MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by short_sells_poo | 2026-01-23 15:12:59+00:00
I just realized something: doesn't this allow the actual drivers to escape the non-monetary penalties?

In the UK, if a driver is caught speeding, they'll (generally) also get points on their license and after accumulating 12 points, they'll (generally) lose their license for a while. Points decay on some frequency which I forget.

Anyway, what's to stop someone from driving a company car and then just paying the fines via the company and refusing the name the driver?
by matty22 | 2026-01-23 15:13:12+00:00
It's a simple cost/benefit analysis that (rightly) causes the massive AI backlash. For the average Joe, non-tech worker, the cons of AI are:

* Higher electricty bills.

* 5-6x cost of RAM, GPUs, and other computer components

* Data centers popping up in their backyards

* An internet inundated with slop

* Slop beginning to infiltrate the video game industry and other creative industries

* AI being used to justify gutting entry level jobs for a generation already screwed by larger, long horizon economic forces

* Grok enabling the creation of revenge porn and CSAM with seemingly no repercussions

* Massive IP theft on a scale previously unheard of

* Etc.

The pros of AI are:

* It can summarize text and transcribe audio decently well.

* It can make funny pictures of cats wearing top hats.

* ???
by bmitch3020 | 2026-01-23 15:13:16+00:00
You're missing image distribution, namespaces (networking, pids, mount, users), seccomp (to limit root powers), cgroups (to limit cpu and memory usage), and so much more. There's also Docker Hub with the official images they maintain. And the Desktop tooling makes an embedded Linux VM much easier to work with than spinning up your own VM, copying files around, and forwarding networking ports.
by budgefrankly | 2026-01-23 15:13:28+00:00
Yeah, Swift looks like someone started trying to port a C# syntax onto an esoteric object-orientated C-dialect (similar to Vala and GObject) then at the last moment noticed Rust 1.0 had been released, tried to patch on some Rust features, and hit release before they were done.

It's quite deceptive. Rust seems initially hard to learn, but it's a small language, so you arrive at competency faster than you might think. Swift seems initially easy to learn, but is a broad language with lots of edge-cases, so you're never quite as competent as you think you are, or need to be
by mjparrott | 2026-01-23 15:14:19+00:00
Somewhere along the line software went from being $99 for life to $9.99/month for life. The net result is massive inflation. I dusted off an old video game system recently and the game still played, through the end, for just the cost of electricity. I realize that maintenance is important and should be paid for, but let's be honest maintenance is a small sliver of your monthly subscription cost.
by dqv | 2026-01-23 15:14:26+00:00
Does having it sound "natural" even matter for high-speed reading? I assumed it would be a hindrance at higher speeds because natural variation and randomness in a voice makes it harder to scan the voice (similar to how reading something handwritten tends to be harder than something that has been typeset). At least that's how I always feel whenever I listen to audiobooks that use "natural" voices - I always switch to the more robotic sounding ones because, in my experience, it's easier to scan once at 2x and beyond.

My takeaway from the article is that accuracy of pronunciation, tweakability, and "time to first utterance" are what matter most.
by nlh | 2026-01-23 15:15:43+00:00
This is so completely spot on. It’s happening in other fields too, particularly non-coding (but still otherwise specialized or technical) areas. AI is extremely empowering but what’s happening is that people are now showing up in all corners of the world armed with their phone at the end of their outstretched arm saying “Well ChatGPT says…” and getting very upset when told that, no, many apologies, but ChatGPT is wrong here too.
by Stevvo | 2026-01-23 15:15:54+00:00
"Almost 4,000 defendants have been convicted in courts in England and Wales in the last two weeks for failing to identify the driver of a vehicle under police investigation, leading to fines ranging from £1 to £1,000."

"Tesla has been convicted at least 18 times"

So, Tesla are 1 of 4000. I feel the article is missing a bigger story here to make it about Tesla.
Show HN: Our vibe-coded pitch deck (with Lovable)
by leo_researchly | 2026-01-23 15:16:06+00:00
Vibe coded pitch decks are apparently the coolest thing right now (e. g. https://designplusai.com/p/how-to-build-stunning-slide-decks).

Thus I vibe coded our pitch deck too. The deck is very rudimentary and won't use it for investors etc. It is merely our website in pitch format.

Nevertheless, liked the approach for a few reasons:

The alternatives are still subpar: Gamma is easy to use, but limits you with design options, PowerPoint is hard to use collaboratively & Google Slides feels like a tool that isn't good at neither design (Canva) nor efficiency (PowerPoint). I like Canva as it provides decent design flexibility (template etc.) and is easy to use as a team. However, for non-designer it still can be trick. Lovable did a pretty good job here.

What also is cool; you can prompt a mini-demo of your app into the deck. Henri Sipilä (https://www.linkedin.com/in/henrisipila/) did that and apparently got 300+ leads through it.

The experiment also showed me that the Vibe Coding space is still evolving. Vibe Coding fully fledge web apps might not be the ideal use case for Lovable, but vibe coding pitch decks or mockups might (I use it all the time for mockups).

This post is the English version of my original substack (ungated): https://substack.com/home/post/p-185458960. Over there you can also find the prompt I used.
by eigenspace | 2026-01-23 15:16:10+00:00
This whole "high pressure superconductivity" field is mostly bunk. There's real scientists working in the field, but not very good ones, and there's also straight up charlatans in their midst as well.

Even the real scientists working on this stuff never actually demonstrate that they're seeing real superconductivity in their experiments, rather they just show stuff like a resistance drop that could be explained by a short circuit or even just a regular metallic phase (most of these conductivity measurements these people do can't even tell the difference between copper and a real superconductor).

I'd treat this sort of thing with extreme skepticism and move on.
by nomilk | 2026-01-23 15:16:11+00:00
(very) Important to note this doesn't appear to be an attempt at passing off a digitally altered (/AI generated) image as real, but rather the creation of a digitally altered image with the intent of mocking the individual. When I stumbled across the altered photo I immediately knew it was a joke (i.e. had been created using AI), although I didn't notice it was created by the White House (although that wouldn't have made a difference).
by nowittyusername | 2026-01-23 15:17:04+00:00
With supertonic , or overall? If overall most do pretty well though some are funky, like suprano was so bad no matter what I did, so i had to rule that out from my top contenders on anything. supertonic was close to my number one choice for my agentic pipeline as it was soo insanely fast and quality was great, but it didnt have the other bells and whistles like some other models so i held that off for cpu only projects in the future. If you are gonna use it on a GPU I would suggest chatterbox or pocket tts. Chatterbox is my top contender as of now because it sounds amazing, has cloning and i got it down to 0.26 ttfa/ttsa once i quantized it and implemented pipecat in to it. pocket tts is probably my second choice for similar reasons.
by GTP | 2026-01-23 15:17:33+00:00
Depends who you listen to. There are developers reporting significant gains from the use of AI, others saying that it doesn't really impact their work, and then there was some research saying that time savings due to the use of AI in developing software are only an illusion, because while developers were feeling more productive they were actually slower. I guess only time will tell who's right or if it is just a matter of using the tool in the right way.
by ajcp | 2026-01-23 15:17:38+00:00
-> and make it happen.

I think OPs point is they failed on this part. "Making it happen" should have been ensuring a compliant and approved version of the software was the one made available to the developers.
At a large scale that is done via device management, but even at a medium sized enterprise that should have been done via a source management portal of some sort.
by HansardExpert | 2026-01-23 15:17:45+00:00
It's a nice bit of prose but I am struggling to see what this has to do with boredom.

Staring out of window looking at scenery is for all intents and purposes doing something. This isn't even close to the silly pre-oocupation with 'raw dogging'. Being in a place (even if it is only in your mind) that brings you peace as you describe it above is not boredom. There is no tension to be doing something else, at least it doesn't sound like it.

I can sit in a room in the dark lying on the couch staring at the ceiling (that I cannot actually see) and stay like that for hours - I am absolutely 'doing' nothing but I am also absolutely not bored.

So I don't think 'hitting the road' is as you put it 'embracing boredom at all' it simply doing something else.

The next time you feel like hitting the road, don't. Stay at home and be truly bored.
by rossdavidh | 2026-01-23 15:17:49+00:00
I have a wise, witty, charming and personable friend who is a complete hoarder. It was a big deal to be allowed into the house. But, after several years of attempting to help, I eventually had to realize that it wasn't the effort required to clean that was the issue. The issue is that she doesn't like the space that's left behind. If I could snap my fingers and make it all clean and tidy, it would not really help anything because it would be back to the old way in a month or so.

I once suggested bins and shelves to help keep it better organized and manageable, and her response (quite negative) was one of the clues that it wasn't the effort of cleaning up that was the issue, and therefore all the help in the world wouldn't make much of an impact. She doesn't like the space left behind after you clean, and feels the need to fill it up with whatever she can find.

Eventually, I had to just accept that this is how she was, and if I wanted to keep her as a friend I had to stop trying to change how she kept her house; if forced to choose between empty space in her house and keeping me as a friend, there was no way she was going to tolerate empty space in her house. Every bit must be filled. (sigh)

And yet, outside of her house, she's great. For example, she loves helping us clean our house.
by scott_w | 2026-01-23 15:18:16+00:00
> What you are describing is what we call power dynamics, the effect of a power differential on the dynamics of a relationship.

My wife and I have a formal relationship: our marriage contract. If I violate that contract then there can be consequences for me. Are there power dynamics at play?

I sign a contract with a supplier (or vice-versa). If one of us violates that contract, there are consequences. Are there power dynamics at play?

> I wonder would you speak to me this way if I was your boss, or the CEO of your company, or the majority owner.

I have done, yes.
by simonw | 2026-01-23 15:18:28+00:00
I've avoided working directly on safety critical software throughout my career because the idea that my mistakes could hurt people frightens me.

I genuinely feel less nervous about working on those categories of software if I can bring coding agents along for the ride, because I'm confident I can use those tools to help me write software that's safer and less likely to have critical bugs.

Armed with coding agents I can get to 100% test coverage, and perform things like fuzz testing, and get second and third opinions on designs, and have conversations about failure patterns that I may not personally have considered.

For me, coding agents represent the ability for me to use techniques that were previously constrained by my time. I get more time now.
by palmotea | 2026-01-23 15:18:45+00:00
> This is nonsense, I'm sorry. Trump literally got elected off of pure partisan vilification, insults and just bullshit in general.

Did you pay any attention at all to the 2024 election? Biden's age? Inflation? The half-hearted, too-late pivot on border enforcement? What you say is nonsense. It's twisted misinformation. There was a lot more going on.

> The idea that the left need to go high while Trump and the GOP...

Yeah, it's cathartic to act like a kid on a playground, and unleash your inner asshole because some other kid was mean, but it's stupid and immature.

> The fact that the dems are weak assholes unable to make even symbolic measures towards someone that's openly violating the constitution and harassing citizens is symptomatic of the deeper rot of attempting to be a 'big tent' party and having zero actual spine or policy.

The dems are weak, but that's because they want to stay exactly as they are instead of becoming a truly majoritarian party. If the dems make Trump-like power grabs (as many liberals fantasize about), it'll just make Trump stronger, because he can and will use the backlash.
by JeremyNT | 2026-01-23 15:18:52+00:00
> No, everything was already open source, other had done it before too, they just made it in a way a lot of "normal" users could start with it, then they waited too long and others created better/their own products.

Yes. It was a helpful UI abstraction for people uncomfortable with lower level tinkering. I think the big "innovations" were 1) the file format and 2) the (free!) registry hosting. This drove a lot of community adoption because it was so easy to share stuff and it was based on open source.

And while Docker the company isn't the behemoth the VCs might have wanted, those contributions live on. Even if I'm using a totally different tool to run things, I'm writing a Dockerfile, and the artifacts are likely stored in something that acts basically the same as Docker Hub.
by 7bit | 2026-01-23 15:19:01+00:00
Calling it an "anti- Proton campaign" or "benign" is just rhetorical hand waving. Those words let you dismiss criticism without engaging with the substance. Proton did deliberately email people who opted out. That is a GDPR violation, full stop. They are a large, well resourced company; "oops" is not an excuse. Criticism over that is not hysteria or bandwagoning, and blaming people for speaking up instead of the company for breaking the rules is weak.
by faefox | 2026-01-23 15:19:44+00:00
They're sort of damned if they do and damned if they don't, aren't they? If they make traffic stops for speeding people will moan about how they're just trying to meet quotas or ask why they aren't going after "real criminals."

People just want to drive irresponsibly and they will invent any reason to justify why they're the victim, actually.
by godzillabrennus | 2026-01-23 15:19:52+00:00
Seems like its a hole in the market if new services are cropping up. If there wasn't a hole then established clouds would have this. I don't have to think if I want a virtual machine booted with Ubuntu. I can do that in any cloud. How many have vibe coding support to launch containers that work locally in a cloud so they are accessible as a website? How many of those have a build process that does security checks and helps patch the code and automates building browser tests to verify the functionality keeps working (or kicks it back to the coding agent to fix)? Basically, the last 10% of the vibe coding a web app locally that isn't automated. This is a big opportunity for a semi established vendor like Docker that a startup would need users and capital (for bare metal) to fix. Two things that a Docker has at their disposal.
by Havoc | 2026-01-23 15:20:17+00:00
I’m enjoying building my own tools via vibecoding but don’t think I could replace much this way in terms of SaaS.

Most of the paid subs is specifically because i can’t easily do it myself. ie there is an attribute there that extends beyond coding skill. I can’t easily defend myself against Ddos or can’t easily do multi region redundancy etc. Stuff that even a nice home server and coding plan just can’t cover
by ecshafer | 2026-01-23 15:20:37+00:00
Chess.com has some cool blog posts about it from a year or two back when there was some cheating scandal with a big name player. They compare moves to the optimal move in a statistical fashion to determine if people are cheating. Like if you are a 1000 ELO player and all of a sudden you make a string of stockfish moves in the game, then yeah you are cheating. A 2400 ELO player making a bunch of stock fish moves is less likely to be suspicious. But they also compare many variables in their models to try and sus out suspicious behavior.
by dfxm12 | 2026-01-23 15:20:37+00:00
The situation we're in today has obvious roots in the aftermath of 9/11 and the PATRIOT act, and the relative lack of voter outcry after the Snowden leaks. Voters seem all too glad to trade in freedom for fear of boogiemen & have a reverence for LEO that is wholly unearned. I honestly think the reaction would be closer to something like, "well, what did they do to deserve it?" (until it happens exactly to them, of course)
by lumost | 2026-01-23 15:20:59+00:00
This isn't quite right to my knowledge. Most Game AI's develop novel strategies which they use to beat opponents - but if the player knows they are up against a specific Game AI and has access to it's past games, these strategies can be countered. This was a major issue in the AlphaStar launch where players were able to counter AlphaStar on later play throughs.
by mschuster91 | 2026-01-23 15:21:16+00:00
> Anyway, what's to stop someone from driving a company car and then just paying the fines via the company and refusing the name the driver?

In Germany when that happens and the company cannot (or does not want to) name the driver... they may get ordered by the authority to keep a logbook. And such an order shows up at any police checkpoint - and if the cops run the plate, they will ask for the logbook. And check the logbook. And if the logbook isn't up to speed... that means some hefty fines.
Ask HN: What do you use (AI based) web crawlers for?
by dhruv_ahuja | 2026-01-23 15:21:22+00:00
I am curious, what are people and organisations building with web crawlers, especially since now all of them seem to have LLM support for further refining the output from crawled pages.

Open source projects like crawl4ai[1] have a crazy amount of stars (~59k). This got me curious.

https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai
by stackghost | 2026-01-23 15:21:49+00:00
That is a thoroughly unconvincing graphic, yeah.

A few of my neighbors have kids the same age as my kids, they're on a WhatsApp group chat, and my choice is either use WhatsApp or make my kid miss out on social events, so it's not really a choice.

"Hey let's switch to this app that nobody else is using and it sends you annoying popups every month but trust me bro it's more secure" is not a winning argument
by tuukkao | 2026-01-23 15:21:59+00:00
Can you elaborate how an user interface based on conversation is even remotely as efficient as a keyboard-operated screen reader? With a screen reader I can get information out of a web page much quicker than the time it takes me to think how to ”ask” for it. The only advantage with this approach I could see (assuming there would be no hallucinating etc.) is that AI can extract things out of an inaccessible / unfamiliar interface. However, in all other respects this approach would effectively lock blind people to using only the capabilities the AI is able to do. As a blind software developer this idea of a supposedly viable user interface sounds patronising more than anything.
by phoronixrly | 2026-01-23 15:22:13+00:00
You know, a centralized system is not immune to any of the issues you are listing here.

Whether your mistakes can be deleted is up to the operator. They can even lead you to believe your content was deleted, while reporting it to the authorities.

> What if you post a communication system with encryption methods, but then the government passes a law that is criminal

Did you post it while it was legal to do so? Yes. Are you distributing it after it was deemed illegal? No. If you are in a country with a fair justice system, you wouldn't have to worry. If you are in a country without one, they will find a much easier way to get you anyway.
by SkopiaOutis | 2026-01-23 15:22:32+00:00
Because I am just a philosopher and sociologist I had to use AI for the technical specifications of the econimic model I tried to deduce from ontological, epistemological and ethical premises.

The core relies on the premise: Esse est operari (To be is to execute).

It's a radical model that leaves the economy of stored value behind and replaces it with a causal chain of enablement.

To my mind the philosophical, sociological and also economic viability is given (but always open for discussion!).

Where I woul greatly appreciate the help of the community is the technological viability. Because here I had to rely on discussions with AI.

I tried my best to translate my insights and knowledge into a technological model. But I am everything but sure how viable this translation actually is.

GitHub-Link: https://github.com/SkopiaOutis/ontologial-protocol

Whitepaper: https://github.com/SkopiaOutis/ontologial-protocol/blob/whit...
by cestith | 2026-01-23 15:23:14+00:00
The special hardware was actually just a DSP at the ISP end. The big difference was before 56k modems, we had multiple analog lines coming into the ISP. We had to upgrade to digital service (DS1 or ISDN PRI) and break out the 64k digital channels to separate DSPs.

The economical way to do that was integrated RAS systems like the Livingston Portmaster, Cisco 5x00 seriers, or Ascend Max. Those would take the aggregated digital line, break out the channels, hold multiple DSPs on multiple boards, and have an Ethernet (or sometimes another DS1 or DS3 for more direct uplink) with all those parts communicating inside the same chassis. In theory, though, you could break out the line in one piece of hardware and then have a bunch of firmware modems.
by lo_zamoyski | 2026-01-23 15:23:38+00:00
Much of it can be power fantasy. But not always.

Think of Superman. His first sacrifice is the sacrifice of his time, attention, and effort for the good of others. He puts his power into the service of others. There are also times when Superman throws himself into situations when he is indeed in danger (usually involving kryptonite). He eventually sacrifices his own life to defeat Doomsday.

Furthermore, while later depictions of Superman only manage an allegorical approximation of the Christ figure, that that allegorical link is made at all is crucial, because it is suggestive. After all, Christ is the ultimate heroic figure. He is both God and Man, both invincible and vulnerable. Through his humanity, a kenotic act, he endures suffering and death to save mankind - an act that is not necessary, but as Aquinas says, most fitting - but through his divinity, he is not just a powerful being, but the fullness of power. The latter does not prevent the possibility of ultimate heroism. Even in his divinity, he has the fullness and perfection of heroic virtue. Meaning, what is most definitive in heroic virtue is perfection in charity, and God is the pinnacle and perfection of charity.
by someone7x | 2026-01-23 15:23:42+00:00
> they sent a 30 day notice to license the product or they’d sue

This tracks with what I saw, one day there was an email sent out to make sure you don’t have docker desktop installed.

It was wild because we were on the heels of containerize-all-th-things push and now we’re winding down docker?? Sure whatever you say boss.