecedented in the 21st Century. The recent Spectator article correctly identifies Trump as “playing geopolitical Monopoly with Greenland”, which holds substantial mineral as well as strategic value in the president’s eyes.

The author identified presidential “ego-politics” as a plausible top reason, along with a US quest for hemispheric power and sending a message to rival powers - concluding by noting that both Britain and France hold territories in the western hemisphere and asking if they could be next on Trump’s list.

https://spectator.com/article/trump-is-playing-geopolitical-...
by TheRealPomax | 2026-01-19 17:00:12+00:00
As someone who was part of the "everyone should learn to code" movement, no, we didn't. We tried all kinds of stuff for a decade and none of it was actually any good, only the people who would have learned to make stuff anyway learned to make stuff. LLMs are radically different: despite their results being terrible, and only just starting to show that maybe that can be a little better than terrible with opus 4.5, they actually meet people who want to make something where they are: skilled folks can make highly complex things (with code quality that's just as good as before because they know how to take what the LLM gives them and make it better), and unskilled folks can make "that one thing they want to" (and the code quality if irrelevant because it's a one-off that's not going to be maintained).
by Yemoshino | 2026-01-19 17:00:28+00:00
I feel like discussiong ai with people who hated the seat belt, enjoyed smoking inside, giving babies alcohol and doing operations on babies because they couldn't feel pain.

So many more people have clear stances against AI but the energy consumption of bitcoin was seldomly a hotly debated topic.

Lets be clear, technology advances. You can embrace it and learn it and use it, or you lose.

For me most shocking thing is: I wouldn't have expected so many people getting AI wrong or not getting it at all. 20 Years of software engineering and i have never experienced a technology so weird and crazy and with such a fast progress than AI/ML/Neural Networks.

Is it perfect? No. But if you would have asked ANYONE just a few years back "Hey i give you a 100 Million dollars, you will write some software however you like and I expect it to be able to solve any problem (an easy one for the start) but i will not tell you what it will be" we would have build something like IBM Watson and it would have just failed.

but we have a breakthrough in neural networks progress. I can ask it in german, in english, in shitty english and shitty german. I can generate any picture i want, i can generate videos.

This technology bridges computer and human. Its the FIRST TIME EVER I could build something like a Star Trek Computer.

Just think this 5 or 20 years further and its clear that these models will be better, relevant better than today. You will (if still needed) be able to stand in a VR world and talk to a computer and it will understand you well enough and it will be able to generate what ever you want.

Of course we still need to solve a lot more issues but honestly, before ChatGPT it felt like we solved software but it was not clear how it will continue. There was something missing.

And the way we build out compute, can be a milestone for material science, pharma, biochemistry etc.

"No AI" come on
by antisthenes | 2026-01-19 17:00:29+00:00
> And no doubt there are a bunch of other definitions that aren't so popular, so the parent commenter could even be using one of those. It might even be his own pet definition that he just made up on the spot right now.

This is an absolutely insane take if you want to be taken seriously in a conversation. Making up definitions on the spot and "getting to choose what a word means" is deliberately acting in bad faith.

Rule #1 of logical debate is to agree on definitions, otherwise you're just yelling past each other.